Study on Chemisorption and Desorption of Hydrogen and Nitrogen on Ru-based Ammonia Synthesis Catalyst

摘要

The effects of promoters K,Ba,Sm,on the chemisorption and desorption of hydrogen and nitrogen,dispersion of metallic Ru and catalytic activity of active carbon(AC) supported ruthenium catalyst for ammonia synthesis have been studied by means of pulse chromatography,temperature-programmed desorption,and activity test,Promoters K,Ba and Sm increased the activity of Ru/AC catalysts for ammonia synthesis significantly,and particularly,potassium exhibited the best promotion on the activity because of the strong electronic donation to metallic Ru.Much higher activity can be obtained for Ru/AC catalyst with binary or triple promoters.The activity of Ru/AC catalyst is dependent on the adsorption of hydrogen and nitrogen.The high activity of catalyst could be ascribed to strong dissociation of nitrogen on the catalyst surface.Strong adsorption of hydrogen would inhibit the adsorption of nitrogen,resulted in decrease of the catalytic activity.Ru/AC catalyst promoted by Sm2O3 shows the best dispersion of metallic Ru,since the partly reduced SmO2 on the surface modifies the morphology of active sites and favors the dispersion of metallic Ru.The activity of Ru/AC catalysts is in accordance to the corresponding amount of nitrogen chemisorption and the desorption activation enery of nitrogen.The desorption activation energy for nitrogen decreases in the order of Ru>Ru-Ba>Ru-Sm>Ru-Bs-Sm>Ru-K>Ru-K-Bm>Ru-K-Ba>Ru-K-Ba-Sm,just opposite to the order or catalytic activity,suggesting that the ammonia synthesis over Ru-based catalyst is controlled by the step of dissociation of nitrogen.