Aluminium-induced component engineering of mesoporous composite materials for low-temperature NH3-SCR
Open Access
- 27 May 2020
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Communications Chemistry
- Vol. 3 (1), 1-13
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s42004-020-0311-4
Abstract
Supported Mn2O3 is useful in achieving high dinitrogen selectivity at low temperature during ammonia-selective catalytic reduction (SCR). However, its controlled synthesis is challenging when the supporting material is the conventional pure silicon SBA-15 mesoporous molecular sieve. Here we show that silicon and aluminium in fly ash, the solid waste produced by coal-fired power plants, can be used to synthesize an Al-SBA-15 mesoporous molecular sieve support, which can guide the growth of Mn2O3 in the as-synthesized Fe-Mn/Al-SBA-15 NH3-SCR catalyst. Its superior catalytic performance is demonstrated by the high NOx conversion (≥90%) and selectivity (≥86%) at low temperatures (150–300 °C). The combined theoretical and experimental results reveal that the introduction of Al induces the growth of Mn2O3 catalysts. Our findings, therefore, provide a strategy for the rational design of low-temperature NH3-SCR catalysts through dopant-induced component engineering of composite materials.Keywords
Funding Information
- National Computational Infrastructure (p74)
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