Multi-stage ammonia production for sorption selective catalytic reduction of NO_x

Abstract

Sorption selective catalytic reduction of nitrogen oxides (NO_x) (sorption-SCR) has ever been proposed for replacing commercial urea selective catalytic reduction of NO_x (urea-SCR), while only the single-stage sorption cycle is hitherto adopted for sorption-SCR. Herein, various multi-stage ammonia production cycles is built to solve the problem of relative high starting temperature with ammonia transfer (AT) unit and help detect the remaining ammonia in ammonia storage and delivery system (ASDS) with ammonia warning (AW) unit. Except for the single-stage ammonia production cycle with MnCl₂, other sorption-SCR strategies all present overwhelming advantages over urea-SCR considering the much higher NO_x conversion driven by the heat source lower than 100°C and better matching characteristics with low-temperature catalysts. Furthermore, the required mass of sorbent for each type of sorption-SCR is less than half of the mass of AdBlue for urea-SCR. Therefore, the multifunctional multi-stage sorption-SCR can realize compact and renewable ammonia storage and delivery with low thermal energy consumption and high NO_x conversion, which brings a bright potential for efficient commercial de-NO_x technology.

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Keywords

selective catalytic reduction (SCR) / nitrogen oxides (NO_x) / ammonia / composite sorbent / chemisorption

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Acknowledgments

This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China for the Distinguished Young Scholars (Grant No. 51825602).

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