A "smart" hollandite DeNO(x) catalyst: self-protection against alkali poisoning

Zhiwei Huang; Xiao Gu; Wen Wen; Pingping Hu; Michiel Makkee; He Lin; Freek Kapteijn; Xingfu Tang

doi:10.1002/anie.201205808

A "smart" hollandite DeNO(x) catalyst: self-protection against alkali poisoning

Angew Chem Int Ed Engl. 2013 Jan 7;52(2):660-4. doi: 10.1002/anie.201205808. Epub 2012 Nov 22.

Authors

Zhiwei Huang¹, Xiao Gu, Wen Wen, Pingping Hu, Michiel Makkee, He Lin, Freek Kapteijn, Xingfu Tang

Affiliation

¹ Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.

PMID: 23172835
DOI: 10.1002/anie.201205808

Abstract

Banish the villains to their own realm: biomass has gained widespread attention as a renewable energy source. However, commercial catalysts used in power plants (co-)fuelled by biomass are deactivated by the alkali-rich flue gas. In contrast, one of two types of active sites in a promising alkali-resistant hollandite catalyst traps alkali-metal ions to free up the catalytically active sites for the reduction of NO by NH(3).