THE ROLE OF LEWIS AND BRØNSTED ACID SITES IN NO REDUCTION
2491
1619 cm–1 was assigned to adsorbed NO2 species.
1385
1619
Compared the results of NO adsorption with O2 and
without O2, it indicated that the adsorption of NO was
influenced by O2. This was reasonable to exist a low
NO removal efficiency during SCR reaction without O2.
1345
1283
(c)
The peak near 2267 cm–1 was assigned to NO+ spe-
cies [13]. The observed peaks of nitrates suggested that
the oxidation of NO to NO2 by gaseous O2 and the for-
(b)
(a)
NO3−
mation of
on the catalysts surface. Compared
with the support, V2O5-loading samples showed much
−
−
stronger
peak, suggesting more adsorbed
NO3
NO3
NO3−
present on the catalyst. The peak intensity of
increased in the following order: V2O5/TiO2
<
800
1600
2400
3200
4000
Wavenumber, cm−1
V2O5/S-doped TiO2. This was ascribed to sulfur dop-
ing which could create a charge imbalance, the vacan-
cies and unsaturated chemical bonds on the catalyst
surface, and then more NO could be oxidized to form
Fig. 3. DRIFTS spectra of adsorbed NO (1000 ppm) in the
presence of O on the (a) TiO , (b) V O /TiO , and (c) S-
2
2
2
5
2
-
doped V O /TiO catalysts at room temperature.
NO2, resulting in more absorbed NO3 produced on
2
5
2
the surface of the doped catalysts (XPS and EPR
results [6]). Compared with the results shown in
Fig. 1, when NO was adsorbed with O2, it could be
seen that there was more NO2 and nitrate species
absorbed on the samples. This intermediate was gen-
erally considered to play an important role in the SCR
reaction.
It was found that the role of the increasing tem-
perature toward the V2O5/S-doped TiO2 catalyst after
NO + O2 adsorption. The intensity of the peaks due to
peak formed at 1646 cm–1 might be the bending modes
of H2O. The peak at around 1371 and 1473 cm–1 was
+
due to
chemisorbed on the Brønsted acid sites.
NH4
The results indicated that there were more Brønsted
acid sites than Lewis acid sites. The acidity was gotten
on the catalyst surface could be conducive to adsorb
NH3. After loaded V2O5 onto the TiO2 (a), the samples
(b, c) showed a peak around at 2043 cm–1 was typical
for V5+ = O sites [16]. This peak indicated that V5+
=
monodentate/bridged nitrates (1351 and 1623 cm–1)
decreased with the increase of temperature, which
suggested that these nitrate species were not stable
under the condition investigated [14]. This instability
suggested that these intermediates enable easy strip-
ping from the surface of catalyst, without covering the
active component.
O groups presented on the catalyst surface were con-
sumed upon reduction with NH3. These peaks were
present around at 2785, 2973, 3205, and 3535 cm–1
due to the interaction between V and NH3. The peak
at 1415 cm–1 was not detected for TiO2 (a), which indi-
cated that the Brønsted acidity was mainly introduced
as a result of V2O5 loading. It is important to note that
the intensity of this peak became stronger via the addi-
tion of S ion. This indicated that S-doping could
increase Brønsted acidity, which was suggested to play
an important role in the low-temperature SCR. Thus,
catalysis activity was improved by doping method.
Ammonia Adsorption
The samples of the TiO2 (a), V2O5/TiO2 (b), and
V2O5/S-doped TiO2 (c) after being treated with NH3
were presented in Fig. 4. After the samples treated with
NH3 at room temperature, the peaks at 1719 and
1415 cm–1 were assigned to symmetric and asymmet-
ric deformation modes of NH3 coordinated on Brøn-
Adsorption of NH3 Followed by NO
Figure 5 shows the DRIFT spectra of the TiO2 (a),
V2O5/TiO2 (b), and V2O5/S-doped TiO2 (c) obtained
from the adsorption of NH3, purged by N2, and then
flowed by NO + O2. The main product on the sample
sted acid sites (
+), respectively. The peaks at 1265
NH4
and 1571 cm–1 was due to the asymmetric bending
vibrations of the N–H bonds in NH3 coordinately
linked to Lewis acid sites. The peaks observed at 2786,
3010, 3200, and 3530 cm–1 were corresponding to the
NH stretching modes [15]. The peak around 3695 cm–1
was attributed to the surface O–H stretching. There
was a distinct phenomenon on the catalyst support
TiO2 (Fig. 4a). A broad peak in the range of 2465–
when introducing NH3 was NH3 and
+. After
NH4
NO + O2 was passed over the NH3-treated samples,
the peak at 1563 cm–1 resulting from the NH3 adsorp-
tion coordinated to Lewis acid sites disappeared upon
introducing NO for all samples. The disappearance of
3725 cm–1 was attributed to any adsorbed water. The this peak strongly suggested that Lewis acid sites were
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