Abstract
The NH3-SCR activities and hydrothermal stabilities of five xCu/MCM-22 zeolites with different Cu loadings (x = 2–10 wt%) prepared by incipient wetness impregnation method were systematically investigated. The physicochemical properties of xCu/MCM-22 zeolites were analyzed by XRD, nitrogen physisorption, ICP-AES, SEM, NH3-TPD, UV-vis, H2-TPR and XPS experiments. The Cu species existing in xCu/MCM-22 are mainly isolated Cu2+, CuOx and unreducible copper species. The concentrations of both isolated Cu2+ and CuOx species in xCu/MCM-22 increase with Cu contents, but the increment of CuOx species is more distinct, especially in high Cu loadings (>4 wt%). NH3-SCR experimental results demonstrated that the activity of xCu/MCM-22 is sensitive to Cu content at low Cu loadings (≤4 wt%). When the Cu loading exceeds 4 wt%, the NH3-SCR activity of xCu/MCM-22 is irrelevant to Cu content due to the severe pore blockage effects caused by aggregated CuOx species. Among the five xCu/MCM-22 zeolites, 4Cu/MCM-22 with moderate Cu content has the best NH3-SCR performance, which displays higher than 80% NOx conversions in a wide temperature window (160–430 °C). Furthermore, the hydrothermal aging experiments (xCu/MCM-22 was treated at 750 °C for 10 h under 10% water vapor atmosphere) illustrated that all the xCu/MCM-22 zeolites exhibit high hydrothermal stability in NH3-SCR reactions.
Highlights
The burning of fossil fuels and intense human activities have caused sharp increases in the emissions of CO2, SOx (SO2 and SO3) and nitrogen oxides (NOx, mainly NO and NO2) in the atmosphere, which have resulted in a series of environmental problems, such as acid rain, photochemical smog, the greenhouse effect and haze [1,2,3]
A series of xCu/MCM-22 zeolites with different Cu loadings were prepared by incipient wetness impregnation method and their activity and hydrothermal stability in NH3-SCR were investigated
scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and X-ray diffraction (XRD) experiments demonstrated that Cu loading has no significant influence on the surface morphology and crystallinity of xCu/MCM-22 zeolites
Summary
The burning of fossil fuels and intense human activities have caused sharp increases in the emissions of CO2, SOx (SO2 and SO3) and nitrogen oxides (NOx, mainly NO and NO2) in the atmosphere, which have resulted in a series of environmental problems, such as acid rain, photochemical smog, the greenhouse effect and haze [1,2,3]. Due to the high redox activity of Cu species, Cu-based zeolites such as Cu/SSZ-13 [7,8], Cu/SAPO-34 [9,10], Cu/LTA [8,11] and Cu/SSZ-39 [12,13] have become the most used catalysts in NH3-SCR, especially in the low temperature range (200–350 ◦C) [13,14]. It is of great significance to develop novel Cu-based zeolite catalysts with both high activity and good hydrothermal stability in a wide temperature window. Corma and co-workers [28] found that Cu/MCM-22 zeolites were active catalysts with relatively high hydrothermal stability in selective catalytic reduction of NO with propane. In this work, a series of xCu/MCM-22 zeolites with Si/Al ratios of about 15 (to ensure enough acid sites) and different Cu loadings (2–10 wt%) were prepared by incipient wetness impregnation method in order to investigate their catalytic activities and hydrothermal stabilities in NH3-SCR. The insights shown in this work should be of great benefit to the development of better NH3-SCR catalysts and the understanding of reaction processes
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