Abstract:
Iron-cerium mixed metal oxide (Fe
0.95Ce
0.05O
z) was prepared through co-precipitation method and used as the catalyst in the selective catalytic reduction of NO with NH
3 (NH
3-SCR); the effects of initial concentration of NO, molar ratio of NH
3/NO and O
2 concentration on its NH
3-SCR activity were investigated in an integral reactor at steady-state and the kinetics were considered in a differential reactor. The results indicated that the amount of NO converted over per unit catalyst increases with the initial concentration of NO; with the increase of NH
3/NO mol ratio, NO conversion is firstly increased sharply and then gradually reaches a stable value; O
2 in the flue gas also plays an important role in the NH
3-SCR reaction. The NH
3-SCR reaction over Fe
0.95Ce
0.05O
z exhibits first-order with respect to NO, zero-order to NH
3, and nearly 0.5-order to O
2 at 175~275 ℃; the apparent activation energy is 42.6 kJ/mol.