Sustaining syngas production at a near-unity H2/CO ratio in the photo-induced dry reforming of methane independent of the reactant gas composition

Hiroaki Kaneko; Yohei Cho; Tomotaka Sugimura; Ayako Hashimoto; Akira Yamaguchi; Masahiro Miyauchi

doi:10.1039/d4cc03088e

Sustaining syngas production at a near-unity H₂/CO ratio in the photo-induced dry reforming of methane independent of the reactant gas composition

Chem Commun (Camb). 2024 Sep 16;60(75):10406-10409. doi: 10.1039/d4cc03088e.

Authors

Hiroaki Kaneko¹, Yohei Cho¹, Tomotaka Sugimura¹, Ayako Hashimoto², Akira Yamaguchi¹, Masahiro Miyauchi¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Materials Science and Engineering, School of Materials and Chemical Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2-12-1 Ookayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 152-8552, Japan. [email protected].
² National Institute for Materials Science, 1-2-1 Sengen, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0047, Japan.

PMID: 39224944
DOI: 10.1039/d4cc03088e

Abstract

A syngas was generated at a near-unity H₂/CO ratio independent of the reactant gas composition over Rh-loaded strontium titanate in the photo-induced dry reforming of methane. Moreover, light irradiation inhibited side reactions, such as the reverse water gas shift reaction and the precipitation of the solid-state carbon. These results were not explained by thermodynamic equilibrium, but were presumably owing to the unique effect of the photogenerated electron-hole pairs.