Process/catalyst development carbon monoxide combustion

The emphasis on environmental protection in the last three decades, as industrial and economic growth gave birth to many forms of pollution threatening human health and Earth ecosystems, resulted in the growth of environmental catalysis. So, catalysts ate not only used to promote processes in the production field, but also to reduce the emissions of undesirable or hazardous compounds to the environment. For example, catalytic combustion has been proposed and developed as an effective method for controlling the emissions of hydrocarbons and carbon monoxide. 

Lindstrom et al. [55] developed a fixed-bed autothermal methanol reformer designed for a 5 kW fuel cell operated with copper/zinc oxide catalyst doped with zirconia. The system was started without preheating from ambient temperature by methanol combustion in a start-up burner, which was operated at sixfold air surplus to avoid excessive temperature excursions. Because significant selectivity toward carbon monoxide was observed for the autothermal reforming process, a WGS stage became mandatory [55]. 

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