Highly active and stable Ni-incorporated spherical silica catalysts for CO2methanation

Nickel-doped spherical silica (SSP) catalysts with ca. 10 wt% Ni were prepared via a sol-gel method using cetyltrimethyl ammonium bromide as the structure directing agent with different loading sequences of Ni and Si sources (Si1_Ni2, Ni1_Si2, and Ni_Alt_Si). For comparison purposes, the SSP supported Ni catalysts were also prepared by impregnation method (Ni/SSP (Imp)). All the prepared catalysts showed spherical shape with high specific...