International Journal of Automotive Technology

The Korean Society of Automotive Engineers (한국자동차공학회)
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EVALUATION OF NOx REDUCTION CATALYST BY MODEL GAS FOR LEAN-BURN NATURAL GAS ENGINE

  • LEE C. H. (School of Mechanical Systems Engineering, Chonnam National University) ;
  • CHO B. C. (School of Mechanical Systems Engineering, Chonnam National University)
  • Published : 2005.12.01
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Abstract

A three-way catalyst system of a natural gas vehicle (NGV) has characteristics of higher fuel consumption and higher thermal load than a lean-bum catalyst system. To meet stringent emission standards in the future, NGV with the lean-bum engine may need a catalyst system to reduce the amounts of HC, CO and NOx emission, although natural gas system has low emission characteristics. We conducted experiments to evaluate the conversion efficiency of the NOx reduction catalyst for the lean-burn natural gas engine. The NOx reduction catalysts were prepared with the ${\gamma}-Al_{2}O_3$ washcoat including Ba based on Pt, Pd and Rh precious metal. In the experiments, effective parameters were space velocity, spike duration of the rich condition, and the temperature of flowing model gas. From the results of the experiments, we found that the temperature for maximum NOx reduction was around $450^{\circ}C$, and the space velocity for optimum NOx reduction was around $30,000\;h^{-1}$ And we developed an evaluation model of the NOx reduction catalyst to evaluate the conversion performance of each other catalysts.

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