Patents by Inventor Attilio Siani

Attilio Siani 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).

  • Patent number: 11946405
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a four-way conversion catalyst for the treatment of an exhaust gas stream of a gasoline engine, the catalyst comprising a porous wall-flow filter 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 passages defined by porous internal walls of the porous wallflow filter substrate, wherein the plurality of passages comprise inlet passages having an open inlet end and a closed outlet end, and outlet passages having a closed inlet end and an open outlet end, wherein the interface between the passages and the porous internal walls is defined by the surface of the internal walls; wherein the porous internal walls comprise pores which comprise an oxidic component comprising a first refractory metal oxide, said first refractory metal oxide comprising aluminum, said oxidic component having a platinum group metal content in the range of from 0 to 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: BASF Corporation
    Inventors: David Schlereth, Hao Li, Stephen Siemund, Thomas Schmitz, Attilio Siani, Florian Waltz
  • Patent number: 11865497
    Abstract: Catalyzed particulate filters comprise three-way conversion (TWC) catalytic material, which comprises rhodium as the only platinum group metal, that permeates walls of a particulate filter. Such catalyzed particulate filters may be located downstream of close-coupled three-way conversion (TWC) composites in an emission treatment system downstream of a gasoline direct injection engine for treatment of an exhaust stream comprising hydrocarbons, carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides, and particulates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: BASF Corporation
    Inventors: Janosch Cravillon, Stephan Siemund, Attilio Siani, Thomas Schmitz, Markus Kinne
  • Publication number: 20240001271
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a particulate filter for the treatment of exhaust gas from an internal combustion engine, wherein the particulate filter comprises a functional material layer, and the amount of the functional material layer in the region which is around the whole central axis of the particulate filter and accounts for 11.1 vol. % of the total volume of the particulate filter, is in the range from 13 to 40 wt. %, based on the total weight of the functional material layer, relates to the process for preparing the particulate filter and relates to a method for the treatment of exhaust gas from an internal combustion engine. The particulate filter according to the present invention has a centralized-distributed functional material layer in the radial direction, shows excellent filtration efficiency and low backpressure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2021
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Applicant: BASF CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jun Cong Jiang, Yun Fei Qi, Florian Waltz, Stephan Siemund, Ye Shen, Attilio Siani, Thomas Schmitz, Xiao Min Yin
  • Publication number: 20230358155
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a particulate filter, in particular a catalyzed particulate filter, for use in an emission treatment system of an internal combustion engine. Provided are catalyzed particulate filters, emission treatment systems with catalyzed particulate filters, methods for manufacturing catalyzed particulate filters, and methods for controlling emissions in exhaust gas from internal combustion engines with catalyzed particulate filters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2021
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Inventors: Jun Cong JIANG, Yipeng SUN, Aleksei VJUNOV, Pascaline TRAN, Attilio SIANI
  • Publication number: 20230330640
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a particulate filter for use in an emission treatment system of an internal combustion engine. The particulate filter provides high fresh filtration efficiency and has minimal to no impact on backpressures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2021
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Inventors: Jun Cong JIANG, Ye Hui WU, Florian WALTZ, Attilio SIANI, Thomas SCHMITZ, Shau Lin CHEN
  • Publication number: 20230330638
    Abstract: Described herein is a layered catalytic article which includes a) a top layer including a front zone and a rear zone, where the front zone includes a palladium component and a rhodium component, supported individually or together on a support, and the rear zone includes a platinum component, a rhodium component and optionally a palladium component, supported individually or together on a support; b) a bottom layer including a platinum component and a palladium component supported individually or together on a support; and c) a substrate. Also described herein are an exhaust treatment system including the layered catalytic article and a method of using the layered catalytic article for abatement of hydrocarbons, carbon monoxide and nitrogen oxides in an exhaust stream.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2021
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Inventors: Chun Yu CHEN, Xiaolai ZHENG, Wei Liang WANG, Attilio SIANI, Pascaline TRAN
  • Publication number: 20220395814
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a particulate filter, in particular a particulate filter for use in an emission treatment system of an internal combustion engine. The particulate filter provides an advantageous combination of low back pressure and high fresh filtration efficiency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2020
    Publication date: December 15, 2022
    Inventors: Jun Cong JIANG, Yun Fei QI, Attilio SIANI, Weiyong TANG, Shau Lin CHEN
  • Patent number: 11376569
    Abstract: A four-way conversion catalyst for treating a gasoline engine exhaust gas has a porous wall flow filter substrate with an inlet end, outlet end, substrate axial length extending between the inlet and outlet end, and passages defined by porous internal walls of the substrate, the passages having inlet passages with an open inlet and closed outlet, and outlet passages having a closed inlet and open outlet. The internal wall pores have a three-way conversion catalytic in-wall coating with an oxygen storage compound and a platinum group metal supported on a refractory metal oxide. On at least a portion of the internal wall surface defining the interface between the internal walls and the passages, the catalyst has a porous on-wall coating from the internal wall surface to the passage. The coating has porous oxidic compound and platinum group metal content of 0 to 0.001 wt. %, of the total coating weight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: BASF Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas Schmitz, Attilio Siani, Stephan Siemund, Janosch Cravillon
  • Publication number: 20220154612
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a catalyzed particulate filter and methods comprising the filter for treatment of an exhaust gas from a gasoline engine, the catalyzed particulate filter comprising a gasoline particulate filter (GPF); a major catalytic layer coated onto or within an inlet side, an outlet side, or both sides of the GPF surfaces, the major catalytic layer comprising a first composition, wherein the first composition comprising a first support material; and a first platinum group metal (PGM); and a minor functional material layer placed onto or within an inlet side, an outlet side, or both sides of the GPF surfaces; the minor catalytic layer comprising a second composition; wherein the major catalytic layer has a higher loading than the minor functional material layer; the minor functional material layer is placed on top of the major catalytic layer, or the major catalytic material layer is placed on top of the minor functional layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2020
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Inventors: Yun Fei QI, Jun Cong JIANG, Attilio SIANI, Weiyong TANG
  • Publication number: 20220118405
    Abstract: Catalyzed particulate filters comprise three-way conversion (TWC) catalytic material, which comprises rhodium as the only platinum group metal, that permeates walls of a particulate filter. Such catalyzed particulate filters may be located downstream of close-coupled three-way conversion (TWC) composites in an emission treatment system downstream of a gasoline direct injection engine for treatment of an exhaust stream comprising hydrocarbons, carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides, and particulates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2021
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Inventors: Janosch CRAVILLON, Stephan SIEMUND, Attilio SIANI, Thomas SCHMITZ, Markus KINNE
  • Patent number: 11260372
    Abstract: A lean gasoline exhaust treatment catalyst article is provided, the article comprising a catalytic material applied on a substrate, wherein the catalytic material comprises a first composition and a second composition, wherein the first and second compositions are present in a layered or zoned configuration, the first composition comprising palladium impregnated onto a porous refractory metal oxide material and rhodium impregnated onto a porous refractory metal oxide material; and the second composition comprising platinum impregnated onto a porous refractory metal oxide material. Methods of making and using such catalyst articles and the associated compositions and systems employing such catalyst articles are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: BASF Corporation
    Inventors: Wen-mei Xue, Attilio Siani, John K. Hochmuth
  • Patent number: 11185819
    Abstract: Catalyzed particulate filters comprise three-way conversion (TWC) catalytic material, which comprises rhodium as the only platinum group metal, that permeates walls of a particulate filter. Such catalyzed particulate filters may be located downstream of close-coupled three-way conversion (TWC) composites in an emission treatment system downstream of a gasoline direct injection engine for treatment of an exhaust stream comprising hydrocarbons, carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides, and particulates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: BASF Corporation
    Inventors: Janosch Cravillon, Stephan Siemund, Attilio Siani, Thomas Schmitz, Markus Kinne
  • Patent number: 11181023
    Abstract: Catalyzed particulate filters comprise three-way conversion (TWC) catalytic material that permeates walls of a particulate filter such that the catalyzed particulate filter has a coated porosity that is less than an uncoated porosity of the particulate filter. The coated porosity is linearly proportional to a washcoat loading of the TWC catalytic material. A coated backpressure is non-detrimental to performance of the engine. Such catalyzed particulate filters may be used in an emission treatment system downstream of a gasoline direct injection engine for treatment of an exhaust stream comprising hydrocarbons, carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides, and particulates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: BASF Corporation
    Inventors: Janosch Cravillon, Stephan Siemund, Attilio Siani, Thomas Schmitz, Oliver Seel, Knut Wassermann
  • Publication number: 20210293168
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a four-way conversion catalyst for the treatment of an exhaust gas stream of a gasoline engine, the catalyst comprising a porous wall-flow filter 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 passages defined by porous internal walls of the porous wallflow filter substrate, wherein the plurality of passages comprise inlet passages having an open inlet end and a closed outlet end, and outlet passages having a closed inlet end and an open outlet end, wherein the interface between the passages and the porous internal walls is defined by the surface of the internal walls; wherein the porous internal walls comprise pores which comprise an oxidic component comprising a first refractory metal oxide, said first refractory metal oxide comprising aluminum, said oxidic component having a platinum group metal content in the range of from 0 to 0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2019
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Applicant: BASF Corporation
    Inventors: David SCHLERETH, Hao LI, Stephen SIEMUND, Thomas SCHMITZ, Attilio SIANI, Florian WALTZ
  • Publication number: 20200368727
    Abstract: A four-way conversion catalyst for treating a gasoline engine exhaust gas has a porous wall flow filter substrate with an inlet end, outlet end, substrate axial length extending between the inlet and outlet end, and passages defined by porous internal walls of the substrate, the passages having inlet passages with an open inlet and closed outlet, and outlet passages having a closed inlet and open outlet. The internal wall pores have a three-way conversion catalytic in-wall coating with an oxygen storage compound and a platinum group metal supported on a refractory metal oxide. On at least a portion of the internal wall surface defining the interface between the internal walls and the passages, the catalyst has a porous on-wall coating from the internal wall surface to the passage. The coating has porous oxidic compound and platinum group metal content of 0 to 0.001 wt. %, of the total coating weight.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2019
    Publication date: November 26, 2020
    Applicant: BASF Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas SCHMITZ, Attilio SIANI, Stephan SIEMUND, Janosch CRAVILLON
  • Publication number: 20200353410
    Abstract: A four-way conversion catalyst for the treatment of an exhaust gas stream of a gasoline engine, the catalyst comprising a porous wall flow filter 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 passages defined by porous internal walls of the porous wall flow filter substrate, wherein the plurality of passages comprise inlet passages having an open inlet end and a closed outlet end, and outlet passages having a closed inlet end and an open outlet end; wherein in the pores of the porous internal walls and on the surface of the porous internal walls, which surface defines the interface between the porous internal walls and the passages, the catalyst comprises a three-way conversion catalytic coating comprising an oxygen storage compound and a platinum group metal supported on a refractory metal oxide; wherein in the pores of the porous internal walls, the three-way conversion catalytic coating is present as in-wall
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2019
    Publication date: November 12, 2020
    Applicant: BASF Corporation
    Inventors: Florian WALTZ, Attilio SIANI, Thomas SCHMITZ, Stephan SIEMUND, David SCHLERETH, Hao LI
  • Publication number: 20200182115
    Abstract: Catalyzed particulate filters comprise three-way conversion (TWC) catalytic material that permeates walls of a particulate filter such that the catalyzed particulate filter has a coated porosity that is less than an uncoated porosity of the particulate filter. The coated porosity is linearly proportional to a washcoat loading of the TWC catalytic material. A coated backpressure is non-detrimental to performance of the engine. Such catalyzed particulate filters may be used in an emission treatment system downstream of a gasoline direct injection engine for treatment of an exhaust stream comprising hydrocarbons, carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides, and particulates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2017
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Applicant: BASF Corporation
    Inventors: Janosch CRAVILLON, Stephan SIEMUND, Attilio SIANI, Thomas SCHMITZ, Oliver SEEL, Knut WASSERMANN
  • Publication number: 20190168161
    Abstract: Catalyzed particulate filters comprise three-way conversion (TWC) catalytic material, which comprises rhodium as the only platinum group metal, that permeates walls of a particulate filter. Such catalyzed particulate filters may be located downstream of close-coupled three-way conversion (TWC) composites in an emission treatment system downstream of a gasoline direct injection engine for treatment of an exhaust stream comprising hydrocarbons, carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides, and particulates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2017
    Publication date: June 6, 2019
    Applicant: BASF CORPORATION
    Inventors: Janosch CRAVILLON, Stephan SIEMUND, Attilio SIANI, Thomas SCHMITZ, Markus KINNE
  • Publication number: 20180361360
    Abstract: A lean gasoline exhaust treatment catalyst article is provided, the article comprising a catalytic material applied on a substrate, wherein the catalytic material comprises a first composition and a second composition, wherein the first and second compositions are present in a layered or zoned configuration, the first composition comprising palladium impregnated onto a porous refractory metal oxide material and rhodium impregnated onto a porous refractory metal oxide material; and the second composition comprising platinum impregnated onto a porous refractory metal oxide material. Methods of making and using such catalyst articles and the associated compositions and systems employing such catalyst articles are also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2016
    Publication date: December 20, 2018
    Inventors: Wen-mei XUE, Attilio SIANI, John K. HOCHMUTH
  • Patent number: 9981258
    Abstract: A layered catalyst composite for the treatment of exhaust gas emissions, effective to provide lean NOx trap functionality and three-way conversion functionality is described. Layered catalyst composites can comprise catalytic material on a substrate, the catalytic material comprising at least two layers. The first layer comprising rare earth oxide-high surface area refractory metal oxide particles, an alkaline earth metal supported on the rare earth oxide-high surface area refractory metal oxide particles, and at least one first platinum group metal component supported on the rare earth oxide-high surface area refractory metal oxide particles. The second layer comprising a second platinum group metal component supported on a first oxygen storage component (OSC) and/or a first refractory metal oxide support and, optionally, a third platinum group metal supported on a second refractory metal oxide support or a second oxygen storage component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: BASF Corporation
    Inventors: Wen-Mei Xue, Attilio Siani, John K. Hochmuth, Markus Kinne, Stefan Kielbassa