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Nanoporous Materials as New Engineered Catalysts for the Synthesis of Green Fuels

This review summarizes the importance of nanoporous materials and their fascinating structural properties with respect to the catalytic and photocatalytic reduction of CO(2) to methane, toward achieving a sustainable energy supply. The importance of catalysis as a bridge step for advanced energy sys...

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Autores principales: Fechete, Ioana, Vedrine, Jacques C.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6272268/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25838169
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/molecules20045638
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description This review summarizes the importance of nanoporous materials and their fascinating structural properties with respect to the catalytic and photocatalytic reduction of CO(2) to methane, toward achieving a sustainable energy supply. The importance of catalysis as a bridge step for advanced energy systems and the associated environmental issues are stressed. A deep understanding of the fundamentals of these nanoporous solids is necessary to improve the design and efficiency of CO(2) methanation. The role of the support dominates the design in terms of developing an efficient methanation catalyst, specifically with respect to ensuring enhanced metal dispersion and a long catalyst lifetime. Nanoporous materials provide the best supports for Ni, Ru, Rh, Co, Fe particles because they can prevent sintering and deactivation through coking, which otherwise blocks the metal surface as carbon accumulates. This review concludes with the major challenges facing the CO(2) methanation by nanoporous materials for fuel applications.
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spelling pubmed-62722682018-12-03 Nanoporous Materials as New Engineered Catalysts for the Synthesis of Green Fuels Fechete, Ioana Vedrine, Jacques C. Molecules Review This review summarizes the importance of nanoporous materials and their fascinating structural properties with respect to the catalytic and photocatalytic reduction of CO(2) to methane, toward achieving a sustainable energy supply. The importance of catalysis as a bridge step for advanced energy systems and the associated environmental issues are stressed. A deep understanding of the fundamentals of these nanoporous solids is necessary to improve the design and efficiency of CO(2) methanation. The role of the support dominates the design in terms of developing an efficient methanation catalyst, specifically with respect to ensuring enhanced metal dispersion and a long catalyst lifetime. Nanoporous materials provide the best supports for Ni, Ru, Rh, Co, Fe particles because they can prevent sintering and deactivation through coking, which otherwise blocks the metal surface as carbon accumulates. This review concludes with the major challenges facing the CO(2) methanation by nanoporous materials for fuel applications. MDPI 2015-03-31 /pmc/articles/PMC6272268/ /pubmed/25838169 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/molecules20045638 Text en © 2015 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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