Facile Preparation of Mesoporous MCM-48 Containing Silver Nanoparticles with Fly Ash as Raw Materials for CO Catalytic Oxidation
Dong Tian,
Yonghong Chen,
Xiaoyong Lu,
Yihan Ling,
Bin Lin
Affiliations
Dong Tian
Huainan Engineering Research Center for Fuel Cells, Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Low Temperature Co-Fired Materials, Huainan Normal University, Huainan 232038, China
Yonghong Chen
Huainan Engineering Research Center for Fuel Cells, Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Low Temperature Co-Fired Materials, Huainan Normal University, Huainan 232038, China
Xiaoyong Lu
Huainan Engineering Research Center for Fuel Cells, Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Low Temperature Co-Fired Materials, Huainan Normal University, Huainan 232038, China
Yihan Ling
Huainan Engineering Research Center for Fuel Cells, Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Low Temperature Co-Fired Materials, Huainan Normal University, Huainan 232038, China
Bin Lin
Huainan Engineering Research Center for Fuel Cells, Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Low Temperature Co-Fired Materials, Huainan Normal University, Huainan 232038, China
An environmentally friendly method was proposed to prepare mesoporous Mobil Composition of Matter No.48 (MCM-48) using fly ash as the silica source. Silver nanoparticles were infiltrated on MCM-48 facilely by an in situ post-reduction method and evaluated as an effective catalyst for CO oxidation. The as-prepared MCM-48 and Ag/MCM-48 nanoparticles were characterized by XRD, N2 adsorption/desorption, and TEM. Investigations by means of XPS for Ag/MCM-48 were performed in order to illuminate the surface composition of the samples. Studies revealed the strong influence of the loading of Ag nanoparticles on catalysts in the oxidation of CO. CO conversion values for Ag/MCM-48 of 10% and 100% were achieved at temperatures of 220 °C and 270 °C, respectively, indicating that the Ag-decorated MCM-48 catalyst is extremely active for CO oxidation.
