Abstract: A method of reducing nitrogen oxides (NOx) present in a lean gas stream comprising nitric oxide (NO) comprises the steps of: (i) net adsorbing NO per se from the lean gas stream in an adsorbent comprising palladium and a cerium oxide at below 200° C.; (ii) thermally net desorbing NO from the NO adsorbent in a lean gas stream at 200° C. and above; and (iii) catalytically reducing NOx on a catalyst other than the NO adsorbent with a reductant selected from the group consisting of a hydrocarbon reductant, a nitrogenous reductant, hydrogen and a mixture of any two or more thereof. A system for carrying out such a method is also disclosed.

Abstract: A particulate matter (PM) filter assembly includes a PM filter that filters PM from an exhaust stream and that includes an entry face facing a first direction of flow of the exhaust stream, and a swirl element disposed in the exhaust stream and that includes a blade that directs a portion of the exhaust stream in a second direction of flow that is different than the first direction of flow. The blade directs the portion of the exhaust stream to distribute the exhaust stream over a frontal area of the entry face of the PM filter. A related method of filtering particulate matter from an exhaust stream is also provided.

Abstract: An assembly includes a particulate matter (PM) filter that comprises an upstream end for receiving exhaust gas, a downstream end and multiple zones. An absorbing layer absorbs microwave energy in one of N frequency ranges and is arranged with the upstream end. N is an integer. A frequency selective filter has M frequency selective segments and receives microwave energy in the N frequency ranges. M is an integer. One of the M frequency selective segments permits passage of the microwave energy in one of the N frequency ranges and does not permit passage of microwave energy in the other of the N frequency ranges.

Abstract: A honeycomb filter for purifying exhaust gases includes columnar porous ceramic members and an adhesive layer combing the ceramic members with one another. Each porous ceramic member has a partition wall and through holes. The through holes are extending in parallel in length direction of the ceramic members. The partition wall is separating the through holes and filters particulates in exhaust gas. The through holes include ones sealed at inlet side of the ceramic members and ones sealed at outlet side of the ceramic members such that the exhaust gas enters from the inlet side, passes through the partition wall and flows out from the outlet side. The adhesive layer has thermal expansion coefficient ?L. The ceramic members have thermal expansion coefficient ?F. The thermal expansion coefficient ?L of the adhesive layer and the thermal expansion coefficient ?F of the ceramic members satisfy relationship, 0.01<|?L??F|/?F<1.0.

Abstract: The invention relates to a honeycomb structure, made from a porous ceramic material, said structure being characterized in that the porous ceramic material which forms it comprises: from 50 to 95% by weight of silicon carbide SiC; from 5 to 50% by weight of at least one ceramic oxide phase, said structure additionally being characterized by a porosity greater than 10%, by a specific surface area greater than 0.5 m2/g and by a pore size distribution of at least bimodal type. The invention also relates to the process for obtaining such a structure and also to the catalytic support or filter obtained from such a structure, after deposition of a catalyst.

Abstract: A system includes a particulate matter (PM) filter that includes an upstream end for receiving exhaust gas and a downstream end. A zoned heater is arranged spaced from the upstream end and comprises N zones, where N is an integer greater than one, wherein each of the N zones comprises M sub-zones, where M is an integer greater than or equal to one, and wherein the N zones and the M sub-zones are arranged in P layers, where P is an integer greater than one. A control module selectively activates at least a selected one of the N zones to initiate regeneration in downstream portions of the PM filter from the one of the N zones and deactivates non-selected ones of the N zones.

Abstract: A porous ceramic honeycomb filter manufactured from an oxide-based ceramic material having a pore size distribution with d1?7.0 microns. Preferably, the oxide-based material is cordierite or aluminum titanate. Alternatively, the filter contains a cordierite-containing ceramic body with a narrow pore size distribution with db?1.00, wherein db=(d90?d10)/d50. Also disclosed is a batch mixture, method and honeycomb green body made from mixture of inorganic source materials selected from the group of magnesia sources, alumina sources, and silica sources, and a pore former having a narrow particle size distribution with dps?0.90, wherein dps={(dp90?dp10)/dp50}. The pore former is preferably selected from a group consisting of canna starch, sago palm starch, green mung bean starch, and single-mode potato starch.

Abstract: A honeycomb structure includes an inorganic particle, inorganic binder, a honeycomb unit, a first end face, and a second end face. The honeycomb unit includes plural partition walls extending along a longitudinal direction of the honeycomb unit to define through-holes. The first end face is substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal direction and provided at a first end of the honeycomb structure. The second end face is substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal direction and provided at a second end opposite to the first end in the longitudinal direction of the honeycomb structure. First circularity of the first end face and second circularity of the second end face are about 1.5 mm to about 4.0 mm. The circularity of the first end face is different from the circularity of the second end face.

Abstract: An exhaust aftertreatment filter and method is provided for filtering engine exhaust, and reduces the maximum temperature experienced by the filter including during regeneration including during burn-off of trapped contaminant particulate including carbon oxidation combustion.

Abstract: [Object] To further reduce the concentrations of basic amine compounds remaining in decarbonated flue gas. [Means of Solution] A CO2 recovery system includes an absorber 2 and a regenerator 3. The absorber 2 includes a CO2 absorbing section 21 and at least one water-washing section 22. The CO2 absorbing section 21 allows flue gas 101 to come into contact with a basic amine compound absorbent 103 so that the basic amine compound absorbent 103 absorbs CO2 in the flue gas 101. The at least one water-washing section 22 allows the decarbonated flue gas 101A in which the amount of CO2 has been reduced in the CO2 absorbing section 21 to come into contact with wash water 104A and 104B to reduce the amounts of the basic amine compounds entrained in the decarbonated flue gas 101A. The regenerator 3 releases the CO2 from the basic amine compound absorbent 103 containing CO2 absorbed therein.

Abstract: Methods and systems for reducing emissions of particulate matter from a gaseous stream are provided. The subject systems include a catalyst that reduces the amount of particulate matter emissions in the gaseous stream. Embodiments of the subject systems may also reduce the amount of particulate matter precursor emissions in the gaseous stream. In some cases, the subject systems and methods include a sorber that facilitates the reduction in particulate matter and particulate matter precursors in the gaseous stream. The subject methods and systems find use in a variety of applications where it is desired to reduce particulate matter emissions from a gaseous stream.

Abstract: An improved ceramic honeycomb filter has at least one porous partition wall defining a channel that is (1) microstructurally different along the length of the channel, (2) microstructurally different than at least a portion of a partition wall defining another channel or (3) combination thereof. The improved filter may be used for filtering Diesel exhaust and may have reduced back pressure and equivalent soot capture efficiency compared to a filter without having said microstructural differences.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a composite ceramic body with occluding a plurality of pores that are open at its surface of a porous ceramic body, the method includes the steps of impregnating a polysilazane solution including polysilazane having a repetition structure of fundamental units of at least one of [—Si(H)(CnH2n+1)—NH—] and [—Si(CnH2n+1)2—NH—], and a predetermined organic solvent, into the plurality of pores of the porous ceramic body, and heating the porous ceramic body to convert the polysilazane in the plurality of pores into ceramic material.

Abstract: An exhaust filter system includes a particulate filter (PF) that is disposed downstream from an engine. The PF filters particulates within an exhaust from the engine. A heating element heats particulate matter in the PF. A fastener limits expansion movement of the heating element relative to the PF.

Abstract: In an exhaust gas treatment component with a ceramic body for the purification of exhaust gases and a method for making such a component, the ceramic body is disposed in a sheet metal housing consisting of a housing base from which housing sections extend which are hinged to the housing base by webs and which form together a tubular slotted housing part surrounding the ceramic body, the housing sections being tiltable outwardly about the webs for facilitating insertion of the ceramic body into the housing.

Abstract: A method for producing a ceramic honeycomb structure comprises providing a honeycomb body having a side surface, a first cut end surface, a second cut end surface opposite the first end surface, and a maximum width (W), and removing material from at least one of the cut end surfaces of the honeycomb body to reduce the length (L), wherein the step of removing material comprises abrasively removing material from at least one of the ends with a rotating abrasive tool, such as by grinding, and wherein L/W is greater than 0.75. The method may achieve end flatness, parallelism, surface roughness and length accuracy, or combinations thereof which heretofore, were unachievable. Face finished ceramic honeycomb structures having low surface roughness (Ra), high degree of parallelism and accurate lengths are also disclosed.

Abstract: An exhaust gas cleaning apparatus and a filter regeneration apparatus that are capable of cleaning a large volume of exhaust gas without any increase in size of a nonmagnetic member around which a working coil for induction heating is wound. The exhaust gas cleaning apparatus includes a particulate collecting section and a filter regenerating section placed next to each other in the flow direction of an exhaust gas, and a movable frame. The movable frame holds an extension of a filter unit extending from a casing of the particulate collecting section beyond the support frame of the filter regenerating section, and can move the filter unit in the axial direction of the casing. When the filter unit moved by the movable frame passes through the filter regenerating section, a corresponding part of a holding frame disposed in the filter unit is continuously induction-heated to burn collected particulates, such that the filter unit can be regenerated.

Abstract: A diesel particulate filter assembly comprises a diesel particulate filter (DPF) and a heater assembly. The DPF filters a particulate from exhaust produced by an engine. The heater assembly has a first metallic layer that is applied to the DPF, a resistive layer that is applied to the first metallic layer, and a second metallic layer that is applied to the resistive layer. The second metallic layer is etched to form a plurality of zones.

Abstract: A method is provided for producing a highly porous substrate. More particularly, the present invention enables fibers, such as organic, inorganic, glass, ceramic, polymer, or metal fibers, to be combined with binders and additives, and extruded, to form a porous substrate. Depending on the selection of the constituents used to form an extrudable mixture, the present invention enables substrate porosities of about 60% to about 90%, and enables process advantages at other porosities, as well. The extrudable mixture may use a wide variety of fibers and additives, and is adaptable to a wide variety of operating environments and applications. Additives can be selected that form inorganic bonds between overlapping fibers in the extruded substrate that provide enhanced strength and performance of the porous substrate in a variety of applications, such as, for example, filtration and as a host for catalytic processes, such as catalytic converters.

Abstract: An exhaust system, may include an exhaust line through which exhaust gas passes, a nitrogen oxide purification catalyst that is mounted on the exhaust line to reduce nitrogen oxide of the exhaust gas, an injector that is mounted at an upstream side of the nitrogen oxide purification catalyst to additionally inject fuel such that nitrogen oxide that is trapped in the nitrogen oxide purification catalyst is detached to be reduced thereby, and a control portion that varies an injection pattern of the injector if it is determined that a purification rate of the nitrogen oxide purification catalyst is higher than a first predetermined value.

Abstract: A filling percentage of a central portion is larger than that of a peripheral portion at the inlet end surface of an exhaust gas of a honeycomb segment (2) constituting a ceramic filter due to additional filling (13). Thus, an amount of soot accumulated in vents (5) in the central portion of each honeycomb segment (2) is less relative to that in the peripheral portion. This decreases a quantity of heat generated by burning of soot in the central portion, and reduces temperature rise during recycling, thus limiting the maximum temperature of the ceramic filter (1).

Abstract: A method for producing a honeycomb filter from a honeycomb structure having large numbers of flow paths partitioned by cell walls, comprising inserting a tubular member into each of the flow paths, and injecting a plugging material into each of the flow paths from the tubular member to form a plug in each of the flow paths at a position separate from the end surface of the honeycomb structure, the tubular member having an outer diameter that is 40-90% of the opening size of the flow path, the plugging material comprising at least a ceramic material having a maximum particle size that is 85% or less of the inner diameter of the tubular member, and an average particle size of 1 ?m or more.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are various types of systems and methods for the efficient production of sulfur from a sulfur-laden gas. The system described herein includes a desulfurization unit, a regenerator receiving sulfurized mass from the desulfurization unit, a sulfur recovery unit, a sulfur track in fluid communication with the regenerator and the sulfur recovery unit, and a sulfur concentrator on a sulfur track. The sulfur stream coming out of the regenerator is concentrated using the sulfur concentrator and converted into a sulfur product at the sulfur recovery unit.

Abstract: A composite honeycomb structure in which the honeycomb structure is highly functionalized and adapted to have catalytic function, considering pressure loss is provided. A honeycomb structure having average pore diameter of 5 to 200 ?m and specific surface area of 100 to 1500 m2/g is provided. Further, a translucent honeycomb structure and a photocatalyst-carrying translucent honeycomb structure having a photocatalyst carried on a surface of the translucent honeycomb structure and/or contained in the translucent honeycomb structure are provided. Further, an air cleaner and a water purifier using the honeycomb structure and the photocatalyst-carrying translucent honeycomb structure are provided.

Abstract: An improved particulate filtration system has an inlet, for the fluid to be filtered, connected to a housing containing a filter medium such that the fluid passes through the filter medium, and an outlet for the filtered fluid to exit. The filtration system's improvement is the filter medium being comprised of a porous ceramic of fused platelet grains. In a particular embodiment, the porous ceramic is a celsian porous ceramic, where the celsian grains have a hexagonal morphology and display a continuous volume thermal expansion coefficient from 100° C. to 1000° C.

Abstract: A method for managing the use of flow-through monolithic sorbents for the sorption of a trace contaminant from a fluid stream, which comprises: providing two or more flow-through monolithic sorbents having a trace contaminant sorbed thereon, wherein the flow-through monolithic sorbents are positioned in an initial series to allow for passing a fluid stream from an upstream inlet end of the series to a downstream outlet end of the series; removing an inlet end portion of the flow-through monolithic sorbents from the inlet end position of the series; moving a downstream portion of the flow-through monolithic sorbents from a downstream position in the series to the inlet end position of the series; and placing a replacement flow-through monolithic sorbent portion in a downstream position of the series.

Abstract: A small scale, but effective, reactive chemical containment system includes apparatus and methods for reaction of process gases exhausted from reaction furnaces with a reactant gas in a non-combustible manner to produce and contain particulate or powder byproducts, thereby removing the process gas from the exhaust gas flow. The apparatus provides process gas inlet, treatment reactive gas diffusion, process gas and treatment reactive gas pre-mixing, primary containment, secondary containment, and outlet zones.

Abstract: The invention concerns a process for the production of a porous ?-SiC-bearing ceramic molded body that includes an aluminum oxide layer at the surface of the pores and passages of the porous ?-SiC-bearing ceramic molded body. The invention further concerns a porous ?-SiC-bearing ceramic molded body which has pores of a mean pore size in the range of between 0.1 urn and 50 ?m and an aluminum oxide layer at the surface of the open pores and passages.

Abstract: An exhaust system includes a particulate filter (PF) that is disposed downstream from an engine. The PF filters particulates within an exhaust from the engine. A heating element heats particulate matter in the PF. A catalyst substrate or a flow converter is disposed upstream from said heating element. The catalyst substrate oxidizes the exhaust prior to reception by the heating element. The flow converter converts turbulent exhaust flow to laminar exhaust flow prior to reception by the heating element.

Abstract: A honeycomb structure includes a ceramic block formed by a plurality of pillar-shaped honeycomb fired bodies each having a large number of cells longitudinally disposed in parallel with one another with a cell wall between the cells. The plurality of honeycomb fired bodies are combined with one another by interposing an adhesive layer with a sealing material layer formed on a peripheral face of the ceramic block and include a plurality of different shapes of the honeycomb fired bodies. A thickness of a peripheral wall forming the peripheral face of the ceramic block is virtually even. A shape of a cell located at an outermost periphery of the ceramic block is virtually identical with a shape of a cell located at a place other than the outermost periphery of the ceramic block. On the peripheral wall of the honeycomb fired body, a step is provided.

Abstract: The holding sealer comprises inorganic fibers, and the holding sealer has a first surface and a second surface, wherein the first surface has ditch-shaped structures.

Abstract: The inventive system for evaluating the charged state of depollution means integrated into the exhaust line of a motor vehicle engine is characterised in that it comprises means (7) for determining a pressure in the depollution means, means (8) for determining the volume gas flowrate upstream said depollution means (10) and means for comparing the depollution means state defined by the thus determined pressure and the volume flowrate with a predetermined diagram (11) of the absent, overcharged and clogged states of the depollution means in order to evaluate the state thereof.

Abstract: An exhaust gas aftertreatment installment and associated exhaust gas aftertreatment method utilizes a nitrogen oxide storage catalytic converter and an SCR catalytic converter. A particulate filter is provided upstream of the nitrogen oxide storage catalytic converter or between the latter and the SCR catalytic converter or downstream of the SCR catalytic converter. The time of regeneration operating phases of the nitrogen oxide storage catalytic converter can be determined as a function of the nitrogen oxide content of the exhaust gas downstream of the nitrogen oxide storage catalytic converter or of the SCR catalytic converter and/or as a function of the ammonia loading of the latter. Moreover, a desired ammonia generation quantity can be determined for a respective regeneration operating phase. The installation and method are adopted for use for motor vehicle internal combustion engines and other engines which are operated predominantly in lean-burn mode.

Abstract: Modified exhaust aftertreatment filters for filtering engine exhaust are provided as are methods of design and manufacturing modified exhaust aftertreatment filters. The modified filters are subject to reduced back pressure and reduced thermal gradients experienced during regeneration as compared to unmodified filters. The modified filters include flow-through channels obtained by unplugging channels which normally are plugged in an unmodified filter.

Abstract: A filter apparatus having an element configured as a tubular filter, which is mounted in a carrier tube such that an annular space for fluid flow is formed between the outer surface of the tubular filter element and the inner surface of the carrier tube. The tubular filter is releasably mounted inside the carrier tube such that it can be pulled by one end out of the carrier tube and a second tubular filter element connected to the opposite end of the filter element being pulled out can simultaneously be pulled into the carrier tube.

Abstract: A honeycomb body includes a housing and a plurality of layers with a curved profile and a predetermined length. Each layer includes at least one at least partially structured metal foil forming a multiplicity of passages with a passage cross section. A majority of the layers have different lengths than one another. A process for producing a honeycomb body, a process for treating exhaust gas, and an exhaust gas assembly, are also provided.

Abstract: It is intended to provide a volatile organic compound treatment apparatus having: an absorption treatment chamber in which absorption frames having absorbents for absorbing volatile organic compounds are aligned in a direction of a gas flow; an absorbent recovery treatment chamber that is provided with a discharge unit having a high voltage electrode, a ground electrode, and a dielectric; and a transfer mechanism for transferring the absorption frames present in an upstream of the gas flow to the absorbent recovery treatment chamber and transferring the absorption frames in the absorbent recovery treatment chamber to a downstream of the gas flow. The volatile organic compound treatment apparatus is capable of decomposing VOC without generating a large amount of harmful NOx and reduced in apparatus cost.

Abstract: The present invention provides honeycomb ceramic articles and methods of manufacturing such articles having few or no defects in the outer skin. Methods for minimizing and/or eliminating cracks in thin-wall and ultra-thin-wall cordierite honeycomb articles are disclosed. Advantageously, the present invention prevents skin cracks from forming during the production of thin-wall and ultra-thin-wall cordierite honeycomb articles by optimizing skin properties such as porosity, thickness and pore size distribution.

Abstract: A method in which CO2 is placed on an adsorber and an adsorption reaction with ammonia, that is used as a chemical absorption agent, occurs, is provided. The CO2 extracted from the waste gas is joined to the ammonia on the catalytic surface using a heterogeneous, catalytic reaction. At least two reactors are provided in the associated device. The reactors, which operate alternately, are switched between the adsorption of CO2 and the regeneration of the absorption agent.

Abstract: The present invention describes a new device which permits a reduction of NOx emissions contained in the fumes from FCC regenerators. The device consists essentially of a conveyance conduit which connects the two regeneration stages and which has an outlet opening into the dilute phase of the second stage.

Abstract: Apparatus and process is provided for increasing mixing in a regenerator. Streamlines of gas and some catalyst may form in a regenerator as a result of cyclone inlet horns positioned in the same direction. Overall mixing in the regenerator may decrease because of these streamlines. A dampening device may be used to interrupt the streamlines and increase mixing in the regenerator. The dampening device may be a baffle and direct streamlines from the outside of the chamber toward the center to collide and mix. In another embodiment, a dampening device may be a secondary disengager such as a T-disengager or an inverted can arrangement that may discharge gas and catalyst near the center of the upper chamber and interrupt the streamlines. In another embodiment, a dampening device may have swirl arms that redirect stream lines counter to the direction of flow.

Abstract: A porous ceramic honeycomb filter manufactured from an oxide-based ceramic material having a pore size distribution with d1?7.0 microns. Preferably, the oxide-based material is cordierite or aluminum titanate. Alternatively, the filter contains a cordierite-containing ceramic body with a narrow pore size distribution with db?1.00, wherein db=(d90?d10)/d50. Also disclosed is a batch mixture, method and honeycomb green body made from mixture of inorganic source materials selected from the group of magnesia sources, alumina sources, and silica sources, and a pore former having a narrow particle size distribution with dps?0.90, wherein dps={(dp90?dp10)/dp50}. The pore former is preferably selected from a group consisting of canna starch, sago palm starch, green mung bean starch, and single-mode potato starch.

Abstract: The athermal sorbent bed regeneration system of the present invention includes a main fuel supply, at least one sorbent bed, a source of microwave energy, and a secondary fuel supply. The main fuel supply has a first concentration of an impurity and the secondary fuel supply has a second concentration of the impurity that is less than the first concentration of the impurity. The sorbent bed adsorbs the impurity. The microwave energy source regenerates the sorbent bed for reuse.

Abstract: A NOx trapping filter is provided for use in emission control systems, for example, on the exhaust gas from an internal combustion engine. The NOx trapping filter has a substrate constructed using bonded fiber structures, which cooperate to form a highly uniform open cell network, as well as to provide a uniform arrangement of pores. The substrate typically is provided as a wall-flow honeycomb structure, and in one example, is manufactured using an extrusion process. In this way, the substrate has many channel walls, each having an inlet surface and an outlet surface. The inlet surface has a uniform arrangement of pores that form a soot capture zone, where soot and other particulate matter is captured from an exhaust gas. A NOx adsorber material is disposed in the filter to trap NOx during lean operation of the engine.

Abstract: Granulated Activated Carbon (GAC) is used to remove hydrogen sulfide (H2S) from the biogas produced in an anaerobic digester. The cleaned biogas is then combusted in a reciprocating engine. The exhaust of the engine is passed through a heat exchanger and then through GAC in an adsorber to adsorb nitrogen oxides (NOx) and any sulfur oxides (SOx). The GACs containing NOx, H2S, and SOx, are transported to a microwave reactor, mixed, and exposed to microwave energy. The H2S and NOx are desorbed from the GAC and chemically combined to produce nitrogen, carbon dioxide, sulfur and water. Unreacted nitrogen oxides or hydrogen sulfide are transported to a second reactor containing carbon media to be reacted by a further microwave process. Sulfur is removed with a filter as a solid and the remaining inert components are vented to the atmosphere. The GAC is regenerated and reused to remove additional H2S and NOx.

Abstract: An automatic VOC concentration control apparatus is capable of adjusting the concentration of VOC in a catalytic device under a predetermined value. The automatic VOC concentration control apparatus includes a housing having an inlet port and an outlet port for introducing and discharging VOC vapor, respectively, one or more cooling tubes for cooling the VOC vapor introduced through the inlet port, and one or more porous members for holding droplets of VOC liquid thereon as the VOC vapor is condensed into liquid.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a honeycomb filter for purifying exhaust gas, including: providing a columnar body including porous ceramic and having a wall portion and through holes partitioned by the wall portion, the through holes extending in a length direction of the columnar body, coating a sealing material including one or more organic components over a circumferential surface of the columnar body to form a sealing material layer; and heating the columnar body having the sealing material layer on the circumferential surface of the columnar body at a temperature sufficient to lower a total weight of the organic component with respect to a total weight of the honeycomb filter, V?.

Abstract: A filter composed of a filter medium (10) formed from a corrugated filter layer (11) and a flat filter sheet (12) which are interconnected by embossing points (15). This eliminates the need for an additional joining agent. Production of the filter is simplified because no additional materials are required to be supplied or cured.

Abstract: There is disclosed a plugged honeycomb structure capable of suppressing a rise of a pressure loss. A plugged honeycomb structure 1 of the present invention comprises a columnar honeycomb structure 2 having porous partition walls 4 and a plurality of cells 5 which are defined by the partition walls 4 and which extend through the structure from one end surface 7a to the other end surface 7b thereof; a plurality of first plugging members 3a which plug openings of predetermined cells 5a on a side of the one end surface 7a; and a plurality of second plugging members 3b which plug openings of the remaining cells 5b on a side of the other end surface 7b. In the plugged honeycomb structure 1, the first plugging member 3a includes a convex portion 6 having a shape convex toward the center of the cell 5 in an axial direction on an end portion of the member on a side opposite to the end surface 7a in which the cell 5a to be plugged is opened.

Abstract: A process for producing a high temperature-resistant structure provides at least one at least partially structured metallic layer. A smooth metallic layer is deformed by a rolling process, in which oil at least partially wets the at least one layer. The oil is at least partially removed. Lubricant is fed onto at least one subsection of the at least one layer. A structure is at least partially shaped. Technical joining connections are produced for fixing the structure.