Increasing CO2 emissions and their harmful effects on the climate and the environment encourage us to reduce global CO2 concentrations. One of the possibilities is CO2 hydrogenation to methanol. Methanol can serve as an energy source and a precursor for various industrial processes. The aim of this thesis was to develop a new generation of stable and selective nanostructured catalysts based on CeO2 supports, on which a noble metal was applied with wet impregnation method for the synthesis of methanol by CO2 hydrogenation. We synthesized multifunctional mesoporous catalysts with a high specific surface area and determined in detail their morphological and surface properties using modern instrumental characterization techniques. The activity and selectivity of the synthesized catalysts in the CO2 hydrogenation reaction to methanol were studied in a fixed bed reactor at a pressure of 50 bar and temperatures of 200 – 260 °C at gas flow rate of 50 mL/min. Among the studied catalysts, CeO2-Pt proved to be the most active in the process of catalytic hydrogenation of CO2. The only catalyst with selectivity for methanol synthesis was CeO2-Pd. In the range of studied operating and reaction conditions, the highest value of space-time yield in the presence of this catalyst was 49.8 mg/gcath.
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