Effect of synergistically constructed pore configuration and nitrogen-containing functional groups on low-temperature NO reduction performance of activated coke
Low-temperature NH3-SCR is an important technology choice for flue gas denitrification in non-electricity industries with low exhaust temperature,and low-cost carbon materials with good structural tunability are one of the most promising low-temperature NH3-SCR catalysts,but face the bottleneck of low denitrification efficiency.In this paper,based on a one-step catalytic activation process,activated coke catalysts with typical pore configurations and nitrogen-containing functional groups were prepared from low-cost and large-volume Jundong coal as raw materials,and the effects of activated coke pore configurations and surface functional groups on the low-temperature NH3-SCR under different flue gas conditions were investigated.The results showed that both graded pores and nitrogen-containing functional groups have significant effects on NH3-SCR,and the nitrogen-doped graded-porous activated coke with both graded pores and nitrogen-containing functional groups has the optimal performance of NH3-SCR due to the simultaneous improve-ment of the mass transfer channels and reaction kinetics,and its denitrification efficiency reaches as high as 83.5%under the condition of 160 ℃.The enhancement effects of graded pores and nitrogen-containing functional groups on the NH3-SCR performance are more obvi-ous in the presence of SO2 or H2O,and the denitrification efficiency of microporous activated coke decays from 39.6%to 13.8%and 34.9%,whereas the denitrification efficiency of nitrogen-doped graded-porous coke improves to 86.4%and 86.7%,respectively.This may be related to the synergistic effect between different flue gas components enhanced by the functionalized graded pore environment.In this study,the dependence between the performance of carbon-based low-temperature NH3-SCR and the physicochemical structure of the carbon materials was investigated,which provides a new idea for the development of high-performance carbon-based low-temperature NH3-SCR technology.
low-temperature NH3-SCRcoal-based activated cokepore configurationnitrogen-containing functional groupssynergis-tic construction