Active manganese oxide on MnOx-CeO2 catalysts for low-temperature NO oxidation：Characterization and kinetics study

MnO_x-CeO_2 catalysts were synthesized to investigate the active sites for NO oxidation by varying the calcination temperature. XRD and TEM results showed that cubic CeO_2 and amorphous MnO_x existed in MnO_x-CeO_2 catalysts. High temperature calcination caused the sintering of amorphous MnO_x and transforming to bulk crystalline Mn_2O_3, H_2-TPR and XPS results suggested the valence of Mn in MnO_x-CeO_2 was higher than pure MnO_x, and decreased with the increasing calcination temperature, The turnover frequency（TOF） was calculated based on the initial reducibility according to H_2-TPR quantitation and kinetic study. The TOF results indicated that the initial reducibility of amorphous MnO_x with high valence manganese ions was equivalent to the active sites for NO oxidation. It can be inferred that the amorphous MnO_x plays a key role in low-temperature NO oxidation.

New insights into the role of vanadia species as active sites for selective catalytic reduction of NO with ammonia over VO_x/CeO_2 catalysts

A series of VOx/CeO2 catalysts we re synthesized via vanadia supported on ceria with different BET surface areas.The catalysts were employed to investigate the active sites for the selective catalytic reduction of NO with NH3(NH3-SCR).The kinetic results show that VOx/CeO2 catalysts exhibit nearly constant apparent activation energies(Ea),indicating the same SCR reaction mechanism.The V-O-Ce bridging modes and oligomeric VOx were identified and quantified by Raman,FT-IR and H2-TPR.The amounts of the V-O-Ce bridging modes calculated by H2-TPR are correlated to the NH3-SCR intrinsic reaction rates.The turnover frequencies(TOFs) show a constant value at the same temperature,which were calculated based on the number of V-O-Ce bridging modes of VOx/CeO2 catalysts.Therefore,it can be concluded that the V-O-Ce bridging modes are the active sites of VOx/CeO2 catalysts for the NH3-SCR reaction.