Abstract
The soot combustion behavior and the textural and structural characteristics of CeO 2 and a series of ceria-modified materials have been studied. It is shown that ceria doped with transition metals (Zr and Fe) and rare earth elements (La, Pr, Sm, Tb) results in more active catalysts with enhanced textural properties. ZrO 2 enhances the thermal stability and the oxygen storage capacity of pure ceria, resulting in better performance in soot oxidation. Remarkably, cerium–zirconium solid solution doped with rare earth does not achieve lower temperature of combustion, providing performances comparable to CeO 2 and CeO 2–ZrO 2. Cerium doped with Fe 2O 3 presents the better results as far as fresh samples are taken into account, but suffers from a net loss of activity after calcination. TGA experiments under N 2 atmosphere have confirmed the key role of oxygen storage capacity in soot oxidation.
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