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Solid–Gas Sorption System for Ammonia Storage and Delivery Driven by Engine Waste Heat for NOx Reduction of Diesel Engine

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  • Chenjue Wang

    (Department of Engineering, Durham University, Durham DH1 3LE, UK)

  • Shi Chen

    (Department of Engineering, Durham University, Durham DH1 3LE, UK)

  • Long Jiang

    (Institute of Refrigeration and Cryogenics, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China)

  • Yaodong Wang

    (Department of Engineering, Durham University, Durham DH1 3LE, UK)

  • Huashan Bao

    (Department of Engineering, Durham University, Durham DH1 3LE, UK)

Abstract

A new design of a sorption-selective catalytic reduction (SCR) system is proposed to improve ammonia storage density and meet the ammonia demand for high NOx conversion efficiency at a relatively lower temperature (<100 °C) compared to urea-SCR systems. The major components are a main unit and a start-up unit that each contain a metal halide ammine as the sorbent. The start-up unit can operate without any external heat source, but spontaneously releases ammonia at the ambient temperature and is only used when the main unit is being warmed up for action. The selection criteria for the metal halide ammine for each unit is discussed. The working pair of SrCl 2 as the main ammine and NH 4 Cl as the start-up ammine is further analyzed as an example to be used in the sorption-SCR system for a diesel engine, the NOx emissions of which were experimentally measured in different operation modes. Based on the experimental data of engine emissions and kinetic models of the chemisorption between ammines and ammonia, the dynamic performance of the sorption system with a total capacity of 180 L sorbent composite in different layouts was investigated and compared. It was found that the achievable desorption conversion degree was lower in smaller reactors and was more sensitive to operating conditions in smaller reactors compared to larger reactors. This suggests that a system using a small reactor layout requires some extra volume to completely meet the required capacity compared to a larger reactor layout. However, because systems with large reactors tend to respond slowly, as they have more thermal mass and take a longer time for preparation, there is a design trade-off required to have optimal performance and balance between the main unit and the start-up unit. In the case studied in this work, a system using three rechargeable reactors with a volume of 60 L each was found to be the preferable layout; it could have about a 90% desorption conversion degree and required around 10 min of warm-up time. Meanwhile, the coupled start-up unit should have a capacity of around 165 mL at least.

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  • Chenjue Wang & Shi Chen & Long Jiang & Yaodong Wang & Huashan Bao, 2022. "Solid–Gas Sorption System for Ammonia Storage and Delivery Driven by Engine Waste Heat for NOx Reduction of Diesel Engine," Energies, MDPI, vol. 15(22), pages 1-19, November.
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