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- Upgrading methane to methanol not only helps reduce greenhouse gases but also provides essential materials for industrial use.
- Current research mainly focuses on zeolite systems, making it challenging to develop effective metal oxide catalysts for methanol production.
- This paper presents a new Cu/MoO catalyst synthesized through impregnation methods, achieving a high yield of methanol at 600 °C and confirming the formation of an active site, CuMoO, through various characterization techniques.
Article Abstract
Upgrading methane into methanol or other high value-added chemicals is not only beneficial to mitigate the greenhouse effect, but also provides basic raw materials for industrial production. Nowadays, most research is limited to zeolite systems, and it is a considerable challenge to extend the support to metal oxides while achieving a high yield of methanol. In this paper, we take advantage of impregnation methods to synthesise a novel Cu/MoO catalyst, which can convert methane to methanol in the gaseous phase. At 600 °C, the Cu(2)/MoO catalyst can achieve a maximum STY of 47.2 μmol (g h) with a molar ratio CH : O : HO = 5 : 1.4 : 10. Consequences of SEM, TEM, HRTEM and XRD substantiate that Cu is incorporated into the lattice of MoO to form CuMoO. And transmission infrared spectroscopy, Raman spectroscopy together with XPS characterization techniques confirm the generation of CuMoO, which is the main active site provider. This work provides a new support platform for Cu-based catalyst research in the methane-to-methanol system.
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