Abstract:Mo2C/Al2O3 and Ni-Mo2C/Al2O3 catalysts were prepared by co-impregnation and temperature-programmed carbonization, using macroporous alumina doped with molecular sieve as the carrier and Ni as the modification agent. The crystal structure, micro-morphology and pore structure of the catalysts were characterized by XRD, TEM and N2 adsorption-desorption, and their performances in the reverse water-gas shift were investigated. The XRD results reveal that the characteristic diffraction peaks of Ni3Mo3N appeared at 23.2?, 30.2?, 40.8?, 43.1?, 45.4?, 51.6?, 59.6?, 62.7? and 71.0? for the modified Ni catalyst MNCAS, this may be ascribed to insufficient carbon content due to the addition of Ni. TEM results also showed that that the lattice spacing of Ni3Mo3N in MNCAS catalyst is 0.21 nm, 0.22 nm and 0.27 nm respectively, and the addition of Ni effectively improved the aggregation of Mo2C. N2 adsorption-desorption demonstrate that the catalyst had good mesoporous structure. The catalytic evaluation results indicate that MCAS catalyst exhibits high activity for the RWGS reaction, the selectivity of CO is 93.87 %. Ni modified MNCAS-8 catalyst shifts the reaction further to methanation, and the methane selectivity reached 84.37 % at low temperature. This is ascribed to the formation of Ni3Mo3N after Ni addition, which has higher methane selectivity.