Proof of concept study on the effect of pre-adsorbed hydrocarbon on the transport of ammonia within an industrially relevant zeolite

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Diffusion of ammonia within zeolites is of great interest due to applications in the selective catalytic reduction (SCR) reaction in fuel exhausts, reducing harmful NOx compounds to nitrogen. Though this system has been studied previously with small pore zeolites (showing that the presence of a counter ion affects ammonia diffusivity), a real system involves the presence of hydrocarbons in the catalyst which competitively diffuse with ammonia. This proposal aims to measure the effect of the presence of a long and short alkane (deuterated to remove their signal) on the diffusion of ammonia in commercial SCR catalyst zeolite Beta. The metal free zeolite is chosen because counter ion presence was shown previously to affect diffusion. Two loadings of the alkane will be chosen (1 mol/uc and 3 mol/uc) to judge the affect of both concentration and chain length in hindering ammonia diffusion.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.73942251
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/73942251
Provenance
Creator Dr Misbah Sarwar; Dr Andrew York; Dr Ian Silverwood; Dr Paul Collier; Dr Alexander O'Malley; Dr Iain Hitchcock
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2019
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Chemistry; Natural Sciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2016-03-08T09:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2016-03-15T09:00:00Z