Patents by Inventor Brendan Carberry
Brendan Carberry 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).
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Patent number: 10690029Abstract: An arrangement of an internal combustion engine with at least one first and one second nitrogen oxide storage catalytic converter is provided, wherein the first nitrogen oxide storage catalytic converter is arranged within a low-pressure exhaust gas recirculation circuit. A method for operating the arrangement is furthermore provided, wherein the nitrogen oxide storage catalytic converters can be used for the production of ammonia under operating conditions with a high load by providing rich exhaust gas conditions.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2018Date of Patent: June 23, 2020Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Christoph Boerensen, Dirk Roemer, Frank Linzen, Brendan Carberry, Felix Goebel, Evgeny Smirnov
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Patent number: 10301990Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for an exhaust gas aftertreatment system. In one example, a method may include limiting ammonia desorption from a catalyst in response to an increase in driver demand by activating an electric motor.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2018Date of Patent: May 28, 2019Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Frederik De Smet, Monika Angst, Christoph Boerensen, Dirk Roemer, Frank Linzen, Brendan Carberry, Felix Goebel, Evgeny Smirnov
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Publication number: 20180216510Abstract: An arrangement of an internal combustion engine with at least one first and one second nitrogen oxide storage catalytic converter is provided, wherein the first nitrogen oxide storage catalytic converter is arranged within a low-pressure exhaust gas recirculation circuit. A method for operating the arrangement is furthermore provided, wherein the nitrogen oxide storage catalytic converters can be used for the production of ammonia under operating conditions with a high load by providing rich exhaust gas conditions.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2018Publication date: August 2, 2018Inventors: Christoph Boerensen, Dirk Roemer, Frank Linzen, Brendan Carberry, Felix Goebel, Evgeny Smirnov
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Publication number: 20180187583Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for an exhaust gas aftertreatment system. In one example, a method may include limiting ammonia desorption from a catalyst in response to an increase in driver demand by activating an electric motor.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 3, 2018Publication date: July 5, 2018Inventors: Frederik De Smet, Monika Angst, Christoph Boerensen, Dirk Roemer, Frank Linzen, Brendan Carberry, Felix Goebel, Evgeny Smirnov
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Patent number: 8241579Abstract: A catalyst composition for facilitating the oxidation of soot from diesel engine exhaust is provided. The catalyst composition includes a catalytic metal selected from Pt, Pd, Pt—Pd, Ag, or combinations thereof, an active metal oxide component containing Cu and La, and a support selected from alumina, silica, zirconia, or combinations thereof. The platinum group metal loading of the composition is less than about 20 g/ft3. The catalyst composition may be provided on a diesel particulate filter by impregnating the filter with an alumina, silica or zirconia sol solution modified with glycerol and/or saccharose, impregnating the filter with a stabilizing solution, and impregnating the filter with a solution containing the active metal oxide precursor(s) and the catalytic metal precursor(s). The resulting catalyst coated diesel particulate filter provides effective soot oxidation, exhibits good thermal stability, has a high BET surface area, and exhibits minimal backpressure.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2011Date of Patent: August 14, 2012Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Albert Chigapov, Alexei Dubkov, Brendan Carberry
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Patent number: 8137636Abstract: A catalyst composition for facilitating the oxidation of soot from diesel engine exhaust is provided. The catalyst composition includes a catalytic metal selected from Pt, Pd, Pt—Pd, Ag, or combinations thereof, an active metal oxide component containing Cu and La, and a support selected from alumina, silica, zirconia, or combinations thereof. The platinum group metal loading of the composition is less than about 20 g/ft3. The catalyst composition may be provided on a diesel particulate filter by impregnating the filter with an alumina, silica or zirconia sol solution modified with glycerol and/or saccharose, impregnating the filter with a stabilizing solution, and impregnating the filter with a solution containing the active metal oxide precursor(s) and the catalytic metal precursor(s). The resulting catalyst coated diesel particulate filter provides effective soot oxidation, exhibits good thermal stability, has a high BET surface area, and exhibits minimal backpressure.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2010Date of Patent: March 20, 2012Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Albert Chigapov, Alexei Dubkov, Brendan Carberry
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Publication number: 20120011832Abstract: A catalyst composition for facilitating the oxidation of soot from diesel engine exhaust is provided. The catalyst composition includes a catalytic metal selected from Pt, Pd, Pt—Pd, Ag, or combinations thereof, an active metal oxide component containing Cu and La, and a support selected from alumina, silica, zirconia, or combinations thereof. The platinum group metal loading of the composition is less than about 20 g/ft3. The catalyst composition may be provided on a diesel particulate filter by impregnating the filter with an alumina, silica or zirconia sol solution modified with glycerol and/or saccharose, impregnating the filter with a stabilizing solution, and impregnating the filter with a solution containing the active metal oxide precursor(s) and the catalytic metal precursor(s). The resulting catalyst coated diesel particulate filter provides effective soot oxidation, exhibits good thermal stability, has a high BET surface area, and exhibits minimal backpressure.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2011Publication date: January 19, 2012Inventors: Albert Chigapov, Alexei Dubkov, Brendan Carberry
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Patent number: 8052937Abstract: A catalyst composition for facilitating the oxidation of soot from diesel engine exhaust is provided. The catalyst composition includes a catalytic metal selected from Pt, Pd, Pt—Pd, Ag, or combinations thereof, an active metal oxide component containing Cu and La, and a support selected from alumina, silica, zirconia, or combinations thereof. The platinum group metal loading of the composition is less than about 20 g/ft3. The catalyst composition may be provided on a diesel particulate filter by impregnating the filter with an alumina, silica or zirconia sol solution modified with glycerol and/or saccharose, impregnating the filter with a stabilizing solution, and impregnating the filter with a solution containing the active metal oxide precursor(s) and the catalytic metal precursor(s). The resulting catalyst coated diesel particulate filter provides effective soot oxidation, exhibits good thermal stability, has a high BET surface area, and exhibits minimal backpressure.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2010Date of Patent: November 8, 2011Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Albert Chigapov, Alexei Dubkov, Brendan Carberry
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Patent number: 7820588Abstract: The invention relates to a catalyst for the oxidation of carbon monoxide (CO) at low temperatures, which is a catalytically active composition based on platinum and cobalt. The catalyst can be used in the removal of CO from hydrogen-rich gas for fuel cell technology in order to avoid poisoning the electrodes with CO. Further fields of application relate to the automobile sector, and in particular, to the effective removal of CO during cold starting of a diesel or petrol engine and also to air purification systems for quality control of air in interior spaces, e.g., the removal of CO in a tunnel, an underground railway, multi-story car parks or submarines.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2006Date of Patent: October 26, 2010Assignees: Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Fraunhofer-GesellschaftInventors: Albert Chigapov, Brendan Carberry, Alexander Susdorf
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Publication number: 20100233046Abstract: A catalyst composition for facilitating the oxidation of soot from diesel engine exhaust is provided. The catalyst composition includes a catalytic metal selected from Pt, Pd, Pt—Pd, Ag, or combinations thereof, an active metal oxide component containing Cu and La, and a support selected from alumina, silica, zirconia, or combinations thereof. The platinum group metal loading of the composition is less than about 20 g/ft3. The catalyst composition may be provided on a diesel particulate filter by impregnating the filter with an alumina, silica or zirconia sol solution modified with glycerol and/or saccharose, impregnating the filter with a stabilizing solution, and impregnating the filter with a solution containing the active metal oxide precursor(s) and the catalytic metal precursor(s). The resulting catalyst coated diesel particulate filter provides effective soot oxidation, exhibits good thermal stability, has a high BET surface area, and exhibits minimal backpressure.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2010Publication date: September 16, 2010Inventors: Albert Chigapov, Alexei Dubkov, Brendan Carberry
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Publication number: 20100223918Abstract: A catalyst composition for facilitating the oxidation of soot from diesel engine exhaust is provided. The catalyst composition includes a catalytic metal selected from Pt, Pd, Pt—Pd, Ag, or combinations thereof, an active metal oxide component containing Cu and La, and a support selected from alumina, silica, zirconia, or combinations thereof. The platinum group metal loading of the composition is less than about 20 g/ft3. The catalyst composition may be provided on a diesel particulate filter by impregnating the filter with an alumina, silica or zirconia sol solution modified with glycerol and/or saccharose, impregnating the filter with a stabilizing solution, and impregnating the filter with a solution containing the active metal oxide precursor(s) and the catalytic metal precursor(s). The resulting catalyst coated diesel particulate filter provides effective soot oxidation, exhibits good thermal stability, has a high BET surface area, and exhibits minimal backpressure.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2010Publication date: September 9, 2010Inventors: Albert Chigapov, Alexei Dubkov, Brendan Carberry
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Patent number: 7771669Abstract: A catalyst composition for facilitating the oxidation of soot from diesel engine exhaust is provided. The catalyst composition includes a catalytic metal selected from Pt, Pd, Pt—Pd, Ag, or combinations thereof, an active metal oxide component containing Cu and La, and a support selected from alumina, silica, zirconia, or combinations thereof. The platinum group metal loading of the composition is less than about 20 g/ft3. The catalyst composition may be provided on a diesel particulate filter by impregnating the filter with an alumina, silica or zirconia sol solution modified with glycerol and/or saccharose, impregnating the filter with a stabilizing solution, and impregnating the filter with a solution containing the active metal oxide precursor(s) and the catalytic metal precursor(s). The resulting catalyst coated diesel particulate filter provides effective soot oxidation, exhibits good thermal stability, has a high BET surface area, and exhibits minimal backpressure.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2006Date of Patent: August 10, 2010Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Albert Chigapov, Alexei Dubkov, Brendan Carberry
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Patent number: 7291576Abstract: The present invention provides a regenerable catalyst composition suitable for entrapping SOx. The composition of the invention comprises a copper oxide having the formula (Cu/(A oxide) where A oxide is SiO2, Zr—SiO2, Al2O3, TiO2—Al2O3, ZrO2 and In2O3 or mixtures thereof. Copper loading may vary from about 10 to 60 mol % and is preferably about 25 mol %. The catalyst composition adsorbs SOx as metal sulfate under lean conditions and desorbs accumulated SOx as SO2 under rich conditions. Such reversible SOx trap are able to operate under conventional NOx trap operating conditions to prevent sulfur poisoning of the NOx trap. Furthermore, these traps may be regenerated under rich conditions at 300-450° C. In another embodiment of the present invention, an irreversible SOx trap capable of collecting SOx under lean conditions is provided. The traps of this embodiment include praseodymia, zirconia-praseodymia and mixed manganese-yttria and mixtures thereof.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2003Date of Patent: November 6, 2007Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Robert McCabe, Woosang Chun, George Graham, Clifford Montreuil, Brendan Carberry, Albert Chigapov, Alexei Dubkov
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Publication number: 20070245724Abstract: A catalyst composition is provided for use on a diesel particulate filter which facilitates the oxidation of soot from diesel engine exhaust and which generates low NO2 emissions during regeneration of the filter. The catalyst composition includes a catalytic metal comprising a platinum group metal selected from Pt, Pd, Pt—Pd, or combinations thereof, an active metal oxide component containing Cu and La; and an oxide component selected from oxides of Co, Fe, or combinations thereof. The catalyst composition includes a support selected from alumina, silica, zirconia, or combinations thereof. The catalyst composition may be provided on a diesel particulate filter by impregnating the filter with an alumina, silica or zirconia sol solution modified with glycerol and/or saccharose, impregnating the filter with a stabilizing solution, and impregnating the filter with a solution containing the catalyst metal precursor(s), the active metal oxide precursor(s) and the Co or Fe oxide(s).Type: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2007Publication date: October 25, 2007Inventors: Alexei Dubkov, Albert Chigapov, Brendan Carberry
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Publication number: 20070219088Abstract: A catalyst composition for facilitating the oxidation of soot from diesel engine exhaust is provided. The catalyst composition includes a catalytic metal selected from Pt, Pd, Pt—Pd, Ag, or combinations thereof, an active metal oxide component containing Cu and La, and a support selected from alumina, silica, zirconia, or combinations thereof. The platinum group metal loading of the composition is less than about 20 g/ft3. The catalyst composition may be provided on a diesel particulate filter by impregnating the filter with an alumina, silica or zirconia sol solution modified with glycerol and/or saccharose, impregnating the filter with a stabilizing solution, and impregnating the filter with a solution containing the active metal oxide precursor(s) and the catalytic metal precursor(s). The resulting catalyst coated diesel particulate filter provides effective soot oxidation, exhibits good thermal stability, has a high BET surface area, and exhibits minimal backpressure.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 20, 2006Publication date: September 20, 2007Inventors: Albert Chigapov, Alexei Dubkov, Brendan Carberry
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Publication number: 20070129247Abstract: The invention relates to a catalyst for the oxidation of carbon monoxide (CO) at low temperatures, which is a catalytically active composition based on platinum and cobalt. The catalyst can be used in the removal of CO from hydrogen-rich gas for fuel cell technology in order to avoid poisoning of the electrodes with CO. Further fields of application relate to the automobile sector, in particular the effective removal of CO during cold starting of a diesel or petrol engine and also air purification systems for quality control of air in interior spaces, e.g., removal of CO in a tunnel, an underground railway, multistory car parks or submarines.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 1, 2006Publication date: June 7, 2007Inventors: Albert Chigapov, Brendan Carberry, Alexander Susdorf
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Publication number: 20060100097Abstract: The present invention provides new platinum group metal (“PGM”) free catalytic compositions that comprise silver and/or cobalt stabilized ceria. These compositions facilitate soot oxidation during the regeneration of diesel particulate filters (DPF) thereby replacing PGM formulations. The compositions of the invention are particularly useful as washcoat compositions for DPFs as part of an automotive after-treatment system. Among the formulations tested, the silver-stabilized ceria and cobalt-stabilized ceria formulations e.g. can oxidize soot at 250-300° C. in the presence of NO2 and oxygen, while silver-stabilized ceria can oxidize diesel soot even in the presence of oxygen as the sole oxidizing agent at these temperatures. A perovshite composition containing Ag—La—Mn was very active at temperatures above 300° C.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2006Publication date: May 11, 2006Applicant: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventors: Albert Chigapov, Alexei Dubkov, Brendan Carberry, Robert McCabe
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Publication number: 20050145827Abstract: The present invention provides a regenerable catalyst composition suitable for entrapping SOx. The composition of the invention comprises a copper oxide having the formula (Cu/(A oxide) where A oxide is SiO2, Zr—SiO2, A12O3, TiO2—Al2O3, ZrO2 and In2O3 or mixtures thereof. Copper loading may vary from about 10 to 60 mol % and is preferably about 25 mol %. The catalyst composition adsorbs SOx as metal sulfate under lean conditions and desorbs accumulated SOx as SO2 under rich conditions. Such reversible SOx trap are able to operate under conventional NOx trap operating conditions to prevent sulfur poisoning of the NOx trap. Furthermore, these traps may be regenerated under rich conditions at 300-450° C. In another embodiment of the present invention, an irreversible SOx trap capable of collecting SOx under lean conditions is provided. The traps of this embodiment include praseodymia, zirconia-praseodymia and mixed manganese-yttria and mixtures thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 30, 2003Publication date: July 7, 2005Inventors: Robert McCabe, Woosang Chun, George Graham, Clifford Montreuil, Brendan Carberry, Albert Chigapov, Alexei Dubkov