Issue 7, 2022

Constructing active copper species in Cu-zeolites for coal-gas-SCR and elucidating the synergistic catalytic function of CuO and Cu2+ ion species

Abstract

Coal-gas-SCR, initially proposed in this work, is a low-cost and effective strategy to eliminate NOx emission in the iron and steel industry. In this work, the Cu-ZSM-5-IE+CP catalyst prepared by liquid ion exchange combined with coprecipitation was filtered out for NOx abatement with coke-oven gas (H2, CH4, and CO). By means of XRD, TEM, H2-TPR, EPR, UV-vis, XPS, etc., active centers of Cu-ZSM-5-IE+CP were studied. Combined with DFT calculations and ab initio thermodynamic (AIT) analyses, it was confirmed that highly dispersed CuO nanoparticles with the (111) planes exposed and [ZCuOH]/[Z2Cu] in the Z[Cu(II)]-6R-D4h structure are the most possible main active motifs for the coal-gas-SCR. Moreover, the synergistic effect of Cu2+ ions and CuO species was elucidated. In situ DRIFTS and SCR-TPD results revealed that surface species can migrate between CuO and Cu2+ ions, which could further accelerate intermediate species (NCO, CH3NO, and NH4+) formation, resulting in better deNOx efficiency.

Graphical abstract: Constructing active copper species in Cu-zeolites for coal-gas-SCR and elucidating the synergistic catalytic function of CuO and Cu2+ ion species

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
21 3 2022
Accepted
07 5 2022
First published
12 5 2022

Environ. Sci.: Nano, 2022,9, 2372-2387

Constructing active copper species in Cu-zeolites for coal-gas-SCR and elucidating the synergistic catalytic function of CuO and Cu2+ ion species

J. Cheng, D. Zheng, C. Dai, R. Xu, N. Liu, G. Yu, N. Wang and B. Chen, Environ. Sci.: Nano, 2022, 9, 2372 DOI: 10.1039/D2EN00269H

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