The most desirable diesel oxidation catalyst (DOC) should have the properties of oxidizing CO, HC and SOF effectively at low exhaust gas temperature while minimizing the formation of sulfate at high exhaust gas temperature.
Precious metals such as pl...
The most desirable diesel oxidation catalyst (DOC) should have the properties of oxidizing CO, HC and SOF effectively at low exhaust gas temperature while minimizing the formation of sulfate at high exhaust gas temperature.
Precious metals such as platinum and palladium have been knowm to be sufficiently active for oxidizing CO, HC and SOF and also to have high activity for the oxidation of sulfur dioxide(SO_(2)) to sulfur trioxide(SO_(3)). There is a need to develop a highly selective catalyst which can promote the oxidation of CO, HC and SOF efficiently, but, on the other hand, suppress the oxidation of SO_(2). One approach to solve this problem is to load a base metal such as vanadium in Pt-based catalyst to suppress sulfate formation.
In this study, a Pt-V catalyst was prepared by impregnating platinum and vanadium onto a Ti-Si wash coated ceramic monolith substrate. The conversion retes of CO, HC and SO_(2) were investigated using a prepared Pt-V catalyst in a laboratory reactor by changing the formulations and reaction temperatures.
In addition, a prepared Pt-V catalytic converter was installed on a heavy duty diesel engine and the characteristics of the emission reduction were tested using a engine dynamometer at various operating conditions.
The emission reduction performance of Pt-V catalyst was also compared with that of a commercialized Pt catalyst currently being used in some of the heavy duty diesel engines in advanced countries.
The experimental results showed that vanadium was found to be a highly selective catalyst which does not significantly increase CO, HC light-off temperature and while simultaneously inhibiging the formation of sulface.
The effects of Pt-V and Pt catalysts on regulated and unregulated heavy duty diesel emissions were investigated using a 0.05 weight% sulfur content fuel with an engine dynamometer.
Experiments for gaseous emissions (CO, HC and aldehyde) as well as particulate emissions (TPM, SOF and sulface) have been conducted at several operating conditions such as T-7 mode, D-13 mode and S-13 mode before and after installing the Pt-V and Pt catalysts in the exhaust system.
The emission reduction performance of Pt catalyst with respect to CO, HC, SOF, PAHs and aldehyde was found to be a little higher than that of Pt-V catalyst, but the Pt catalyst showed innate disadvantage of causing an increase of TPM due to the sulfate formation via high SO_(2) conversion at high exhaust temperature, especially above 450℃.
In D-13 mode, Pt catalyst showed a conversion efficiency of 78% for CO, 35% for HC and 23% for TPM. On the other hand, Pt-V catalyst showed a conversion efficiency of 65% for CO, for 27% for HC and 7.8% for TPM. This result shows that the gas phase reduction with Pt catalyst was better than that of Pt-V catalyst, but the particulate reduction was reversed. However, the conversion efficiency of NO_(x) was low in both catalysts. The S-13 mode, representing the Seoul city bus driving pattern, showed almost similar results as the D-13 mode.
Only 1~3% of sulfur in the diesel fuel was converted to sulfur in TPM for the engine without catalyst, but almost 100% of sulfur conversion was achieved for the engine with Pt catalyst at maximum loading condition. In the case of Pt-V catalyst, there was no big difference in conversion with the base engine even at maximum loading condition.