Abstract
Pd-impregnated Ce-based catalysts were tested for carbon monoxide (CO) and hydrocarbon (HC) oxidation under challenging low-temperature diesel combustion conditions. The results indicate that the light-off temperatures for CO over Pd/CeO2, Pd/MnOx-CeO2 (Pd/MC), and Pd/SnO2-MnOx-CeO2 (Pd/SMC) catalysts shift to higher temperatures in the presence of simulated diesel exhaust gas. The lowest T50 for CO is observed over Pd/MC at 173 °C, whereas Pd/CeO2 is shown to oxidize most of the HCs at temperatures below 400 °C. In all catalysts, the oxidation of HCs starts right after the onset of CO oxidation, revealing that the competitive adsorption of CO, NO, and alkenes controls the catalytic activity. Further evaluation of the catalytic activity in the presence of only CO and C3H6 reveals the immediate inhibiting effect of C3H6 at catalyst temperatures below 150 °C. In situ diffuse reflectance infrared Fourier transform spectroscopy (DRIFTS) experiments performed over Pd/CeO2, Pd/MC, and Pd/SMC show that C3H6 inhibits the formation of carbonyl species on Pdn+ sites, which limits the catalytic activity for CO. Such inhibition is observed on all supports, implying that the activity is independent of oxygen storage capacity (OSC) or lattice oxygen reducibility of the supports in the presence of C3H6.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 37-46 |
Number of pages | 10 |
Journal | Emission Control Science and Technology |
Volume | 3 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Mar 1 2017 |
Funding
This manuscript has been authored by UT-Battelle, LLC, under Contract No. DE-AC05-00OR22725 with the US Department of Energy. The US Government retains and the publisher, by accepting the article for publication, acknowledges that the US Government retains a non-exclusive, paid-up, irrevocable, worldwide license to publish or reproduce the published form of this manuscript, or allow others to do so, for US Government purposes. The Department of Energy will provide public access to these results of federally sponsored research in accordance with the DOE Public Access Plan (http://energy.gov/downloads/doe-public-access-plan).
Funders | Funder number |
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South Carolina Smartstate Center for Strategic Approaches | |
US Department of Energy | |
UT-Battelle, LLC | |
U.S. Department of Energy | |
Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy | |
University of South Carolina |
Keywords
- Hydrocarbon inhibition
- Low-temperature diesel oxidation
- Pd
- Solid solution