Effectively promoted catalytic activity by adjusting calcination temperature of Ce-Fe-Ox catalyst for NH3-SCR

A series of Ce-Fe-O-x catalysts prepared by the different calcination temperatures (marked as CF-X, where X represented calcination temperature) were used to the selectivity catalytic reduction of NOx by NH3. The results explained the relationship between calcination temperature and the sulfate species over Ce-Fe-O-x, and then investigated the surface acidity and catalytic performance. The large amounts of sulfate species were formed over CF-450 and CF-550 while it was decomposed with further the increasing of calcination temperature, which resulted in the loss of surface acidity, causing a decrease in the catalytic activity over Ce-Fe-O-x. Thereby, the CF-450 catalyst showed the best catalytic activity and over 90% NOx conversion was obtained at 244-450 degrees C. Besides, the favored pore structure, more Fe3+ active species, higher Ce3+ concentration and the abundance of chemical adsorbed oxygen species, as well as the surface acid sites, would together contribute to the excellent catalytic activity of CF-450 catalyst.