Minor Project

Minor Project

My research question is high volume of carbon monoxide (CO) and carbon dioxide (CO₂) affect greenhouse effect in the world. How we will eliminate it or we will destroy it. Then CO and CO₂ will destroy atmosphere of earth and affect increasing temperature some research say it is very important.

Researchers who have looked at this subject are Qingjie Ge and Congming Li. They changed CO and CO₂ to LPG, chemical or high value product. They argue that this method used catalyst. It would help decreasing the amount of carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide and decreasing greenhouse effect within the world. 

Qingjie et al. (2008) argued that performance Cu–ZnO/Pd-B catalyst has been investigated under the suitable conditions, catalyst exhibit an excellent catalytic performance for syngas to LPG.

Congming et al. (2014) argued that hybrid catalysts consisting of Zr-Cu–Zn catalyst with Pd-B zeolite were found to show high and stable conversion for CO₂ hydrogenation.

Debate centers on the issue of Qingjie and Congming. The selectivity and conversion of catalyst was changed CO and CO₂ to LPG less than 75%

There is still work to be done on my research will improve catalyst with increasing selectivity and conversion of CO and CO₂ more than 90%

My research will be closest to Qingjie and Congming because I will add the other metal such as Ni, Mo, Ce, Pt, Au and etc into Cu–ZnO/Pd-B catalyst with increasing effective and stability of catalyst to high conversion. The catalyst will used for conversion CO and CO₂ to LPG.

Hopefully, my research will help to improve increasing effective and stability of catalyst and it also help to converse CO and CO₂ to LPG more than 95% when compared with previous catalyst and the product from reaction will get LPG only by the byproduct will not have obtained from reaction.

Reference List

Qingjie, G., Yu, L., Xingdong, Y., Xiaohong, L., & Kaoru, F. (2008). High performance           ZnO/Pd-B catalysts for syngas to LPG. Catalysis Communications, 9, 256–261.

Congming, L., Xingdong, Y., & Kaoru, F. (2014). Direct synthesis of LPG from carbon              dioxide over hybrid catalysts comprising modified methanol synthesis catalyst                and B-type zeolite. Applied Catalysis A: General, 475, 155–160.