Catalytic Combustion of Soot
A special issue of Catalysts (ISSN 2073-4344). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Catalysis".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2020) | Viewed by 12328
Special Issue Editor
Interests: environmental catalysis; material synthesis and characterization; transition metal oxides; alkali doping; processes: soot combustion, dry methane reforming; N2O decomposition
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Increasing worldwide energy demand has led to the increased combustion of fossil fuels, despite all efforts to substitute it with “green energy”. A large variety of pollutants are emitted to the atmosphere during the combustion of carbon-based fuels. Special attention is focused on soot, which is responsible for many lung (i.e., pneumonia, pneumoconiosis) and cardiovascular (i.e., arrhythmia, heart attack) diseases, as well as cancerogenic activity. The negative influence of soot on the environment (i.e., greenhouse effect by albedo) has also been confirmed.
Soot emission sources can be divided into two groups: stationary (factories, energy plants, domestic heating) and mobile (cars, planes, ships), the latter creating more problems. The most promising solution seems to be particulate filters (DPF for diesel and GPF for gasoline), combined with a catalyst. As both soot and the catalyst are in the solid state, the most important challenge for catalyst design is to ensure a high degree of contact between them, as soot/catalyst contact is a key factor in the case of activity. Three main mechanisms of catalytic soot combustion can be found in the literature—the activation of an oxygen molecule, usage of NO2 formed by the oxidation of NO, and the mobility of the catalytic phase. Many catalytic systems have been explored so far, but numerous investigations still have to be conducted in the case of basic research as well as applied studies to ultimately solve the problem of soot removal from exhaust gases.
Dr. Piotr Legutko
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- catalytic soot combustion
- catalytic soot oxidation
- catalytic soot abatement
- catalytic particulate filter
- particular matter removal
- soot oxidation mechanism
- soot oxidation kinetics and modeling
- soot combustion catalysts
- catalytic materials synthesis and characterization
