Synthesis of CuCe co-modified mesoporous ZSM-5 zeolite for the selective catalytic reduction of NO by NH3.

Mesoporous ZSM-5 zeolite (MZ) was used as support for Cu and Ce species, and the effects of structure and physical-chemical properties on selective catalytic reduction of NO with NH3 (NH3-SCR) were investigated. The characterization and experimental results show that the high activity of the Cu-Ce/MZ catalyst could be due to its high surface area, more and uniformly distributed active sites, and abundant oxidative species. Compared with the conventional ZSM-5 and SBA-15, the Cu-Ce/MZ possesses large amount of mesopores, and more accessible active sites, which are beneficial to accelerate the diffusion and improve the internal mass transfer in the denitration process. The Cu-Ce/MZ catalyst shows higher activity than Cu-Ce/ZSM-5 and Cu-Ce/SBA-15 at 200 °C.