Studies of sol-gel TiO 2 and Pt/TiO 2 catalysts for NO reduction by CO in an oxygen-rich condition

J. A. Wang, A. Cuan, J. Salmones, N. Nava, S. Castillo, M. Morán-Pineda, F. Rojas

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Abstract

The textural properties, morphological features, surface basicity and oxygen reduction behaviours of titania and Pt supported titania catalysts synthesized via a sol-gel method were studied by means of N 2 physisorption, SEM, TEM, CO 2 -TPD and H 2 -TPR techniques. Mesostructured TiO 2 shows a very narrow pore size distribution that uniformly centred at about 4nm. High resolution TEM images confirmed that most of Pt particles on Pt/TiO 2 -SG had a size smaller than 2nm. Both the titania support and Pt loaded catalysts chiefly contained weak basic sites with small amount of strong basic sites. Loading Pt did not significantly alter the surface reduction characters of titania, indicating a weak interaction between Pt metals and titania support. Catalytic evaluation revealed that the selectivity of NO reduction over titania was insensitive to variation of textural property. On the bare titania, low NO conversion but high selectivity to N 2 O was obtained. However, the Pt/TiO 2 -SG catalysts exhibited high NO conversion and high selectivity to N 2 , which is assumed to relate to NO dissociation catalysed by the metallic Pt clusters. In addition, when the reaction temperature was above 200 °C, 3-11% NO 2 was yielded over the Pt/TiO 2 -SG catalysts, which was discussed on a basis of reaction competition, metal-support interaction and NO dissociation.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)94-105
Number of pages12
JournalApplied Surface Science
Volume230
Issue number1-4
DOIs
StatePublished - 31 May 2004
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Catalysts
  • NO reduction
  • Pt/TiO
  • Sol-gel synthesis
  • Titania

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