Projektbeschreibung
Eine bessere Umwandlung von Methan in Methanol hilft Industrie, Gesellschaft und Umwelt
Methan (CH4) ist der Hauptbestandteil von Erdgas und wird durch menschliche Aktivitäten und natürliche Prozesse freigesetzt. Obwohl es weltweit für einen relativ kleinen Teil der Emissionen verantwortlich ist, hat es schwere Auswirkungen, da es zigmal mehr Wärme als CO2 speichert. Die Umwandlung von CH4 in Methanol ist eine hervorragende Möglichkeit, um sowohl die Konzentration in der Atmosphäre zu senken als auch Kraftstoff und Rohstoffe zu produzieren. Aufgrund der Stärke der Kohlenstoff-Wasserstoff-Verbindung und der freigesetzten Nebenprodukte bleibt dies eine große Herausforderung und ein wichtiger Forschungsbereich. Das EU-finanzierte Projekt 4lessCH4 wird innovative Katalysatoren für eine effiziente und selektive Umwandlung von CH4 in Methanol entwickeln, was sich vor allem erheblich auf die Eindämmung des Klimawandels auswirken soll.
Ziel
Methane (CH4) is a potent greenhouse gas that can come from many sources, both natural and manmade. The low temperature direct route to converting methane to methanol (CH3OH) a key feedstock for the production of chemicals that can also fuel vehicles or be reformed to produce hydrogen has long been a holy grail. The efficient use of CH4 emissions require catalysts that can activate the first C-H bond while suppressing complete dehydrogenation and avoiding CO/CO2 formation. The potential benefit of finding non-expensive and efficient catalysts for directly converting methane to methanol (DMTM), using only molecular oxygen, and perhaps water, is significant and new catalysts are being sought. This project aims to the rational design of such catalysts based on non-noble metal nanoalloys/reducible oxide systems. There are key challenges to be addressed, namely, to improve reactants activation, to obtain an understanding of the reaction mechanism and to improve selectivity. Real powder catalysts are too complex to enable us to disentagle the effect of the nature of the metallic phase (composition, structure, nanoparticle size), the role of the oxidic support and of metal-support interactions, and the role of alloying and water in controlling selectivity. The strategy here consists of creating and investigating model systems, which include essential parts of the real ones, but can still be studied at the atomic level using state-of-the-art computational methodology in chemistry. Calculations will be performed in close collaboration with experimental work employing well-defined model systems as well as powders. The synergistic power of theory and experiment is crucial to design new or improved catalysts. Theory will not only be used to explain experimental data, but also for pre-screening the behavior of catalysts. The goal is to develop basic principles for the rational design and optimization of nano-structured catalysts for mitigating greenhouse gases.
Wissenschaftliches Gebiet
- natural scienceschemical sciencesorganic chemistryalcohols
- natural scienceschemical sciencescatalysis
- engineering and technologynanotechnologynano-materials
- natural scienceschemical sciencesorganic chemistryaliphatic compounds
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesartificial intelligencecomputational intelligence
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