Promotional effect of CO pretreatment on CuOCeO2 catalyst for catalytic reduction of NO by CO》.pdf

JOURNAL OF RARE EARTHS, Vol. 32, No. 2, Feb. 2014, P. 139 Promotional effect of CO pretreatment on CuO/CeO catalyst for catalytic 2 reduction of NO by CO 1 1 1 1 1,2,* GU Xianrui () , LI Hao ( ) , LIU Lichen () , TANG Changjin () , GAO Fei ( ) , DONG Lin ( )1,2,* (1. Key Laboratory of Mesoscopic Chemistry of MOE, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China; 2. Center of Modern Analysis, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China) Received 23 September 2013; revised 25 November 2013 Abstract: The CuO/CeO catalysts were investigated by means of X-ray diffraction (XRD), laser Raman spectroscopy (LRS), X-ray 2 photoelectronic spectroscopy (XPS), temperature-programmed reduction (TPR), in situ Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) and NO+CO reaction. The results revealed that the low temperature (150 °C) catalytic performances were enhanced for CO pretreated samples. During CO pretreatment, the surface Cu+ 0 /Cu and oxygen vacancies on ceria surface were present. The low va- lence copper species activated the adsorbed CO and surface oxygen vacancies facilitated the NO dissociation. These effects in turn led to higher activities of CuO/CeO2 for NO reduction. The current study provided helpful understandings of active sites and reaction mechanism in NO+CO reaction. Keywords: CuO/CeO2 catalysts; CO pretreatment; oxygen vacancies; NO reduction; rare earths Copper-based catalysts have been widely reported in