{"id":27990,"date":"2020-07-15T20:52:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-15T17:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/low-cost-catalyst-helps-turn-seawater-into-fuel-at-scale\/"},"modified":"2020-07-15T20:52:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-15T17:52:00","slug":"low-cost-catalyst-helps-turn-seawater-into-fuel-at-scale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/low-cost-catalyst-helps-turn-seawater-into-fuel-at-scale\/","title":{"rendered":"#Low-cost catalyst helps turn seawater into fuel at scale"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Low-cost catalyst helps turn seawater into fuel at scale<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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The Navy’s quest to power its ships by converting seawater into fuel is one step nearer fruition.<\/p>\n

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University of Rochester chemical engineers, in collaboration with researchers at the Naval Research Laboratory, the University of Pittsburgh, and OxEon Energy, have demonstrated that a potassium-promoted molybdenum carbide catalyst efficiently and reliably converts carbon dioxide to carbon monoxide, a critical step in the process.<\/p>\n

“This is the first demonstration that this type of molybdenum carbide catalyst can be used on an industrial scale,” says Marc Porosoff, assistant professor of chemical engineering at Rochester. In a paper in Energy & Environmental Science<\/a><\/i>, the researchers describe an exhaustive series<\/a> of experiments they conducted at molecular, laboratory and pilot scales to document the catalyst’s suitability for scale-up.
\nIf Navy ships could create their own fuel from the seawater they travel<\/a> through, they could remain in continuous operation. Other than a few nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and submarines, most Navy ships must periodically align themselves alongside tanker ships to replenish their fuel oil, which can be difficult in rough weather. In 2014, a Naval Research Laboratory team led by Heather Willauer announced it had used a catalytic converter to extract carbon dioxide and hydrogen from seawater and then converted the gases into liquid hydrocarbons at a 92 percent efficiency rate.
\nSince then the focus has been on increasing the efficiency of the process and scaling it up to produce fuel in sufficient quantities.
\nThe carbon dioxide extracted from seawater is extremely difficult to convert directly into liquid hydrocarbons with existing methods. So, it is necessary to first convert carbon dioxide into carbon monoxide via the reverse water-gas shift (RWGS) reaction, which can then be converted into liquid hydrocarbons via Fischer-Tropsch synthesis (FTS). Typically, catalysts for RWGS contain expensive precious metals and deactivate rapidly under reaction conditions. However, the potassium-modified molybdenum carbide catalyst is synthesized from low-cost components and did not show any signs of deactivation during continuous operation of the 10 day pilot-scale study.
\nThat’s why this demonstration of molybdenum carbide catalyst is important.
\nPorosoff, who first began working on the project while serving as a postdoctoral research associate with Willauer’s team, discovered that adding potassium to a molybdenum carbide catalyst supported on a surface of gamma alumina could serve as a low-cost, stable, and highly selective catalyst for converting carbon dioxide into carbon monoxide during RWGS.
\nThe potassium lowers the energy barrier associated with the RWGS reaction, while the gamma alumina\u2014marked with grooves and pores, much like a sponge\u2014helps ensure that the molybdenum carbide catalyst particles remain dispersed, maximizing the surface area available for reaction, Porosoff says.
\nTo determine whether potassium-promoted molybdenum carbide might also be useful for capturing and converting carbon dioxide from power plants, the lab will conduct further experiments to test the catalyst’s stability when exposed to common contaminants found in flue gas such as mercury, sulfur, cadmium and chlorine.<\/p>\n

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\n Mitchell Juneau et al, Assessing the viability of K-Mo2C for reverse water\u2013gas shift scale-up: molecular to laboratory to pilot scale, Energy & Environmental Science<\/i> (2020). DOI: 10.1039\/d0ee01457e\n <\/div>\n

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