A novel process of ozone catalytic oxidation for low concentration formaldehyde removal

To reduce energy costs,minimize secondary pollution from undecomposed ozone,and improve the efficiency of ozone use,a novel process of cycled storage‐ozone catalytic oxidation(OZCO)was employed to remove formaldehyde(HCHO)at low concentrations in air.We applied Al2O3‐supported manganese oxide(MnOx)catalysts to this process,and examined the HCHO adsorption capacity and OZCO performance over the MnOx catalysts.Owing to the high dispersion of MnOx and low oxidation state of manganese,the MnOx/Al2O3catalysts with a manganese acetate precursor and10%‐Mn loading showed good performance in both storage and OZCO stages.The presence of H2O led to a decrease of the HCHO adsorption capacity owing to competitive adsorption between moisture and HCHO at the storage stage;however,high relative humidity(RH)favored complete conversion of stored HCHO to CO2at the OZCO stage and contributed to an excellent carbonbalance.Four low concentration HCHO storage‐OZCO cycles with a long HCHO storage period and relatively short OZCO period were successfully performed over the selected MnOx/Al2O3catalyst at room temperature and a RH of50%,demonstrating that the proposed storage‐OZCO process is an economical,reliable,and promising technique for indoor air purification.

Enhanced effect of plasma on catalytic reduction of CO2 to CO with hydrogen over Au/CeO2 at low temperature

In terms of the reaction of COreduction to CO with hydrogen, COconversion is very low at low temperature due to the limitation of thermodynamic equilibrium（TE）. To overcome this limitation, plasma catalytic reduction of COto CO in a catalyst-filled dielectric barrier discharge（DBD） reactor is studied. An enhanced effect of plasma on the reaction over Au/CeOcatalysts is observed. For both the conventionally catalytic（CC） and plasma catalytic（PC, Pin= 15 W） reactions under conditions of 400 °C, H/CO= 1,200 SCCM, GHSV = 12,000 mL·gcat·h, COconversions over Au/CeOreach 15.4% and 25.5% due to the presence of Au, respectively, however, those over CeOare extremely low and negligible. Moreover,COconversion over Au/CeOin the PC reaction exceeds 22.4% of the TE conversion. Surface intermediate species formed on the catalyst samples during the reactions are determined by in-situ temperatureprogrammed decomposition（TPD） technique. Interestingly, it disclosed that in the PC reaction, the formation of formate intermediate is enhanced by plasma, and the acceleration by plasma in the decomposition of formate species is much greater than that in the formation of formate species on Au/CeO. Enhancement factor is introduced to quantify the enhanced effect of plasma. Lower reactor temperature, higher gas hourly space velocity（GHSV）, and lower molar ratio of H/COwould be associated with larger enhancement factor.

Effect of O_2/CH_4ratio on the optimal specific-energy-input (SEI) for oxidative reforming of biogas in a plasma-shade reactor

In a novel plasma-shade reactor for oxidative reforming of biogas(CH4/CO2=3/2),the effects of specific-energy-input (SEI) on CH4 and CO2 conversions and energy cost of syngas were investigated at O2/CH4ratios ranged from 0.42 to 0.67.At each of O2/CH4 ratios,V-shape profiles of energy cost of syngas increasing with SEI were observed,reaching the lowest value at the optimal SEI(Opt-SEI).With the increase of O2/CH4 ratio,the Opt-SEI decreased significantly.Moreover,at the Opt-SEI,O2 and CH4 conversions and dry-basis concentration of syngas increased and energy cost of syngas decreased greatly with the increase of O2/CH4 ratio.