The oxidn. of CO on silica-supported hematite (Fe2O3) was studied by the step-response method in a tubular fixed-bed reactor at temps. 270-350 Deg. The oxidn. process appeared to proceed in two stages. First, oxygen atoms adsorbed on the surface of hematite react with gas phase CO according to an Eley-Rideal mechanism. Once that adsorbed oxygen has been consumed to some extent, surface oxygen from the lattice of iron oxide is removed in a second stage involving CO adsorption and CO reactive desorption steps, thus generating surface oxygen vacancies. Further redn. of hematite proceeds by diffusion of subsurface oxygen into surface oxygen vacancies. On this basis, a kinetic model was developed, which quant. describes the transient behavior of the oxidn. process. The activation energies and pre-exponential factors of the rate consts. and characteristic subsurface oxygen diffusion time could be detd. [on SciFinder (R)]
Title
Modeling CO Oxidation on Silica-Supported Iron Oxide under Transient Conditions
Published in
Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research
Volume
36
Issue
8
Pages
2996-3001
Date
1997
ISSN
0888-5885
Note
CAN 127:68073
49-10
Industrial Inorganic Chemicals
Institute of Chemical Engineering,Swiss Federal Institute of Technology,Lausanne,Switz.
Journal
written in English.
7631-86-9 (Silica) Role: CAT (Catalyst use), USES (Uses) (catalyst support; modeling of carbon monoxide oxidn. on silica-supported iron oxide catalyst under transient conditions); 1309-37-1 (Iron oxide (Fe2O3) Role: CAT (Catalyst use), USES (Uses) (modeling of carbon monoxide oxidn. on silica-supported iron oxide catalyst under transient conditions); 630-08-0 (Carbon monoxide) Role: PEP (Physical, engineering or chemical process), PROC (Process) (modeling of carbon monoxide oxidn. on silica-supported iron oxide catalyst under transient conditions); 10024-97-2 (Nitrogen oxide (N2O) Role: PEP (Physical, engineering or chemical process), PROC (Process) (modeling of carbon monoxide oxidn. with nitrogen oxide on silica-supported iron oxide catalyst under transient conditions)
Record creation date
2006-04-18