PET waste as organic linker source for the sustainable preparation of MOF-derived methane dry reforming catalysts - Sorbonne Université
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PET waste as organic linker source for the sustainable preparation of MOF-derived methane dry reforming catalysts

Abstract

A catalyst made of Ni 0 nanoparticles highly dispersed on a lamellar alumina support was prepared by an environmentally-friendly route. The latter involved the synthesis of an aluminum-containing metalorganic framework (MOF) MIL-53(Al) in which the linkers were derived from the depolymerization of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) originating from plastic wastes. After demonstrating the purity and structure integrity of the PET-derived MIL-53(Al), this MOF was impregnated with nickel nitrate salt and then calcined to form a lamellar Ni-Al 2 O 3 mixed metal oxide with a high surface area (S BET = 1276 m 2 g À1 , N 2 sorption). This mixed oxide consisted of nickel aluminate nanodomains dispersed within amorphous alumina, as revealed by PXRD and TPR analyses. Subsequent reduction under H 2 resulted in the formation of well-dispersed 5 nm Ni 0 nanoparticles homogeneously occluded within the interlamellar porosity of the g-alumina matrix, as attested by electron microscopy. This waste-derived catalyst displayed catalytic performances in the reaction of dry reforming of methane (DRM) as good as its counterpart made from a MOF obtained from commercial benzene-1,4-dicarboxylic acid (BDC). Thus, under similar steady state conditions, at 650 1C and 1 bar, the PET-derived catalyst led to CH 4 and CO 2 conversions as high as those on the BDC-derived catalyst, and its catalytic stability and selectivity towards DRM were excellent as well (no loss of activity after 13 h and H 2 : CO products ratio remaining at 1). Moreover, both catalysts were much better than those of a reference nickel alumina catalyst prepared by conventional impregnation route. This work therefore demonstrates the possibility of using plastic wastes instead of commercial chemicals to prepare efficient porous nickel-alumina DRM catalysts from MOFs, fostering the concept of circular economy.
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hal-03187428 , version 2 (01-04-2021)
hal-03187428 , version 1 (29-11-2021)

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Leila Karam, Arianna Miglio, Stefania Specchia, Nissrine El Hassan, Pascale Massiani, et al.. PET waste as organic linker source for the sustainable preparation of MOF-derived methane dry reforming catalysts. Materials Advances, 2021, ⟨10.1039/d0ma00984a⟩. ⟨hal-03187428v2⟩
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