Journal
APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL
Volume 12, Issue 19, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/app121910101
Keywords
nerve agent; dimethyl methyl phosphonate; thermocatalytic; CuO; CeO2; gamma-Al2O3
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21701186]
- Fundamental Research Funds from State Key Laboratory of NBC Protection for Civilian, China [SKLNBC 2019-04]
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A study prepared a CuO-CeO2/γ-Al2O3 catalyst using an equal volume impregnation method and studied its thermal catalytic decomposition performance on CWAs simulant DMMP. The results showed that the catalyst with 5% CeO2 loading exhibited better decomposition performance, providing protection against DMMP for 237 minutes.
Chemical warfare agents (CWAs) are highly toxic and fast-acting and are easy to cause large-scale poisoning to humans and livestock after being released. The activated carbon used for CWAs adsorption has disadvantages of limited adsorption capacity, easy aging and deactivation. Metal oxides have environmental stability, and they are characterized by long lasting and broad spectrum when used for thermal catalytic decomposition. Therefore, in this study, the supported copper-cerium catalyst CuO-CeO2/gamma-Al2O3 was prepared using an equal volume impregnation method. The thermal catalytic decomposition performance was studied using sarin CWAs simulant dimethyl methyl phosphonate (DMMP) as the target compound. The results show that the CuO-CeO2/gamma-Al2O3 catalyst with a CeO2 loading of 5% exhibited better thermal catalytic decomposition performance of DMMP. The catalyst provided protection against DMMP for 237 min at 350 degrees C; CuO was highly dispersed on CuO-5% CeO2/gamma-Al2O3, and there was a strong interaction between Cu and Ce on CuO-5% CeO2/gamma-Al2O3, which promoted the generation of surface-adsorbed oxygen, leading to a better thermal catalytic decomposition performance of DMMP. This study is expected to provide a reference for the study of catalysts for the thermal catalytic decomposition of CWAs.
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