Effect of reductive treatments on Pt behavior and NOx storage in lean NOx trap catalysts

Journal Article · Sat Oct 01 00:00:00 EDT 2011 · Catalysis Today, 175(1):78– 82

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cattod.2011.03.032· OSTI ID:1025671

Wang, Xianqin; Kim, Do Heui; Kwak, Ja Hun; Wang, Chong M; Szanyi, Janos; Peden, Charles HF

Lean NOx trap (LNT) catalysts represent a promising approach to meet increasingly stringent NOx emission regulations on diesel and other lean-burn engines. Pt material properties, including dispersion and particle size, are known to be important factors in determining NOx uptake performance, since Pt provides active sites for NO oxidation to NO2 necessary for storing NOx as nitrates, and for the reduction of nitrates to N2. In this work, the physicochemical properties of Pt in Pt-BaO/Al2O3 LNT catalysts, such as the Pt accessible surface area and particle size, were investigated by using various tools, such as irreversible volumetric H2 chemisorption, high resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM), and X-ray diffraction (XRD), following successive reductive treatments at elevated temperatures. NOx uptake activities were also measured to establish a relationship between the properties of Pt and NOx storage following identical high-temperature reductive treatments. We find that the reductive treatments of Pt-BaO/Al2O3 lean NOx trap catalysts at temperatures up to 500 ºC promote a significant increase in NOx uptake explained, in part, by an induced close interaction between Pt and BaO phases in the catalyst, thus enabling facilitation of the NOx storage process.

• Research Organization: Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States). Environmental Molecular Sciences Lab. (EMSL)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: AC05-76RL01830
• OSTI ID: 1025671
• Report Number(s): PNNL-SA-79182; CATTEA; 35404; VT0401000; TRN: US201120%%682
• Journal Information: Catalysis Today, 175(1):78– 82, Vol. 175, Issue 1; ISSN 0920-5861
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
37 INORGANIC
ORGANIC
PHYSICAL AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
CATALYSTS
CHEMISORPTION
ENGINES
NITRATES
OXIDATION
PARTICLE SIZE
PERFORMANCE
REGULATIONS
RESOLUTION
STORAGE
SURFACE AREA
TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY
X-RAY DIFFRACTION
Lean NOx traps
reducing temperatures
Ba migration
Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory