Elsevier, Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, 1(16), p. 79-95
DOI: 10.1016/s0926-3373(97)00064-7
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NO adsorption, at room temperature, has been studied by infrared spectroscopy on copper MFI catalysts with different Si/Al ratios and copper loadings. The relative amount of the overall Cu2+–NO and Cu+–NO complexes has been evaluated for each catalyst, as well as that of the different Cu2+–NO components. ESR spectra have also been recorded in order to check the different Cu2+ coordinations. It clearly appears that square planar copper sites predominate for high Cu/Al catalysts. A comparison with reactivity data, relative to SCR of NO by propene, under an excess of oxygen, strongly suggests that these sites are involved in the considered reaction.