Highlights Co introduced in Beta supports effectively activates NH3 for reaction with NO. The highest reactivity of ammonia in SCR of NO found for Co(IE)BEA catalyst. During SCR of NO ammonia and NO compete for the same adsorption sites. SCR of NO process involves the reaction of chemisorbed NH3 with NO from gas phase.
AbstractTemperature-programmed desorption (TPD), temperature-programmed surface reaction (TPSR) and stop flow-TPD techniques as well as FT-IR spectroscopy of pre-adsorbed NH3 and NO are applied to characterize active sites present in Co-containing BEA zeolites. Cobalt is introduced into BEA zeolite by different methods: (i) two-step postsynthesis -PS, (ii) conventional wet impregnation -Imp and (iii) ion exchange -IE. The obtained catalysts are 3 labelled as Co(PS)SiBEA (postsynthesis), Co(IMP)AlBEA (wet impregnation) and Co(IE)AlBEA (ion exchange). All the obtained catalysts are found to be active in the process of selective catalytic reduction (SCR) of NO with ammonia. The catalytic activity depends on the method used for cobalt introduction and thus on cobalt centres speciation. The reactivity of NH3 and NO adsorbed on Co(IMP)AlBEA and Co(IE)AlBEA is higher than that measured for the Co(PS)SiBEA catalysts. The temperature-programmed studies and FT-IR with NO and/or NH3 adsorption for the Co-containing samples show that during SCR reaction NO and NH3 molecules compete for the same adsorption sites. The main reaction pathways of the DeNOx process performed in the presence of Co(IMP)AlBEA and Co(IE)AlBEA involves the reaction between chemisorbed ammonia and NO from gas phase, according to the Eley-Riedel mechanism.experimental studies focused on mechanistic issues and reaction pathways, the SCR mechanism on the Co-BEA zeolite catalysts is still the subject of the debate.In this study, the Co-containing BEA zeolite catalysts were prepared by different methods: two-step postsynthesis, wet impregnation and conventional ion exchange. The obtained samples exhibited high activity and selectivity in SCR NO with NH3. Thus, the studies of the reaction mechanism for this series of the catalysts were undertaken to determine the role of cobalt species type on catalytic performance of the catalysts.
Experimental
Catalysts preparationThree series of Co-containing zeolites were prepared by two-step postsynthesis (PS), conventional wet impregnation (IMP) and ion exchange (IE) procedures.Co(PS)SiBEA zeolite (with Co loading of 1.0 wt %) was prepared by two-step postsynthesis procedure reported earlier [6][7][8][9]. In the first step, 2 g of HAlBEA zeolite, obtained by calcination of tetraethyl-ammonium BEA (TEABEA) zeolite at 823 K for 15 h provided by RIPP (China) was treated with 13 mol L -1 HNO3 solution under stirring (353 K, 4 h) to remove aluminium from the zeolite structure. In the second step, 2 g of resulting SiBEA obtained after filtration were dispersed in aqueous solutions (pH = 2.8) containing 1.7 • 10 -3 mol L -1 of Co(NO3)2 · 6H2O and stirred at room temperature for 24 h. Then, the obtained su...