The invention provides a
metal element doped
zinc-aluminum
spinel catalyst as well as a preparation method and application thereof. Lattice sites on the surface of the
zinc-aluminum
spinel are accurately anchored by
metal elements in a monatomic form, a lattice atom substitution or gap
doping strategy is realized, and the technical problem of preparation of the
metal element doped
zinc-aluminum
spinel in the prior art is mainly solved. The preparation method of the metal element doped zinc-aluminum spinel comprises the following steps: dissolving a zinc source, an aluminum source, a metal M (Ni / Cu / Pt / Pd) precursor and a precipitator in water, stirring and mixing, carrying out
hydrothermal treatment, separating solids, filtering,
drying, and calcining to obtain the metal element doped zinc-aluminum spinel catalyst (M-ZnAl2O4). Wherein the
nickel metal element is doped with the zinc-aluminum spinel catalyst, so that larger
nickel particles are more favorably formed, the
particle size distribution is uniform, and the catalytic activity and the stability are greatly improved in the reaction of preparing
ethylene through
acetylene hydrogenation; the
copper-
nickel metal element doped zinc-aluminum spinel catalyst also shows good catalytic activity and stability in a
methanol reforming
hydrogen production reaction.