Partial Oxidation of Hydrocarbons and Oxygenated Compounds on Perovskite Oxides

Abstract Research of perovskite oxide catalysts (AB03) with a rare-earth ion as an A-site and a transition metal ion as a B-site has been concentrated on the complete oxidation of hydrocarbons, particularly related to exhaust control, and revealed that they are potential catalysts for deep combustion of hydrocarbons (1). The complete oxidation activities have been reported to be mainly controlled by the physicochemical property of the B-site metal cations such as the electronic configuration of d-electron (2), the binding energy of B-0 bond (3) and the stabilization energy of the crystal field (4), rather than the relatively small and less important effect of the rare-earth ion of the A-site (5) and also improved by the substitution of other metal cations for A- or B-site (6,7). Although it is difficult to find many investigations on the application of perovskite-type oxides to partial oxidation, in this chapter, the movement to the partial oxidation of hydrocarbons and oxygenated compounds using various perovskite oxides as catalysts is summarized.