Preparation of Pd/γ-Al2O3 Nanocatalyst and Characterization by X-Ray Diffraction and Transmission Electron Microscope

Abstract

In petrochemical industry, and mainly in ethylene production plants, acetylene presents in trace amount in ethylene gas and causes a serous problems owing to it is higher activity and being explosive at certain concentration limits with air, so it has to be converted to ethylene in selective hydrogenation. Three selective hydrogenation nanocatalysts Pd/γ-Al2O3 that contain 0.03 %, 0.05% and 0.07 wt % of palladium loaded on activated alumina were prepared by impregnation method. They were characterized for physical and chemical properties and structurally by X-ray diffraction, metal dispersion, and transmission electron microscope.