Abstract:
The activated carbon supported copper-based catalyst was prepared by deposition-precipitation method and used to catalyze the direct vapor-phase oxycarbonylation of methanol to dimethyl carbonate (DMC). The effect of preparation conditions(such as copper salt, reductant, precipitant and loading amount ect) on the catalytic performance were investigated by XRD, H
2-TPR and SEM techniques. The result showed that under the condition of MeOH/CO/O
2(volume ratio)=5:11:1, SV=6 625 h
-1, Cu
2O /AC catalyst (Cu(CH
3COO)
2·H
2O as precursor, glucose as reductant, Cu
2O loading amount of 17.1%) showed satisfactory catalytic performance for DMC synthesis. The STY reached 99.36 mg/(g·h) and the selectivity of DMC was about 83.13%.