Reviews & Prospects
Wang Meng’en, Tian Yafei, Zhang Yujie, Du Bolin, Zhang Zhifang, Gao Shenghui, Zhang Qinlong, Gao Feng, Bai Jing
Methylcyclohexane (MCH) is considered to be the most promising organic liquid hydrogen storage material with high theoretical hydrogen storage capacity and superior physical and chemical properties.The Methylcyclohexane-Toluene-Hydrogen (MTH) cycle realizes the cycle utilization of materials and energy, which has good industrial application prospects.However, the MTH cycle can not be used on a large scale because of the catalyst used in the dehydrogenation of MCH has poor activity at low temperature and instability at high temperature.In order to solve this problem, previous researchers have carried out extensive research and found that the design of catalyst is the core of solving this problem.In view of this, the current situation of MCH dehydrogenation catalysts were reviewed, the research progress, advantages and disadvantages of mono-, bi-and tri-metal catalysts were introduced with emphasis, the influence of the synergistic effect of active component, support and promoter on the catalysts were analyzed, and the future research directions of catalysts was prospected.Based on the existing analysis, it is believed that adding a second metal element, adjusting the properties of the catalyst support and using Ni metal as the active component can obtain high stability, high activity and low cost MCH dehydrogenation catalyst in the future studies to meet requirements of commercial applications.