Effects of cake collapse caused by deposition of fractal aggregates on pressure drop during ceramic filtration.

A cake collapse model was developed by taking the combined effects of fractal dimension, relaxation ratio, coordination number, and aggregate diameter into consideration. The cake porosity including intraaggregate and interaggregate porosities was modeled successively by three typical coordination numbers (n = 6, 8, and 12). Accordingly, an inversion method made it possible to deduce the coordination number using the measured cake porosities, and the reverse-calculated value with minimum error and the corresponding relaxation ratios were applied as the parameters for the model. As a result, the profiles of intraaggregate and interaggregate porosities and cake porosity were respectively predicted in contrast to the integrated variation of the relaxation ratio and the fractal dimension. Furthermore, a comparison between the model predictions of the cake pressure drop gradients with and without aggregate compression was conducted to validate the presence of cake collapse. The results show that the predictions based on the proposed collapse model are in agreement with the experiments, and the coordination number is one of the key factors that must be incorporated into the cake collapse models.

[Research on SCR denitrification of MnOx/Al2O3 modified by CeO2 and its mechanism at low temperature].

The Al2O3,which has large specific surface area and is used as carrier,was prepared by sol-gel method in this study. Series catalysts of MnOx, CeO2 plus MnOx supported on Al2O3 by isometric impregnation method. The SCR denitrification experimental conditions were as follows: NH3 as reductive agent, certain gas velocity and suitable ratio of gas mixed was setup. Furthermore, the experiments of BET, XRD and SEM were also carried out respectively in order to obtain physicochemical properties of the prepared catalysts. The experimental results showed that the loading of active component and calcination temperature made a big difference to the catalysts' performance. With appropriate addition of CeO2, MnOx/Al2O3 exhibits better activity and stability. For MnOx/Al2O3, the catalytic activity on NO was greatly influenced by its loaded content, and 7% MnOx/Al2O3 showed superior catalytic activity among the MnOx/Al2O3. The addition of CeO2 could greatly improve the dispersibility of MnOx on the carrier and increase its catalytic activity. The 4% CeO2 addition was the optimum loaded mass precent. Forthermore, 550 degrees C is the best calcination temperature, as MnOx formed different crystalline phases with temperature, at the same time, the addition of CeO2 could affect MnOx crystalline phase. The catalytic mechanism of SCR on NO was also discussed.