Superior low temperature activity over α-MnO 2 /β-MnOOH catalyst for selective catalytic reduction of NO x with ammonia

• Published in: RSC advances 2024-11, Vol.14 (48), p.35498-35504
• Main Authors: Takemoto, Masanori, Fujinuma, Haruko, Sugawara, Yoshihiro, Sasaki, Yukichi, Iyoki, Kenta, Okubo, Tatsuya, Yamaguchi, Kazuya, Wakihara, Toru
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• ISSN: 2046-2069; 2046-2069
• DOI: 10.1039/D4RA05934D

Manganese octahedral molecular sieves with an α-MnO crystal structure (OMS-2) and their related materials have attracted significant attention for the selective catalytic reduction of NO using NH (NH -SCR) at low temperatures. Further lowering their operating temperature should be an effective method to develop an environmentally friendly de-NO system; however, their catalytic activity at low temperatures, especially below 100 °C, remains poor. This study describes a post-synthetic approach to develop Mn-based catalysts superior to those in the literature that operate at ultralow temperatures. Post-synthetic planetary ball milling for OMS-2 caused the partial conversion of OMS-2 into β-MnOOH. The obtained nanocomposite catalysts possessed abundant surface oxygen vacancies and strong surface acidity, allowing the milled catalyst to exhibit higher NO conversion at 90 °C (91%) than that in freshly prepared OMS-2 without planetary ball milling (29%). Lowering the operation temperature of OMS-2 catalysts contributed to the suppression of N O evolution during NH -SCR over manganese-based catalysts, resulting in high N selectivity over the milled OMS-2 catalyst (93%).