A new method to prepare the catalyst (CuO – ZnO - Al2O3) used for conversion CO / H2 gas mixture to methanol and its spectroscopic study

Abstract

The method depends on co-precipitation of copper nitrate, zinc nitrate and aluminum hydroxide with NaOH solution as precipitation agent ,after precipitation, washing, drying and calcinations the mechanical alloying with 3% wt graphite was done in order to produce homogenous catalyst formula. Studying of physical and chemical properties of the prepared catalyst (surface area, hardness, pore volume ,granular density ,X- ray diffraction, atomic absorption) had shown a very good similarities with the commercial catalyst which promise us to use this as a new method.