Volume 131, Issue 37 pp. 13069-13073
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Oxidative Fluorination of Cu/ZnO Methanol Catalysts

Valentin Dybbert

Valentin Dybbert

Institut für Anorganische und Analytische Chemie and Freiburger Materialforschungszentrum (FMF), Universität Freiburg, Albertstrasse 21, 79104 Freiburg, Germany

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Samuel Matthias Fehr

Samuel Matthias Fehr

Institut für Anorganische und Analytische Chemie and Freiburger Materialforschungszentrum (FMF), Universität Freiburg, Albertstrasse 21, 79104 Freiburg, Germany

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Florian Klein

Florian Klein

Institut für Anorganische und Analytische Chemie and Freiburger Materialforschungszentrum (FMF), Universität Freiburg, Albertstrasse 21, 79104 Freiburg, Germany

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Dr. Achim Schaadt

Dr. Achim Schaadt

Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems, Heidenhofstrasse 2, 79110 Freiburg, Germany

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Anke Hoffmann

Anke Hoffmann

Institut für Anorganische und Analytische Chemie and Freiburger Materialforschungszentrum (FMF), Universität Freiburg, Albertstrasse 21, 79104 Freiburg, Germany

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Dr. Elias Frei

Dr. Elias Frei

Fritz-Haber Institute of the Max-Planck Society, Faraday-Weg 4–6, 14195 Berlin, Germany

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Dr. Emre Erdem

Dr. Emre Erdem

Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Sabanci University, 34956 Istanbul, Turkey

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Dr. Thilo Ludwig

Dr. Thilo Ludwig

Institut für Anorganische und Analytische Chemie and Freiburger Materialforschungszentrum (FMF), Universität Freiburg, Albertstrasse 21, 79104 Freiburg, Germany

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Prof. Dr. Harald Hillebrecht

Prof. Dr. Harald Hillebrecht

Institut für Anorganische und Analytische Chemie and Freiburger Materialforschungszentrum (FMF), Universität Freiburg, Albertstrasse 21, 79104 Freiburg, Germany

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Prof. Dr. Ingo Krossing

Corresponding Author

Prof. Dr. Ingo Krossing

Institut für Anorganische und Analytische Chemie and Freiburger Materialforschungszentrum (FMF), Universität Freiburg, Albertstrasse 21, 79104 Freiburg, Germany

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First published: 06 June 2019
Citations: 8

Dedicated to Dr. Johannes Eicher on the occasion of his 60th birthday

Abstract

The influence of a mild difluorine treatment on Cu/ZnO precatalysts for methanol synthesis was investigated. It led to the incorporation of 1.2…1.3±0.1 wt % fluoride into the material. Fluorination considerably increased the amount of ZnOx related defect sites on the catalysts and significantly increased the space-time yields. Although the apparent activation energy EA,app for methanol formation from CO2 and H2 was almost unchanged, the EA,app for the reverse water-gas shift (rWGS) reaction increased considerably. Overall, fluorination led to a significant gain in methanol selectivity and productivity. Apparently, also the quantity of active sites increased.

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