The surface of SiO2 support was pretreated by C1-C4 normal alcohols before the impregnation of iridium and rhenium precursors.These catalysts were applied in high concentration glycerol aqueous solution hydrogenolysis.The catalysts prepared from the pretreated supports exhibited high catalytic activity because of the formation of more active sites from a high dispersion of iridium oxide and rhenium oxide.The catalysts with the support pretreated by 1-propanol showed the highest glycerol conversion of 59.5%.The supports and catalysts were characterized by FT-IR,nitrogen adsorption,TPR,XRD,TEM,H2-chemisorption and NH3-TPD.
