Identifying the nature of the active sites in methanol synthesis over Cu/ZnO/Al2O3 catalysts. Nature Communications , 2020; 11 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-17631-5 Cite This Page : ...

Development of Silicalite-1 encapsulated Cu-ZnO catalysts for methanol synthesis by CO2 hydrogenation. Chemical Engineering Journal , 2024; 485: 149896 DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2024.149896 Cite This Page : ...

Catalyst performance. Control of activity and selectivity through the formation of specific interfacial domains reveals to be highly efficient in the case of CO 2 hydrogenation to methanol. We ...

Methanol synthesis: Insights into the structure of an enigmatic catalyst In the past, the catalyst for the production of methanol had eluded all attempts to clarify its surface structure ...

This will help elucidate the methanol synthesis catalysts better and potentially lead to an improvement of the catalyst for this important industrial process. ### Journal.

Copper-zinc oxide (Cu-ZnO)-based catalysts are extremely helpful for this purpose because they can generate a Cu-ZnO interface that binds and transforms CO 2 into formate intermediates, which promotes ...

With these tools, researchers at ETH Zurich are developing catalysts for efficiently and cost-effectively synthesizing the energy source methanol from CO 2. Catalysts are chemistry's hard-working ...

Compared with thermal catalysis, the photothermal process can raise the methanol yield 30% while running 50 °C cooler. Chemical & Engineering News ISSN 0009-2347 ...

Methanol producers can also reduce carbon dioxide emissions from methanol synthesis by capturing CO 2 from their flue gases and either storing it or using it to make more methanol.

More information: Daniel Laudenschleger et al. Identifying the nature of the active sites in methanol synthesis over Cu/ZnO/Al 2 O 3 catalysts, Nature Communications (2020). DOI: 10.1038/s41467 ...