Study of the Adsorption Activity of Skeletal Nickel with Respect to Reactive Hydrogen by Simultaneous Thermal Analysis Mass Spectrometry

A method for the determination of the total amounts and physical parameters of adsorbed individual hydrogen species on the surface and in the bulk of metal catalysts of liquid-phase hydrogenation reactions by simultaneous thermal analysis mass spectrometry was proposed. The adsorptions of reactive hydrogen on a skeletal nickel catalyst in an aqueous medium were estimated. The concentrations of metal-hydrogen complexes with different binding energies on the surface of the catalyst in the liquid phase were determined by a direct experimental method.