Journal
JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
Volume 10, Issue 6, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jece.2022.108744
Keywords
Single-atom catalysts; Catalytic oxidation; Nitric oxide; Microkinetic modeling
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Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China
- Natural Science Foundation of Hebei
- National Key R&D Program of China
- [52006073]
- [52176104]
- [92161115]
- [51874115]
- [E2020502023]
- [2021YFC1910605]
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In this study, a promising technology using single-atom catalysts (SACs) for reducing nitric oxide (NO) pollution emitted by coal-fired power plants was proposed. Through theoretical calculations and modeling, the Fe1-N4-C structure was identified as the best performing catalyst for NO oxidation among the analyzed SACs. This study provides important design guidelines for NO oxidation catalysts.
Nitric oxide (NO) emitted by coal-fired power plants causes severe environmental pollution. Catalytic oxidation of NO to NO2 is a promising technology to reduce NO pollution. However, the NO oxidation capacities of conventional catalysts were usually insufficient at a low temperature due to the difficulty to activate molecular oxygen (O2). Herein, single-atom catalysts (SACs) with high O2 activation capacities are proposed for NO oxidation. To design optimal SACs, we explicitly analyzed eight 3d transition metal SACs using spin-polarized density functional theory calculations with van der Waals corrections (DFT+D3), transition state analysis, scaling relation analysis, reaction descriptor analysis, and microkinetic modeling. For the first time, we derived a volcano-shaped microkinetic model to unravel the activity trends in the NO oxidation of SACs as a function of oxygen adsorption energy. This model shows that a Fe1-N4-C structure possesses the best performance for NO oxidation among the 75 analyzed SACs, in excellent agreement with recent pioneering experimental studies. Based on this volcano model, we screened the rest of the SACs with a Metal1-N4-C structure and provided important design guidelines for NO oxidation catalysts.
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