Nanosized V-Ce Oxides Supported on TiO2 as a Superior Catalyst for the Selective Catalytic Reduction of NO

Long Lu,Xiongbo Chen,Dingsheng Chen,Ying Liu,Ping Fang,Chaoping Cen,Chunhua Hu,Xueman Wang

doi:10.3390/catal10020202

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Nanosized V-Ce oxides supported on TiO2 (VCT) were prepared and utilized in the low-temperature selective catalytic reduction (SCR) of NO with NH3. Compared with the other V-Ce oxides-based catalysts supported on Al2O3, ZrO2, and ZSM-5, VCT showed the best SCR activity in a low-temperature range. The NOx conversion of 90% could be achieved at 220 °C. Characterizations including X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning election micrograph (SEM), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), temperature-programmed desorption with NH3 (NH3-TPD), and temperature-programmed reduction with H2 (H2-TPR) showed that V1.05Ce1/TiO2 exhibited a good dispersion of V2O5, enrichment of surface Ce3+ and chemical-absorbed oxygen, and excellent redox capacity and acidity, which resulted in the best SCR performance at low temperature.

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Nitrogen oxides (NOx), as one of the main pollutants in the atmosphere, give rise to many environmental problems such as acid rain, photochemical pollution, and haze [1,2,3]
Researchers have been working on low vanadium catalysts in recent years, and excellent NOx conversion has been achieved on supported V2 O5 catalysts [12,13,14], but several problems still remain, especially for N2 selectivity
For the samples of V-Ce oxides supported on TiO2 (VCT), Al2 O3 (VCA), ZrO2 (VCZR) and ZSM-5 (VCZS), most of the strongest peaks in each X-ray diffraction (XRD) patterns belonged to their supports, respectively

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Introduction

Nitrogen oxides (NOx), as one of the main pollutants in the atmosphere, give rise to many environmental problems such as acid rain, photochemical pollution, and haze [1,2,3]. V2 O5 -WO3 /TiO2 and V2 O5 -MoO3 /TiO2 are the most widely used catalysts for NOx removal because of their high activity and N2 selectivity [7], but a series of problems still existed, such as the relatively narrow working temperature range of 300–420 ◦ C [8], the high oxidation ratio of SO2 to SO3 [5,9], the toxicity of vanadium species [10], and the formation of N2 O at relatively high temperatures [11]. In view of the defects above, much attention has been put into developing efficient SCR catalyst working in low-temperatures or wide range temperatures. Researchers have been working on low vanadium catalysts in recent years, and excellent NOx conversion has been achieved on supported V2 O5 catalysts [12,13,14], but several problems still remain, especially for N2 selectivity

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