Industrial
flue gas has a great impact on the atmosphere environment
and human health, and its emission temperatures are usually below
180 °C, which needs a new technology that can catalyze the removal
of the multicomponent VOCs over high-performance catalysts in the
presence of ozone. In this work, we prepared the Pt/CeO2 catalysts with different morphologies of Pt particles and investigated
their catalytic performance for the ozonization of mixed VOCs (i.e.,
toluene and chlorobenzene (CB)). Among all of the as-prepared samples,
Pt NRs/CeO2 with nanorod-like Pt particles showed excellent
catalytic performance for the ozonization of toluene and CB. The T
50% (the temperature at VOC conversion = 50%)
values for toluene and CB ozonization were 40 and 48 °C at a
space velocity of 40,000 mL g–1 h–1, respectively. The results of characterization revealed that the
reactive oxygen species involved in the VOC ozonization were mainly
the O2
– and O2
2– species, surface oxygen vacancies of CeO2 were the active
sites for the conversion of ozone to the reactive oxygen species,
and the O2
– species was the mainly active
oxygen species in the low-temperature VOC oxidation. Furthermore,
partial reactive oxygen species reacted with the Pt
n+ species to generate more amount of the Pt0 species,
and the metallic platinum species was the main active site for the
adsorption and activation of toluene and CB. The chemisorbed VOCs
at the Pt0 sites reacted with the reactive oxygen species
at the interface of Pt and CeO2, resulting in the excellent
low-temperature catalytic activity. Compared with the reaction without
ozone participation, we find that the participation of ozone can not
only decrease the reaction temperature but also reduce the production
of toxic byproducts. We are sure that the Pt/CeO2 catalyst
is promising in practical application for elimination of the VOCs
from industrial flue gas.