Abstract
Hydroxyapatite (HA) derived from salmon bone byproducts is used as a green support for the nanostructured nickel catalysts applied in the methanation of carbon dioxide (CO2). Undoped nickel catalysts and various ceria-doped nickel supported on hydroxyapatite (HA) were prepared by coimpregnation. Characteristics of the as-prepared catalysts were investigated by the various techniques, including X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), Brunauer–Emmett–Teller (BET), hydrogen temperature-programmed reduction (H2-TPR), carbon dioxide temperature-programmed desorption (CO2-TPD), and energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDX). The catalyst activity was assessed throughout CO2 methanation in the low-temperature range of 225–350 °C with the molar ratio of H2/CO2 = 4/1. The function of HA and ceria provided a high dispersity of nickel particles over the catalyst surface with the size range of 24.5–25.8 nm, leading to improvement in the reduction and CO2 adsorption capacity of the catalysts as well as enhancing the catalytic efficiency in CO2 methanation. The 10Ni/HA catalyst reduced at suitable conditions of 400 °C for 2 h showed the highest catalytic performance among the tested catalysts. CO2 conversion and CH4 selectivity reached 76.6 and 100% at a reaction temperature of 350 °C, respectively. The results show that the Ni/HA sample doped with 6.0 wt % ceria was the best, with the CO2 conversion and the CH4 selectivity reaching 92.5% and 100%, respectively, at a reaction temperature of 325 °C.
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