Abstract:
The Cu/Zn/Al precursor by coprecipitation was treated with formic acid and then calcined in N
2 to obtain Cu-ZnO-Al
2O
3 catalyst (CZA) for the CO
2 hydrogenation to methanol. XRD, BET, TG-DSC, SEM, H
2-TPR, N
2O titration, XPS-AES and CO
2-TPD characterization techniques were used to analyze the phase composition, structural properties of the catalyst, the Cu specific surface area, the dispersion and valence of the Cu species. The results showed that the formic acid treatment tuned the ratio of Cu
+ and Cu
0, increased the number of medium-strong base sites in the catalyst, and raised the selectivity of methanol. Under reaction conditions of
W/F(H
2/CO
2=70/23)=10 g∙h/mol,
t =200 ℃ and
p =3 MPa, using Cu-ZnO-Al
2O
3 treated under HCOOH/Cu (molar ratio) =0.8, the CO
2 conversion and the methanol selectivity were 6.7% and 76.3%, respectively.