Carbon monoxide oxidation copper oxide catalyst

Oxidation. Carbon monoxide can be oxidized without a catalyst or at a controlled rate with a catalyst (eq. 4) (26). Carbon monoxide oxidation proceeds explosively if the gases are mixed stoichiometticaHy and then ignited. Surface burning will continue at temperatures above 1173 K, but the reaction is slow below 923 K without a catalyst. HopcaUte, a mixture of manganese and copper oxides, catalyzes carbon monoxide oxidation at room temperature it was used in gas masks during World War I to destroy low levels of carbon monoxide. Catalysts prepared from platinum and palladium are particularly effective for carbon monoxide oxidation at 323 K and at space velocities of 50 to 10, 000 h . Such catalysts are used in catalytic converters on automobiles (27) (see Exhaust CONTHOL, automotive). 

Zheng X-C, Wu S-Fl, Wang S-P, Wang S-R, Zheng S-M, Huang W-P (2005) The preparation and catalytic behavior of copper-cerium oxide catalysts for low-temperature carbon monoxide oxidation. Appl Catal A 283(l-2) 217-223... 

Reaction with carbon monoxide using copper/zinc oxide catalyst yields methanol ... 

A similar oxidation-reduction mechanism in the carbon monoxide oxidation reaction on oxide catalysts has been proposed by Benton (71), Bray (72), Frazer (73), and Schwab (74). In this reaction also, Mooi and Selwood (57) found that a decrease in the percentage of iron oxide, manganese oxide or copper oxide on the alumina support first increased the rate, and then at lower percentages decreased the rate, of carbon monoxide oxidation, indicating that valence stabilization is again operative in these cases. 

Whittle DM, et al. Co-precipitated copper zinc oxide catalysts for ambient temperature carbon monoxide oxidation effect of precipitate ageing on catalyst activity. Phys Chem Chem Phys. 2002 4(23) 5915-20. 

Without doubt, copper deposited on high surface area aluminas constitute an important class of catalysts for many of the above reactions. Because of the widespread importance of deactivation in such a variety of catalytic systems, the study of deactivation of copper on alumina catalysts using a classical oxidation-reduction reaction, such as carbon monoxide oxidation, may provide fundamental background for the elucidation of aspects of the more complex reactions. 

Deactivation during carbon monoxide oxidation carried over alumina supported copper and copper-chromite catalysts has been examined. Prereduction of the oxidic precursor with CO increased catalyst activity, but prereduction with hydrogen led to less activity increase due to copper metal crystallization. 

Laine, J., Brito, J., Severino, F., Castro, G., Tacconi, P., Yunes, S., and Cruz, J. (1990) Surface copper enrichment by reduction of copper chromite catalyst employed for carbon monoxide oxidation. Catal. Lett.,... 

A novel monolithic reactor-heat exchanger has been constructed and operated in five different modes. Experiments were conducted with the oxidation of carbon monoxide over copper chromite pelleted catalysts. The experimental temperatures of reactants and coolants, and concentrations agree with computations with a cell model. Virtually flat temperature profiles can be obtained in the co-current mode. 

S. H. Taylor, G. J. Hutchings, and A. A. Mirzaei, Copper zinc oxide catalysts for ambient temperature carbon monoxide oxidation, Chemical Communications, no. 15, pp. 1373-1374, 1999. 

Because the synthesis reactions are exothermic with a net decrease in molar volume, equiUbrium conversions of the carbon oxides to methanol by reactions 1 and 2 are favored by high pressure and low temperature, as shown for the indicated reformed natural gas composition in Figure 1. The mechanism of methanol synthesis on the copper—zinc—alumina catalyst was elucidated as recentiy as 1990 (7). For a pure H2—CO mixture, carbon monoxide is adsorbed on the copper surface where it is hydrogenated to methanol. When CO2 is added to the reacting mixture, the copper surface becomes partially covered by adsorbed oxygen by the reaction C02 CO + O (ads). This results in a change in mechanism where CO reacts with the adsorbed oxygen to form CO2, which becomes the primary source of carbon for methanol. 

Reforming is completed in a secondary reformer, where air is added both to elevate the temperature by partial combustion of the gas stream and to produce the 3 1 H2 N2 ratio downstream of the shift converter as is required for ammonia synthesis. The water gas shift converter then produces more H2 from carbon monoxide and water. A low temperature shift process using a zinc—chromium—copper oxide catalyst has replaced the earlier iron oxide-catalyzed high temperature system. The majority of the CO2 is then removed. 

In the second stage, a more active 2inc oxide—copper oxide catalyst is used. This higher catalytic activity permits operation at lower exit temperatures than the first-stage reactor, and the resulting product has as low as 0.2% carbon monoxide. For space velocities of 2000-4000 h , exit carbon monoxide... 

Ammonia production from natural gas includes the following processes desulfurization of the feedstock primary and secondary reforming carbon monoxide shift conversion and removal of carbon dioxide, which can be used for urea manufacture methanation and ammonia synthesis. Catalysts used in the process may include cobalt, molybdenum, nickel, iron oxide/chromium oxide, copper oxide/zinc oxide, and iron. 

Park PW, Ledford JS (1998) The influence of surface structure on the catalytic activity of cerium promoted copper oxide catalysts on alumina oxidation of carbon monoxide and methane. Catal Lett 50(1—2) 41 48... 

Other reported syntheses include the Reimer-Tiemann reaction, in which carbon tetrachloride is condensed with phenol in the presence of potassium hydroxide. A mixture of the ortho- and para-isomers is obtained the para-isomer predominates. -Hydroxybenzoic acid can be synthesized from phenol, carbon monoxide, and an alkali carbonate (52). It can also be obtained by heating alkali salts of -cresol at high temperatures (260—270°C) over metallic oxides, eg, lead dioxide, manganese dioxide, iron oxide, or copper oxide, or with mixed alkali and a copper catalyst (53). Heating potassium salicylate at 240°C for 1—1.5 h results in a 70—80% yield of -hydroxybenzoic acid (54). When the dipotassium salt of salicylic acid is heated in an atmosphere of carbon dioxide, an almost complete conversion to -hydroxybenzoic acid results. They>-aminobenzoic acid can be converted to the diazo acid with nitrous acid followed by hydrolysis. Finally, the sulfo- and halogenobenzoic acids can be fused with alkali. 

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