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Unraveling the activity of iron carbide clusters embedded in silica for thermocatalytic conversion of methane

Published:2021 Issue:22 Volume:11 Page:7398-7411
ISSN:2044-4753
Container-title:Catalysis Science & Technology
language:en
Short-container-title:Catal. Sci. Technol.

Author:

Dixit Gopal K.¹,Kumar Manish¹,Katiyar Ankita¹,Jansen Antonius P. J.²,van Bavel Alexander P.³,Agrawal Ravi²,Shenai Prathamesh M.²,Srinivasan Varadharajan¹^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Bhopal, Bhopal 462 066, India

2. Shell India Markets Pvt. Ltd., Bengaluru, Karnataka 562149, India

3. Shell Global Solutions International, B. V., 1031 HW Amsterdam, Netherlands

Abstract

We report the detailed mechanism of direct nonoxidative CH4 conversion on iron carbide clusters embedded in silica, revealing that the FeC3 sites generated in situ from FeC2 are mainly responsible for CH4 conversion to CH3 and H2.

Funder

Shell Global Solutions International

Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Bhopal

Publisher

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

Subject

Catalysis

Link

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2021/CY/D1CY01229K

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