The Development of a N2O Abatement Catalyst: from Laboratory Scale to Plant Testing

Reduction of N2O with hydrosilanes catalysed by RuSNS nanoparticles

“…1,2 The increasing concentration of this gas in the Earth's atmosphere is attributed to human activities involving the use of fertilizers, the large-scale combustion of fossil fuels and biomass, and industrial chemical processes that produce it as a by-product. 3 Therefore, there is a significant interest in the development of chemical transformations for the degradation of N 2 O into non-harmful species, 4 as well as for its revalorization as a chemical feedstock in the context of a circular economy. 5 A procedure for N 2 O mitigation consists of the hydrogenation of this molecule to innocuous nitrogen gas (N 2 ) and water, which can be carried out using heterogeneous catalysts operating under relatively harsh conditions.…”