Evidence of Scrambling over Ruthenium-based Catalysts in Supercritical-water Gasification

Authors
Andrew A. Peterson,
Marian Dreher,
Jörg Wambach,
Maarten Nachtegaal,
Døren Dahl,
Jens K. Nørskov,
Frédéric Vogel
Year of publication
2012
Journal
ChemCatChem
Issue
8
Volume
4
Starting page
1185
Ending page
1189
DOI
10.1002/cctc.201100450
Abstract Catalytic processes that employ Ru catalysts in supercritical water have been shown to be capable of converting organics, such as wood waste, into synthetic natural gas (CH 4) with high efficiencies at relatively moderate temperatures of around 400 C. ...
Keywords
biomass; density-functional calc; gasification; heterogeneous catalysis; supercritical water; synthetic natural-gas; hydrothermal gasification; lignin gasification; biomass gasification; metal catalysts; methane; hydrogen; sulfur; conversion
Research Areas
Synthetic fuels and chemicals,
Heterogeneous catalysis
Funding sources
SUNCAT,
DASTI
SUNCAT People
Andrew A. Peterson,
Jens K. Nørskov