Heterogeneous Chemical Processing of 13NO2 by Monodisperse Carbon Aerosols at Very Low Concentrations
摘要:
The heterogeneous reaction of NO2 with different carbon aerosol particles was investigated in situ. The NO2 was labeled with the beta(+)-emitter N-13 (half-life 10.0 min) which allowed application of NO2, at very low concentrations. The carbon aerosol was either produced by a spark discharge generator using graphite electrodes or by a brush generator resuspending commercial soot material. Monodisperse size cuts between 50- and 490-nm diameter were selected and mixed with the (NO2)-N-13. After a defined reaction time, the different reaction products were separated by means of selective traps and detected on-line by gamma-spectrometry. A sticking coefficient for chemisorption of NO2 between 0.3 x 10(-4) and 4.0 x 10(-4) and a rate constant for the reduction of adsorbed NO2 to NO(g) between 4.0 x 10(-4) and 9.4 x 10(-4) s(-1) were determined for both aerosols. The sticking coefficient obtained in this study in situ with aerosol particles is 2 orders of magnitudes smaller than the uptake coefficient recently reported with bulk carbon material.
Use of positron-emitting nitrogen-13 for studies of the selective reduction of nitric oxide by ammonia over vanadia/titania catalyst at very low reactant concentrations
作者:Urs Baltensperger、Markus Ammann、Ulrich K. Bochert、Bernd Eichler、Heinz W. Gaeggeler、Dieter T. Jost、Joseph A. Kovacs、Andreas Tuerler、Ulrich W. Scherer、Alfons Baiker
DOI:10.1021/j100149a037
日期:1993.11
Positron-emitting (NO)-N-13 molecules produced with a cyclotron were used to investigate the selective catalytic reduction (SCR) of NO by NH3 over vanadia/titania at very low reactant concentrations. The (NO)-N-13 concentration was on the order of 5 x 10(-9) ppm, which is more than 11 orders of magnitude lower than the usually used concentrations. Catalyst samples were pretreated with H-2 or NH3, without adding these reagents during the conversion experiments. Under these conditions the vanadia/titania catalyst pretreated with NH3 kept its full activity for at least 5 h. At the low NO concentrations present, 50% conversion was already achieved at 80-degrees-C, with complete conversion at 150-degrees-C. The reaction rate at 92-degrees-C was 1.9 x 10(-18) mol of NO (g of catalyst)-1 s-1. This value is in good agreement with the value expected from measurements with a similarly prepared catalyst assuming a first-order reaction in NO. The activation energy was calculated to be 37 kJ mol-1, which compares fairly well with the one measured on a similarly prepared catalyst under usual reactant concentrations (43 kJ mol-1). In contrast, vanadia/titania pretreated with H2 did not show any NO conversion. These results indicate that NH3 is necessary for NO conversion and that one N atom of the formed N2 originates from NH3. Using a thermochromatographic apparatus, adsorption enthalpies (at zero coverage) for NO and NO2 on various oxides were determined. Values of -21 +/- 2 and -33 +/- 3 kJ mol-1 were found for NO and NO2, respectively, independent of the material.