Carbon based catalytic briquettes for the reduction of NO: Catalyst scale-up

Exhaust gasses from small and medium stationary sources contain NOx that will be regulated by new European legislation in the coming years. Among all the processes the SCR-NH3 seems to be the more promising one. However, the application of commercial catalysts to these new facilities presents some drawbacks such as the high and narrow operation temperature, its low withdraw to SO2 or its high cost production.In order to improve this technology, in previous works, carbon-supported catalytic briquettes have shown a good kinetic performance under the above commented conditions. In this study, other aspects such as thermal stability, long-term performance, spatial velocity influence and mechanical resistance were evaluated. Finally, a simple economic assessment was carried out providing a three times lower cost production than commercial catalysts. From all the data collected, there are some evidences that these catalyst briquettes will have a good performance in small and medium facilities, being an interesting alternative to commercial ones.