Patents by Inventor Alfred Punke

Alfred Punke has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20230330598
    Abstract: The present invention relates a system for the treatment of an exhaust gas of a diesel combustion engine, said system comprising a specific NOx adsorber component, a diesel oxidation catalyst (DOC) component, a selective catalytic reduction (SCR) component, a gas heating component, and a reductant injector, wherein in said system, the specific NOx adsorber component is arranged upstream of the gas heating component, the reductant injector is arranged up-stream of the SCR component, the gas heating component is arranged upstream of the reductant injector, the DOC component is arranged upstream of the reductant injector, and the DOC component and the gas heating component are directly consecutive components. Further, the present invention relates a process for preparing such a system and use thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2021
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Inventors: Gerd Grubert, Alfred Punke, Arne Tobias Niggebaum, Sven Jare Lohmeier, Emre Emmez, Torsten Neubauer, Jeffrey B. Hoke, Shiang Sung
  • Publication number: 20220241761
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to an emission treatment system for oxidation of hydrocarbons and carbon monoxide and for NOx abatement in an exhaust stream of a lean burn engine, the emission treatment system including a low-temperature NOx adsorber (LT-NA) that includes a molecular sieve impregnated with at least one PGM component positioned in fluid communication with the exhaust stream; and an oxidation catalyst that includes a refractory metal oxide support containing manganese impregnated with platinum positioned in fluid communication with the exhaust stream, each of the LT-NA and the oxidation catalyst being disposed on a substrate. The invention provides a catalyst article combining an oxidation catalyst with a LT-NA and a related method of treatment of an exhaust gas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2020
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Applicant: BASF CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jeffrey B. Hoke, Gerd Grubert, Alfred Punke
  • Publication number: 20220152595
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a method for treating a gaseous exhaust stream containing nitrogen oxides (NOx) from a diesel or lean-burn gasoline engine following a cold-start of the engine The method involves contact of the gaseous exhaust stream with at least a low temperature NOx adsorber (LT-NA) component. The LT-NA component includes a rare earth metal component, a platinum group metal (PGM) component, and a dopant. The present disclosure is also directed to a method of modulating a NOx adsorption/desorption profile of an LT-NA composition, a NOx desorption temperature range of an LT-NA composition, or both.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Inventors: Shiang SUNG, Markus KOEGEL, Gerd GRUBERT, Sven Jare LOHMEIER, Alfred PUNKE
  • Patent number: 10493434
    Abstract: A lean burn engine exhaust treatment articles comprising a low temperature lean NOx trap (LT-LNT) composition and methods for their use is disclosed. A lean burn engine exhaust gas treatment system including the lean burn engine exhaust treatment articles is also disclosed. The low temperature lean NOx trap (LT-LNT) compositions can comprise a washcoat layer on a carrier substrate, the washcoat layer including a platinum group metal component impregnated on a first support material comprising at least 50% alumina. The washcoat layer may further include a low temperature NOx storage material comprising a bulk particulate reducible metal oxide. Methods of monitoring the aging state of a lean burn oxidation catalyst in a lean burn engine catalyst system are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: BASF Corporation
    Inventors: Gerd Grubert, Torsten Neubauer, Alfred Punke, Marcus Hilgendorff, Yuejin Li
  • Patent number: 10226754
    Abstract: A lean NOx trap composition for the treatment of exhaust gas emissions, such as the oxidation of unburned hydrocarbons (HC), and carbon monoxide (CO), and the trapping and reduction of nitrogen oxides (NOx) is disclosed. The lean NOx trap composition can have a washcoat layer on a carrier substrate including a first support material comprising greater than 50% by weight of a reducible metal oxide; 10 to 30% by weight of alkaline earth metal supported on a second support material comprising a refractory metal oxide and 50% or less by weight of a reducible metal oxide and; and a platinum group metal component supported on at least one of the first support material and/or the second support material. A portion of the first support material may further include 0.5% to 10% by weight of an alkaline earth metal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: BASF Corporation
    Inventors: Gerd Grubert, Torsten Neubauer, Alfred Punke, Marcus Hilgendorff, Marko Buchholz, Matthew Caudle
  • Patent number: 10215073
    Abstract: The present invention relates to catalyzed soot filter comprising a porous wall flow substrate, a catalyst for selective catalytic reduction (SCR), a palladium component, and a platinum component, the wall flow substrate comprising an inlet end, an outlet end, a substrate axial length extending between the inlet end and the outlet end, and a plurality of channels defined by internal walls of the wall flow substrate, wherein the plurality of channels comprise inlet channels having an open inlet end and a closed outlet end, and outlet channels having a closed inlet end and an open outlet end, and the SCR catalyst is provided on the entire surface of the inlet channel walls and on at least a portion of the surface of the pores within the channel walls underneath the surface of the channel walls coated with the SCR catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: BASF Corporation
    Inventors: Alfred Punke, Gerd Grubert, Marcus Hilgendorff, Torsten Neubauer, Matthew Caudle, Yuejin Li
  • Publication number: 20180185788
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a catalyzed soot filter (CSF) containing a porous wall flow substrate, a lean NOx trap (LNT) catalyst, and a catalyst for selective catalytic reduction (SCR). Also disclosed is a method of preparing the catalyzed soot filter, an emissions treatment system containing the catalyzed soot filter, and processes for treating exhaust gas emissions employing the catalyzed soot filter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2016
    Publication date: July 5, 2018
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Gerd GRUBERT, Torsten NEUBAUER, Alfred PUNKE
  • Publication number: 20180163596
    Abstract: The present invention relates to catalyzed soot filter comprising a porous wall flow substrate, a catalyst for selective catalytic reduction (SCR), a palladium component, and a platinum component, the wall flow substrate comprising an inlet end, an outlet end, a substrate axial length extending between the inlet end and the outlet end, and a plurality of channels defined by internal walls of the wall flow substrate, wherein the plurality of channels comprise inlet channels having an open inlet end and a closed outlet end, and outlet channels having a closed inlet end and an open outlet end, and the SCR catalyst is provided on the entire surface of the inlet channel walls and on at least a portion of the surface of the pores within the channel walls underneath the surface of the channel walls coated with the SCR catalyst.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2016
    Publication date: June 14, 2018
    Applicant: BASF Corporation
    Inventors: Alfred PUNKE, Gerd GRUBERT, Marcus HILGENDORFF, Torsten NEUBAUER, Matthew CAUDLE, Yuejin LI
  • Publication number: 20180043336
    Abstract: A lean NOx trap composition for the treatment of exhaust gas emissions, such as the oxidation of unburned hydrocarbons (HC), and carbon monoxide (CO), and the trapping and reduction of nitrogen oxides (NOx) is disclosed. The lean NOx trap composition can have a washcoat layer on a carrier substrate including a first support material comprising greater than 50% by weight of a reducible metal oxide; 10 to 30% by weight of alkaline earth metal supported on a second support material comprising a refractory metal oxide and 50% or less by weight of a reducible metal oxide and; and a platinum group metal component supported on at least one of the first support material and/or the second support material. A portion of the first support material may further include 0.5% to 10% by weight of an alkaline earth metal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2016
    Publication date: February 15, 2018
    Applicant: BASF Corporation
    Inventors: Gerd GRUBERT, Torsten NEUBAUER, Alfred PUNKE, Marcus HILGENDORFF, Marko BUCHHOLZ, Matthew CAUDLE
  • Publication number: 20180043335
    Abstract: A lean burn engine exhaust treatment articles comprising a low temperature lean NOx trap (LT-LNT) composition and methods for their use is disclosed. A lean burn engine exhaust gas treatment system including the lean burn engine exhaust treatment articles is also disclosed. The low temperature lean NOx trap (LT-LNT) compositions can comprise a washcoat layer on a carrier substrate, the washcoat layer including a platinum group metal component impregnated on a first support material comprising at least 50% alumina. The washcoat layer may further include a low temperature NOx storage material comprising a bulk particulate reducible metal oxide. Methods of monitoring the aging state of a lean burn oxidation catalyst in a lean burn engine catalyst system are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2016
    Publication date: February 15, 2018
    Applicant: BASF Corporation
    Inventors: Gerd GRUBERT, Torsten NEUBAUER, Alfred PUNKE, Marcus HILGENDORFF, Yuejin LI
  • Patent number: 9044734
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a layered diesel oxidation catalyst (DOC) comprising: a) a carrier substrate; b) a diesel oxidation catalytic material comprising b1) a first layer located on the carrier substrate, the first layer comprising palladium impregnated on a support material comprising ceria in an amount of at least 45 weight-% based on the total weight of the support material, and optionally comprising platinum; b2) a second layer located on the first layer, the second layer comprising palladium and platinum each impregnated on a support material comprising a metal oxide; wherein the platinum to palladium weight ratio of the first layer is lower than the platinum to palladium weight ratio of the second layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2015
    Assignees: BASF SE, BASF CORPORATION
    Inventors: Gerd Grubert, Torsten Neubauer, Alfred Punke, Marcus Hilgendorff, Torsten Müller-Stach, Olga Gerlach, Xinyi Wei, Jeffrey Hoke, Shiang Sung, Stanley Roth
  • Patent number: 8524182
    Abstract: Disclosed is a catalyzed soot filter with layered design wherein the first coating of the filter comprises an oxidation catalyst comprising platinum (Pt) and optionally palladium (Pd), wherein the second coating of the filter comprises an oxidation catalyst comprising Pd and optionally Pt, wherein the Pt concentration in the second coating is lower than the Pt concentration in the first coating, and wherein the weight ratio of Pt:Pd in the second coating is in the range of from 1:1 to 0:1; and wherein the first coating and the second coating are present on the wall flow substrate at a coating loading ratio in the range of from 0.25 to 3, calculated as ratio of the loading of the first coating (in g/inch3 (g/(2.54 cm)3)): loading of the second coating (in g/inch3 (g/(2.54 cm)3)).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignees: BASF SE, BASF Corporation
    Inventors: Gerd Grubert, Alfred Punke, Torsten Neubauer, Ruediger Wolff, Stanley Roth, Yuejin Li, Torsten Müller-Stach, Marcus Hilgendorff
  • Publication number: 20120288427
    Abstract: Disclosed is a catalyzed soot filter with layered design wherein the first coating of the filter comprises an oxidation catalyst comprising platinum (Pt) and optionally palladium (Pd), wherein the second coating of the filter comprises an oxidation catalyst comprising Pd and optionally Pt, wherein the Pt concentration in the second coating is lower than the Pt concentration in the first coating, and wherein the weight ratio of Pt:Pd in the second coating is in the range of from 1:1 to 0:1; and wherein the first coating and the second coating are present on the wall flow substrate at a coating loading ratio in the range of from 0.25 to 3, calculated as ratio of the loading of the first coating (in g/inch3 (g/(2.54 cm)3)): loading of the second coating (in g/inch3 (g/(2.54 cm)3)).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2012
    Publication date: November 15, 2012
    Applicants: BASF Corporation, BASF SE
    Inventors: Gerd Grubert, Alfred Punke, Torsten Neubauer, Ruediger Wolff, Stanley Roth, Yuejin Li, Torsten Müller-Stach, Marcus Hilgendorff
  • Publication number: 20110030346
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a treatment system for a gasoline engine exhaust gas stream comprising a particulate filter, said particulate filter comprising: a particulate filter substrate, an inlet layer disposed on the exhaust gas inlet surface of the filter substrate, and an outlet layer disposed on the exhaust gas outlet surface of the filter substrate, wherein the inlet layer comprises Rh and/or Pd, and the outlet layer comprises Rh and/or a zeolite.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2010
    Publication date: February 10, 2011
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Torsten Neubauer, Marcus Hilgendorff, Stephan Siemund, Alfred Punke, Gerd Grubert
  • Publication number: 20060057046
    Abstract: The invention provides a catalyzed soot filter formed on a wall flow substrate having internal walls coated with catalyst compositions. The soot filter maintains a homogeneous flow of the exhaust gases through the internal walls of the substrate along the length of the filter due to the coating design. Both the efficiency and the durability of the catalytic function are increased over conventionally designed catalyzed soot filters. The catalyzed soot filter provides an integrated function for simultaneously treating the gaseous components of the exhaust (e.g., CO and HC) and the particulate matter deposited in the filter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2005
    Publication date: March 16, 2006
    Inventors: Alfred Punke, Torsten Mueller, Michel Deeba, Kenneth Voss, John Steger, Yiu Lui