WO1999043609A1 - Production de filaments de carbone par le craquage direct d'hydrocarbures - Google Patents
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- D01—NATURAL OR MAN-MADE THREADS OR FIBRES; SPINNING
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- This invention relates generally to the production of carbon and hydrogen, and more specifically to carbon filament production by the direct cracking of hydrocarbons such as methane and natural gas.
- the current proton-exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cells utilize hydrogen as the energy source and require essential elimination (ideally below 20 ppmv) of carbon monoxide from the hydrogen stream to prevent poisoning of the electrocatalyst.
- Hydrogen is typically produced through steam reforming, partial oxidation or autothermal reforming of natural gas. In all these cases, however, carbon monoxide is a co-product, which has to be converted into carbon dioxide in subsequent steps which adds to the cost of the produced hydrogen.
- An alternative route is to directly crack the hydrocarbon fuel into hydrogen and carbon.
- the formation of carbon oxides is avoided and the need for downstream reactions such as water-gas shift and selective oxidation for the conversion of carbon monoxide to carbon dioxide is eliminated.
- this approach has not been extensively studied. While commercial processes exist that utilize thermal cracking of methane at extremely high temperatures for the -2- production of acetylene and carbon black, hydrogen production via the catalytic cracking of methane has been only briefly considered in the past.
- the carbon black material produced from these existing commercial processes is not filamentous or fibrous in nature. As such, it contains no added value other than the marginal value for typical end-uses or applications of carbon black.
- the carbon produced in this invention is of high value. In a commercial operation using this invention, the high value carbon produced can be continuously removed using fluid bed or moving bed reactors before regenerating the catalyst bed, if necessary.
- the rates of methane conversion and hydrogen formation were found to be in ratio of 1 :2, thus, verifying the reaction stoichiometry for methane cracking.
- the amounts of carbon deposited on the spent catalyst and methane reacted indicated a good closure of the carbon balance (100 ⁇ 5%).
- the process of the invention may be -4- applicable to any other suitable hydrocarbon such as ethane, ethylene, propane, propylene, butane, pentane, hexane and mixtures thereof, and hydrocarbons with molecular weights in the gasoline and diesel range. Nevertheless, it is anticipated that the preferred hydrocarbons will be methane and natural gas. During the catalytic cracking of higher molecular weight hydrocarbons, it is expected that several other undesirable products will be formed in addition to hydrogen and carbon fibers and filaments.
- activity measurements for the methane cracking reaction were conducted over a set of 9 Ni-Cu/SIO 2 catalysts in which the total metal amount (on a molar basis) was maintained constant at 2.6 mmole of metal/g of support while the ratio of Ni:Cu was varied from approximately 8:1 to approximately 1:8.
- the reaction was carried out in a pure methane stream, at 650 and 800 °C and at a gas hourly space velocity of 6000 hr' 1- The results indicate that the presence of small amounts of Cu enhanced significantly the Ni activity at 800 °C.
- the promoting effect is also more pronounced when small amounts of Cu are added (i.e., Ni:Cu ratios greater than 1).
- the highest initial methane conversion observed with this set of catalysts is at the 8:1 Ni:Cu ratio. Even higher initial methane conversions are expected with higher Ni:Cu ratios up to about 20:1.
- FIG. 2 represents a plot of initial methane conversion as a function of catalyst composition at two different temperatures over a series of Ni-Cu/SiO 2 catalysts (O at 650 °C and D at 800°C).
- FIG. 3 is a SEM micrograph at 25,000X illustrating the structure of the carbon fibers of the present invention.
- FIG. 4 is a SEM micrograph at 50,000X illustrating the structure of the carbon fibers of the present invention.
- FIG. 5 is a TEM micrograph at 100,000X illustrating the structure of the carbon fibers of the present invention.
- the catalyst used in the first embodiment of this invention was prepared by incipient wetness impregnation of an aqueous solution of nickel nitrate onto the silica support, followed by calcination in air and in-situ reduction in flowing hydrogen.
- This is a standard method of preparation of supported metal catalysts and several different nickel salts can be used instead of nickel nitrate as the nickel precursor.
- other standard methods for the preparation of supported metal catalysts could be used without having a detrimental effect on the properties of the catalyst.
- silica we investigated other inorganic supports such as alumina and titania.
- nickel supported on these supports was also found to be effective for the catalytic cracking of methane, the performance of nickel supported on silica was superior to those of the other catalysts and therefore, this system was chosen to demonstrate the invention in this application.
- other transition metals such as Co and Fe, supported on silica for this reaction.
- these catalysts were also found to be effective for the reaction, at 550°C the performance of nickel was again superior to the other catalysts.
- Ni/SiO 2 catalysts of variable Ni content it was determined that optimum performance for the catalytic cracking of methane can be obtained with a nickel content in excess of 5 wt.%, and, in particular a content of -6- approximately 16 wt.%. As a result, a 16 wt.% Ni/SiO 2 catalyst was chosen to demonstrate the invention in this application.
- Carbon may deposit on the surface to cover the active sites (site-blocking) or accumulate at the entrance of the pores to block further access of the reactants to the interior (pore-mouth plugging). It has been estimated that in both cases catalyst deactivation would occur within a short period of time. Even if 10 carbon atoms are needed to block each surface ⁇ i atom, for example, 11 mg of carbon deposition would be enough to completely deactivate one gram of the 16.4% ⁇ i/SiO 2 catalyst. Furthermore, if pore-mouth plugging was the main deactivation mechanism, approximately 250 mg of carbon would be sufficient to clog the external 10% of the pores, in one gram of the Ni/SiO 2 catalyst sample.
- Spent catalyst samples were further studied by the use of X-Ray Diffraction (XRD).
- XRD patterns suggest that graphitic carbon constituents with different degrees of defect or distortion are present in the deactivated samples.
- TEM micrographs of the fully deactivated sample show that the growth of the carbon is terminated as a result of spatial limitations.
- the modes of filament termination include the nickel particle's restriction by the silica surface, the arm and the tip of another carbon filament.
- the formation of carbon filaments as a result of hydrocarbon cracking has been extensively reported in the literature with higher molecular weight hydrocarbons over supported nickel, iron, cobalt and several alloy catalysts.
- carbon fibers or filaments are produced preferably from the catalytic cracking of either pure methane or commercial natural gas.
- the type of carbon produced in the present invention is highly desirable and has added value in certain applications such as electrochemical and adsorption storage of fuel gases.
- the enhanced value of the carbon material from the present invention is due to its filamentous or fibrous nature, since the properties of the carbon filaments are superior to those of the ordinary carbon black.
- the morphology of the carbon fibers is more clearly shown in SEM and TEM micrographs, (See Figs. 3, 4 and 5).
- the set of Ni-Cu/SiO 2 catalysts used in the second embodiment of this invention had the total metal amount (on a molar basis) maintained constant at 2.6 mmole of metal/g of support while the ratio of Ni:Cu was varied from approximately -8-
- the catalysts were prepared by incipient wetness impregnation of nickel and copper nitrates (Ni(NO 3 ) 2 x6H 2 O and Cu(NO 3 ) 2 x2.5H 2 O) obtained from Aldrich Chem. Co. Inc. (with a purity of 99.999%) onto commercially available SiO 2 (Grace Davison-Syloid 74). Prior to impregnation the silica support was dried, pressed into pellets under a pressure of 15,000 psig, crushed and sieved to obtain a granulometric fraction in the 20-35 mesh size.
- the impregnated samples were dried in a vacuum oven at 120 °C overnight and subsequently calcined in a muffler furnace at 700 °C for 6 hours.
- the Ni and Cu loadings were estimated by the weight difference between the blank support and the catalyst reduced overnight in a 1 :2 H 2 /N 2 mixture (total flow rate of 120 ml/min) at 650 °C .
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