“…We know from earlier work on the SCR of NO by hydrocarbons over Ag/Al 2 O 3 Hoost et al, 1997;Kung et al, 1997;Burch et al, 2002;Satsuma et al, 2003) and our own previous work (Guo et al, 2008), that generally, in a Ag/Al 2 O 3 catalyst with low or moderate Ag loadings (from 1 to 3 wt%), Ag + ions are dominant and highly dispersed, which is related to higher NO conversions. In contrast to this, increasing silver loading is related to the formation of metallic Ag on the catalytic surface, which favors oxidation of the reductant by oxygen, and leads to limited de-NO x activity.…”