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Ultra-low Temperature Catalytic Combustion of Toluene over Pd-Loaded Poplar Wood Monolithic Catalyst

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Reducing the ignition temperature of aromatic volatile organic compounds (VOCs) is a long-term pursuit for environmental pollution treatment and industrial application. In this paper, the toluene catalytic combustion was ignited at ultra-low temperature of 73 °C over a poplar wood monolithic catalyst with highly dispersed Pd particles coated by nano-thick graphited carbon layer via in-situ carbonization. Combing the characterizations and DFT calculations, the satisfying catalytic performance could be attributed to two aspects: (i) the unrestricted mass transfer of reactant and the high dispersity of Pd were simultaneously ensured in the straight micrometer-channel with abundant surface anchoring groups of poplar wood; (ii) the nano-thick graphited carbon layer on Pd significantly enhanced the oxygen activation. Given the low cost of economic wood and facile preparation technique, this work opened up new alternative for the preparation of highly dispersed noble metal catalyst and the low temperature catalytic combustion of aromatic VOCs in industry.

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 22078367 and 12075201).

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Utilization of Woody Oil Resource, Hunan Academy of Forestry, Changsha, 410004, Hunan, China

    Baining Lin & Zhihong Xiao

  2. College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Central South University, Changsha, 410083, Hunan, China

    Baining Lin, Xuhong Du & Yonghua Zhou

  3. College of Physics Science and Technology, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, 225009, Jiangsu, China

    Zhijing Huang & Yusong Tu

  4. College of Materials Science and Engineering, Central South University of Forestry and Technology, Changsha, 410004, Hunan, China

    Gonggang Liu

  5. Key Laboratory of Polar Materials and Devices (Ministry of Education), Department of Optoelectronics, East China Normal University, Shanghai, 200062, China

    Yusong Tu

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Lin, B., Du, X., Huang, Z. et al. Ultra-low Temperature Catalytic Combustion of Toluene over Pd-Loaded Poplar Wood Monolithic Catalyst. Catal Lett (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10562-024-04600-6

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