OC47 Mechanistic Investigation of Ethanol SCR NOx over Ag/γ-Al2O3

Wednesday, June 8, 2011: 4:30 PM
Cartier Ballroom (Detroit Marriott Hotel at the Renaissance Center )
William L. Johnson II, Fuels, Engines, and Emissions Research Center (FEERC), Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Knoxville, TN, Galen B. Fisher, Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI and Todd J. Toops, Fuel, Engines, and Emissions Research Center (FEERC), Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Knoxville, TN
Ethanol SCR of NOx over silver alumina catalysts for vehicle emissions control shows a lower lightoff temperature for ethanol than for NOx conversion or for ethanol with oxygen alone at low space velocities.  This may suggest a new role for NO2 in the mechanism of this HC-SCR reaction.

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