In cement kiln flue gas emissions, high concentrations of alkali and alkaline earth metals cause the deactivation of the NbCe/Ti catalysts, significantly reducing their operational lifespan under industrial conditions. Here, the NbCe-loaded titanium nanotubes (NbCe/TiNTs) catalyst has been synthesized via hydrothermal and impregnation methods. The NbCe/TiNTs catalyst exhibits superior resistance to potassium (K) and calcium (Ca) poisoning. Notably, NbCe/TiNTs catalyst maintains high NOx conversion across a wide temperature range (192–350 °C). The 5Ca-NbCe/TiNTs and 3K-NbCe/TiNTs catalysts achieve a 90% NOx conversion at 235 and 242 °C, respectively, demonstrating remarkable resistance to K and Ca poisoning. The results indicate that TiNTs supports enhance both the specific surface area and surface acid sites of the catalyst, synergistically improving its resistance to K and Ca poisoning. Furthermore, an in situ diffuse reflectance infrared Fourier transform spectroscopy (DRIFTS) study elucidates selective catalytic reduction with the NH3 (NH3-SCR) reaction mechanism, revealing dual contributions from both the Eley–Rideal (E–R) and Langmuir–Hinshelwood (L–H) mechanisms on the catalyst. This work provides a research direction for enhancing the alkali poisoning resistance of NOx removal catalysts.
Li Cao,Lei Chen,Xiaodong Wu,Rui Ran,Tengfei Xu,Ze Chen,Duan Weng
The CeO 2 /TiO 2 catalyst was prepared by a deposition-precipitation method, which exhibited high low-temperature activity under the fast SCR condition. By using transient reaction analysis (TRA), the steps in the fast SCR, including NO 2 adsorption and decomposition, reaction between nitrates and NO, ammonium nitrate formation and reduction by NO, were investigated. Diffuses reflectance infrared Fourier transform spectroscopy (DRIFTS) experiments, via NO + O 2 or NO + NO 2 adsorption, ammonium species reaction with NO x and NO reaction with NH 4 NO 3 , were designed to identify the roles of NO, NO 2 and NH 3 in fast SCR. Based on L-H mechanism, the NH 4 NO 3 formation played an important role in low-temperature SCR reaction. Compared with the behavior in standard SCR, the higher activity in the presence of NO 2 was ascribed to the faster NH 4 NO 3 formation rate and larger amounts of nitrates/nitrites. This phenomenon provided a basis for developing Ce-based catalysts as SCR catalysts for diesel exhaust aftertreatment.
Jie Yang,Shan Ren,Mingming Wang,Zhichao Chen,Lin Chen,Lian Liu
Ce–Ti catalysts were considered as a promising replacement for V–Ti based catalysts for selective catalytic reduction (SCR) of nitrogen oxides (NO and NO2) with NH3. In this work, a CeO2/TiO2 catalyst was prepared by the impregnation method and studied by a series of in situ diffuse reflectance infrared Fourier transform spectroscopy (DRIFTS) experiments. The results showed that CeO2 particles grew along TiO2 faces and amorphous cerium in the lattice of TiO2, both of which are present on the CeO2/TiO2 catalyst. NH4+ might adsorb on the Ti–O–Ce structures or TiO2–CeO2 interface as Brønsted acid sites, while two types of NH4+ species were distinguished by the time-resolved spectroscopic method due to the different increasing trends. Based on the temporal evolution transient in situ DRIFTS spectra, L-NH3 had higher activity than coordinated NH3 species, which suggested that gas phase NO reacted preferentially with L-NH3. The NH4NO3 intermediate dominated the SCR reactions over the CeO2/TiO2 catalyst, which followed the Eley–Rideal mechanism.