Cerium-zirconium composite oxide, preparation method therefor, and application of catalyst

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10173200-B2
Application number	US-201615546152-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 26, 2016
Priority date	Feb 9, 2015
Publication date	Jan 8, 2019
Grant date	Jan 8, 2019

Abstract

Provided are a cerium-zirconium composite oxide, a preparation method therefor and application of a catalyst. The cerium-zirconium composite oxide has a composite phase structure, and comprises a cerium oxide phase and a cerium-zirconium solid solution phase, or consists of two or more cerium-zirconium solid solution phases with different crystal structures and different chemical compositions, wherein the chemical formula of the cerium-zirconium solid solution phase is Ce x Zr 1-x-y M y O 2 , where M is at least one selected from the group consisting of a rare earth element other than cerium, a transition metal element and an alkaline earth metal element, x is 15-85 mol %, and y is 0-20 mol %.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A cerium-zirconium composite oxide, wherein the cerium-zirconium composite oxide has a composite phase structure, and comprises a cerium oxide phase and a cerium-zirconium solid solution phase, wherein the chemical formula of the cerium-zirconium solid solution phase is Ce x Zr 1-x-y M y O 2 , where M is at least one selected from the group consisting of a rare earth element other than cerium, a transition metal element and an alkaline earth metal element, x is 15-85 mol %, y is 0-20 mol %, and the cerium oxide phase has a proportion of 0.1-30 vol % in the cerium-zirconium composite oxide.

2. The cerium-zirconium composite oxide as claimed in claim 1 , wherein after the cerium-zirconium composite oxide is subjected to heat preservation at 1000° C. for 4 hours, the cerium oxide phase has a proportion of 0.5-30 vol % in the cerium-zirconium composite oxide, preferably 3-20 vol %.

3. The cerium-zirconium composite oxide as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the cerium-zirconium composite oxide comprises cerium oxide needle-like particles and cerium-zirconium solid solution near-spherical particles, and after being subjected to heat preservation at 1000° C. for 4 hours, the cerium oxide needle-like particles have a diameter of 7-20 nm and a length of 50-300 nm, the cerium-zirconium solid solution near-spherical particles have a diameter of 5-30 nm, and the cerium oxide needle-like particles have a volume ratio of 0.5-25% in the cerium-zirconium composite oxide.

4. The cerium-zirconium composite oxide as claimed in claim 1 , wherein after being subjected to heat preservation at 1000° C. for 4 hours, the cerium-zirconium composite oxide has a pore size of 5-45 nm, preferably 10-40 nm, and after being subjected to heat preservation at 1000° C. for 4 hours, the cerium-zirconium composite oxide has a specific surface area of being more than 50 m 2 /g.

5. The cerium-zirconium composite oxide as claimed in claim 1 , wherein after being subjected to a reduction treatment at 800° C., the cerium-zirconium composite oxide has an oxygen storage amount of being more than 600 μmol O 2 /g at 500° C.

6. The cerium-zirconium composite oxide as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the rare earth element other than cerium is at least one selected from the group consisting of La, Pr, Nd, Y, Sm, Eu, Tb, and Yb; the transition metal element is at least one selected from the group consisting of Cu, Mn, and Ni; and the alkaline earth metal element is at least one selected from the group consisting of Mg, Ca, Sr, and Ba.

7. The cerium-zirconium composite oxide as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the cerium-zirconium composite oxide is prepared by the following preparation method, wherein the preparation method comprises the steps of:
Step S1: preparing a feed liquid A containing a tetravalent cerium ion, a zirconium ion and a doped metal ion at a composition ratio of the cerium-zirconium solid solution phase in the cerium-zirconium composite oxide, preparing a trivalent cerium ion solution at a proportion of the cerium oxide phase in the cerium-zirconium composite oxide, and adding a complex to the trivalent cerium ion solution to obtain a feed liquid B, wherein the doped metal ion is the M in the cerium-zirconium composite oxide, and the complex contains a coordination ion of the cerium ion;
Step S2: adding the feed liquid A, the feed liquid B and a precipitant simultaneously to a reactor to be mixed for reaction, and adjusting the pH to 7-13 to obtain a precipitated slurry;
Step S3: aging the precipitated slurry; and
Step S4: obtaining a precipitate after the precipitated slurry being aged is subjected to solid-liquid separation, and obtaining the cerium-zirconium composite oxide after the precipitate is subjected to post-treatment.

8. The cerium-zirconium composite oxide as claimed in claim 7 , wherein the complex is at least one selected from the group consisting of organic acid, an organic amine, and an aliphatic alcohol, and is preferably at least one selected from the group consisting of ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid, citric acid, acetic acid, salicylic acid, p-toluylic acid and stearyl alcohol.

9. The cerium-zirconium composite oxide as claimed in claim 7 , wherein the complex has a used amount of 1-20%, preferably 3-10%, of the molar quantity of trivalent cerium ions in the trivalent cerium ion solution.

10. The cerium-zirconium composite oxide as claimed in claim 7 , wherein the precipitant comprises at least one selected from the group consisting of magnesium carbonate solution, hydroxide of at least one element of ammonium, sodium and potassium, carbonate, and bicarbonate, preferably at least one selected from the group consisting of sodium hydroxide, ammonia and ammonium bicarbonate.

11. The cerium-zirconium composite oxide as claimed in claim 7 , wherein in the Step S2, a precipitation reaction temperature is 25-95° C. and a reaction time is 0.5-10 hrs.

12. The cerium-zirconium composite oxide as claimed in claim 7 , wherein in the Step S2, adjusting the pH to 8-10.

13. The cerium-zirconium composite oxide as claimed in claim 7 , wherein in the Step S3, an aging temperature is 50-300° C. and an aging time is 3 hrs or more.

14. The cerium-zirconium composite oxide as claimed in claim 7 , wherein the post-treatment comprises at least one step selected from the group consisting of drying, roasting and grading steps; when the post-treatment comprises the roasting, a roasting temperature is 500-800° C., and a roasting time is 1-10 hrs.

15. The cerium-zirconium composite oxide as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the cerium-zirconium composite oxide is an oxide applied in a catalyst, wherein the catalyst is applied to vehicle exhaust gas purification, natural gas catalytic combustion, organic waste gas purification treatment and industrial waste gas denitrification treatment.

16. A cerium-zirconium composite oxide, wherein the cerium-zirconium composite oxide consists of two or more cerium-zirconium solid solution phases with different crystal structures and different chemical compositions, wherein the chemical formula of the cerium-zirconium solid solution phase is Ce x Zr 1-x-y M y O 2 , where M is at least one selected from the group consisting of a rare earth element other than cerium, a transition metal element and an alkaline earth metal element, x is 15-85 mol %, and y is 0-20 mol %, and at least one of cerium-zirconium solid solution has a proportion of 0.1-99.9 vol % in the cerium-zirconium composite oxide.

17. The cerium-zirconium composite oxide as claimed in claim 16 , wherein the cerium-zirconium composite oxide consists of two or more cerium-zirconium solid solution phases of a cubic crystal system, cell parameters of the cubic crystal system are in the range of 5.4103 Å≥a=b=c≥5.1283 Å, and there is a difference of 0.01-0.282 Å between the cell parameters of any two of the cubic crystal systems.

18. The cerium-zirconium composite oxide as claimed in claim 16 , wherein the rare earth element other than cerium is at least one selected from the group consisting of La, Pr, Nd, Y, Sm, Eu, Tb, and Yb; the transition metal element is at least one selected from the group consisting of Cu, Mn, and Ni; and the alkaline earth metal element is at least one selected from the group consisting of Mg, Ca, Sr, and Ba.

19. The cerium-zirconium composite oxide as claimed in claim 16 , wherein the cerium-zirconium composite oxide is prepared by following a preparation method, wherein the preparation method comprises the steps of:
Step S1: preparing each cerium-zirconium solid sol

Assignees

• Grirem Advanced Mat Co Ltd

Inventors

• Huang Xiaowei
• Wang Qi
• Yue Mei
• Zhong Qiang
• Wang Lei
• Hou Yongke
• Cui Meisheng

Classifications

• B01J2523/3743

  Europium · CPC title

• B01J23/10

  of rare earths · CPC title

• B01J2523/3706

  Lanthanum · CPC title

• B01J37/04

  Mixing {(B01J37/0009, B01J37/0018 take precedence)} · CPC title

• B01D53/94

  by catalytic processes · CPC title