Journal
CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL
Volume 416, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2021.128933
Keywords
NH3-SCR; HCl; V2O5-MoO3/TiO2; NO activation; Transient kinetic experiments; Operando FT-IR
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Funding
- Ministry of University and Research (MUR)
- Energy for Motion project of Department of Energy, Politecnico di Milano
- Karlsruhe House of Young Scientist (KHYS)
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NH3-SCR technology is the best option to reduce NOx emissions from power plants, incinerators, and gasifiers, but the influence of HCl in flue gases has been neglected in previous studies. This research revealed that HCl can significantly enhance the performance of V2O5 catalysts in NH3-SCR, providing evidence that NO activation by an O-species is a key rate controlling step.
NH3-SCR is the best available technology for NOx abatement from power plant, incinerators, gasifiers, and a well-established technology for on board NOx emission control; in the last 40 years, the reaction mechanism and kinetics have been deeply investigated, but the understanding of the nature of surface intermediates and rate determining steps is still object of a lively discussion. A major factor, though, has been largely neglected in the scientific literature, that is the presence of HCl in the flue gases generated by coal, biomass and plastics. In this work, the effect of HCl on NH3-SCR over V2O5 catalysts was investigated through combined kinetic analysis and operando FTIR. Unexpectedly, after HCl-doping, the catalyst intrinsic activity of a commercial catalyst increased by a factor of 5. Besides, it was found that while the NH3 surface coverage is little affected by HCl-doping, the chemisorption capacity of NO + O-2 undergoes a remarkable promotion that scales with the promotion of the reaction rate. The HCl-effect provided thus an indirect but unambiguous piece of evidence that NO-activation by an O-species is a key rate controlling step of NH3-SCR.
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