Abstract: Compositions useful for treating the exhaust gases of diesel engines contain zirconium oxide, silicon oxide and at least one oxide of at least one element M selected from among titanium, aluminum, tungsten, molybdenum, cerium, iron, tin, zinc, and manganese, in the following mass proportions of these different elements: silicon oxide: 5%-30%; M-element oxide: 1%-20%; the balance being zirconium oxide; such compositions also have an acidity, as measured by the methylbutynol test, of at least 90% and are prepared by placing a zirconium compound, a silicon compound, at least one M-element compound and a basic compound in a liquid medium, thereby generating a precipitate, maturing the precipitate in a liquid medium and separating and calcining the precipitate.

Abstract: Compositions useful for treating exhaust gases contain zirconium, titanium and tungsten oxides, and optionally the oxide of an element M selected from among silicon, aluminum, iron, molybdenum, manganese, zinc, tin, and rare earths in the following mass proportions of these different elements: titanium oxide: 20%-50%; tungsten oxide: 1%-20%, M-element oxide: 1%-20%; the balance being zirconium oxide; such compositions are prepared by placing in a liquid medium a zirconium compound, a titanium compound, optionally an M-element compound and a basic compound, adding a tungsten compound to the precipitate suspension thus obtained and having a pH value ranging from 1 to 7, maturing the suspension resulting from the preceding step, and optionally separating the precipitate and calcining same.

Abstract: A composition is based on zirconium oxide and cerium oxide with a proportion of zirconium oxide amounting to at least 50% by mass, having a maximum reducibility temperature of no more than 500° C. and a specific surface of at least 40 m2/g after 6 hours calcination at 500° C. in the form of a tetragonal phase. The composition can be used as a catalyst.

Abstract: Catalyst/catalyst support composition essentially consist of oxides of zirconium, cerium and lanthanum and of another rare earth selected from among yttrium, gadolinium and samarium, having a proportion of the lanthanum oxide and the oxide of the other rare earth of at least 15% and specific surfaces of at least 40 m2/g and at least 15 m2/g after calcination respectively for 4 hours at 1,000° C. and 10 hours at 1,150° C.; after calcination for 10 hours at 1,200° C. these have a surface of at least 7 m2/g and such surface is at least 5 m2/g for an embodiment in which after 10 hours of calcination at 1,150° C. the composition is in the form of a pure solid solution.

Abstract: Thermally stable, solid alumina-based compositions useful for the trapping of nitrogen oxides that are contained in gaseous fluids, notably in vehicular exhaust gases, are formed of alumina, cerium and a divalent metal M selected from among barium, strontium or an association of these two elements and which include at least 10% of the weight of element M expressed by weight of oxide in contrast to the total weight of the composition and also wherein the aluminate compound of the metal element M, i.e., MAl204, is absent and not detectable by X-ray diffraction of the composition, after calcination thereof with air at 700° C. for two hours.

Abstract: Catalytic compositions useful, e.g., for the treatment of internal combustion engine exhaust gases, are based on zirconium oxide in a weight proportion of at least 25%, from 15% to 60% of cerium oxide, from 10% to 25% of yttrium oxide, from 2% to 10% of lanthanum oxide and from 2% to 15% of another rare earth oxide, have a specific surface of at least 15 m2/g and a cubic phase, and are prepared from a mixture of zirconium, cerium, yttrium, lanthanum and the additional rare earth, by precipitating such mixture with a base, heating the precipitate in an aqueous medium, adding thereto a surfactant and calcining the precipitate.

Abstract: The processing of gases, in particular the exhaust gas of an internal combustion/diesel engine, entails catalytically oxidizing the carbon monoxide and hydrocarbons contained therein in an oxygen-rich medium, in the presence of a metal oxidation catalyst that includes a silica-containing zirconia support.

Abstract: Catalyst compositions for the treatment of vehicular exhaust gases are based on zirconium and cerium oxides, have a cerium oxide content of at most 50% by weight, a level of reducibility of at least 95% after calcination in air at 600°, and a specific surface area after calcination for 4 hours at 1100° of at least 15 m2/g; such compositions are prepared by forming an aqueous mixture containing zirconium and cerium compounds, by heating this mixture to at least 100° and, after the heating, adjusting it to a basic pH, by adding a surfactant additive to the precipitate obtained from this mixture and by calcinating the precipitate in an inert gas or under vacuum at a temperature of at least 900° and then in an oxidizing atmosphere at a temperature of at least 600°.

Abstract: A method for treating/purification a gas containing nitrogen oxides (NOx) includes conveying same through a NOx trap containing a composition based on a catalyst for oxidizing NOx into NO2 and a compound based on zirconium oxide and praseodymium oxide in a proportion of praseodymium oxide ranging from 5 wt. % to 50 wt. % of oxide; such compound may further include cerium oxide and the subject process is useful for treating the exhaust gas of a Diesel or lean mixture gasoline internal combustion engine.

Abstract: Zirconium and yttrium oxide-based composition with a specific surface area of at least 12 m2/g following calcination at 1000° C. for 10 hours. This composition is obtained via a method wherein a mixture of zirconium and yttrium compounds is precipitated with a base; the resulting precipitate-containing medium is heated; a compound selected from anionic surfactants, non-ionic surfactants, polyethylene glycols, carboxylic acids and the salts thereof and carboxymethylated fatty alcohol ethoxylate-type surfactants is then added to said precipitate, and, finally, the precipitate is calcined. Said composition can be used as a catalyst.

Abstract: The present invention relates to ceric oxide that has excellent heat resistance and oxygen absorbing and desorbing capability useful as a co-catalyst material suitable for a catalyst for purifying exhaust gas, that is capable of maintaining a large specific surface area even in use in a high temperature environment, and that is suitable for use in a high temperature environment, yet capable of exhibiting high oxygen absorbing and desorbing capability also in a lower temperature range, a method for preparing such ceric oxide, and a catalyst for purifying exhaust gas utilizing such ceric oxide. The ceric oxide is an oxide composed essentially of ceric oxide, and has a specific surface area of not smaller than 30.0 m2/g after calcination at 900° C. for 5 hours.

Abstract: The composition is based on zirconium oxide and at least one additive selected from zirconium oxide and at least one additive chosen from praseodymium, lanthanum or neodymium oxides, has a specific surface of at least 29 m 2/g after calcination at 1000° C. during a period of 10 hoursand is is obtained by a method wherein a mixture of zirconium compounds and additive is precipitated with a base; the medium thus obtained, containing a precipitate, is heated and a compound chosen from anionic surfactants, non-ionic surfactants, polyethylene glycols, carboxylic acids and the salts thereof and surfactants such as the ethoxylates of caroboxymethyl fatty alcohols is added to the compound and the precipitate is calcinated; the composition can be used as a catalyst.

Abstract: The inventive composition is based on cerium oxide and on zirconium oxide in an atomic proportion Ce/Zr of at least 1, and has a reducibility rate of at least 70% and a surface area of at least 15 m; 2; /g. This composition is obtained by a method in which: a mixture is made containing cerium and zirconium compounds; this mixture is provided with a basic compound whereby obtaining a precipitate that is heated in an aqueous medium; a surfactant-type additive or a polyethylene glycol or a carboxylic acid is added to this medium or to the separated precipitate; the mixture is ground; the precipitate obtained thereof is calcined under inert gas or vacuum, in a first period of time, at a temperature of at least 850° C. and then under an oxidizing atmosphere, in a second period of time, at a temperature of at least 400° C.

Abstract: The present invention relates to ceric oxide that has excellent heat resistance and oxygen absorbing and desorbing capability useful as a co-catalyst material suitable for a catalyst for purifying exhaust gas, that is capable of maintaining a large specific surface area even in use in a high temperature environment, and that is suitable for use in a high temperature environment, yet capable of exhibiting high oxygen absorbing and desorbing capability also in a lower temperature range, a method for preparing such ceric oxide, and a catalyst for purifying exhaust gas utilizing such ceric oxide. The ceric oxide is an oxide composed essentially of ceric oxide, and has a specific surface area of not smaller than 30.0 m2/g after calcination at 900° C. for 5 hours.

Abstract: The inventive composition, according to a first embodiment, consists essentially of a cerium oxide and a zirconium oxide. According to a second embodiment, said composition is based on cerium oxide, zirconium oxide and at least one rare earth oxide other than cerium. After a first 4-hour period of calcination at 900 .C followed by a second 10-hour period of at 1000 .C, the specific surface variation thereof is 20% maximum in the first embodiment and 15% maximum in the second embodiment. The inventive composition can be used as a catalyst, i.e. in the treatment of waste gases from internal combustion engines.

Abstract: The inventive composition, according to a first embodiment, consists essentially of a cerium oxide and a zirconium oxide in an atomic ratio Ce/Zr of at least 1. According to a second embodiment, said composition is based on cerium oxide, zirconium oxide with an atomic ratio Ce/Zr of at least 1 and at least one rare earth oxide other than cerium. After calcination at 1100 C., said composition has a specific surface of at least 9 m2/g in the first embodiment and at least 19 m2/g in the second embodiment. The inventive composition can be used as a catalyst especially for the treatment of waste gases from internal combustion engines.

Abstract: The invention relates to a multiple-glazing pane consisting of two or more neighbouring panes (1), which are separated by an intermediate space. Transparent materials are used exclusively, partially and/or additionally as spacers, said materials enabling light to be supplied into the intermediate space between the panes, whereby the light can be guided, fixed in a precise manner or diffused. The light source is located outside the hermetically sealed intermediate space between the panes in such a way that it can be serviced, retrofitted and if it malfunctions, replaced without damaging the glass pane.

Abstract: The present invention relates to ceric oxide that has excellent heat resistance and oxygen absorbing and desorbing capability useful as a co-catalyst material suitable for a catalyst for purifying exhaust gas, that is capable of maintaining a large specific surface area even in use in a high temperature environment, and that is suitable for use in a high temperature environment, yet capable of exhibiting high oxygen absorbing and desorbing capability also in a lower temperature range, a method for preparing such ceric oxide, and a catalyst for purifying exhaust gas utilizing such ceric oxide. The ceric oxide is an oxide composed essentially of ceric oxide, and has a specific surface area of not smaller than 30.0 m2/g after calcination at 900° C. for 5 hours.