The structure effect on the activity and strength of an industrial honeycomb catalyst derived from different ti sources

Abstract

A new honeycomb production process was proposed with both filter cake (from hydrothermal treatment of metatitanic acid) and industrial titanium dioxide as Ti sources. The strength of the obtained pilot product was comparable with the current industrial honeycomb product from only filter cake, but its denitration (DeNOx) efficiency was elevated up to 15 percentage points. Multiple characterizations revealed the filter cake and industrial titanium dioxide to be composed of primary particles and secondary particles, respectively, and the introduced secondary particles from industrial titanium dioxide resulted in increased specific surface area and pore size/volume, facilitating the exposure of more active sites with improved activity. Moreover, a positive correlation property was found between the honeycomb strength and crystallinity for the samples from different titanium sources. The filter cake with rich hydroxyl groups and weak crystallinity could be fused more easily among these primary particles to have a higher strength than industrial titanium dioxide, and the primary particle of the filter cake could fill the pile pore of industrial titanium dioxide and act as a solid phase binder to acquire good strength for the honeycomb using both the filter cake and titanium dioxide as Ti sources. The improved honeycomb product with good activity and strength may have more widespread application for the purification of low temperature flue gas in industry.