A novel co-precipitation method for preparation of Mn-Ce/TiO2 composites for NOx reduction with NH3 at low temperature

Mn-Ce/TiO2 catalyst prepared by a novel co-precipitation method was used in this study for low-temperature selective catalytic reduction (SCR) of NOx with ammonia. The catalyst showed high activity and good SO2 resistance. The NO conversion on the catalyst increased to 100% when 700 ppm of SO2 flowed in, and reached 60.8% in 2.5 h. The characterized results indicated that the catalyst prepared by the new method had good dispersion of the active phase, uniform micro-size particles and large Brunauer-Emmett-Teller surface. The temperature programmed reduction and temperature programmed desorption experiments showed that the improvement in SCR activity on the Mn-Ce/TiO2 catalyst might be due to the increase of active oxygen species and the enhancement of NH3 chemisorption, both of which were conducive to NH3 activation.