%0 Journal Article
%A Pasel, Joachim
%A Schmitt, Dirk
%A Hartmann, Heinrich
%A Besmehn, Astrid
%A Dornseiffer, Jürgen
%A Werner, Jonas
%A Mayer, Joachim
%A Peters, Ralf
%T Combined near-ambient pressure photoelectron spectroscopy and temporal analysis of products study of CH4 oxidation on Pd/γ-Al2O3 catalysts
%J Catalysis today
%V 360
%@ 0920-5861
%C Amsterdam
%I Elsevier
%M FZJ-2020-00278
%P 444-453
%D 2021
%X Vehicles that run on natural gas must be equipped with an exhaust gas after-treatment system to burn their unavoidable CH4 slip, which must not be released into the environment as CH4 is a potent greenhouse gas. Pd is known as a highly active catalyst material for CH4 oxidation. For this study, Pd was deposited on a γ-Al2O3 support and the as-received samples were pre-reduced and pre-oxidized, respectively. Near-Ambient Pressure Photoelectron Spectroscopy and the Temporal Analysis of Products methodology were combined to understand that both electronic states, namely PdO and Pd°, are active for the CH4 oxidation reaction, whereby the superior activity of the pre-reduced Pd/γ-Al2O3 catalyst was ascribed to the spill-over of OH-groups from the support to Pd. It was found that the reaction products, CO, CO2 and H2, were strongly and, to a large extent, adsorbed on the catalyst surface and were involved in reversible chemical interactions on the catalyst surface during the CH4 oxidation reaction on the Pd/γ-Al2O3 catalyst.
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%9 Journal Article
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%R 10.1016/j.cattod.2019.12.026
%U https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/872806