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Insight into N2O Formation Over Different Crystal Phases of MnO2 During Low-Temperature NH3–SCR of NO

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Different crystal phases of MnO2 were synthesized and tested for NH3–SCR of NO and NH3 oxidation performances during 50–120 °C. Among those catalysts, α-MnO2 showed the most superior SCR performance for NOx conversion and N2 selectivity, and NH3 species on its surface were active to react with the oxygen, while NH2 species were also easily oxidized by the oxygen. For β-MnO2, NH3 (ads, B) species and part of NH3 (ads, L) species on its surface were active to react with oxygen, while NH3 (ads, L) species adsorbed at Lewis sites showed low reactive with O2, thereby producing less N2O and low NO conversion. γ-MnO2 showed the similar NOx conversion rates and N2O amount generated from the NH3 oxidation comparing to α-MnO2, while yielding much more N2O generation ratios from SCR reactions conditions. Besides, NH3 (ads, L), NH3 (ads, B), NO32− and NH2 species adsorbed on γ-MnO2 surface had high reactivity and could all be consumed by oxygen rapidly. And the N2O formation of δ-MnO2 mainly generated from SCR reactions conditions in the temperature range of 50–120 °C, while the adsorbed NH3 (ads, L) species were hard to react with O2.

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This work was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 51874058), Chongqing Talents Plan for Young Talents (CQYC201905017), Graduate Research and Innovation Foundation of Chongqing, China (No. CYB20003) and Fund of Chongqing Science and Technology (cstc2019jscx-msxmX0215 and cstc2019jscx-fxydX0009).

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    Jie Yang, Shan Ren, Yuhan zhou, Guang Hu, Lijun Jiang, Jun Cao, Weizao Liu, Lu Yao, Ming Kong, Jian Yang & Qingcai Liu

  2. Chongqing Key Laboratory of Vanadium-Titanium Metallurgy and New Materials, Chongqing University, Chongqing, 400044, China

    Jie Yang, Shan Ren, Yuhan zhou, Guang Hu, Lijun Jiang, Jun Cao, Weizao Liu, Lu Yao, Ming Kong, Jian Yang & Qingcai Liu

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    Buxin Su

  4. Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

    Guang Hu

  5. Leibniz Institute for Catalysis, Rostock, Germany

    Lijun Jiang

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JY: Conceptualization, Methodology, Data Curation, Writing-Original draft preparation, Formal analysis, Investigation; SR: Conceptualization, Methodology, Investigation, Writing-Reviewing & Editing, Funding acquisition, Supervision; BS: Writing-Reviewing; YZ: Formal analysis, Writing-Original draft preparation, Investigation; GH: Formal analysis; LJ: Visualization; JC: Investigation; WL: Validation, Data curation; LY: Validation, Data curation; MK: Formal analysis, Writing-Reviewing & Editing; JY: Formal analysis, Writing–Reviewing & Editing; QL: Supervision.

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Yang, J., Ren, S., Su, B. et al. Insight into N2O Formation Over Different Crystal Phases of MnO2 During Low-Temperature NH3–SCR of NO. Catal Lett 151, 2964–2971 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10562-021-03541-8

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