Effects of Pd doping on N2O formation over Pt/BaO/Al2O3 during NOx storage and reduction process

N2O is a powerful greenhouse gas and plays an important role in destructing the ozone layer. This present work investigated the effects of Pd doping on N2O formation over Pt/BaO/Al2O3 catalyst. Three types of catalysts, Pt/BaO/Al2O3, Pt/Pd mechanical mixing catalyst （Pt/BaO/Al203 ＋ Pd/Al2O3） and Pt-Pd co-impregnation catalyst （Pt-Pd/BaO/Al2O3） were prepared by incipient wetness imoreenation method. These catalysts were first evaluated in NSR activity tests using H2/CO as reductants and then carefully characterized by BET, CO chemisorption, CO-DRIFTs and H2-TPR techniques. In addition, temperature programmed reactions of NO with H2/CO were conducted to obtain further information about NzO formation mechanism. Compared with Pt/BaO/Al2O3 （Pt/BaO/Al2O3 ＋ Pd/Al2O3） produced less N2O and more NH3 during NOx storage and reduction process, while an opposite trend was found over （Pt-Pd/BaO/Al2O3 ＋ Al2O3）. Temperature programmed reactions of NO with H2/CO results showed that Pd/Al2O3 component in （Pt/BaO/Al2O3 ＋ Pd/Al2O3） played an important role in NO reduction to NH3, and the formed NH3 could reduce NOx to N2 leading to a decrease in N2O formation. Most of N2O formed over （Pt-Pd/BaO/Al2O3 ＋ Al2O3） was originated from Pd/BaO/Al2O3 component. H2-TPR results indicated Pd-Ba interaction resulted in more difficult- to-reduce PdOx species over Pd/BaO/Al2O3, which inhibits the NO dissociation and thus drives the selectivity to N2O in NO reduction.