NiSBA-15 Catalysts for combined steam methane reforming and water gas shift—Prepared for use in catalytic membrane reactors》.pdfVIP

Applied Catalysis A: General 506 (2015) 188–196 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Applied Catalysis A: General j o u r n a l h o m e p ag e: w w w. elsev /locate/apc ata Ni/SBA-15 Catalysts for combined steam methane reforming and water gas shift—Prepared for use in catalytic membrane reactors Ana Gouveia Gil, Zhentao Wu, David Chadwick ∗ , K. Li ∗ Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: This study focuses on the preparation, characterization and catalytic performance evaluation of Ni/SBA- Received 2 March 2015 15 catalysts for the combined steam methane reforming (SMR) and water gas shift (WGS) reaction. Received in revised form 31 July 2015 Specific efforts have been directed towards the impact of the SBA-15 preparation methods on further Accepted 8 September 2015 incorporating the resultant catalysts into the micro-structured ceramic hollow fibres for the development Available online 10 September 2015 of more advanced membrane reactors. The effect of Ni loading (5–25 wt.%) on the catalytic performance was investigated using the SBA-15 prepared via a sol–gel method. Furthermore, the effect of SBA-15 Keywords: preparation methods (sol–gel and hydrothermal methods) on the catalyst properties and performance Ni/SBA-15 catalyst