scholarly journals Effect of Ce Addition on Adsorption and Oxidation of NO over MnO x /Al2O3

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Chunhui Mou ◽  
Hui Li ◽  
Ning Dong ◽  
Shien Hui ◽  
Denghui Wang

The MnO x /Al2O3 catalysts with different Ce content doping were prepared by an ultrasonic impregnation method, and the catalytic activity for NO oxidation removal was tested in a fixed-bed quartz tube furnace. Simultaneously, the catalysts were characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), full-automatic physical-chemical adsorption instrument, and field emission scanning electron microscope (FESEM) to analyze the effect of Ce addition on the adsorption capacity and catalytic activity. Experimental results validated that the activity of the MnO x /Al2O3 catalyst was greatly promoted with Ce addition. According to the characterization results, it could be concluded that Ce doping led to significant changes in the crystalline phase on the catalyst surface, which increased the relative content of surface lattice oxygen and promoted the catalytic oxidation of NO. By observing the physical properties of the surface and analyzing the surface elements of the catalyst, it could be inferred that a manganese-cerium solid solution was formed on the surface of Mn0.4Ce0.05/Al. Moreover, Ce addition increased the catalyst pore size, which enhanced the adsorption and contact of NO and O2 with the active sites on the catalyst surface, and reduced the resistance of the reactants during internal diffusion. All these variations assigned to Mn0.4Ce0.05/Al were favorable for the catalytic oxidation of NO.

2016 ◽  
Vol 73 (11) ◽  
pp. 2747-2753 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wusong Kong ◽  
Hongxia Qu ◽  
Peng Chen ◽  
Weihua Ma ◽  
Huifang Xie

In this study, Cu2O-CuO/ZSM-5 nanocomposite was synthesized by the impregnation method, and its catalytic performance for the destruction of AO7 in aqueous solutions was investigated. The morphology, structure and surface element valence state of Cu2O-CuO/ZSM-5 were characterized by transmission electron microscopy, X-ray diffraction and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. The operating conditions on the degradation of AO7 by Cu2O-CuO/ZSM-5, such as initial pH values, concentration of AO7 and catalyst dosage were investigated and optimized. The results showed that the sample had good catalytic activity for destruction of AO7 in the absence of a sacrificial agent (e.g. H2O2): it could degrade 91% AO7 in 140 min at 25 °C and was not restricted by the initial pH of the AO7 aqueous solutions. Cu2O-CuO/ZSM-5 exhibited stable catalytic activity with little loss after three successive runs. The total organic carbon and chemical oxygen demand removal efficiencies increased rapidly to 69.36% and 67.3% after 120 min of treatment by Cu2O-CuO/ZSM-5, respectively.


Catalysts ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (9) ◽  
pp. 724 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yan Cui ◽  
Leilei Xu ◽  
Mindong Chen ◽  
Chufei Lv ◽  
Xinbo Lian ◽  
...  

CuO-based catalysts are usually used for CO oxidation owing to their low cost and excellent catalytic activities. In this study, a series of metal oxide (La2O3, Fe2O3, PrO2, Sm2O3, and MnO2)-doped CuO-based catalysts with mesoporous Ce0.8Zr0.2O2 support were simply prepared by the incipient impregnation method and used directly as catalysts for CO catalytic oxidation. These mesoporous catalysts were systematically characterized by X-ray powder diffraction (XRD), N2 physisorption, transmission electron microscopy (TEM), energy-dispersed spectroscopy (EDS) mapping, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), and H2 temperature programmed reduction (H2-TPR). It was found that the CuO and the dopants were highly dispersed among the mesoporous framework via the incipient impregnation method, and the strong metal framework interaction had been formed. The effects of the types of the dopants and the loading amounts of the dopants on the low-temperature catalytic performances were carefully studied. It was concluded that doped transition metal oxides could regulate the oxygen mobility and reduction ability of catalysts, further improving the catalytic activity. It was also found that the high dispersion of rare earth metal oxides (PrO2, Sm2O3) was able to prevent the thermal sintering and aggregation of CuO-based catalysts during the process of calcination. In addition, their presence also evidently improved the reducibility and significantly reduced the particle size of the CuO active sites for CO oxidation. The results demonstrated that the 15CuO-3Fe2O3/M-Ce80Zr20 catalyst with 3 wt. % of Fe2O3 showed the best low-temperature catalytic activity toward CO oxidation. Overall, the present Fe2O3-doped CuO-based catalysts with mesoporous nanocrystalline Ce0.8Zr0.2O2 solid solution as support were considered a promising series of catalysts for low-temperature CO oxidation.


2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 171846 ◽  
Author(s):  
Quan Xu ◽  
Wenjing Yang ◽  
Shitong Cui ◽  
Jason Street ◽  
Yan Luo

Ce-Mn/TiO 2 catalyst prepared using a simple impregnation method demonstrated a better low-temperature selective catalytic reduction of NO with NH 3 (NH 3 –SCR) activity in comparison with the sol-gel method. The Ce-Mn/TiO 2 catalyst loading with 20% Ce had the best low-temperature activity and achieved a NO conversion rate higher than 90% at 140–260°C with a 99.7% NO conversion rate at 180°C. The Ce-Mn/TiO 2 catalyst only had a 6% NO conversion rate decrease after 100 ppm of SO 2 was added to the stream. When SO 2 was removed from the stream, the catalyst was able to recover completely. The crystal structure, morphology, textural properties and valence state of the metals involving the novel catalysts were investigated using X-ray diffraction, N 2 adsorption and desorption analysis, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, scanning electron microscopy and energy dispersive spectroscopy, respectively. The decrease of NH 3 –SCR performance in the presence of 100 ppm SO 2 was due to the decrease of the surface area, change of the pore structure, the decrease of Ce 4+ and Mn 4+ concentration and the formation of the sulfur phase chemicals which blocked the active sites and changed the valence status of the elements.


Materials ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (11) ◽  
pp. 1810
Author(s):  
Abdulbaset Alayat ◽  
Elena Echeverria ◽  
Farid Sotoudehniakarani ◽  
David N. Mcllroy ◽  
Armando G. McDonald

The effects of Al2O3 coating on the performance of silica nanospring (NS) supported Co catalysts for Fischer–Tropsch synthesis (FTS) were evaluated in a quartz fixed-bed microreactor. The Co/NS-Al2O3 catalysts were synthesized by coating the Co/NS and NS with Al2O3 by an alkoxide-based sol-gel method (NS-Al-A and NS-Al-B, respectively) and then by decorating them with Co. Co deposition was via an impregnation method. Catalysts were characterized before the FTS reaction by the Brunauer–Emmett–Teller (BET) method, X-ray diffraction, transmission electron microscopy, temperature programmed reduction, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, differential thermal analysis and thermogravimetric analysis in order to find correlations between physico-chemical properties of catalysts and catalytic performance. The products of the FTS were trapped and analyzed by GC-TCD and GC-MS to determine the CO conversion and reaction selectivity. The Al2O3 coated NS catalyst had a significant affect in FTS activity and selectivity in both Co/NS-Al2O3 catalysts. A high CO conversion (82.4%) and Σ > C6 (86.3%) yield were obtained on the Co/NS-Al-B catalyst, whereas the CO conversion was 62.8% and Σ > C6 was 58.5% on the Co/NS-Al-A catalyst under the same FTS experimental condition. The Co/NS-Al-A catalyst yielded the aromatic selectivity of 10.2% and oxygenated compounds.


Catalysts ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (11) ◽  
pp. 513 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haijie Sun ◽  
Zhihao Chen ◽  
Lingxia Chen ◽  
Huiji Li ◽  
Zhikun Peng ◽  
...  

m-ZrO2 (monoclinic phase) supported Ru-Zn catalysts and unsupported Ru-Zn catalysts were synthesized via the impregnation method and co-precipitation method, respectively. The catalytic activity and selectivity were evaluated for selective hydrogenation of benzene towards cyclohexene formation. Catalyst samples before and after catalytic experiments were thoroughly characterized via X-ray diffraction (XRD), X-ray Fluorescence (XRF), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), N2-sorption, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), H2-temperature programmed reduction (H2-TPR), and a contact angle meter. It was found that Zn mainly existed as ZnO, and its content was increased in Ru-Zn/m-ZrO2 by enhancing the Zn content during the preparation procedure. This results in the amount of formed (Zn(OH)2)3(ZnSO4)(H2O)3 increasing and the catalyst becoming more hydrophilic. Therefore, Ru-Zn/m-ZrO2 with adsorbed benzene would easily move from the oil phase into the aqueous phase, in which the synthesis of cyclohexene took place. The generated cyclohexene then went back into the oil phase, and the further hydrogenation of cyclohexene would be retarded because of the high hydrophilicity of Ru-Zn/m-ZrO2. Hence, the selectivity towards cyclohexene formation over Ru-Zn/m-ZrO2 improved by increasing the Zn content. When the theoretical molar ratio of Zn to Ru was 0.60, the highest cyclohexene yield of 60.9% was obtained over Ru-Zn (0.60)/m-ZrO2. On the other hand, when m-ZrO2 was utilized as the dispersant (i.e., employed as an additive during the reaction), the catalytic activity and selectivity towards cyclohexene synthesis over the unsupported Ru-Zn catalyst was lower than that achieved over the Ru-Zn catalyst with m-ZrO2 as the support. This is mainly because the supported catalyst sample demonstrated superior dispersion of Ru, higher content of (Zn(OH)2)3(ZnSO4)(H2O)3, and a stronger electronic effect between Ru and ZrO2. The Ru-Zn(0.60)/m-ZrO2 was reused 17 times without any regeneration, and no loss of catalytic activity and selectivity towards cyclohexene formation was observed.


Nanomaterials ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 98
Author(s):  
Mengli Li ◽  
Zhuang Xu ◽  
Yuhao Chen ◽  
Guowang Shen ◽  
Xugen Wang ◽  
...  

Metal–organic frameworks (MOFs)-derived materials with a large specific surface area and rich pore structures are favorable for catalytic performance. In this work, MOFs are successfully prepared. Through pyrolysis of MOFs under nitrogen gas, zinc-based catalysts with different active sites for acetylene acetoxylation are obtained. The influence of the oxygen atom, nitrogen atom, and coexistence of oxygen and nitrogen atoms on the structure and catalytic performance of MOFs-derived catalysts was investigated. According to the results, the catalysts with different catalytic activity are Zn-O-C (33%), Zn-O/N-C (27%), and Zn-N-C (12%). From the measurements of X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), it can be confirmed that the formation of different active sites affects the electron cloud density of zinc. The electron cloud density of zinc affects the ability to attract CH3COOH, which makes catalysts different in terms of catalytic activity.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Weixiang Yang ◽  
Shuihua Tang ◽  
Qiankuan Huang ◽  
Qian Zhang ◽  
Zhen Tang ◽  
...  

Abstract Fe-N-C electrocatalysts have been intensively studied due to their extraordinary catalytic activity toward oxygen reduction reaction (ORR). Here we prepare a Fe-N-C electrocatalyst through cost-effective and nontoxic precursors of 2,6-diaminopyridine (DAP) and FeCl3, where iron ions react with DAP to formed Fe-Nx species first, followed by polymerization and pyrolysis. X-ray diffraction patterns display no obvious Fe2O3 peaks observed in the catalyst as the nominal content of iron addition is less than 10 wt%. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy spectra indicate that the catalyst has rich pyridinic nitrogen, graphitic nitrogen and Fe-Nx species, which are considered as active sites for ORR. Therefore the catalyst demonstrates an excellent catalytic activity with an onset potential of about 0.96 V, half-wave potential of about 0.84 V, and a limiting current density of 5.8 mA cm-2, better than commercial Pt/C catalyst in an alkaline medium. Furthermore its stability is also much more excellent than that of Pt/C. This work provides a strategy to synthesize universal M-N-C catalysts.


2011 ◽  
Vol 219-220 ◽  
pp. 1472-1476 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jing Hao Song ◽  
Xiao Long Tang ◽  
Hong Hong Yi ◽  
Ping Ning ◽  
Kai Li ◽  
...  

A new type electrochemical reactor was designed for electrochemical promotion catalytic oxidation of NO, which was a flat-plate fixed-bed reactor. The experimental results showed that the process of NO catalytic oxidation could be promoted though this electrochemical reactor with Mn/TiO2and Mn-Fe, which were two kinds of selected catalysts for NO oxidation. Approximately 70% NO could be converted to NO2at 50 °C when the input voltage of electrochemical reactor was 0.5v. Moreover, the reaction rates can be adjusted with the input voltage varying.


Catalysts ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (9) ◽  
pp. 716 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pengju Du ◽  
Tongming Su ◽  
Xuan Luo ◽  
Xinling Xie ◽  
Zuzeng Qin ◽  
...  

ZnO and Zr-modified ZnO were prepared using a precipitation method and used for the selective oxidation of cinnamaldehyde to benzaldehyde in the present study. The results showed that physicochemical properties of ZnO were significantly affected by the calcination temperature, and calcination of ZnO at 400 °C demonstrated the optimum catalytic activity for the selective oxidation of cinnamaldehyde to benzaldehyde. With 0.01 g ZnO calcined at 400 °C for 2 h as a catalyst, 8.0 g ethanol and 2.0 g cinnamaldehyde reacted at an oxygen pressure of 1.0 MPa and 70 °C for 60 min, resulting in benzaldehyde selectivity of 69.2% and cinnamaldehyde conversion of 16.1%. Zr was the optimal modifier for ZnO: when Zr-modified ZnO was used as the catalyst, benzaldehyde selectivity reached 86.2%, and cinnamaldehyde conversion was 17.6%. The X-ray diffractometer and N2 adsorption–desorption characterization indicated that doping with Zr could reduce the crystallite size of ZnO (101) and increase the specific surface area of the catalyst, which provided more active sites for the reaction. X-ray photoelectron spectrometer results showed that Zr-doping could exchange the electrons with ZnO and reduce the electron density in the outer layer of Zn, which would further affect benzaldehyde selectivity. The results of CO2 temperature-programmed desorption showed that Zr-modification enhanced the alkalinity of the catalyst surface, which caused the Zr–ZnO catalyst to exhibit higher catalytic activity.


Catalysts ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (10) ◽  
pp. 1215 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jingqiu Li ◽  
Liu Shi ◽  
Gang Feng ◽  
Zhangping Shi ◽  
Chenglin Sun ◽  
...  

A series of Cu and Zn modified Ni/Al2O3 catalysts were prepared using an incipient impregnation method for the selective hydrogenation of naphthalene into tetralin. X-ray diffraction (XRD), H2-Temperature programmed reduction (H2-TPR), transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) were applied to reveal the structure regulation, and density functional theory (DFT) calculations were performed to investigate the electronic effect and reactant adsorptions on the active sites. The results showed that the addition of CuO promoted the hydrogenation of naphthalene with an inhibited tetraline selectivity. However, a simultaneously increasing naphthalene conversion and tetraline selectivity were achieved over the Zn modified Ni/Al2O3 catalysts. The characterization and calculation results revealed that the doping of CuO improved the hydrogenation activity with a low tetralin selectivity due to the H spillover from the Cu. The addition of ZnO decreased the interaction between NiOx and Al2O3 in NiZn/Al2O3 catalysts, which efficiently increased the reduction ability of NiOx species and, thus, improved the naphthalene hydrogenation activity. The electron transfer from ZnO to NiOx weakened the adsorption of tetraline and resulted in increased tetraline selectivity. This work provides insight into developing efficient catalysts for heavy aromatics conversions via rational surface engineering.


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