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Original Article



Production of cobalt-copper from partial reduction of La(Co,Cu)O

<sub>3</sub>



perovskites for CO hydrogenation



Nguyen Tien Thao

*

, Le Thanh Son



Faculty of Chemistry, Vietnam National University Hanoi, 19 Le Thanh Tong ST, Hanoi, 10999, Viet Nam


a r t i c l e i n f o


Article history:


Received 15 June 2016
Accepted 28 July 2016
Available online 18 August 2016
Keywords:


CO hydrogenation
Metal dispersion
CueCo
Perovskite


a b s t r a c t



La(CoCuO3) nanoperovskites have been prepared by the mechano-synthesis method and treated with


hydrogen to yield a high dispersion of bimetallic CoeCu sites. The reduced LaCo1-xCuxO3samples were


characterized by XRD, H2-TPR, CO and H2chemisorption and tested for CO dissociation and for alcohol



synthesis from syngas. The experimental results indicated that the activities in CO dissociation and
hydrogenation on copper-cobalt metals extracted from perovskite lattice crystals are significantly
different from those in the extra-perovskite lattice. The overall catalytic activity in syngas conversion is
correlated with the CoeCu metal surface, but the alcohol productivity e productivity of alcohols
de-creases in the order of LaCo0.7Cu0.3O3> LaCo0.4Cu0.6O3> Cu2O/LaCoO3> LaCo0.9Cu0.1O3> LaCoO3. The


highest catalytic activity and alcohol productivity was obtained over sample of the reduced LaCo0.7
-Cu0.3O3perovskite catalyst.


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1. Introduction


Perovskites, mixed oxides of the general formula ABO3, have


extensively been applied in many fields due to their particular


compositional structure [1]. In principle, the ideal perovskite


structure is cubic with the space-group Pm3m-Oh in which the A
cation occupies at the body center, the cation (B) is at the cube


corner, and the oxygen stays at the midpoint of the cube edges[1,2].


By this way, the perovskite derivatives may be synthesized by the


replacement of another element in A and/or B position[1,3,4]. In


the present work, we have partially substituted Co3ỵin



lanthanum-cobaltate by Cu2ỵ to obtain La(Co,Cu)O3 perovskite catalyst


pre-cursors. The partial reduction of La(Co,Cu)O3 perovskites may


further produce metallic copper-cobalt metals those originate


intentionally from the perovskite lattice. As a result, a finely


dispersed metal catalyst from perovskite precursors would be


ex-pected to use for several applications[2,4]. In experimental, Crespin


and Hall[5]had produced Co0/La2O3from the reduction of LaCoO3


under hydrogen atmosphere. Fierro et al.[6]received the Ni/La2O3


after the complete reduction of LaNiO3at 705 K. Bedel et al.[4]only


carried out the partial reduction of La(Co,Fe)O3 orthorhombic


perovskites at 723 K, producing a small amount of metallic cobalt
while the perovskite lattice still preserved. Thus, the perovskite
product has exhibited a high catalytic activity in many applications


such as CO oxidation[7]hydrogenation of ethylene[8], reforming


of CO2 [9], and conversion of syngas (H2/CO) into many useful


chemicals and liquid fuels[10,11]. The latter conversion is a very



important process since a mixture of alcohols is a crucial gasoline


additive or green vehicle fuel today[12e14].


In our previous work, we have reported some novel


character-istics of lanthanum-cobaltate nanoperovskites prepared by


mechano-synthesis method[10,11,14]. The reduction of such


ma-terials leads to the formation of a well-homogenized supported
bimetallic alloy. Furthermore, the co-existence of two transition
metal ions in the solid lattice results in the formation of dual sites
which are active for many oxidation-reduction applications
[4,15e19]. This article is to present a way for the preparation of
metals supported catalysts for the conversion of carbon monoxide
into oxygenated compounds.


2. Experimental
2.1. Catalyst preparation


A series of CoeCu bases perovskites were synthesized by


mechano-synthesis method. The stoichiometric proportions of
commercial lanthanum, copper, and cobalt oxides (99%, Aldrich)
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were mixed together with three hardened steel balls


(diameter¼ 11 mm) in a hardened steel crucible (50 mL). A SPEX


high energy ball mill working at 1000 rpm was used for
mechano-synthesis. Milling was carried out for 8 h prior to a second milling
step with an alkali additive. Then, the resulting powder was mixed
to 50% sodium chloride (99.9%) and further milled under the same
conditions for 12 h before washing the additives with distilled
water. A sample was added into a beaker containing 1200 mL water
and stirred by magnetic stirring for 90 min prior to being


sedi-mented for 3e5 h. After the clean water is removed, the slurry was


dried in oven at 60e80<sub>C before calcination at 250</sub><sub>C for 150 min.</sub>


2.2. Characterization


The elemental chemical analysis of copper and cobalt in the
perovskites was performed by atomic absorption spectroscopy


using a PerkineElmer 1100B spectrometer. Phase analysis and



crystal domain size determination were performed by powder
X-ray diffraction (XRD) using a SIEMENS D5000 diffractometer with


CuKaradiation (l¼ 1.54059 Å). Bragg's angles between 15 and 75


were collected at a rate of 1/min.


To measure the real surface area of the reduced perovskites, two


other BET experiments were performed using aflow system


(RXM-100, Advanced Scientific Designs, Inc., ASDI). First, 70e100 mg of


catalyst was calcined at 773 K (ramp of 5 K/min) under 20 mL/min


of O2/He (20 vol. %) for 90 min and then evacuated at 723 K for


90 min (P<sub> 8.5  10</sub>8mmHg). Nitrogen adsorption was carried


out at 77 K. Each point of the adsorption isotherm was established
by introducing a given amount of nitrogen from the reaction
manifold into the reactor. Temperature Programmed Reduction


(TPR) experiments were carried out after evacuating N2adsorption


(BET measurement). TPR of the catalysts was then carried out by


ramping under 4.65 vol.% of H2/Ar (20 mL/min) from room



tem-perature to 773 K (5 K/min) for 90 min. The second BET
measure-ment of the sample after reduction was also done in situ.


Chemisorption performance with H2at 373 K and CO at room


temperature was carried out after the second BET measurement.


The H2-chemisorption performance was similar to steps for BET


measurement of nitrogen. After the first isotherm that contains


both physical adsorption and chemisorption was collected, the


sample was evacuated at adsorption temperature for 5e10 min in


order to remove all physically adsorbed species prior to do the


second adsorption. The difference between the<sub>first and the second</sub>


isotherm gives the chemisorption isotherm. H2-and CO-uptake


were determined by extrapolating the straight-line portion of the


adsorption isotherms to zero pressure as represented inFig. 1.


CO dissociation tests on the reduced samples were carried out


using a RXM-100 system. Prior to pretreatment, 40e50 mg of


catalyst was ramped at 10 K/min up to the calcination temperature



(773 K) under 20 vol.% O2/He (20 mL/min) for 90 min and then


cooled down to room temperature under aflow of 20 mL/min He


for 60 min in order to remove the physically adsorbed gas. The
pretreatment of the catalysts was then carried out from room
temperature up to 798 K (5 K/min) for 90 min under 4.65 vol. % of


H2/Ar (20 mL/min) and then cooled down to reaction temperature


under a<sub>flowing 20 mL/min of He. A number of CO/He (0.586 vol. %)</sub>


pulses (0.25 mL) were then injected and passed through the reactor
prior to on line analysis using mass spectrometer (UTI-100). The m/
z signals 2, 18, 28, 44 were collected.


2.3. Catalytic activity


The catalytic tests were carried out in a stainless-steel


contin-uous fixed-bed flow micro-reactor (BTRSeJr PC, Autoclave


Engi-neers). The reaction pressure was controlled using a back-pressure


regulator. The syngas mixture (H2/CO¼ 2/1) was diluted in helium


(20 vol. %). A mixture of reactants and inert gas was supplied from a


pressurized manifold via individual mass flow controllers. The



catalyst pellet size was 40 mesh. Catalysts were pretreated in situ


underflowing 5 vol.% of H2/Ar (20 mL/min) prior to each reaction


test. The temperature was kept at 523 K (3 h), and 773 K (2h30)
with a ramp of 2 K/min. Then, the reactor was cooled down to the
reaction temperature while pressure was increased to 69 bars by
feeding a reaction mixture of gases. The products were analyzed
using a gas chromatograph equipped with two capillary columns
and an automated online gas sampling valve maintained at 443 K.
The temperature of transfer line between the reactor and the valves
was kept at 493 K in order to avoid any product condensation.
Carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide were separated using a


capillary column (Carboxen™ 1006 PLOT, 30 m  0.53 mm)


con-nected to the TCD. Quantitative analysis of all organic products was
carried out using the second capillary column (Wcot fused silica,


60 m 0.53 mm, Coating Cp-Sil 5CB, DF ¼ 5.00

m

m) connected to a


FID detector (Varian CPe 3800) and mass spectrometer (Varian


Saturn 2200 GC/MS/MS).
3. Results and discussion
3.1. Catalyst characteristics


The physical properties of all fresh catalyst samples are



measured and shown inTable 1. X-ray diffraction spectra of all


samples were collected (but not shown) and the crystal phase is


presented inTable 1 [10]. Although Table 1 shows each sample


contains at least two components, but it is noted that the main
phase is perovskite a long with a very small amount of starting


metal oxide material(s) as impurities [10]. Both LaCoO3 and


La(Co,CuO)O3 perovskites are presented as the well-structured


<b>0.00</b>
<b>0.20</b>
<b>0.40</b>
<b>0.60</b>
<b>0.80</b>
<b>1.00</b>
<b>1.20</b>
<b>1.40</b>


<b>0</b> <b>10</b> <b>20</b> <b>30</b> <b>40</b> <b>50</b>


<b>Pressure (torr)</b>


<b>H2</b>


<b>)g/</b>



<b>l</b>


<b>m(</b>


<b>e</b>


<b>ka</b>


<b>t</b>


<b>p</b>


<b>u</b>


<b>de</b>


<b>bo</b>


<b>ro</b>


<b>si</b>


<b>me</b>


<b>h</b>


<b>C</b>


<b></b>



<b>-Total adsorption</b>


<b>Chemisorption</b>
<b>Physisorption</b>


Fig. 1. H2e Chemisorption at 373 K over LaCo0.4Cu0.6O3reduced at 773 K.


Table 1


Properties of the synthesized perovskites.


Nominal Sample XRD analysisa <sub>BET surface</sub>


area (m2<sub>/g)</sub>b


Chemical
composition


Co Cu


LaCoO3 P, Co3O4 60 21.1 e


LaCo0.9Cu0.1O3 P, Co3O4 20 19.3 1.9
LaCo0.7Cu0.3O3 P, Co3O4,CuO 22 18.6 5.8
LaCo0.4Cu0.6O3 P, Co3O4,CuO 21 9.8 11.6
Cu2O/LaCoO3 P, Cu2O, CuO 16.8 20.0 3.3
a<sub>XRD spectra were compared to JCPDS</sub><sub>files: P: Perovskite (JCPDS No. 48e0123);</sub>
Co3O4(JCPDS No. 42e1467); CuO(JCPDS No. 45e0937).


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rhombohedral perovskite as shown inFig. 1 [3e5,10]. The crystal


domain, determined from the FWHM of the (102) diffraction peak
using Scherrer's equation after Warren's correction of instrumental
broadening, is in the range from 7.9 to 10.5 nm. The third column in
Table 1indicates that all ground perovskites samples have medium


surface area, ranging from 20 to 60 m2/g.Fig. 2.


The reducibility of the ground perovskites is interpreted


through the H2-TPR analysis as represented inFig. 3. It is clearly


observed that the copper efree perovskite sample shows two


distinct visible peaks at 670 and 960 K. The low temperature peak is


firmly ascribed to the reduction of Co3ỵ<sub>to Co</sub>2ỵ<sub>and the other broad</sub>


peak is attributed to the complete reaction of cobalt divalent to
metallic phase, in good harmony with the results reported by


several groups [1,4<sub>e6,9,10]</sub>. A similar H2-TPR feature is also


observed for LaCo0.9Cu0.1O3, the profile slightly shifts to the lower


temperature (Fig. 3). Thus, the first shaped-peak is observed at


650 K while the second is at 840 K. It is worthily noted that the H2


-TPR baseline was completely recovered at 950 K showing that the
reduction is essentially terminated at much lower temperature as



compared with the case of LaCoO3 [10,12]. The calculation of H2


consumed amount balance indicates that the reduction of Co3ỵand


Cu2ỵto Co2ỵand Cu0below 671 K, whereas that of Co2ỵto Co0at


840 K [4,11,15]. An increased amount of intra-perovskite lattice


copper leads to a significant affect on the perovskite reducibility


[15]. For LaCo0.7Cu0.3O3sample, the lower peak is visible, but the


other is very broadening from 643 to 943 K. When a larger amount
of intra-lattice cobalt is replaced by copper ions, the two distinct


peaks in H2-TRP trace of the perovskite sample seems to coalesce


into a single peak at 687 K while that of the physical mixture of


Cu2O/LaCoO3still preserves two visible peaks at 670 and 1018 K.


This is interpreted by the assumption of mutual interaction
be-tween cobalt and copper ions in the reduced form; the reduced
copper metal is to promote the reducibility of cobalt ions in the
framework when copper was essentially extracted from the
perovskite lattice at lower reduction temperature as demonstrated


by H2-TPR results[1,10,15,19]. Moreover, hydrogen is well known to



be easily dissociated to hydrogen atoms on metallic copper sites.


Consequently, the reduction of cobalt ions (Co3ỵ and Co2ỵ) by


atomic hydrogen is presumably taken place at lower temperatures
[1,10,15]. Thus, the reduction of La(Co,Cu)O3is to provide afinely


dispersed CoeCu atoms on the catalyst surface and the formation of


bimetallic alloy is not ruled out[19].


To determine the dispersion of metals formed, we have


measured both H2and CO chemisorptions for the reduced


perov-skite forms. Unfortunately, the determination of each individual


component dispersion level is a very difficult task due to a synergic


interaction between two metals after the partial reduction of


perovskites[10,11,15,19]. In this case, we have recorded total H2and


CO chemisorbed volume (mL/g) of each sample (Fig. 1). The volume


of H2and CO uptake of all reduced samples is in turn presented in


Table 2.


The reduced samples were investigated the ability of CO


dissoci-ation to C* intermediate which further hydrogenates to carbon
skel-eton through performing the dissociation of CO versus temperature
programmed from room temperature to 798 K. The relationship
be-tween CO dissociation conversion and temperature is displayed in
Fig. 4. It seems that the CO decomposition level is related with the


chemical composition and dissociation temperatures[15,17,20]. The


presence of copper component gives rise to slight decreased CO


dissociation conversion in the temperature range of 500e798 K. The


CO dissociation conversion decreases with the order of LaCoO3> CuO/


LaCoO3> LaCo0.7Cu0.3O3> LaCo0.4Cu0.6O3 LaCo0.9Cu0.1O3(Fig. 4). It


is well known that cobalt metal has shown a very good activity in the
dissociation of CO while copper is inactive for the CO splitting
[17,21,22]. In this case, copper plays an important role in the synthesis
of alcohols through the protection of the OH functional groups during


the hydrogenation conditions[11,20,22]. Thus the higher CO


con-versions over the cobalt-rich samples are certainly comprehensive
[4,21]. Based on the ability of the reduced samples to dissociate CO


molecule, we are firmly expected that the reduced copper-free


perovskite is active for the synthesis of hydrocarbons while the
perovskite containing copper may act as promising catalysts for the


hydrogenation of CO to linear primary alcohols.


3.2. Catalytic activity in hydrogenation of carbon monoxide


All the prepared samples are pretreated under hydrogen


flow-rate at 798 K prior to test for the hydrogenation of carbon monoxide


at 548 K, 68.9 bars and space velocity VVH¼ 5000 h1(H2/CO/


He¼ 8/4/3). The products contain a mixture of linear primary


al-cohols and n-alkane in addition to small amounts of secondary


alcohols and isoparafins and the formation of products is believed


to be associated with the catalyst metal surface[22].


Thus, we presented the correlation between CO conversion and
product selectivity versus the CO-chemisorbed volume uptake.


With the exception of mixture Cu2O/LaCoO3sample,Fig. 5shows


an increased CO conversion with the CO chemisorbed-volume in


order of LaCo0.7Cu0.3O3 > Cu2O/


LaCoO3> LaCoO3> LaCo0.4Cu0.6O3> LaCo0.9Cu0.1O3. The selectivity


to alcohols obtained over these catalyst samples are presented in


Fig. 6. Although product selectivity seems to be well correlated with
the CO-chemisorbed volume, it should be less meaningful as
compared the product selectivities at different conversion values
(Fig. 6). Thus, a comparison between the productivities may give


more insight into the catalytic behavior[10,22]. Undoubtedly,Fig. 6


<b>0</b>
<b>300</b>
<b>600</b>
<b>900</b>
<b>1200</b>
<b>1500</b>
<b>1800</b>


<b>20</b> <b>30</b> <b>40</b> <b>50</b> <b>60</b>


<b>Li</b>


<b>n </b>


<b>(C</b>


<b>ps</b>


<b>)</b>


<b>LaCo Cu O</b>
<b>LaCo Cu O</b>
<b>LaCo Cu O</b>


<b>Cu O/LaCoO</b>


<b>LaCoO</b>
<b>2θ (degree)</b>


Fig. 2. XRD patterns of all catalyst precursor samples.


<b>0</b>
<b>5</b>
<b>10</b>
<b>15</b>
<b>20</b>
<b>25</b>


<b>300</b> <b>450</b> <b>600</b> <b>750</b> <b>900</b> <b>1050</b>


<b>Temperature (K)</b>


<b>T</b>


<b>C</b>


<b>D</b>


<b> S</b>


<b>ign</b>


<b>al</b>



<b> (a.u</b>


<b>)</b>


<b>LaCoO3</b>


<b>LaCo0.7Cu0.3O3</b>


<b>LaCo0.4Cu0.6O3</b>


<b>Cu2O/LaCoO3</b>


<b>LaCo0.9Cu0.1O3</b>


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shows the productivity of alcohols decreases monotonically with


CO uptake in the order of LaCo0.7Cu0.3O3> LaCo0.4Cu0.6O3> Cu2O/


LaCoO3 > LaCo0.9Cu0.1O3 > LaCoO3. This observation is not with


respect to the order of CO chemisorbed volume, but in good


agreement with the ratio of H2volume uptake/BET surface area of


the sample after reduction (Fig. 7). This phenomenon is explained
by the composition of the catalyst surface and the available
abun-dance of bimetallic cobalt-copper sites on the catalyst surface after


reduction[11,16,22e24].



Certainly, the presence of intra-lattice copper (LaCo0.7Cu0.3O3)


has a promotional effect on the formation of alcohols as compared


with the extra-lattice copper (Cu2O/LaCoO3) or the copper-free


perovskite sample [11,23]. The formation of La(Co,Cu)O3


perov-skite precursors would provide intimidate dual copper-cobalt sites


which are prerequisite for the formation of alcohols from CO and H2


[17,19,25]. This issue is further supported by the examination of the


catalytic activity at different pretreatment conditions.Table 2


dis-plays the alcohol selectivity/productivity versus the reduction


temperatures obtained on LaCo0.7Cu0.3O3. It is noted that the


alcohol productivity gradually increases and reaches a maximal
value at 773 K and then sharply decreased at higher reduction
temperatures. This observable trend is explained by the fact that
the surface composition is strongly associated with pretreatment


temperature because of the reduction of CoeCu based perovskites


happening in a multiple-step process at different temperatures
[1,2,4,8,10]. The surface concentration of cobalt and copper metals



is very sensitive to the reduction temperatures[4,5,9,11,15,21,25].


As an increased in H2-reduction temperature, the (Cu0eCo0)surface/


(CueCo)totalmolar surface ratio is varied and probably approached


a highest value around 773 K as elucidated by hydrogen


chemi-sorption data (Table 2)[23].


A higher reduction temperature gives rise to a sintering of
atomic copper metals and as consequence the active sites for the
formation of OH alcohol functional group gradually decreases.
Indeed, it was widely reported that the reduction of perovskites can
be described either by the contrasting-sphere model or by the
Table 2


Effect of hydrogen pretreatment temperature on alcohol productivity over sample LaCo0.7Cu0.3O3in CO hydrogenation at 548 K (VVH¼ 5000 h1, 69 bar, H2/CO/He¼ 8/4/3).
Reduction temperature (K) H2evolume (mL/gcat) CO conversion (%) Alcohol selectivity (%) Alcohol productivity (mg/gcat/h)


623 0.78 17.5 27.2 43.0


723 0.93 16.1 41.9 49.4


773 0.84 25.1 42.9 70.1


823 0.56 8.7 43.5 33.4


<b>20</b>
<b>30</b>


<b>40</b>
<b>50</b>
<b>60</b>
<b>70</b>
<b>80</b>
<b>90</b>
<b>100</b>


<b>450</b> <b>500</b> <b>550</b> <b>600</b> <b>650</b> <b>700</b> <b>750</b> <b>800</b>


<b>Temperature (K)</b>


<b>)</b>


<b>%(</b>


<b>noi</b>


<b>tai</b>


<b>co</b>


<b>si</b>


<b>d</b>


<b>O</b>


<b>C</b>



LaCoO3
CuO/LaCoO3
LaCo0.7Cu0.3O3
LaCo0.9Cu0.1O3


<b>LaCoO3</b>


<b>CuO2/LaCoO3</b>


<b>LaCo0.7Cu0.3O3</b>


<b>LaCo0.9Cu0.1O3</b>


<b>LaCo0.4Cu0.6O3</b>


Fig. 4. CO dissociation ability at different temperatures on the reduced samples after
pre-treatment at 798 K in H2/Ar (0.586 vol. % CO/He pulses (0.25 mL) were then
injected through the catalyst).


<b>5</b> <b>15</b> <b>25</b> <b>35</b> <b>45</b> <b>55</b> <b>65</b> <b>75</b>


<b>CO Conversion (%) and Alcohol productivity (mg/gcat/h)</b>


<b>0.012</b>
<b>0.014</b>
<b>0.016</b>
<b>0.018</b>
<b>0.028</b>


<b>g/</b>



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<b>m(</b>


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<b>at</b>


<b>pu</b>


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<b>br</b>


<b>osi</b>


<b>me</b>


<b>h</b>


<b></b>


<b>C-O</b>


<b>C</b>


<b>ca</b>


<b>t </b>



<b>h)</b>


<b>Conversion</b>
<b>Alcohols</b>
<b>Cu2O/LaCoO3</b>


<b>LaCo0.4Cu0.6O3</b>


<b>LaCo0.7Cu0.3O3</b>


<b>LaCo0.9Cu0.1</b>


<b>LaCoO3</b>


Fig. 5. Correlation between the volume of CO chemisorbed uptake and CO
hydroge-nation activity at 548 K (VVH¼ 5000 h1<sub>, 69 bar, H</sub>


2/CO/He¼ 8/4/3).


<b>0</b> <b>10</b> <b>20</b> <b>30</b> <b>40</b> <b>50</b> <b>60</b> <b>70</b> <b>80</b> <b>90</b> <b>100</b>


<b> Alcohol and hydrocarbon selectivity (wt.%)</b>
<b>0.012</b>


<b>0.014</b>
<b>0.016</b>
<b>0.018</b>
<b>0.028</b>



<b>)t</b>


<b>ac</b>


<b>g/</b>


<b>L</b>


<b>m(</b>


<b>e</b>


<b>ka</b>


<b>t</b>


<b>p</b>


<b>u</b>


<b>de</b>


<b>br</b>


<b>osi</b>


<b>me</b>


<b>h</b>



<b></b>


<b>C-O</b>


<b>C</b>


<b>Hydrocarbons</b>


<b>Alcohols</b>


<b>Cu2O/LaCoO3</b>


<b>LaCo0.4Cu0.6O3</b>


<b>LaCo0.7Cu0.3O3</b>


<b>LaCo0.9Cu0.1O3</b>


<b>LaCoO3</b>


Fig. 6. Correlation between the volume of CO chemisorbed uptake and CO
hydroge-nation activity at 548 K (VVH¼ 5000 h1<sub>, 69 bar, H</sub>


2/CO/He¼ 8/4/3).


<b>0.01</b>
<b>0.02</b>
<b>0.03</b>
<b>0.04</b>
<b>0.05</b>


<b>0.06</b>
<b>0.07</b>


LaCoO3 Cu2O/LaCoO3


<b>Perovskite catalysts</b>


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<b>e o</b>


<b>f H</b>


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<b>BET</b>


<b> (m</b>


<b>L</b>



<b>.g</b>


<b>/m</b>


<b>2)</b>


<b>LaCoO3LaCo0.9Cu0.1O3LaCo0.7Cu0.3O3LaCo0.4Cu0.6O3Cu2O/LaCoO3</b>


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nucleation mechanism[1,2,5,8,9]. Thus, the total metal surface area


is strongly dependant on the pretreatment conditions[8,10,18,20].


In the present study, the LaCo0.7Cu0.3O3is reduced at 773 K gives


the most effective catalyst for the formation of higher alcohols from
CO hydrogenation reaction.


The alcohol product distribution is presented inFig. 8which


contains a mixture of linear primary alcohols from methanol to


heptanol [10,22]. The product distribution is recalculated as


Anderson-Schulz-Flory (ASF) rule and the plot between ln(wt.%/n)


versus carbon number (n) is drawn in Fig. 9 [20,22]. Since the


carbon chain growth factor of alcohols (designated as

a

1) is not on



par with that of hydrocarbons (

a

3), we have recalculated the second


one (a2) excluding methanol because methanol may be


indepen-dently produced by different pathways[11,19,26e30]. In the case,


the alcohol chain growth factor (

a

2) of C2OHe C7OH stays at middle


value between

a

1 and

a

3. This indicates that the formation of


skeletal carbons of primary alcohols occurs parallel to that of


hy-drocarbons on cobalt catalyst surface[20,22,24e27]. A close


dis-tance between cobalt and copper sites on catalyst surface has
steered the formation of hydrocarbons into primary alcohols by
insertion of undissociated CO molecule absorbed on copper sites
[11,19,20,22,28e30].


4. Conclusions


A set of La(Co,Cu)O3perovskite samples prepared by grounding


method was pretreated in H2prior to test for the CO hydrogenation


reaction. The presence of copper ions in the perovskite lattice


results in a signi<sub>ficant effect on the perovskite reducibility. Under</sub>


the same pretreatment conditions the LaeCoeCu based perovskites



is easily reduced, yielding metallic cobalt and copper sites


dispersed over a La2O3matrix. The CO dissociation ability of cobalt


is remarkably affected by the presence of neighboring copper
atoms. The overall activity of the catalysts in syngas conversion
strongly depends on pretreatment temperature and the metal
surface area. The intra-framework copper increases the formation
of higher alcohols. Alcohol and hydrocarbon productivity are
strongly dependant on reducing conditions. The highest alcohol


productivity was about 0.07 galcohol/gcat/h on the LaCo0.7Cu0.3O3


perovskite precursor.


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<b>an</b>
<b>ol</b>
<b>Eth</b>
<b>an</b>
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<b>tan</b>
<b>ol</b>
<b>Bu</b>
<b>tan</b>
<b>ol</b>
<b>Bu</b>
<b>tan</b>
<b>ol</b>

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<b>15</b>
<b>20</b>
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<b>30</b>
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<b>40</b>
<b>45</b>
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<b>Temperature (K)</b>
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<b>bi</b>
<b>rts</b>
<b>i</b>
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Fig. 8. Effect of hydrogen pretreatment temperature on alcohol distribution over
sample LaCo0.7Cu0.3O3in CO hydrogenation at 548 K (VVH¼ 5000 h1, 69 bar, H2/CO/
He¼ 8/4/3).


<b>-4</b>
<b>-3</b>
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<b>2</b>
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<b>Carbon number</b>


<b>Ln</b>


<b> [(w</b>


<b>t.%)/</b>


<b>n]</b>


<b>α3 = 0.43</b>
<b>α2 = 0.42</b>


<b>α1 = 0.38</b>


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