Continuous Catalytic Hydrogenation of Carbon Dioxides on Immobilized Ru Functionalistic Catalysts

Abstract

Functionalized catalyst preparation is a new and attractive method for hydrogenation of carbon dioxides. Three kind of carriers were functionalized firstly and then Ru was immobilized on the carriers. Continuous catalytic hydrogenation process was used to evaluate the activity of the catalyst on fixed-bed. It was found that the main production are formic acid and CO at 10MPa, and both the selectivity and recovery of CO are more than 90%, the hydrogen reaction mechanism could be explained with the reversed water gas reaction process. This may offer a new way for the reuse of CO2.