Please cite this article as: J. Giménez-Mañogil, A. Bueno-López, A. García-García, Preparation, characterisation and testing of CuO/Ce 0.8 Zr 0.2 O 2 catalysts for NO oxidation to NO 2 and mild temperature diesel soot combustion., Applied Catalysis B, Environmental (2014), http://dx.doi.org/10. 1016/j.apcatb.2014.01.018 This is a PDF file of an unedited manuscript that has been accepted for publication. As a service to our customers we are providing this early version of the manuscript. The manuscript will undergo copyediting, typesetting, and review of the resulting proof before it is published in its final form. Please note that during the production process errors may be discovered which could affect the content, and all legal disclaimers that apply to the journal pertain.
AbstractCuO/ceria-zirconia catalysts have been prepared, deeply characterised (N 2 adsorption-desorption isotherms at -196°C, XRD, Raman spectroscopy, XPS, TEM and H 2 -TPR) and tested for NO oxidation to NO 2 in TPR conditions, and for soot combustion at mild temperature (400ºC) in a NOx/O 2 stream. The behaviour has been compared to that of a reference Pt/alumina commercial catalyst. The ceria-zirconia support was prepared by the co-precipitation method, and different amounts of copper (0.5, 1, 2, 4 and 6 wt%) were loaded by incipient wetness impregnation.The results revealed that copper is well-dispersed onto the ceria-zirconia support for the catalysts with low copper loading and CuO particles were only identified by XRD in samples with 4 and 6% of copper. A very low loading of copper increases significantly the activity for the NO oxidation to NO 2 with regard to the ceria-zirconia support and an optimum was found for a 4%CuO/ceria-zirconia composition, showing a very high activity (54% at 348ºC). The soot combustion rate at 400ºC obtained with the 2%CuO/ceria-zirconia catalyst is slightly lower to that of 1%Pt/alumina in terms of mass of catalyst but higher in terms of price of catalyst.