Green Technology Purification of Nature Gas via CO₂/H₂ Methanation by Using Trimetallic Ru/Mn/Fe-Al₂O₃ Oxide Catalyst

Abstract:

The presence high content of carbon dioxide (CO₂) and hydrogen sulphide (H₂S) in crude natural gas which can block cryogenic equipments and favours steel-pipes corrosion thus will decrease the quality of the natural gas. Therefore, there is need to treat sour to sweet natural gas by using green technology via catalytic methanation reaction by converting CO₂ to methane gas. Using waste to wealth concept, production of methane would increase as well as creating environmental friendly approach for purification of natural gas. In this work, the investigations of new trimetallic Ru/Mn/Fe-Al₂O₃ oxide catalysts were conducted and the catalysts were prepared by wet impregnation method. The catalysts were activated at different temperatures (100-1100°C) for 5 hours and at different ratios of metal. The additions of Ru into catalysts had improved the CO₂ conversion and CH₄ formation compared with the undoped. Ru/Mn/Fe (5:35:60)/Al₂O₃ catalyst calcined at 1000°C was assigned as the most potential catalyst, which gave 96.1% CO₂ conversion at reaction temperature of 270°C. Moreover, the XRD diffractograms showed that the catalyst calcined at high temperature were highly crystalline phase while, catalysts calcined at low temperature showed highly amorphous in structure which was dominated by Al₂O₃ support material. The FESEM analysis revealed that fresh and used catalyst were covered with homogeneously dispersed and small size surface particles in the range of 0.2-0.4 μm. Nitrogen adsorption analysis showed, the surface area increased from single to bimetallic and trimetallic catalyst.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volume 1107)
• Pages: 85-90
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.1107.85
• Online since: June 2015
• Authors: Ahmad Zamani Ab Halim, Rusmidah Ali*, Wan Azelee Wan Abu Bakar
• Keywords: Catalyst, CO₂ Methanation, Green Technology, Iron Based Oxide, Natural Gas

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