Abstract

Understanding the influence of sulfates over catalysts for selective catalytic reduction of NO with NH3 (NH3-SCR) is crucial due to the universal presence of SO2 in exhaust gas. Depending on the degree of sulfation, there mainly exist surface and bulk sulfates and NH3-SCR activity is generally considered to suffer more from bulk sulfates. Herein, the unique function of bulk sulfates over CeO2 in promoting high-temperature SCR reaction is revealed. Notably, compared with CeO2 dominated with surface sulfates (S-CeO2–4h) and commercial V2O5-WO3/TiO2, CeO2 with bulk sulfates (S-CeO2–72h) exhibits admirable NO conversion at the temperature range of 400–550 °C. Bulk sulfates provide more Brønsted acid sites with stronger strength for NH3 adsorption. Moreover, the oxidation ability of CeO2 is significantly inhibited due to electron-withdrawing effect from bulk sulfates, which alleviates NH3 oxidation at high temperatures. More NH3 adsorption with high stability and limited NH3 oxidation capacity ensure the excellent catalytic performance for S-CeO2–72h in high-temperature denitration. This work provides new insight of bulk sulfates in promoting SCR activity and open a new avenue to design deNOx catalysts employed at high temperatures.

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