The ammonium paratungstate (APT) is the most important starting material in the tungsten industry, where usually its most stable APT·4H2O form is used. From APT tungsten oxides, tungsten carbides or tungsten metal can be prepared. Among others, tungsten oxides are widespread catalysts, photocatalysts, and gas sensors.

Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs), as a renewable energy source, have attracted considerable attention due to their unparalleled merits including low cost, choice of color, light weight, packing technology, environmental compatibility, and acceptable photoelectric conversion efficiency (PCE).

Nitrogen oxde poullution has been caught a lot attention due to its negative influence on environment. fly-ash emitted from coal combustion flue gas always carries various toxic substances, such as SO2, alkali metals and alkaline-earth metals. They tend to lower the efficiency of NOx removal and shorten the operating life-time of the SCR catalyst. V2O5-WO3/TiO2 has been greatly used in NOx removal applications.

In urea-SCR of passenger Diesel vehicles, the NOx reduction step of urea-SCR is usually catalyzed by redox zeolites. Technology for stationary sources r emains to be dominated by catalysts that contain V2O5 and WO3 supported on TiO2 (anatase). They are meanwhile also applied for mobile sources, in heavy utility vehicles, where they are adapted to the different targets. Thus, V2O5-WO3/TiO2 catalysts had been synthesized from ammonium paratungstate (APT) for SCR applications.