Construction of V2O5-WO3/TiO2 nanocones catalyst layer on SiC ceramic membrane for efficient removal of NO and dust

In this work, TiO2 nanocones grown on SiC membrane was used as the support of V2O5-WO3 species to prepare V2O5-WO3/TiO2@SiC (VWTi(C-X)@SiC) catalytic membrane for dust filtration and NH3-SCR denitration. On account of the large specific surface area, abundant surface acid sites and prominent redox property, the optimized VWTi(C-550)@SiC catalytic membrane shows >90% NO removal efficiency at the temperature of 280–360 °C, which are much higher than VWTi(P-550)/SiC catalytic membrane (TiO2 nanoparticles prepared by traditional vacuum coating titanium sol method was used as the support of V2O5-WO3 species, NO conversion <80% at whole tested temperature). Additionally, VWTi(C-550)@SiC displays superior stability during the SO2 + H2O resistance and 300 h long-term test at 300 °C, and exhibits an excellent dust filtration performance (2.5 μm SiO2 particles interception rate exceeded 99.99%) under all test conditions. More importantly, the structure of nanocones decrease the influence of tensile stresses due to the different thermal expansion coefficients of TiO2 and SiC membranes, which significantly suppress the fall of VWTi catalyst layer from the surface of SiC during pulse-jet cleaning. Among above results, it can be concluded that the optimized VWTi(C-550)@SiC catalytic membrane shows a prosperous application prospect for the simultaneously dust filtration and NH3-SCR denitration of medium–high temperature flue gas.