Technical Field
The hydrogen energy has the advantages of high energy density, high energy conversion rate, cleanness, environmental protection and the like, and is a core link for constructing a low-carbon society. However, due to the characteristics of low volume energy density, flammability and explosiveness of hydrogen, the storage and transportation cost is high, the intrinsic safety is weak, and the popularization and application of hydrogen are severely restricted. High-pressure gaseous hydrogen storage is a mature hydrogen storage technology at present, but has the problems of high storage and transportation pressure, poor safety, serious dependence on import of hydrogen storage carbon fiber materials and the like, and the pain problem of hydrogen storage and transportation is difficult to effectively solve.
High content of hydrogen (17.6 wt%), easy to liquefy (normal temp. 8 atm), non-combustible (ignition point greater than 650 deg.C) and no COXDischarging; mature technology and storage and transportation cost of ammonia industry (ammonia)<<Hydrogen) and has high intrinsic safety, and is an ideal hydrogen storage carrier. Therefore, the ammonia is used as a hydrogen storage carrier, and the hydrogen is produced by combining ammonia decomposition reaction, so that the development of the hydrogen energy industry is expected to be promoted, and the method has great economic value and practical significance.
The ammonia decomposition reaction is an endothermic reaction, and the increase of the reaction temperature is favorable for improving the conversion rate of ammonia, but has great significance for achieving the purposes of energy saving and consumption reduction and developing a low-temperature and high-efficiency catalyst for producing hydrogen by ammonia decomposition. The Ru-based catalyst has good low-temperature ammonia decomposition performance, but the popularization and application of the noble metal Ru are limited due to the high price of the noble metal Ru; therefore, it is important to develop a non-noble metal-based ammonia decomposition catalyst having good low-temperature performance. The research of domestic ammonia decomposition hydrogen production catalyst begins at the end of 20 th century, is mainly used for preparing high-purity hydrogen and nitrogen, and is applied to float glass industry [ CN1078216 ]]. In 1997, Huangjianming uses NiO, MgO, CaO and TiO2Preparation of mixed oxide Ammonia decomposition catalyst for Coke oven gas purification Process [ CN1217229]. In 1998, the Chinese academy of sciencesReason why aluminum and nickel are active components, Al2O3Or MgO as carrier to prepare high-activity ammonia decomposition catalyst [ CN1245737]. In 2003, Qinghua university and hong Kong Bureau university prepared ammonia decomposition hydrogen production catalyst [ CN1456491 ] by using noble metal and metal nitride with noble metal property as active components and carbon nano tube as carrier]. Catalyst for preparing hydrogen by decomposing low-temperature high-efficiency ammonia at Fuzhou university in recent years [ CN109529865A]Ammonia solid oxide fuel cell [ CN110265688A]Ammonia decomposition hydrogen production reactor [ CN111957271A]Supercharged engine and ammonia fuel hybrid power generation system [ CN112761826A ]]And the detailed research is carried out, and related patents are published for nearly 30, so that the development of a novel hydrogen utilization mode of 'liquid ammonia hydrogen storage, ammonia decomposition hydrogen production and fuel cell' is promoted. However, in general, the low-temperature activity and stability of the current non-noble metal ammonia decomposition hydrogen production catalyst are to be further improved.
Patent CN 110327957 a discloses a method for preparing an ammonia decomposition catalyst, which comprises the following steps: 1) Dissolving a metal salt in deionized water to form a metal salt solution; 2) Adding a chelating agent into the metal salt solution, and stirring to form sol; 3) aging the sol to form a gel; 4) Drying the gel, and roasting to form a catalyst precursor; 5) Nitriding the catalyst precursor to prepare the ammonia decomposition catalyst; but the prepared ammonia decomposition catalyst has the reaction space velocity of 15000 h-1The ammonia decomposition rate is close to the equilibrium conversion rate of the reaction at 800 ℃, the working temperature is higher, and the defects of high energy consumption, insufficient safety and the like exist.
Disclosure of Invention
The invention aims to provide a non-noble metal catalyst with high catalytic activity and good ammonia decomposition effect, and a preparation method and application thereof, and overcomes the defects of low-temperature activity and poor ammonia decomposition effect of the non-noble metal ammonia decomposition catalyst in the prior art.
In order to achieve the purpose, the following technical scheme is adopted:
a preparation method of a catalyst for preparing hydrogen by decomposing molybdenum-based ammonia comprises the following steps:
(1) respectively dissolving metal Mo salt and citric acid in deionized water, and stirring until the metal Mo salt and the citric acid are completely dissolved;
(2) slowly adding the citric acid solution into the Mo salt solution within 5min under the stirring condition;
(3) heating the mixed solution in an oil bath to a certain temperature, and reacting for 24 hours to obtain a gel product;
(4) drying the gel at a certain temperature;
(5) roasting the dried product under certain conditions to obtain a catalyst precursor;
(6) nitriding the catalyst precursor at a certain temperature in a nitrogen-containing atmosphere;
(7) and oxidizing the nitriding product in an oxidizing atmosphere to obtain the catalyst.
In the step (1), the metal Mo salt is Mo2(O2CCF3)4、Mo2(OAc)4、Mo(CO)6、H8MoN2O4、Na2MoO4、(NH4)6Mo7O24•4H2One or more of O;
the molar ratio of the metal Mo salt to the citric acid in the step (1) is 1:1-1: 5;
the oil bath reaction temperature in the step (3) is 50-100 ℃;
the drying temperature in the step (4) is 100-160 ℃, and the drying time is 12-48 h;
the roasting temperature in the step (5) is 300-800 ℃, and the roasting time is 1-8 h;
the nitridation treatment in the step (6) is 500-800 ℃, and the nitridation time is 1-4 h; the nitrogen-containing atmosphere is 10vol% NH3/Ar、50vol% NH3/Ar、75vol% H2/N2、50vol% H2/N2、NH3At least one of;
the oxidation treatment temperature in the step (7) is 500-800 ℃, and the oxidation time is 1-4 h; the oxidizing atmosphere was air and 1vol% O2/Ar、5vol% O2/Ar、10vol% O2At least one of/Ar and pure oxygen;
the technical scheme of the invention has the following advantages:
1. the preparation method of the ammonia decomposition catalyst precursor comprises the following steps of dissolving metal Mo salt in a citric acid solution to form sol; carrying out heat treatment on the sol to form gel; and drying and roasting to obtain the catalyst precursor. The preparation method adopted by the invention is a sol-gel method, and the method is favorable for uniformly dispersing Mo metal ions or molybdate ions in an aqueous solution, and obtaining a precursor with smaller particle size and uniform dispersion through gelation, drying and roasting. The invention can adjust the particle size of the precursor by optimizing the temperature and time in the processes of gelation, drying and roasting, and obtain the precursor with proper structure and performance.
2. The preparation method of the ammonia decomposition catalyst provided by the invention comprises the steps of nitriding the precursor in a nitrogen-containing atmosphere, and roasting in an oxidizing atmosphere. The ammonia decomposition reaction activity of the catalyst precursor is tested after the catalyst precursor is directly nitrided, and only pure-phase Mo is observed in the activity evaluation product2N; the nitrided products were subjected to oxidation treatment in an oxidizing atmosphere (nitriding-oxidizing treatment) and evaluated for ammonia decomposition catalytic performance, and Mo was observed in the activity evaluation products2N and MoO2Two phases. Mo2N and MoO2The formation of the mixture phase enables more defect sites and phase interfaces to be generated in the catalyst, and the number of catalytic active sites of the catalyst is increased, so that the catalyst shows more excellent ammonia decomposition reaction performance, and particularly improves the low-temperature ammonia decomposition reaction performance of the Mo-based catalyst. Specifically, the catalyst prepared by the invention can lead the ammonia decomposition conversion to be close to the equilibrium conversion rate at 650 ℃, and the temperature of the Mo-based catalyst which is not subjected to the nitridation-oxidation treatment and is close to the equilibrium conversion rate is higher than 700 ℃.
Detailed Description
The present invention will be described in more detail by the following examples and comparative examples, but is not limited to these examples.
Example 1:
3.53 g (NH) are weighed4)6Mo7O24•4H2O and 11.52 g of citric acid are respectively dissolved in 50 mL of deionized water, after the O and the citric acid are completely dissolved, the molybdenum salt solution is firstly transferred into a 500 mL beaker, the citric acid solution is slowly added into the beaker within 5min under the stirring of 400-600 r/min, and the stirring is continued for 0.5 h. After stirring, the beaker is transferred into an oil bath kettle at the temperature of 80 ℃, and the oil bath is aged for 24 hours. The beaker is then transferred to an oven at 100 ℃ for drying for 24 h. After the drying is finished, the sample is smashed and ground into fine powder, and the powder is roasted for 5 hours in a muffle furnace at 600 ℃. At 50vol% NH3and/Ar is nitriding gas, temperature programming nitriding is carried out, the temperature is raised from room temperature to 350 ℃ at the speed of 1 ℃/min, and then the temperature is raised to 500 ℃ at the speed of 0.5 ℃/min and kept for 3 h. At 5vol% O2and/Ar is oxidizing gas, carrying out temperature programming oxidation (the temperature rising rate is 5 ℃/min), keeping the temperature at 500 ℃ for 1 h, and carrying out tabletting molding to obtain the product of example 1.
Example 2:
3.53 g (NH) are weighed4)6Mo7O24•4H2O and 11.52 g citric acid were dissolved in 50 g of eachAfter the molybdenum salt solution is completely dissolved in the deionized water, the molybdenum salt solution is transferred into a 500 mL beaker, the citric acid solution is slowly added into the beaker within 5min under the stirring of 400-600 r/min, and the stirring is continued for 0.5 h. After stirring, the beaker is transferred into an oil bath kettle at the temperature of 80 ℃, and the oil bath is aged for 24 hours. The beaker was then transferred to an oven at 140 ℃ for drying for 24 h. After the drying is finished, the sample is smashed and ground into fine powder, and the powder is roasted for 5 hours in a muffle furnace at 300 ℃. At 10vol% NH3and/Ar is nitriding gas, temperature programming nitriding is carried out, the temperature is raised from room temperature to 350 ℃ at the speed of 1 ℃/min, and then the temperature is raised to 600 ℃ at the speed of 0.5 ℃/min and kept for 4 h. With 1vol% O2and/Ar is oxidizing gas, carrying out temperature programming oxidation (the temperature rising rate is 5 ℃/min), keeping the temperature at 550 ℃ for 2 h, and carrying out tabletting molding to obtain the embodiment 2.
Example 3:
3.53 g (NH) are weighed4)6Mo7O24•4H2O and 11.52 g of citric acid are respectively dissolved in 50 mL of deionized water, after the O and the citric acid are completely dissolved, the molybdenum salt solution is firstly transferred into a 500 mL beaker, the citric acid solution is slowly added into the beaker within 5min under the stirring of 400-600 r/min, and the stirring is continued for 0.5 h. After stirring, the beaker is transferred into an oil bath kettle at the temperature of 80 ℃, and the oil bath is aged for 24 hours. The beaker is then transferred to an oven at 150 ℃ for drying for 24 h. After the drying is finished, the sample is smashed and ground into fine powder, and the powder is roasted for 5 hours in a muffle furnace at 500 ℃. By NH3The nitrogen is generated by temperature programming and nitriding, raising the temperature from room temperature to 350 ℃ at the speed of 1 ℃/min, and then raising the temperature to 700 ℃ at the speed of 0.5 ℃/min and keeping the temperature for 2 h. Air is used as oxidizing gas, temperature programming oxidation is carried out (the heating rate is 5 ℃/min), the temperature is kept at 600 ℃ for 4 h, and the embodiment 3 is obtained after tabletting and forming.
Example 4:
3.53 g (NH) are weighed4)6Mo7O24•4H2O and 11.52 g of citric acid are respectively dissolved in 50 mL of deionized water, after the O and the citric acid are completely dissolved, the molybdenum salt solution is firstly transferred into a 500 mL beaker, the citric acid solution is slowly added into the beaker within 5min under the stirring of 400-600 r/min, and the stirring is continued for 0.5 h. After stirring, the beaker is transferred into an oil bath kettle at the temperature of 80 ℃, and the oil bath is aged for 24 hours. Then the beaker is turned into 13Drying in an oven at 0 ℃ for 24 h. After the drying is finished, the sample is smashed and ground into fine powder, and the powder is roasted for 5 hours in a muffle furnace at 800 ℃. At 75vol% H2/N2The nitrogen is generated by temperature programming and nitriding, raising the temperature from room temperature to 350 ℃ at the speed of 1 ℃/min, and then raising the temperature to 700 ℃ at the speed of 0.5 ℃/min and keeping the temperature for 1 h. With 10vol% O2and/Ar is oxidizing gas, temperature programming oxidation is carried out (the temperature rising rate is 5 ℃/min), the temperature is kept at 650 ℃ for 3 h, and the embodiment 4 is obtained after tabletting and forming.
Example 5:
3.53 g (NH) are weighed4)6Mo7O24•4H2O and 11.52 g of citric acid are respectively dissolved in 50 mL of deionized water, after the O and the citric acid are completely dissolved, the molybdenum salt solution is firstly transferred into a 500 mL beaker, the citric acid solution is slowly added into the beaker within 5min under the stirring of 400-600 r/min, and the stirring is continued for 0.5 h. After stirring, the beaker is transferred into an oil bath kettle at the temperature of 80 ℃, and the oil bath is aged for 24 hours. The beaker is then transferred to an oven at 160 ℃ for drying for 24 h. After the drying is finished, the sample is smashed and ground into fine powder, and the powder is roasted for 5 hours in a muffle furnace at 700 ℃. At 50vol% H2/N2The nitrogen is generated by temperature programming and nitriding, and the temperature is raised from room temperature to 350 ℃ at the speed of 1 ℃/min, and then raised to 800 ℃ at the speed of 0.5 ℃/min and kept for 1 h. Pure oxygen is used as oxidizing gas, temperature programming oxidation is carried out (the temperature rising rate is 5 ℃/min), the temperature is kept at 700 ℃ for 4 h, and the embodiment 5 is obtained after tabletting and forming.
Comparative example 1:
3.53 g (NH) are weighed4)6Mo7O24•4H2O and 11.52 g of citric acid are respectively dissolved in 50 mL of deionized water, after the O and the citric acid are completely dissolved, the molybdenum salt solution is firstly transferred into a 500 mL beaker, the citric acid solution is slowly added into the beaker within 5min under the stirring of 400-600 r/min, and the stirring is continued for 0.5 h. After stirring, the beaker is transferred into an oil bath kettle at the temperature of 80 ℃, and the oil bath is aged for 24 hours. The beaker is then transferred to an oven at 150 ℃ for drying for 24 h. After the drying is finished, the sample is smashed and ground into fine powder, and the powder is roasted for 5 hours in a muffle furnace at 500 ℃. By NH3Performing temperature programmed nitridation to obtain nitrified gas, heating from room temperature to 350 deg.C at 1 deg.C/min, and heating at 0.5 deg.C/minKeeping the temperature at 700 ℃ for 2 h, and tabletting to obtain the comparative example 1.
Comparative example 2:
3.53 g (NH) are weighed4)6Mo7O24•4H2O and 11.52 g of citric acid are respectively dissolved in 50 mL of deionized water, after the O and the citric acid are completely dissolved, the molybdenum salt solution is firstly transferred into a 500 mL beaker, the citric acid solution is slowly added into the beaker within 5min under the stirring of 400-600 r/min, and the stirring is continued for 0.5 h. After stirring, the beaker is transferred into an oil bath kettle at the temperature of 80 ℃, and the oil bath is aged for 24 hours. The beaker is then transferred to an oven at 150 ℃ for drying for 24 h. After the drying is finished, the sample is smashed and ground into fine powder, and the powder is roasted for 5 hours in a muffle furnace at 500 ℃. By NH3The nitrogen is generated by temperature programming and nitriding, raising the temperature from room temperature to 350 ℃ at the speed of 1 ℃/min, and then raising the temperature to 700 ℃ at the speed of 0.5 ℃/min and keeping the temperature for 2 h. Air is used as oxidizing gas, temperature programming oxidation is carried out (the temperature raising rate is 5 ℃/min), and the temperature is kept at 600 ℃ for 4 h. 0.1 g of sample is taken and placed in an ammonia decomposition activity evaluation device, the temperature is increased from room temperature to 350 ℃ at the speed of 1 ℃/min, then the temperature is increased to 700 ℃ at the speed of 0.5 ℃/min and kept for 2 h, then the temperature is reduced to 400 ℃, and the activity is directly tested without reduction, and the sample is named as comparative example 2.
Comparative example 3:
3.53 g (NH) are weighed4)6Mo7O24•4H2O and 11.52 g of citric acid are respectively dissolved in 50 mL of deionized water, after the O and the citric acid are completely dissolved, the molybdenum salt solution is firstly transferred into a 500 mL beaker, the citric acid solution is slowly added into the beaker within 5min under the stirring of 400-600 r/min, and the stirring is continued for 0.5 h. After stirring, the beaker is transferred into an oil bath kettle at the temperature of 80 ℃, and the oil bath is aged for 24 hours. The beaker is then transferred to an oven at 150 ℃ for drying for 24 h. After the drying is finished, the sample is smashed and ground into fine powder, and the powder is roasted for 5 hours in a muffle furnace at 600 ℃. By NH3The nitrogen is generated by temperature programming and nitriding, raising the temperature from room temperature to 350 ℃ at the speed of 1 ℃/min, and then raising the temperature to 700 ℃ at the speed of 0.5 ℃/min and keeping the temperature for 2 h. And tabletting and forming to obtain the comparative example 3.
The X-ray powder diffraction analysis is carried out on an X 'pert Pro diffractometer of Panalytic company, the Netherlands, and an X' Celerator detector is adopted, Cu-Ka (lambda = 0.1789 nm) target radiation is carried out, the tube pressure is 45 kV, the tube flow is 40 mA, the scanning step length is 0.0131303 degrees, each step is 20.4 s, and the scanning range is 2 theta = 10-80 degrees.
H2Temperature programmed reduction (H)2TPR) experiments were performed on an AutoChem2920 automated catalyst characterization system from Micrometric corporation, USA. Weighing 50 mg of sample, heating to 200 ℃ at a temperature of 10 ℃/min, purging the sample with inert gas (Ar) for 60 min, cooling to room temperature, and then using 10vol% H2And purging the sample by using the/Ar mixed gas, wherein the flow rate is 30 mL/min, after the TCD base line is stable, heating to 750 ℃ at the speed of 10 ℃/min, and recording the TCD signal intensity.
Activity test conditions: the raw material gas is high-purity ammonia, and the reducing gas is 50% H2Ar, reducing for 3 h at 500 ℃. The gas chromatography carrier gas is H2. Space velocity of 30000 mL ∙ g-1∙h-1And the catalyst activity test temperature zone is 400-700 ℃.
NH for catalyst activity3The conversion is expressed.
NH3Conversion = (1-V)NH3')/(1 + VNH3') X100%, wherein VNH3' is NH in the reactor outlet gas3Volume percent of (c).
By NH3The conversion rate indicates catalytic activity, and the results of activity evaluation of examples and comparative examples are as follows:
TABLE 1 results of activity evaluation of examples and comparative examples
As is clear from the results of activity evaluation in Table 1, the ammonia decomposition catalysts obtained in examples 1 to 5 were maintained at 600 ℃ and 700 ℃ at a high space velocity (30000 h)-1) The pure ammonia gas has higher ammonia decomposition rate under the condition of raw material gas, and the conversion rate approaches to reaction equilibrium at 650 ℃. Among them, the sample of example 3 has achieved 94.3% ammonia decomposition rate at 600 ℃. Comparing examples 1 to 5 with comparative example 1, it can be seen that the ammonia decomposition activity is significantly improved after the "nitridation-oxidation" treatment; comparative examples 1 to 5 and comparative example 2The ammonia conversion rate of the nitrided samples decreased by the second temperature programming in the ammonia decomposition activity evaluation apparatus, indicating that the "nitriding-oxidizing" treatment is the main reason for the activity improvement of examples 1 to 5; it can be seen from comparison of examples 1 to 5 and comparative example 3 that the "nitriding-oxidizing" treatment is a key factor in the improvement of the ammonia decomposition activity of the catalyst.