Cc. Chien et Tj. Huang, EFFECT OF COPPER CONTENT ON PT-PD-CUO GAMMA-ALUMINA CATALYSTS FOR MOTORCYCLE SOOT CONVERSION/, Industrial & engineering chemistry research, 34(6), 1995, pp. 1952-1959
Catalytic combustion of motorcycle soot particulates over gamma-alumin
a-supported CuO, Pt, Pd, PtCuO, and Pd-CuO catalysts was studied. The
catalyst coated with motorcycle soots was placed in a flow reactor to
perform temperature-programmed oxidation. Results indicated that the C
uO catalyst was quite effective for the catalytic combustion. The high
activity of the CuO catalyst could be illustrated by a redox mechanis
m and an induced particle-motion mechanism. A higher copper content en
hanced the reducibility of the copper oxide and induced a higher activ
ity for catalytic combustion until the copper oxide content reached 5
wt %. A redispersion phenomenon of the CuO species was observed and wa
s consistent with the induced particle-motion mechanism. Additionally,
the effect of the noble metal additive was to promote the activity of
the CuO species by a mechanism including dissociative adsorption and
spillover of oxygen.