Cumnox Photosynthesis Lab Report

Effect of preparation conditions on the catalytic activity of CuMnOx catalysts for CO oxidation
The oxidation of carbon monoxide to carbon dioxide was an important procedure and it’s used in various fields such as respiratory protection, automobile emissions control, industrial air purification and fuel cells etc. The main aim was on the enhancement of the catalytic activity for low temperature CO oxidation. The CuMnOx catalyst was a well known catalyst for low temperature CO oxidation. The experimental parameters like molar ratios of precursor, particle size, drying temperature, drying time, calcination temperature and calcination time has influence on the activity of catalyst performance. Activity of the catalyst was measured in flowing air

A lot of interest has been given to modification of the CuMnOx catalyst to remove its faults of moisture for deactivation and lower activity (9). The Optimization during the preparation conditions like drying temperature, drying time, calcination temperature, calcination time and the molar ratio of (Cu:Mn) in CuMnOx catalyst have been increased the performance of CuMnOx catalysts for CO oxidation at a low temperature (10). In this paper, we have to investigate the effect of a broad range of preparation parameters to enable the optimal catalyst preparation procedure to be

The particle size of the catalyst also influenced the activity of the resulting catalyst, with the decreasing of the particle size; the surface area of the catalyst was increased therefore more CO oxidized into CO2 gas (12). The drying temperature, calcination temperature and calcination time has a distinct effect on the catalyst performance and its structure was analysis by TGA and X-ray diffraction results (13). There were many things, which can be varied during the catalyst preparation by co-precipitation method and the subsequent calcination step for controlling the activity of the catalyst for CO oxidation (14). To date, they are various methods have been applied to the preparation of CuMnOx catalysts; it’s including sol-gel, ultrasonic aerosol pyrolysis, co-precipitation, supercritical antisolvent precipitation and the reduction methods. In the above methods the co-precipitation method, can produce the highly active sites of the CuMnOx catalyst