Modern Trends in Design of Catalysts for Transformation of Biofuels into Syngas and Hydrogen: From Fundamental Bases to Performance in Real Feeds

This review considers problems related to design of efficient structured catalysts for natural gas and biofuels transformation into syngas. Their active components are comprised fluorite, perovskite spinel oxides or their nanocomposites (both bulk supported on high surface area Mg-doped alumina MgAl2O4) promoted by platinum group metals, nickel alloys. A complex modern structural, spectroscopic kinetic methods was applied elucidate atomic-scale factors controlling performance stability coking, such as dispersion metals/alloys, strong metal-support interaction oxygen mobility/reactivity dependent upon composition synthesis procedures. Monolithic optimized loaded substrates with a thermal conductivity demonstrated activity coking in processes reforming pilot-scale axial reactor equipped the internal heat exchanger allowed efficiently convert syngas mixture gas, air liquid autothermal mode at low (~50–100 °C) inlet temperatures GHSV up 40,000 h−1.