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Low Temperature CO Oxidation in Sintering Flue Gas Over Cu-Ce/AC Catalysts: Effect of Pretreatment with KMnO4 on Activity

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Several CuCe-xKMn/AC catalysts were synthesized by using activated carbon (AC) pretreated with KMnO4 as support to remove CO in simulated sintering flue gas. Multiple techniques such as X-ray diffraction (XRD), X-ray photoelectron spectra (XPS), temperature-programmed reduction by H2 (H2-TPR), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), Fourier transform infrared spectroscope (FTIR) and Raman spectra were employed for catalyst characterization. The results indicated that the CuCe–10KMn/AC catalyst exhibited above 98.5% CO conversion at 160 °C with a flow rate of 100 ml/min. AC pretreated with KMnO4 could create more defects, which played the role of anchoring the active particles and prevented the accumulation of active particles effectively. A few Mnx+ and Cux+ entered into ceria lattice and substituted Ce4+ partly to form the Cu–Ce–Mn–O solid solution, which promoted the production of oxygen vacancies and improved the oxygen mobility. Additionally, the graphitization degree of AC increased, which was conducive to electron transfer between support and active components.

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Acknowledgements

The present work was financially supported by the Natural Science Basic foundation of China (Program No. 52174325), the Key Research and Development Program of Shaanxi (Grant No. 2020GY-166 and Program No. 2020GY-247). We thank Miss Qiantao Zhang at Instrument Analysis Center of Xi’an University of Architecture and Technology for their assistance with Raman analysis.

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  1. School of Metallurgical Engineering, Xi’an University of Architecture and Technology, Xi’an, China

    Zhenghua Shen, Xiangdong Xing & Ming Lv

  2. Metallurgical Engineering Technology Research Center of Shaanxi Province, Xi’an, 710055, China

    Zhenghua Shen, Xiangdong Xing & Ming Lv

  3. State Key Laboratory of Advanced Metallurgy, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, 100083, People’s Republic of China

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  4. Shaanxi Institute for Food and Drug Control, Xi’an, 710065, People’s Republic of China

    Sunxuan Wang

  5. Research Institute of Energy Chemical Industry, Xianyang Vocational Technical College, Xianyang, 712000, People’s Republic of China

    Xu Jiang

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Shen, Z., Xing, X., Pang, Z. et al. Low Temperature CO Oxidation in Sintering Flue Gas Over Cu-Ce/AC Catalysts: Effect of Pretreatment with KMnO4 on Activity. Catal Lett 153, 1726–1737 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10562-022-04100-5

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