Journal article
High mass resolution time of flight mass spectrometer for measuring products in heterogeneous catalysis in highly sensitive microreactors
Department of Physics, Technical University of Denmark1
Surface Physics and Catalysis, Department of Physics, Technical University of Denmark2
Technical University of Denmark3
Department of Micro- and Nanotechnology, Technical University of Denmark4
Silicon Microtechnology, Department of Micro- and Nanotechnology, Technical University of Denmark5
We demonstrate a combined microreactor and time of flight system for testing and characterization of heterogeneous catalysts with high resolution mass spectrometry and high sensitivity. Catalyst testing is performed in silicon-based microreactors which have high sensitivity and fast thermal response.
Gas analysis is performed with a time of flight mass spectrometer with a modified nude Bayard-Alpert ionization gauge as gas ionization source. The mass resolution of the time of flight mass spectrometer using the ion gauge as ionization source is estimated to m∕Δm > 2500. The system design is superior to conventional batch and flow reactors with accompanying product detection by quadrupole mass spectrometry or gas chromatography not only due to the high sensitivity, fast temperature response, high mass resolution, and fast acquisition time of mass spectra but it also allows wide mass range (0-5000 amu in the current configuration).
As a demonstration of the system performance we present data from ammonia oxidation on a Pt thin film showing resolved spectra of OH and NH3
Language: | English |
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Publisher: | American Institute of Physics |
Year: | 2012 |
Pages: | 075105 |
ISSN: | 10897623 and 00346748 |
Types: | Journal article |
DOI: | 10.1063/1.4732815 |
ORCIDs: | Pedersen, Thomas , Hansen, Ole and Chorkendorff, I |