Abstract
Nitrogen oxide (NO x) reduction by the selective catalytic reduction (SCR) system assisted by an oxidation precatalyst is modelled and analytically investigated. The Langmuir—Hinshelwood SCR kinetic scheme with vanadium-based catalyst and ammonia (NH3) reductant in conjunction with the NO—NO2 conversion reaction over a platinum-based catalyst is used. The effects of the ratio of the oxidation precatalyst to the SCR monolith volume, the gas temperature, the space velocity, and the NH3-to-NO x concentration ratio on the de-NO x performance are parametrically examined. The oxidation precatalyst promotes NO x conversion at low temperatures. At intermediate temperatures, the NO x reduction is either activated or deactivated with increase in the space velocity. A higher oxidation precatalyst-to-SCR monolith volume ratio tends to promote the NO x reduction of higher space velocities. At high temperatures, the de-NO x efficiency is very high and insensitive to the space velocity. The NO x conversion efficiency depends on the NH3-to-NO x ratio at low temperatures.
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