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Hydrogen production from glycerol reforming in liquid (aqueous phase reforming, APR) and vapor (steam reforming SR) phase over alumina-supported nickel catalysts modified with Ce, Mg, Zr and La was studied. Characterization of catalysts by temperature programmed reduction and XPS analyses revealed important structural effects: (i) the intercalation of Mg between nickel and alumina that inhibited the alumina incorporation to nickel phases, (ii) the close contact between Ni and Zr phases and, (iii) the close surface interaction of La and Ce ions with NiO phases. The catalytic activity of the samples studied in this work clearly indicated the different catalyst functionalities necessary to carry out aqueous-phase and vapor-phase steam reforming of glycerol. For aqueous phase reforming of glycerol, the addition of Ce, La and Zr to Ni/Al2O3 improves the initial glycerol conversions obtained over the Ni/Al2O3 supported catalyst. It is suggested that the differences in catalytic activities are related with geometric effects caused by the decoration of Ni phases by Ce and La or by the close interaction between Ni and Zr. In spite that nickel catalysts showed high APR activities at initial times on stream, all samples showed, independently of support, important deactivation rates that deactivate the catalysts after few hours under operation. Catalysts characterization after APR showed the oxidation of the active metallic Ni during reaction as the main cause of the observed deactivation. In the case of the glycerol steam reforming in vapor phase, the use of Ce, La, Mg and Zr as promoters of Ni based catalysts increases the hydrogen selectivity. Differences in activity were explained in terms of enhancement in: surface nickel concentration (Mg), capacity to activate steam (Zr) and stability of nickel phases under reaction conditions (Ce and La).
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The authors thank the financial support to Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia of Spain (Projects MAT2003-08348-C04-01 and ENE2007-6753-C02-01) and the University of the Basque Country. R.M.N also acknowledges the Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia for a Ramon y Cajal research program.
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Iriondo, A., Barrio, V.L., Cambra, J.F. et al. Hydrogen Production from Glycerol Over Nickel Catalysts Supported on Al2O3 Modified by Mg, Zr, Ce or La. Top Catal 49, 46–58 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11244-008-9060-9
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