The invention provides a preparation method of a
nickel-based catalyst and application of the
nickel-based catalyst in
hydrogen production through
ammonia decomposition, and the
nickel-based catalyst is a Ni / CeOx catalytic
system and is of a Ni-O-Ce atomic-scale dispersed structure; the preparation method comprises the following steps: dispersing a nickel precursor and a Ce precursor in
ultrapure water, and stirring and dissolving to obtain a nickel-
cerium mixed
salt solution A; dissolving
sodium hydroxide and
sodium carbonate in
ultrapure water, stirring and dissolving to form a mixed alkali solution B; heating deionized water, adding the solution A and the solution B at the same time by adopting a
dropping funnel, crystallizing, precipitating,
drying and
grinding to obtain a precursor; and S4, performing
reduction treatment on the precursor in the presence of
hydrogen, thereby obtaining the product. According to the Ni / CeOx catalytic
system constructed by the invention,
ammonia gas can be almost completely converted into
hydrogen at the flow rate of 10mL min <-1 > and the temperature of 500 DEG C, the conversion rate exceeds the equilibrium conversion rate at the temperature of 550 DEG C, even if the flow rate is increased to 3 times, the performance is not reduced, complete conversion is realized, the
hydrogen production rate can be increased without increasing the temperature, and high-efficiency
hydrogen production at low temperature is realized.