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JOURNAL OF RARE EARTHS, Vol. 29, No. 1, Jan. 2011, p. 64 Effects of cerium and vanadium on the activity and selectivity of MnO -TiO x 2 catalyst for low-temperature NH -SCR 3 WU Xiaodong (吴晓东), SI Zhichun (司知蠢), LI Guo (栗 国), WENG Duan (翁 端), MA Ziran (马子然) (State Key Laboratory of New Ceramics Fine Process, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China) Received 28 June 2010; revised 23 July 2010 Abstract: MnO -TiO , CeO -MnO -TiO and V O -MnO -TiO catalysts for low-temperature NH -SCR were prepared by sol-gel method. x 2 2 x 2 2 5 x 2 3 The results showed that both cerium and vanadium prevented the transformation of anatase TiO2 to the rutile phase. The addition of vanadium oxide induced the segregation of crystalline Mn O , which contributed little to low-temperature SCR and ammonia oxidation, from the 2 3 MnO -TiO solid solutions. However, the selectivity of the V-containing catalyst was almost 100% due to the decreased ammonia consump- x 2 tion and enhanced adsorption capacity of ammonia on Brønsted acid sites at relatively high temperatures. The electron-donating effect of ce- rium reduced the Mn4+/Mn3+ ratio to some extent, resulting in a decreased activity for ammonia oxidation. This, in combination with the en- hanced ammonia adsorption capacity by Cen+ as additional Lewis acid sites, endowed the Ce-doped catalyst a higher N2 selectivity than MnOx-TiO2 despite the slightly elevated light-off temperature