Electrochemical Synthesis of Mo2C Catalytical Coatings for the Water-Gas Shift Reaction

2007 ◽  
Vol 62 (10-11) ◽  
pp. 647-654 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sergey A. Kuznetsov ◽  
Anton R. Dubrovskiy ◽  
Evgeny V. Rebrov ◽  
Jaap C. Schouten

The electroreduction of CO32− ions on a molybdenum cathode in a NaCl-KCl-Li2CO3 melt was studied by cyclic voltammetry. The electrochemical synthesis of Mo2C on molybdenum substrates has been performed at 1123 K for 7 h with a cathodic current density of 5 mA cm−2. If molybdenum carbide is present as a thin (ca. 500 nm) film on a molybdenum substrate (Mo2C/Mo), its catalytic activity in the water gas-shift reaction is enhanced by at least an order of magnitude compared to that of the bulk Mo2C phase.

2020 ◽  
Vol 50 ◽  
pp. 37-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ying Ma ◽  
Zhanglong Guo ◽  
Qian Jiang ◽  
Kuang-Hsu Wu ◽  
Huimin Gong ◽  
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Coatings ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (12) ◽  
pp. 442 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anton Dubrovskiy ◽  
Olga Makarova ◽  
Sergey Kuznetsov

By electrochemical synthesis in the NaCl-KCl-Li2CO3 (1.5 wt.%)-Na2MoO4 (8.0 wt.%) melt on molybdenum, substrates with different configuration Mo2C coatings with the hexagonal lattice were obtained. The influence of the substrate form on the structure of Mo2C cathodic deposits was studied. The molybdenum carbide coatings on a molybdenum substrate (Mo2C/Mo) show a catalytic activity in the water–gas shift (WGS) reaction by at least three orders of magnitude higher than that of the bulk Mo2C phase. The catalytic activity remained constant during 500 h for the water–gas shift reaction.


Author(s):  
C. Lopez ◽  
D. Meyers ◽  
A. Saddawi ◽  
A. Saveliev ◽  
K. Brezinsky

A novel method for the production of a nano-structured molybdenum carbide catalyst using non-thermal plasma is described. This synthesis involves the carburization of a molybdenum metal powder precursor using ethylene as the carbon source. Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) showed the presence of a Mo2C-β crystal structure and a 9�2 nm layer of what was suspected to be Mo2C absent in the molybdenum precursor. Catalytic testing in the water gas shift reaction (WGS) showed no difference in activity between the unreduced synthesis product and the control run.


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