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Journal of Catalysis 266 (2009) 92–97 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Journal of Catalysis journal homepage: www.else /locate/jcat A highly dispersed Pd–Mg/SiO2 catalyst active for methanation of CO2 Jung-Nam Park a,b, Eric W. McFarland a,* a Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-5080, USA b Department of Chemistry, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon 440-746, South Korea a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: A catalyst formed as an aggregate of highly dispersed palladium and magnesium in silica was prepared Received 10 February 2009 using a reverse microemulsion synthesis. After calcination, the catalyst consists predominately of Pd con- Revised 15 May 2009 taining particles 5 to 10 nm in size distributed within an amorphous oxide of Mg and Si. The catalytic Accepted 22 May 2009 activity and selectivity of the Pd–Mg/SiO2 catalyst for CO2 methanation were characterized and compared Available online 13 June 2009 to several other catalyst preparations. At 450 C, the Pd–Mg/SiO2 catalyst had greater than 95% selectivity to CH4 at a carbon dioxide conversion of 59%, while similar catalysts without Mg have activity only for Keywords: CO2 reduction to CO, and the Mg- and Si-containing oxide (without a transition metal) are relatively inac- CO2 activation Methanation