Influence of tetraethyllead and lead scavengers on oxidation of carbon

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Influence of Tetraethyllead and Lead Scavengers on Oxidation of Carbon Monoxide and Hydrocarbons Over Pt and Pd K. Otto* and C. N. Montreuil Research Staff, Ford Motor'Co., Dearborn, Mich. 48121

w The separate and combined effects of T E L and the halide compounds, ethylene dibromide and ethylene dichloride, on Pt and P d oxidation catalysts were investigated in the laboratory. Automobile exhaust was simulated by controlled combustion of isooctane. Of the two scavengers, only ethylene dibromide decreases catalyst activity. Deactivation is especially severe for catalysts containing Pd. Pure isooctane restores activity completely. Scavengers alone do not enhance shrinkage of the noble metal surface. T E L causes permanent deactivation and irreversible loss of the Pt-Pd surface area. Total lead deposit, residual noble metal surface, and catalyst activity are not a simple function of the lead deposit, but depend on the combination of the additives.

Catalysts for the removal of air pollutants have become a reality on most of the 1975 model cars sold in the USA. There are two main causes that shorten the useful life span of catalytic converters by decreasing their exposed noble metal surface. Such a decrease can be caused by excessive temperatures or by ubiquitous contaminants in the exhaust-e.g., Pb, P, S, Zn, and Fe. It has been well established that a fully leaded gasoline will deactivate catalysts based on Pt or P d very quickly. However, recently, questions have been raised ( 1 ) as to what extent catalyst deterioration is caused by lead, and to what extent it is due to lead scavengers, such as ethylene dibromide and ethylene dichloride, added to gasoline along with the lead compound-usually tetraethyllead. This controversy prompted the present investigation concerning the effects of TEL, EDB, and EDC, separately and combined, on the activity of monolithic noble metal catalysts. A laboratory method was chosen to guarantee a satisfactory control of experimental conditions and the absence of extraneous poisons.

the virgin catalyst. The additive was then introduced and the change in the activity followed for about 10 000 simulated miles. Afterward an attempt was made to reactivate the catalyst by switching back to pure isooctane. The experiment was completed by reexposing the catalyst to the investigated additive. Occasional measurement of the noble metal surface area provided additional information of the catalyst condition. The Pt-Pd area was determined by the adsorption of CO a t room temperature, after cleaning of the surface in air a t 660 O F (350 OC). Carbon monoxide was flowed over the sample in a carrier gas and the adsorbed CO evaluated by a gas chromatograph (3). The unit used here, 1 pmol of CO adsorbed per gram of catalyst, is equivalent to a combined surface area of Pt plus P d of 0.05 m2/g. After completion of the poisoning experiments, the lead' deposit was analyzed by x-ray fluorescence. Catalyst specimens of the type PTX-IIB, containing a mixture of Pt and P d were employed in most of the experiments, as the same catalyst formulation was presumably used in the investigation by Teague ( I ) .

Experimental Results Evaluation of PTX-IIB Catalyst. With pure isooctane there exists practically no deterioration of both the HC and the CO activity over a t least 12 000 simulated miles. Figure 1 shows that conversion a t 930 O F (500 "C), taken as an activity index, decreased by less than 3% in the case of HC and remained constant in the case of CO. Conversion of HC and CO as a function of temperature did not show any significant change with increasing mileage either, as shown by the examples a t 0, 1410, and 11 500 simulated miles, which are also plotted in Figure 1. The HC activity increased almost linearly after light-off, up to approximately 1100 O F (600 "C), while CO conversion reached a maximum of 97% a t a relatively low temperature of 750 O F (400 "C). In spite

Experimental Procedure Automotive exhaust was simulated by the combustion of isooctane, free of S and P, in an adiabatic flame pulse. The flame pulse has been described previously ( 2 ) .The exhaust contained 1.1% CO, 650 ppm hydrocarbon (measured as hexane), 150 ppm NO, and 3.5% 0 2 with corresponding amounts of COn and HzO. The gas mixture was passed over a small button of the catalyst monolith (diameter 1.9 cm, length 1.2 cm) a t an average space velocity of 40,000 h-l. The catalyst was subjected to temperature cycling between 700° and 1400 OF (370O and 760 "C). The poisons to be studied, tetraethyllead (TEL, neat lead), ethylene dibromide (EDB, 1,2-dibromoethane), and ethylene dichloride (EDC, 1,2-dichloroethane) were introduced into pure isooctane (2,2,4-trimethylpentane). The concentrations were selected to represent a "TEL Motor Mix" level of 0.5 g Pb/gal, with an atom ratio of Pb:Cl:Br = 1:2:1. These scavenger concentrations relative to the lead level are sometimes referred to as 1.0 and 0.5 theories of EDC and EDB, respectively. The experiments started with the exposure of each catalyst sample t o the combustion products of pure isooctane for about 1500 simulated miles to establish the activity of 154

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of the unchanging conversions with mileage, a drastic decrease of the noble metal surface was observed at the same time. The metal surface of a virgin catalyst adsorbs approximately 2.6 pmol of CO per gram of catalyst, but a fast decrease to about 1.8 pmol/g took place, once the catalyst had been heated to 1400 OF (760 "C) in the combustion products of isooctane. When the catalyst was aged further, the metal surface decreased to about 1 pmollg after 1500 simulated miles, and to 0.3 pmol/g after 12 000 simulated miles. The adsorption values, given in parentheses at the appropriate mileage points in Figure 1;are typical for thermal sintering of this catalyst in the absence of lead. The presence of EDC in isooctane (1.5 theories relative to 0.5 g Pb/gal) does not cause any changes. Again the conversions of CO and HC a t 500 O C were practically constant over the observed 13000 simulated miles. Likewise, the conversion-temperature curves kept the same shape. As before, the CO adsorption decreased from 0.80 in the beginning to 0.32 pmol/g at the end of the run. The combustion products of isooctane containing 1.5 theories EDB result in a drastic deactivation, as shown in Figure 2. HC conversion dropped from 75-52%; CO conversion from 95-70%. Change to pure isooctane a t 11 000 simulated miles results in a complete recovery to the values of the virgin catalyst within 3000 simulated miles. Repeated exposure to EDB again caused loss in activity. The pronounced catalyst deactivation was, however, not accompanied by a corresponding decrease of the noble metal surface. After 10 000 simulated miles, CO adsorption remained a t a relatively large value of 0.53 pmollg. Catalyst poisoning by EDB is reflected by characteristic conversion-temperature curves, as shown in Figure 2. The normal curve shape was observed with pure isooctane (at 1320 and 14 250 simulated miles), while in the presence of EDB, conversions of CO and HC showed a much steeper ascent (examples given a t 2820 and 17 940 simulated miles). Qualitatively the same poisoning characteristics can be noted if a part of EDB is replaced by EDC. This fuel (EDB:O.5 plus EDC:1.0 theories) caused a drop in CO conversion from 96-81%, in HC conversion from 76-55%. The poisoning was completely reversed with pure isooctane. As before, the addition of EDB plus EDC did not enhance the normal shrinkage of the Pt-Pd area. The conversion-temperature curves display the steepness characteristic of the presence of EDB.

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The activity change caused by TEL alone is shown in Figure 3. In contrast to the previous cases, a continuous decrease of HC and CO activities is observed. Conversion of CO dropped from 94-7596, while a much more pronounced drop from 77-35% took place for HC conversion. Moreover, most of the deactivation was permanent, although a recovery of more than 30% of the experienced activity loss can be achieved with pure isooctane, as shown. Further poisoning by TEL, after the recovery interval, was quite slow. The continuing decrease in catalyst activity was paralleled by a decrease in metal surface. The numerical values of CO adsorption in Figure 3 illustrate this point. Quite clearly the surface area falls below the value of 0.3 pmol CO/g observed as a minimum for lead free fuels. The difference between poisoning by P b and Br is also reflected by the conversion curves taken as a function of temperature at 13 560 and 16 470 simulated miles. The shape is similar to that observed with pure isooctane, but shifted toward lower conversions. The curves lack the steep slope characteristic of the presence of EDB (Figure 2). Qualitatively and quantitatively deactivation by isooctane containing TEL plus EDC resembles closely that by Volume 10, Number 2, February 1976

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Comparison of Pt and Pd Poisoning by EDB. The poisoning studies described so far refer to the same catalyst type that has been investigated by Teague ( I ) and other researchers ( 4 ) in engine tests. The catalyst was selected to permit a direct comparison of our laboratory data with the published results. As the particular formulation consists of two noble metals, Pt and Pd, in an atomic ratio of about 1:1, it was of interest to assess the poisoning characteristics of the two components separately. For this purpose, a monolith was prepared that contained the same concentration of Pd present in the mixed Pt-Pd catalyst. Furthermore, another commercial catalyst (Matthey-Bishop) that contained only Pt as noble metal was selected for comparison. The surface areas of the three catalysts, expressed by the amount of CO chemisorbed per gram of catalyst after an initial heat treatment by the exhaust, are listed in Table I. In addition, this table shows the activities a t the same state. There is very little difference in the CO and HC activities; the 500 "C conversions are 92.7 f 2.1 and 74.1 f 2.596, respectively. The most obvious difference is a substantially lower surface area of the Pt catalyst. Significant activity differences are caused by EDB illustrated in Table 11. The data show that on Pt the ratio of unreacted HC with and without EDB is 36/27 = 1.33, while this deterioration factor is much larger for the P d catalyst 51/33 = 1.55, and the mixed Pt-Pd catalyst yields 42/27 = 1.56. The corresponding deterioration factors for CO oxidation are 1.67, 3.00, and 4.17 for Pt, Pt-Pd, and Pd, respectively. The last column in Table I1 shows that complete recovery takes place for all three catalysts when EDB is removed from the fuel. A combination of TEL and EDB again decreases the activity of the two Pd-containing catalysts, more than that of Pt (Table 11). The last column shows that much of the poisoning of the P d catalysts is reversible, which is not the case for Pt. The lower residual activity of Pt is probably a result of the initially lower noble metal area (Table I). In contrast, EDC had no influence on either activity of the three catalysts: CO conversion remained constant and HC conversion decreased by less than 3%, as was the case with pure isooctane. Discussion

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( I theory = 0.5 X 79.91/207.19 = 0.19 g Br/gal). Further increase to 1.5 theories does not result in additional deactivation. In the second experiment, pure isooctane was used as a fuel, and an aqueous solution of HBr was injected into the combustion products before they contacted the catalyst. Conversions of HC and CO as functions of HBr concentration are given in Figure 7 by the round symbols. These curves show reasonable agreement with the EDB results. It appears thus that reversible poisoning is caused by EDB combustion products, either HBr, or bromine that is, in part, produced at the given concentrations of HBr, H20, and 0 2 at the poisoning temperatures, according to thermodynamics ( I O ) . The described results may be summarized as follows: (1) Oxidation of HC and CO over Pt or Pd is not impaired by EDC alone. (2) The oxidation of HC and CO is poisoned by EDB. This poisoning is completely reversible when Br is eliminated. Catalysts containing Pd are deactivated by EDB to a higher degree than catalysts containing Pt, but no Pd. CO oxidation is affected by EDB more strongly than HC oxidation over catalysts containing Pd. (3) TEL with EDC, with EDB, and without a scavenger Volume 10, Number 2, February 1976

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Received for review May 21, 1975. Accepted October 8, 1975

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