Kinetics and modeling of H2/D2 exchange over Ag/Al2O3 Original Research Article

An alumina supported silver catalyst was studied with a transient step-response technique for the reduction of NO and N2O with H2. Dissociation of hydrogen and deuterium was observed on the Ag/alumina catalyst and a kinetic model was proposed for the isotopic exchange between H2 and D2. The proposed model describes the observed dissociation and isotope exchange reaction sufficiently well.