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Published on: June 18, 2020
Improved N2 Selectivity of MnO Catalysts for NO Reduction by Engineering Bridged Mn3+ Sites
Yue Che1, Xiangyu Liu1, Zhi Shen1
1International Joint Laboratory of Catalytic Chemistry, State Key Laboratory of Advanced Special Steel, Department of Chemistry, College of Sciences, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China.
Abstract:
Mn-based catalysts are promising for selective catalytic reduction (SCR) of NO with NH3 at low temperatures due to their excellent redox capacity. However, the N2 selectivity of Mn-based catalysts is an urgent problem for practical application owing to excessive oxidizability. To solve this issue, we report a Mn-based catalyst using amorphous ZrTiO as the support (Mn/ZrTi-A) with both excellent low-temperature NO conversion and N2 selectivity. It is found that the amorphous structure of ZrTiO modulates the metal-support interaction for anchoring the highly dispersed active MnO species and constructs a uniquely bridged Mn3+ bonded with the support through oxygen linked to Ti4+ and Zr4+, respectively, which regulates the optimal oxidizability of the MnO species. As a result, Mn/ZrTi-A is not conducive to the formation of ammonium nitrate that readily decomposes to N2O, thus further increasing N2 selectivity. This work investigates the role of an amorphous support in promoting the N2 selectivity of a manganese-based catalyst and sheds light on the design of efficient low-temperature deNO catalysts.
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