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Mechanism of oxygen poisoning of ammonia synthesis catalyst

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The effect of oxygen adsorbed on the surface of a commercial catalyst from a mixture of hydrogen with water vapor on the steady-state and nonsteady-state ammonia synthesis kinetics is studied under gradientless conditions at the pressures of the stoichiometric nitrogen-hydrogen mixture below the atmospheric pressure and at the temperatures of 285 and 240°C. The results obtained are discussed on the basis of the concepts of the ammonia synthesis theory of Temkin. The poisoning effect of oxygen on the reaction rate is explained by an increase in the activation energy of the rate constant k + in the Temkin-Pyzhev equation, i.e., an increase in the activation energy of the rate constant of nitrogen adsorption at the fixed nitrogen adsorption heat. This conclusion agrees with the concepts of Ertl et al., according to which the activation energy of nitrogen adsorption on iron changes in symbasis with the variation of the electronic work function. Oxygen adsorption on the catalyst surface increases the electronic work function. Thus, the mechanism of the catalyst poisoning by oxygen (at its low surface coverage) consists in an increase in the electronic work function. Assumptions are stated as to the role of chemical promoters of iron catalysts.

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Original Russian Text © V.L. Kuchaev†, E.N. Shapatina, A.K. Avetisov, 2009, published in Elektrokhimiya, 2009, Vol. 45, No. 9, pp. 1055–1068.

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Kuchaev, V.L., Shapatina, E.N. & Avetisov, A.K. Mechanism of oxygen poisoning of ammonia synthesis catalyst. Russ J Electrochem 45, 983–995 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1023193509090031

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