Chinese Journal of Catalysis ›› 2012, Vol. 33 ›› Issue (12): 1927-1937.DOI: 10.1016/S1872-2067(11)60467-1

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Influence of Mn/(Mn+Ce) Ratio of MnOx-CeO2/WO3-ZrO2 Monolith Catalyst on Selective Catalytic Reduction of NOx with Ammonia

XU Haidi, FANG Zhitao, CAO Yi, KONG Shuang, LIN Taoa, GONG Maochu, CHEN Yaoqiangb   

  1. Key Laboratory of Green Chemistry & Technology of the Ministry of Education, College of chemistry, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610064, Sichuan, China
  • Received:2012-08-14 Revised:2012-10-08 Online:2013-01-18 Published:2012-12-18

Abstract: A series of monolith MnOx-CeO2/WO3-ZrO2 catalysts with different mass ratios of Mn/(Mn+Ce) were prepared and used for the selective catalytic reduction (SCR) of NOx with NH3 in the presence of excess O2. The catalysts were characterized by N2 adsorption, oxygen storage capacity, X-ray diffraction, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, NH3/NO temperature-programmed desorption, and H2 temperature-programmed reduction. The best catalyst had the mass ratio of Mn/(Mn+Ce) = 0.5. It gave 90% NOx conversion in the range of 173-355 ºC at the gas hourly space velocity of 10000 h-1, and characterization results showed that a higher oxidation activity of NO to NO2, more surface Ce and Mn with a larger Ce3+/Ce4+ ratio, lower NH3 and NO desorption temperatures, and excellent redox ability were together responsible for its best NH3-SCR performance.

Key words: manganese, cerium, selective catalytic reduction of ammonia, nitrogen oxide, mass ratio