vibrations (Si(OH)Al), respectively [44-46]. The negative band at
meso/macrospores were introduced to Beta zeolite. Hierarchical
Fe-Beta exhibited better low-temperature activity than Fe-Beta.
-
1
3
675 cm only appeared on hierarchical Fe-Beta, which was
attributed to hydroxyls bonded on extra-framework Al species
47], due to hierarchical structure. This result indicated that
The results of UV-vis DRS, EPR and H
2
-TPR indicated that
2 3
isolated Fe , oligomers and Fe O coexisted on Fe-Beta and
3
+
[
hierarchical structure introduced more exchanged sites and acid
sites, which led to the better SCR activity. In the N-H stretching
hierarchical Fe-Beta. The enhanced activity of the hierarchical
Fe-Beta was related to the prominent presence of highly
dispersed Fe active species, which may be because that the
hierarchical structure introduced more defects to provide more
ion-exchange sites for Fe species. The kinetic experiments
demonstrated that the activate energy of Fe-Beta and hierarchical
Fe-Beta was 56.2 and 56.9 kJ/mol, respectively, suggesting an
-
1
regions (3100-3500 cm ), the bands corresponding to the
-
1
asymmetric stretching (3343cm ) and symmetric stretching
-
1
(
3
3273 and 3192 cm ) of coordinated NH on Lewis acid sites
-
1
were observed, respectively [48]. The bands at 1478 cm and
163 cm were attributed to the NH
Brønsted acid sites and coordinated NH
acid sites, respectively [48-50] . The band at 896 cm could be
assigned to T-O-T framework vibrations by Fe species [7]. The
-
1
+
1
4
ions adsorbed on the
adsorbed on the Lewis
3
identical rate controlling mechanism. The NH
results of NH adsorption indicated that the hierarchical Fe-Beta
had more acid sites for the adsorption and activation of NH . The
adsorption of NO was not clearly observed on Fe-Beta or
hierarchical Fe-Beta, indicating that NH -SCR process of both of
3
-TPD and DRIFTS
-
1
3
3
-
1
peak intensity at 896 cm of hierarchical Fe-Beta was higher than
that of Fe-Beta, illustrating more Fe was incorporated into
x
3
hierarchical Fe-Beta, in agreement with the ICP, EPR and H
2
-
the two catalysts mainly followed the Eley-Rideal (E-R) reaction
mechanism.
TPR results. Overall, the intensity of NH adsorption peaks for
3
hierarchical Fe-Beta was higher than those for Fe-Beta,
suggesting more acid sites existing on hierarchical Fe-Beta than
Acknowledgments
those on Fe-Beta, in accordance with NH
The NO adsorbed spectra were shown in Fig. S6b. No peak for
NO adsorbed species was clearly observed, suggesting that Fe-
Beta and hierarchical Fe-Beta did not adsorb NO species. The
NO adsorbed species were not detected on the Fe-Beta and
hierarchical Fe-Beta, but the excellent NO conversion could be
obtained, illustrating that the NH -SCR reaction may mainly
carried out through Eley-Rideal (E-R) pathway with gaseous NO
3
-TPD results.
We gratefully acknowledge the financial supports from the
National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 51822811,
x
2
2
1637005), the National Key R&D Program of China (Nos.
017YFC0212502, 2017YFC0211101), and the Young Talent
x
x
Project of the Center for Excellence in Regional Atmospheric
Environment, CAS (No. CERAE201806).
x
3
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