AUTHOR=Renème Y. , Pietrzyk S. , Dhainaut F. , Chaar M. , van Veen A. C. , Granger Pascal 

TITLE=Reaction Pathways Involved in CH4 Conversion on Pd/Al2O3 Catalysts: TAP as a Powerful Tool for the Elucidation of the Effective Role of the Metal/Support Interface

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Chemistry

VOLUME=Volume 4 - 2016

YEAR=2016

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/chemistry/articles/10.3389/fchem.2016.00007

DOI=10.3389/fchem.2016.00007

ISSN=2296-2646

ABSTRACT=Temporal Analysis of Products (TAP) reactor offers an alternative to draw direct structure/activity relationships checked on Natural Gas-fuelled Vehicle (NGV) catalysts Determination of accurate kinetic constants for methane adsorption from single pulse experiments and subsequent investigation of sequential surface reactions from alternative CH4/O2 pulse experiments provides a straightforward visualization of the involvement of the metal/support interface on freshly-prepared catalysts and the loss of this effect on aged single palladium based catalysts.