Synthesis of bulk vanadium oxide with a large surface area using organic acids and its low-temperature NH3-SCR activity

Technological solutions for NOx, SOx, and VOC abatement: recent breakthroughs and future directions

NOx, SOx, and carbonaceous volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are extremely harmful to the environment, and their concentrations must be within the limits prescribed by the region-specific pollution control boards. Thus, NOx, SOx, and VOC abatement is essential to safeguard the environment. Considering the importance of NOx, SOx, and VOC abatement, the discussion on selective catalytic reduction, oxidation, redox methods, and adsorption using noble metal and non-noble metal-based catalytic approaches were elaborated. This article covers different thermal treatment techniques, category of materials as catalysts, and its structure-property insights along with the advanced oxidation processes and adsorption. The defect engineered catalysts with lattice oxygen vacancies, bi- and tri-metallic noble metal catalysts and non-noble metal catalysts, modified metal organic frameworks, mixed-metal oxide supports, and their mechanisms have been thoroughly reviewed. The main hurdles and potential achievements in developing novel simultaneous NOx, SOx, and VOC removal technologies are critically discussed to envisage the future directions. This review highlights the removal of NOx, SOx, and VOC through material selection, properties, and mechanisms to further improve the existing abatement methods in an efficient way.

Characteristics of deactivation and thermal regeneration of Nb-doped V2O5-WO3/TiO2 catalyst for NH3-SCR reaction

This study investigated the effect of Nb doping into V₂O₅-WO₃/TiO₂ (VWT) catalyst for removing NO_xvia the SCR (selective catalytic reduction) by NH₃. The experimental results exhibited that Nb can improve the reactivity of the VWT catalyst at low temperatures. The addition of Nb also enhanced the tolerance to SO₂ and H₂O. The de-NO_x efficiency of the V₂O₅-WO₃-Nb₂O₅/TiO₂ (VWNbT) catalyst was increased up to 12% over that of the VWT catalyst at 240 °C when the catalyst was poisoned for 24 h. The prepared catalysts were characterized by FT-IR, XRD, XPS, and N₂ physisorption, elemental analysis. The results showed that the ammonium bisulfate (ABS) was less formed in the VWNbT than in the VWT. Moreover, evolved gas analysis was performed to examine the thermal decomposition behavior of the poisoned catalyst, and confirmed that the ABS deposited on the catalyst was sufficiently decomposed between about 300 and 400 °C. In particular, to most effectively recover the characteristics and activity of the catalysts, thermal treatment at a temperature of 400 °C is suitable.

Local structure elucidation of tungsten-substituted vanadium dioxide (V[Formula: see text]W[Formula: see text]O[Formula: see text])

Initially, vanadium dioxide seems to be an ideal first-order phase transition case study due to its deceptively simple structure and composition, but upon closer inspection there are nuances to the driving mechanism of the metal-insulator transition (MIT) that are still unexplained. In this study, a local structure analysis across a bulk powder tungsten-substitution series is utilized to tease out the nuances of this first-order phase transition. A comparison of the average structure to the local structure using synchrotron x-ray diffraction and total scattering pair-distribution function methods, respectively, is discussed as well as comparison to bright field transmission electron microscopy imaging through a similar temperature-series as the local structure characterization. Extended x-ray absorption fine structure fitting of thin film data across the substitution-series is also presented and compared to bulk. Machine learning technique, non-negative matrix factorization, is applied to analyze the total scattering data. The bulk MIT is probed through magnetic susceptibility as well as differential scanning calorimetry. The findings indicate the local transition temperature ([Formula: see text]) is less than the average [Formula: see text] supporting the Peierls-Mott MIT mechanism, and demonstrate that in bulk powder and thin-films, increasing tungsten-substitution instigates local V-oxidation through the phase pathway VO[Formula: see text] V[Formula: see text]O[Formula: see text] V[Formula: see text]O[Formula: see text].

Effect of Catalyst Crystallinity on V-Based Selective Catalytic Reduction with Ammonia

In this study, we synthesized V₂O₅-WO₃/TiO₂ catalysts with different crystallinities via one-sided and isotropic heating methods. We then investigated the effects of the catalysts’ crystallinity on their acidity, surface species, and catalytic performance through various analysis techniques and a fixed-bed reactor experiment. The isotropic heating method produced crystalline V₂O₅ and WO₃, increasing the availability of both Brønsted and Lewis acid sites, while the one-sided method produced amorphous V₂O₅ and WO₃. The crystalline structure of the two species significantly enhanced NO₂ formation, causing more rapid selective catalytic reduction (SCR) reactions and greater catalyst reducibility for NO_X decomposition. This improved NO_X removal efficiency and N₂ selectivity for a wider temperature range of 200 °C–450 °C. Additionally, the synthesized, crystalline catalysts exhibited good resistance to SO₂, which is common in industrial flue gases. Through the results reported herein, this study may contribute to future studies on SCR catalysts and other catalyst systems.

Bulk tungsten-substituted vanadium oxide for low-temperature NOx removal in the presence of water

NH3-SCR (selective catalytic reduction) is important process for removal of NOx. However, water vapor included in exhaust gases critically inhibits the reaction in a low temperature range. Here, we report bulk W-substituted vanadium oxide catalysts for NH3-SCR at a low temperature (100-150 °C) and in the presence of water (~20 vol%). The 3.5 mol% W-substituted vanadium oxide shows >99% (dry) and ~93% (wet, 5-20 vol% water) NO conversion at 150 °C (250 ppm NO, 250 ppm NH3, 4% O2, SV = 40000 mL h-1 gcat-1). Lewis acid sites of W-substituted vanadium oxide are converted to Brønsted acid sites under a wet condition while the distribution of Brønsted and Lewis acid sites does not change without tungsten. NH4+ species adsorbed on Brønsted acid sites react with NO accompanied by the reduction of V5+ sites at 150 °C. The high redox ability and reactivity of Brønsted acid sites are observed for bulk W-substituted vanadium oxide at a low temperature in the presence of water, and thus the catalytic cycle is less affected by water vapor.