CO2 reforming of coke oven gas over a Ni@γAl2O3 catalyst to produce syngas for methanol synthesis.pdf

Fuel 94 (2012) 197–203 Contents lists available at SciVerse ScienceDirect Fuel journal homepage: www.else /l ocate/fuel CO reforming of coke oven gas over a Ni/cAl O catalyst to produce syngas for 2 2 3 methanol synthesis J.M. Bermúdez, B. Fidalgo, A. Arenillas, J.A. Menéndez ⇑ Instituto Nacional del Carbón, CSIC, Apartado 73, 33080 Oviedo, Spain a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: The CO reforming of coke oven gases (COG) was carried out over a Ni/cAl O catalyst in order to obtain a 2 2 3 Received 18 March 2011 suitable syngas for methanol synthesis. The influence of different operating conditions, such as temper- Received in revised form 17 October 2011 ature and volumetric hourly space velocity (VHSV), was studied. It was found that the H2 present in the Accepted 18 October 2011 feed gas promotes the Reverse Water Gas Shift reaction (RWGS), which produces water. Nevertheless, the Available online 1 November 2011 Ni/cAl O catalyst showed a high selectivity to the CO reforming reaction and it was possible to avoid 2 3 2