The investigation of Co3O4 to CO low temperature
catalytic oxidation
Abstract: It is well known that CO is harmful to human healthy. During last decades, Co3O4 has attracted a mount of attentions in the scope of CO low- temperature catalytic oxidation. It showed the surprising catalytic activity for CO oxidation with 100% CO conversion at even -77 oC. It has also proved that the catalytic performance of Co3O4 depends on adsorption and activation not only to CO, but also to O2. In the present work, the catalysts of Co3O4 were prepared using the method of coprecipitation, which were pretreated in N2 atmosphere at different temperatures. At the same time, their activities for CO low temperature oxidation were tested and the surface species of catalysts and their adsorption performance were characterized with TG, IR, O2-TPD and CO-TPD. The results show that pretreating catalysts in N2 not only cleans the adsorbed water and carbonate species on the surface of the catalysts, but also promotes removal of surface oxygen species to form Co(II) and oxygen vacancies. The optimum performance of Co3O4 pretreated at 400℃ might be accounted for by the high content of oxygen species desorbed at low temperature as well as the low content of carbonate species decomposed at high temperature.
Key word: Co3O4 ;Low temperature catalytic;Oxygen vacancy