The role of NO in the mechanism of NOx reduction with ammonia over a BaNa-Y catalyst

NO reduces HNO3 to HONO and surface nitrates to nitrites on a BaNa–Y zeolite, and it reacts with NO2 to form N2O3. Data are also presented which show that adsorbed NO+ reacts with water to form HONO. In the presence of NH3 and H2O these processes lead to the formation of ammonium nitrite, which efficiently decomposes near 100 °C to N2 + H2O, effecting the catalytic reduction of NOxNOx to N2. A criterion for this path is that the optimum yield of N2 is obtained with an equimolar mixture of NO + NO2. Since ammonium nitrate, which can also form on this catalyst, does not significantly decompose at 200 °C, a typical temperature for diesel exhaust, the reduction of nitrate to nitrite serves to regenerate active sites on the BaNa–Y zeolite.

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