Abstract:
To improve the utilization efficiency of indium and enhance the catalytic performance of Pt/In
2O
3 for CO
2 hydrogenation, a hierarchically structured Pt/In
2O
3/ZnO catalyst was constructed by sequentially loading In
2O
3 and Pt nanoparticles onto a ZnO support. The effect of In
2O
3 content on the catalytic performance was systematically investigated, and its loading ratio was optimized. The results show that when the In
2O
3 loading is 30%, the catalyst exhibits a structure in which ZnO is encapsulated by In
2O
3, with Pt nanoparticles highly dispersed on the surface. Over this optimized catalyst, the CO
2 conversion and methanol yield reach 12.4% and 5.6%, respectively, representing an improvement of nearly 25% compared to those of the Pt/In
2O
3 catalyst (9.5% and 4.2%). Chemisorption analysis further confirms that the Pt nanoparticles primarily interact with In
2O
3, and the decrease in CO
2 desorption temperature indicates that ZnO effectively lowers the activation temperature of CO
2, thereby significantly enhancing the catalytic performance.