Abstract
Palladium-modified Co-ZnAland Cu-ZnAl materials were used and found active for the catalytic oxidation of propene and propane. According to the results obtained by XRD, TPR and XPS, the zinc aluminate-supported phases are oxide phases, Co3O4, CuO and PdOx for Co-ZnAl, Cu-ZnAl and Pd-ZnAl catalysts, respectively. These reducible oxide species present good catalytic activity for the oxidation reactions. The addition of palladium to Co-ZnAl or Cu-ZnAl samples promoted the reducibility of the system and, consequently, produced a synergic effect which enhanced the activity for the propene oxidation. The PdCo-ZnAl sample was the most active and exhibited highly dispersed PdOx particles and surface structural defects. In addition, it exhibited good catalytic stability. The H2 pre-treated PdCu-ZnAl, PdCo-ZnAl and Pd-ZnAl samples showed higher activity than the original oxide catalysts, evidencing the important role of the oxidation state of the species, mainly of the palladium species, on the catalytic activity for the propene combustion. The synergic effect between metal transition oxides and PdOx could not be observed for the propane oxidation.
Highlights
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Summary
Air pollution represents a significant risk to human health. This risk is due to human exposure to toxic pollutants present in the atmosphere, which can cause diseases such as pneumonia, chronic bronchitis and lung cancer. In 2019, the World Health Organization reported that air pollution causes millions of deaths each year [1,2]. Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are formed of a complex mixture of hundreds of gases that contain carbon, excluding carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, carbonic acid, metallic carbides or carbonates and ammonium carbonate [3], and can be mentioned among the main atmospheric pollutants. The VOC emission to the atmosphere is an environmental problem that must be solved
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