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The influence of CO2 and H2O on the activity of 4% Sr-La2O3 mimics that observed with pure La2O3, and a reversible inhibition of the rate is observed. CO2 causes a greater effect, with decreases in rate of about 65% with O2 present and 90% in its absence, while with H2O in the feed, the rate decreased around 35-40% with O2 present or absent. The influence of these two reaction products on kinetic behavior can be described by assuming competitive adsorption on the surface, incorporating adsorbed CO2 and H2O in the site balance, and using rate expressions previously proposed for this reaction over Sr-promoted La2O3. In the absence of O2, the rate expression is
which yields a good fit to the experimental data and gives optimized equilibrium adsorption constants that demonstrate thermodynamic consistency. With O2 in the feed, nondifferential changes in reactant concentrations through the reactor bed were accounted for by assuming integral reactor behavior and simultaneously considering both CH4 combustion and CH4 reduction of NO, which provided the following rate law for total CH4 disappearance:
The second term of this expression represents N2 formation, and it again fit the experimental data well. The fitting constants in the denominator, which correspond to equilibrium adsorption constants, were not only thermodynamically consistent but also provided entropies and enthalpies of adsorption that were similar to values obtained with other La2O3-based catalysts. Apparent activation energies typically ranged from 23 to 28 kcal/mol with O2 absent and 31-36 kcal/mol with O2 in the feed. With CO2 in the feed, but no O2, the activation energy for the formation of a methyl group via interaction of CH4 with adsorbed NO was determined to be 35 kcal/mol.
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Toops, T.J., Walters, A.B. & Vannice, M.A. The Effect of CO2 and H2O on the Kinetics of NO Reduction by CH4 Over Sr-Promoted La2O3 . Catalysis Letters 82, 45–57 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1020583806660
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