Meeting Program — February 2018

Chao Lin — Stu­dent Speak­er

Abstract — Per­ovskite-sup­port­ed Ni cat­a­lysts were pre­pared by Atom­ic Lay­er Depo­si­tion for use in CO₂ and steam reform­ing of methane. Thin films of CaTiO₃ were grown on MgAl₂O₄ and used as the sup­port. These cat­a­lysts were found to be self-regen­er­at­ing fol­low­ing redox cycling. Activ­i­ties for the ALD-pre­pared cat­a­lysts were high­er than that observed on Ni/MgAl₂O₄ in both steam reform­ing and dry reform­ing. More impor­tant­ly, the per­ovskite-sup­port­ed cat­a­lysts showed min­i­mal cok­ing, even upon expo­sure to dry methane at high tem­per­a­tures.