In order to improve the problems of serious agglomeration, large particle size and uneven distribution of nanoparticles in cerium-zirconium solid solution (CeZrO2) prepared by co-precipitation method, CeZrO2 was prepared by coupling high-gravity technology with polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) modification. It was applied to catalyze the direct conversion of carbon dioxide (CO2) and methanol into dimethyl carbonate (DMC), and its catalytic activity was studied. The effects of PVP mass fraction, high gravity factor β and impact initial velocity u on the activity and particle size distribution of CeZrO2 were investigated. The optimal operating conditions of the impinging stream-rotating packed bed (IS-RPB) were determined as PVP mass fraction is 6%, β is 105.81 and u is 5.31 m/s. The optimum performance of CeZrO2 was obtained under these operating conditions, and the yield of generated DMC was 5.54 mmol/g. The CeZrO2 prepared under the optimum conditions was later characterized by XRD, FTIR, DLS, SEM and EPR. The crystalline structure of the catalyst can be determined by XRD, the results showed that CeZrO2 was successfully prepared with cubic fluorite structure, chemical composition was analyzed by FTIR, the results showed that PVP was successfully doped into the catalyst but did not change the structure of the catalyst, according to the DLS hydraulic particle size distribution and it was clear from the particle size distribution graphs that the catalysts prepared by IS-RPB had uniform particle size. SEM was used for morphology analysis, and the results showed that the morphology of catalysts produced in IS-RPB was significantly better than that of stirred-tank reactor, and the average particle size was about 30 nm, and EPR was used to characterize the oxygen vacancies and the Ce3+ content on the surface of the catalysts, and the results showed that IS-RPB significantly increased the Ce3+ content of catalysts surface. Compared with the DMC yield in the literature, the catalytic performance of IS-RPB-CZ prepared in this paper is at an upper level.
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