Highly Dispersed and Stable Ni/SBA-15 Catalyst for Reverse Water-Gas Shift Reaction

A 1%Ni/SBA-15(P) catalyst was synthesized with a P123-assisted impregnation method, which exhibited high CO2 conversion and stability in the reverse water-gas shift reaction. For the 1%Ni/SBA-15(P) catalyst, TEM and TPR characterizations demonstrated that the highly dispersed NiO particles at about 3 nm strongly interacted with the SiO2 support. During reverse water-gas shift reaction, the 1%Ni/SBA-15(P) catalyst exhibited higher CO2 conversion than the 1%Ni/SBA-15 catalyst prepared by the conventional impregnation method without P123. The CO2 conversion of the 1%Ni/SBA-15(P) catalyst at 700 degrees C was 33.7%, which was three times that of the 1%Ni/SBA-15 catalyst. Moreover, the former catalyst was stable at 700 degrees C within 1000 min. The good activity and stability of the 1%Ni/SBA-15(P) catalyst was owing to small Ni particles that strongly interacted with SBA-15.