EPR and TPR investigation of the redox properties of vanadia based ceria catalysts
2006
Abi-Aad, E. | Matta, J. | Courcot, D. | Aboukaïs, A.
Vanadium cerium oxides, with different V/Ce atomic ratios, were prepared using the impregnation method and calcined under air at 500°C. Physicochemical studies have shown that at low vanadium content, polymeric V-O-V chains are stabilized on the ceria surface. Increasing the vanadium content tends to favor the formation of the CeVO₄ and V₂O₅ phases. The redox properties of these oxides have been simultaneously investigated by TPR/TPO and EPR techniques. V-O-V chains and V₂O₅ species are more easily reducible than the CeVO₄ phase. The reduction of V₂O₅ to V₂O₃ proceeds in several steps, the intermediate species being V₆O₁₃, VO₂ and V₅O₉. The reduction of V₂O₅ species interacting with ceria support leads to VO oxide. EPR measurements performed at T = −269°C have permitted to observe progressively different signals of V⁴⁺ in addition to vanadium ions in V²⁺ (3d³) paramagnetic configuration. This attribution is based on an EPR signal at g = 3.956 with eight well resolved hyper fine lines (A = 96 Gauss), which may be attributed to the perpendicular components of one of the fine transitions corresponding to the V²⁺ spectrum. At high reduction temperature, CeVO₄ phase leads in one step to CeVO₃ and a continuous and partial reduction of CeO₂ into Ce₂O₃ is observed. Re-oxidation process shows that polymeric V-O-V chains, easily reducible, are hardly re-oxidized whereas V₂O₅ species, present in the high vanadium loading samples, are easily re-oxidized at low temperatures. However, redox processes seem to be reversible.
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