Journal
ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY
Volume 33, Issue 11, Pages 1331-1337Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/09593330.2011.626799
Keywords
NO reduction; urea; CeO2; activated carbon fibre; catalytic mechanism
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [50878080, 51108169, 50908080]
- Key Scientific and Technological Special Project of Changsha City in China [K0902006-31]
- National Undergraduate Innovating Experiment Project [521611185]
- Scientific and Technological Project of Hunan Province in China [[2008]GK3118]
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Selective catalytic reduction (SCR) of NO by urea loaded on rayon-based activated carbon fibre (ACF) and CeO2/ACF (CA) was studied at ambient temperature (30 degrees C) to establish a basic scheme for its reduction. Nitric oxide was found to be reduced to N-2 with urea deposited on the ACF and CA. When oxygen was present, the greater the amount of loaded urea (20-60%), the greater the NOx conversions, which were between 72.03% and 77.30%, whereas the NOx conversions were about 50% when oxygen was absent. Moreover, when the urea was loaded on CA, a catalyst containing 40% urea/ACF loaded with 10% CeO2 (UCA4) could yield a NOx conversion of about 80% for 24.5 h. Based on the experimental results, the catalytic mechanisms of SCR with and without oxygen are discussed. The enhancing effect of oxygen resulted from the oxidation of NO to NO2, and urea was the main reducing agent in the SCR of loaded catalysts. ACF-C was the catalytic centre in the SCR of NO of ACF, while CeO2 of urea-loaded CA was the catalytic centre.
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