Chinese Journal of Catalysis ›› 2015, Vol. 36 ›› Issue (8): 1287-1294.DOI: 10.1016/S1872-2067(15)60881-6

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Potassium poisoning of titania supported deNOx catalysts: Preservation of vanadia and sacrifice of tungsten oxide

Changming Chena, Xiaodong Wua, Wenchao Yua, Yuxi Gaoa, Duan Wenga, Lei Shib, Chunlei Gengc   

  1. a Key Laboratory of Advance Materials of Ministry of Education, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China;
    b Redbud Innovation Institute, Longyan 364000, Fujian, China;
    c Beijing Building Materials Academy of Sciences Research, Beijing 100041, China
  • Received:2015-03-27 Revised:2015-04-28 Online:2015-07-29 Published:2015-07-30
  • Supported by:

    This work was supported by the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China (863 Program, 2013AA065302) and the Key Laboratory of Solid Waste Reuse for Building Materials (SWR-2013-003).

Abstract:

V2O5-WO3/TiO2 catalysts were prepared by a wet impregnation method, and the deactivation by KCl of their catalytic activity for selective catalytic reduction of NOx by NH3 (NH3-SCR) was investigated. The fresh and poisoned catalysts were characterized by inductively coupled plasma (ICP), N2 adsorption, Raman spectroscopy, H2 temperature-programmed reduction, IR spectroscopy of adsorbed NH3, and NH3 oxidation. Vanadia species, which are the active sites for the SCR reaction, were turned into inert potassium vanadate, but they were partially maintained on the catalyst at a high vanadia loading. Tungsten oxide acts as a sacrificial agent that reacts with potassium to form potassium tungstate in addition to its roles in increasing the surface acidity of the catalyst and facilitating the dispersion of vanadia. The V2O5-WO3/TiO2 catalyst at a high vanadia loading exhibited the best resistance to alkali poisoning.

Key words: Vanadia, Tungsten oxide, Selective catalytic reduction, Alkali deactivation, Active site, Sacrificial agent