Nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions have attracted much attention for increasing concern on the quality of the atmospheric environment. In view of NO decomposition in the cement production process, the preparation of Cu-Al/SiO₂ porous material and its effect on NO decomposition were studied, and the denitrification mechanism was proposed in this paper. The NO decomposition performance of the Cu-Al/SiO₂ porous material was tested via the experimental setup and infrared spectrometer and micro gas chromatography (GC). The result shows that the Cu-Al/SiO₂ porous material with the template of cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB) had a better NO decomposition rate than materials with other templates when the temperature was above 500 °C, and NO decomposition rate could approach 100% at high temperatures above 750 °C. Structure analysis indicates that the prepared Cu-Al/SiO₂ material structure was a mesoporous structure. The X-Ray Diffraction (XRD) and Ultraviolet–visible spectrophotometry (UV–Vis) results of the denitrification product show that the Cu-Al/SiO₂ material mainly decomposed to Cu₂O and Si₂O, and the CuO decomposed to Cu₂O and O₂ at high temperature. The Cu(I)O was considered as the active phase. The redox process between Cu(II)O and Cu(I)O was thought to be the denitrification mechanism of the Cu-Al/SiO₂ porous material.

NOx emission from the cement industry have received much attention. In order to reduce the NOx emission in cement kilns, nickel slag was used to prepare the non-ammonia denitrification material, and a denitrification mechanism was proposed in this study. The results showed that the denitrification material prepared at pH 7 exhibited the best denitrification performance. At low temperature, the highest denitrification performance was achieved between 200 and 300 °C with a NO decomposition rate of approximately 40%. Then, the NO decomposition rate increased as the temperature increased, reaching over 95% above 700 °C. The physicochemical characteristics showed that the material had the highest specific surface area and the highest relative Fe content, which benefited the denitrification performance. The divalent iron of the denitrification material was considered the active site for the reaction, and trivalent iron was not conducive to denitrification performance at a low temperature range. After the denitrification reaction, the Fe³⁺/Fe²⁺ increased from 0.89 to 1.31. The proposed denitrification mechanism was the redox process between divalent iron and trivalent iron. This study not only recycles industrial waste to reduce solid waste pollution but also efficiently removes nitrogen oxides from cement kilns without ammonia.