Towards operando QENS

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Catalysts are materials that alter the rate of chemical reactions and are broadly used to lower costs, improve yields and to reduce unwanted pollutants. To properly understand the catalytic mechanism it is necessary to study the system under reaction conditions, due to the dynamic nature of the catalysts composition. Measuring in this manner is increasing being adopted, although it necessitates more complex experimental arrangements. Recently, equipment has been commissioned at ISIS that allows QENS measurement under such flow conditions. We aim to exploit this equipment with a reacting system for the the first time to demonstrate our new abilities. The reaction proposed is the selective catalytic reduction of ammonia, used in diesel engine exhaust remediation. We will measure the diffusion of ammonia in an industrial catalyst under different conditions, including during reaction.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.90048069
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/90048069
Provenance
Creator Dr Iain Hitchcock; Dr Andrew York; Dr Paul Collier; Dr Ian Silverwood
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2020
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Chemistry; Natural Sciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2017-11-30T09:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2017-12-05T09:00:00Z