Estudo da redução do NO pelo CO usando catalisadores de ródio suportado em óxido misto de cério e zircônio e óxido misto derivado de hidrotalcita

• Autor(a) principal: Alves, Daniela Meyer Fernandes
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UERJ
• Texto Completo: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/14298
• topic: DRIFTS; N2O; Cerium-zirconium; Hydrotalcite; Rhodium; DRIFTS; N2O; Cério-zircônio; Hidrotalcita; Ródio; CNPQ::OUTROS

The aim of this work was to evaluate the catalytic performance of cerium-zirconium and hydrotalcite-like Mg-Al mixed oxide as supports in the reduction of NO by CO catalyzed by rhodium. The pure supports and metallic catalysts were named CZ, RhCZ, HT and RhHT. The supports were prepared by coprecipitation and were impregnated with 0,15% wt. of Rh. Characterization tests such as N2 fisisorption, XRD, TPR, Raman spectroscopy, DRIFTS, TGA-DTA and NO/CO TPD were performed. To measure the catalytic activity, a gas mixture containing 1% NO + 1% CO in He was used. Activity and selectivity were expressed by means of the gas concentrations measured all over a temperature range, from room temperature to 500°C. The characterization results clearly indicated structural and physicochemical differences between the two supports in N2 adsorption isotherms, XRD and TPR profiles and therefore, they would work through different mechanisms. DRIFTS analyses indicated the presence of bands resulting from the adsorption of CO on Rh at low temperatures on RhCZ catalyst, evidencing the great synergy between Rh and CZ, already indicated by Raman results. This synergic effect probably did not occur in RhHT catalyst. The CZ support was more active at low temperatures than HT, however, RhHT catalyst was more selective to N2 at 350 ºC and emitted less N2O than RhCZ through the evaluated temperature range.The NO TPD results and the comparison of theoretical and experimental CO, CO2 and NOx curves during catalytic tests, also followed by DRIFTS, indicate that Rh reduction and the affinity with NO are important parameters to achieve higher selectivity to N2 in the reduction of NO by CO.