Two-step catalytic system using pulsatile heating to achieve NO decomposition in the presence of water vapor

Abstract

Direct decomposition of nitric oxide (NO) into nitrogen and oxygen was catalyzed on a copper-loaded zeolite catalyst with high conversion (>80%) by a newly proposed microwave pulsatile heating system, even in the presence of water vapor, while no reaction took place in a conventional reactor using an electric furnace under the same reaction conditions.