N O is a powerful greenhouse gas and plays an important role in destructing the ozone layer. This present work investigated the effects of Pd doping on N O formation over Pt/BaO/Al O catalyst. Three types of catalysts, Pt/BaO/Al O , Pt/Pd mechanical mixing catalyst (Pt/BaO/Al O +Pd/Al O ) and Pt-Pd co-impregnation catalyst (Pt-Pd/BaO/Al O ) were prepared by incipient wetness impregnation method. These catalysts were first evaluated in NSR activity tests using H /CO as reductants and then carefully characterized by BET, CO chemisorption, CO-DRIFTs and H -TPR techniques. In addition, temperature programmed reactions of NO with H /CO were conducted to obtain further information about N O formation mechanism. Compared with Pt/BaO/Al O , (Pt/BaO/Al O +Pd/Al O ) produced less N O and more NH during NO storage and reduction process, while an opposite trend was found over (Pt-Pd/BaO/Al O +Al O ). Temperature programmed reactions of NO with H /CO results showed that Pd/Al O component in (Pt/BaO/Al O +Pd/Al O ) played an important role in NO reduction to NH , and the formed NH could reduce NO to N leading to a decrease in N O formation. Most of N O formed over (Pt-Pd/BaO/Al O +Al O ) was originated from Pd/BaO/Al O component. H -TPR results indicated Pd-Ba interaction resulted in more difficult-to-reduce PdO species over Pd/BaO/Al O , which inhibits the NO dissociation and thus drives the selectivity to N O in NO reduction.