Global Chemistry for an Oxidation Catalyst in Oxygen-Deficient
Environments: With Application to LNT+SCR system
Doohyun Kim
GT-SUITE Conference11/7/2011
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGANCOLLEGE OF ENGINEERINGMECHANICAL ENGINEERING
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Acknowledgements
• Prof. Dennis Assanis – UM
• John Hoard – UM
• Dr. Richard Blint – N2Kinetics
• Rob Middleton, Kyoung Hyun Kwak – UM
• Funding– Michigan Economic Development Company (MEDC)
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Background
• NOx emissions from automobile– Photochemical smog– Acid rain– Respiratory diseases
• Stringent NOx regulation – Light-Duty: 0.07 g/mile (Tier 2)– Heavy-Duty: 0.20 g/bhp-hr (2010)– Much lower than what can be
achieved with in-cylinder combustion control
• NOx control for diesel engine– Challenging due to excess oxygen in
exhaust (8%~12%)– Novel NOx control system required
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LNT + SCR NOx Reduction System• LNT + SCR dual stage NOx reduction
– Lean NOx Trap (LNT) as main NOx reduction device– Downstream Selective Catalytic Reduction (SCR)
takes advantage of NH3 formed in LNT during its regeneration – no urea injection needed
– Requires periodic LNT regeneration by rich exhaust– Applicable to diesel and lean gasoline system
• Oxidation Catalysts in LNT + SCR system– DOC or cDPF– Oxidize CO, HC, NO during lean operation– Provide exotherm to DPF for its active regeneration– Increase NO2/NO ratio for DPF passive regeneration
and for better SCR performance– Operates in rich exhaust during LNT regeneration– NH3 flows through during LNT regeneration
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SCR
cDPF
LNT NH3
DOC: Diesel Oxidation Catalyst
DPF: Diesel Particulate Filter
cDPF: Catalyzed DPF
Novel challenges!!
DOC Modeling• Diesel Oxidation Catalyst (DOC)
– Platinum Group Metal catalysts on monolith wall
– Required in every diesel aftertreatment system for oxidation of CO, HC and NO during lean operation
• Global chemistry in DOC models– Fundamentals: Voltz et al. (1973)
Oh and Cavendish (1982)– Current models: Triana et al. – MTU (2003)
Koltsakis et al. – AUT (2005)Sampara et al. – UM (2007)
– Only covers lean oxidations by oxygen
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222
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5.0
5.0
NOONOOHCOOHC
COOCO
↔++→+
→+
Rich chemistry needed for LNT+SCR
system
Previous Works – NO reduction• Catalytic reduction of NO
– Most important catalytic converter chemistry in rich exhaust– Fundamentals: Ayen and Peters (1962)
Kobylinski and Taylor (1974)– Early TWC: Montreuil et al. – Ford (1992)
Koltsakis et al. – AUT (1998)
– Recent TWC: Tsinoglou et al. (2002)
– Recent LNT: Depcik et al. – UM (2008)
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22 5.0 NCONOCO +→+
222
22
22
25.0
NCOONCOONCONOCO
NCONOCO
+→++→++→+
222
22
22
5.02
5.0
NOHNOHONCONOCO
NCONOCO
+→++→++→+
Previous Works – NH3 formation• NH3 formation over precious metal catalyst
– Reaction between H2 and NO in rich exhaust
– Kobylinski and Taylor (1974), Abdulhamid et al. (2004), Depcik et al. – UM (2008), Koci et al. – ICT (2009)
• Barium-associated NH3 formation in LNT models– Reaction of stored NOx on Barium with reductants
– Nova et al. (2008), Koci et al. – ICT (2009)
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OHNHNOH 232 2225 +→+
32223 2838)( NHCOBaOOHCONOBa ++→++
32223 258)( NHOHBaOHNOBa ++→+
Model - Chemistry
• NO reduction mechanism implemented with CO, H2 and NH3
• New NO reduction mechanism proposed
– Two-step version of – N2O as an intermediate
• NH3 formation reaction added
• Surface reactions neglected
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22
2
:22:1
NROONRONRONOR
+→++→+
OHNHNOH 232 2225 +→+
25.0 NRONOR +→+
Model - Chemistry
• Langmuir-Hinshelwood reaction rate form
– 2 kinetic parameters per reaction – G: inhibition by CO, HC, NO
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OHNHNOHRNOHONHR
ONOHNOHRNOHONNHR
ONOHNONHRNCOONCOR
ONCONOCORHCOOHCOR
232
2222
222
2223
223
222
22
222
2225:8:7
2:64332:5
5382:4:3
2:2:1
+→++→++→+
+→++→+
+→++→++↔+
CO-NO reduction
H2-NO reduction
NH3-NO reduction
Water-Gas Shift (WGS)
NH3 formation
G
CCRTEA
r cat
iacti
i
]][[exp 21,
−
=
Gas Flow Reactor Experiment
• UM gas flow reactor - Klinkert et al. (2009)• Synthetic gas blend through catalyst sample• Sample core: 200 CPSI, Pt/Pd=2:1, 15g/ft3
• Steady state experiment– Steady inlet composition, 8% CO2 and H2O for all experiments– Temperature ramp from 100°C ~ 550°C at 5°C/min
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Temperature-Controlled
Oven(catalyst sample)
AnalyzersFTIR
H-SenseO2 analyzer
Gas Bottles(N2, CO, NO, H2, CO2, H2O…)
Mass Flow Controllers
Manifold
GT-SUITE catalyst model
• GlobalReaction object in GT-SUITE 7.0– Without surface chemistry
• Catalyst-out gas concentration and catalyst wall temperature exported to MATLAB environment through Simulink
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GlobalReaction
SimuLink
Kinetic Parameter Determination• UM-built, MATLAB based optimizer utility for kinetic parameter
determination in catalyst modeling (Middleton, 2009)– Coupled with GT-SUITE catalyst model via Simulink– Loads experimental data and creates input text file for GT-SUITE model– Executes GT-SUITE catalyst model – Calculates error between experimental data and simulation results– Several optimization techniques in MATLAB can be chosen– Precise control over the objective function definition (species, weight)
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• Each pathway fitted separately– Sequence: WGS -> CO-NO -> NH3-NO -> H2-NO
• Each pathway calibrated to 4 different experiment cases• Genetic Algorithm followed by the downhill simplex
– The downhill simplex started from the best point from the GA
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−⋅=
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, ,
2exp
Results – CO-NO Pathway
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4 kinetic parameters
222
22
:32:2
NCOONCORONCONOCOR
+→++→+
]][[)/exp( 2,2
2 NOCOG
RTEAr catact−=
]][[)/exp(
23,3
3 ONCOG
RTEAr catact−=
A2 4.04 x 1010 [mol-K/cm³-sec]
A3 1.12 x 1013 [mol-K/cm³-sec]
Eact,2 85717 [J/mol]
Eact,3 112987 [J/mol]
1000ppm CO1000ppm NO
300ppm CO1000ppm NO
Results – CO-NO Pathway
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• Validity of new mechanism1. Good N2O formation prediction
o By reaction rate difference between R2 and R3
2. NO consumption > CO consumptiono Consumption of NO and CO will
be exactly the same with one reaction mechanism
3. Max NO reduction > available COo 450 ppm vs 300 ppm o With one reaction mechanism,
maximum NO reduction possible equals to available CO.
22 5.0 NCONOCO +→+
2
3
1
222
22
:32:2
NCOONCORONCONOCOR
+→++→+
vs
Results – NH3-NO Pathway
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4 kinetic parameters
2223
223
4332:55382:4
NOHONNHRONOHNONHR
+→++→+
]][[)/exp(
34,4
4 NONHG
RTEAr catact−=
]][[)/exp(
235,5
5 ONNHG
RTEAr catact−=
A4 2.68 x 1017 [mol-K/cm³-sec]
A5 4.09 x 1018 [mol-K/cm³-sec]
Eact,4 179998 [J/mol]
Eact,5 189060 [J/mol]
1000ppm NH3
1000ppm NO
300ppm NH3
300ppm NO
Results – H2-NO pathway
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6 kinetic parameters
OHNHNOHRNOHONHR
ONOHNOHR
232
2222
222
2225:8:7
2:6
+→++→++→+
]][[)/exp(
26,6
6 NOHG
RTEAr catact−=
]][[)/exp(
227,7
7 ONHG
RTEAr catact−=
]][[)/exp(
28,8
8 NOHG
RTEAr catact−=
Calibrated NH3-NO pathway
2223
223
4332:55382:4
NOHONNHRONOHNONHR
+→++→+
1000ppm H2
1000ppm NO
Results – CO-H2-NO case
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• All reactions turned on• Simulation with determined
kinetic parameters• 300ppm CO, 300ppm H2,
1000ppm NO• Model captures experiment
trend
Results – CO-NH3-H2-NO case
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• 500ppm CO, 300ppm H2, 300ppm NH3, 1000ppm NO
• Good agreement with experiment up to 350°C
• CO and NH3 prediction off trend in high temperature
• NH3 wins competition over CO– Due to too fast NH3-NO pathway– Experiments shows NO is more
active with CO than NH3
• Improved results expected when all kinetic parameters are optimized simultaneously
Summary• Global chemistry of oxidation catalyst in rich exhaust tested
– NO reduction mechanism for CO, NH3, and H2 proposed and implemented
– NH3 formation adopted from previous works– Proposed global chemistry calibrated to flow reactor data– Successfully predicts experiment trends for separate pathways– Improvement is expected by additional reactions and by fitting
multiple pathways simultaneously– Applicable not just to DOC or cDPF, but to any other PGM-
loaded automotive catalyst (LNT, TWC) under rich condition
• UM optimization utility for GT-SUITE catalyst model used– GT-SUITE/Simulink coupling– Multiple cases, user-defined objective function– Calibration of multiple kinetic parameters performed
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Thank you!!Any questions?