ABSORPTION OF HYDROGEN IN COPPER

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作者
ELLIOTT, AJ
SAKAKINI, B
TABATABAEI, J
WAUGH, KC
ZEMICAEL, FW
HADDEN, RA
机构
[1] UNIV MANCHESTER,INST SCI & TECHNOL,DEPT CHEM,MANCHESTER M60 1QD,LANCS,ENGLAND
[2] ICI KATALCO RT&E,BILLINGHAM TS23 1LB,CLEVELAND,ENGLAND
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JOURNAL OF THE CHEMICAL SOCIETY-FARADAY TRANSACTIONS | 1995年 / 91卷 / 20期
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10.1039/ft9959103659
中图分类号
O64 [物理化学(理论化学)、化学物理学];
学科分类号
070304 ; 081704 ;
摘要
Reduction of an alumina-supported copper catalyst under the conditions used as standard for the reduction of the Cu/ZnO/Al2O3 methanol-synthesis catalysts produces multilayers of hydrogen in the copper. This absorption of the hydrogen results in a reconstruction of the copper with the effect that only the surface hydrogen may be thermally desorbed. Thermal desorption of the surface hydrogen allows the surface copper atoms to migrate to a new structure, possibly their original structure, which prohibits thermally induced evolution of the subsurface hydrogen. Reduction of surface oxidised copper containing subsurface hydrogen by CO (0.1 bar, 473 K) results in the explosive evolution of subsurface hydrogen.
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页码:3659 / 3662
页数:4
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