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Research Article

Impacts of Nano-Sized Co3O4 on Ignition and Oxidation Performance of N-Decane and N-Decane/1,2,4-Trimethylbenzene Mixtures

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Pages 1152-1167 | Received 14 Jun 2022, Accepted 07 Aug 2022, Published online: 15 Aug 2022
 

ABSTRACT

Nano-sized Co3O4 is an effective catalyst for fuel oxidation due to its high capacity of oxygen storage, and it is thus frequently applied in improving the oxidation performance of hydrocarbon fuels. In our present work, attempts were made to study the catalytic performance of Co3O4 for the oxidation of liquid fuels over a wide temperature range. Neat n-decane and n-decane/1,2,4-trimethylbenzene mixtures were chosen because they are typical liquid hydrocarbon fuels. The evidences from this study suggest that the temperatures of both fuel ignition and full conversion are significantly decreased by Co3O4 catalyst. CO2 is the only product detected in the catalytic oxidation, which also proves the complete oxidation of the liquid fuels. Furthermore, to explore the possible reaction pathways on the catalyst surface, temperature-dependent and time-dependent in situ DRIFTS were employed to identify surface species and analyze catalytic mechanism. Various surface intermediates including bidentate, monodentate carbonate species, carboxylate species and molecular adsorbed n-decane have been observed. The experimental results indicate that n-decane oxidation over Co3O4 proceeds via the Mars-van Krevelen mechanism where lattice oxygen plays a critical role in the fuel oxidation.

Acknowledgment

The authors gratefully acknowledge the National Natural Science Foundation of China (the grant number 71690245 and U2032119) for their financial support. We also thank Beibei Feng, a PhD student in University of Science and Technology of China, for her kind advice on experiments.

Disclosure statement

The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

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Funding

The work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China [71690245, U2032119].

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