Abstract: A porous, flow-through molded body, designed specifically for use in the removal of diesel soot particles from the exhaust gas of diesel engines. It includes a reciprocally closed honeycombed body made of silicon carbide and possessing the following features.wall thickness: 1.25.+-.0.5 mm;porosity: 55 to 60%;average pore diameter: 25 to 70 .mu.m;specific permeability: 20 to 100 nPm.In the production method, a starting powder of silicon or a mixture of silicon with portions of silicon carbide and/or carbon is combined with an organic binding agent that can be coked and molded into a green body. This is then subjected to a coking fire in an inert-gas atmosphere; the molded body obtained in this manner is then heated in the presence of nitrogen or a nitrogenous inert gas to a temperature where free silicon is converted with the carbon, in a reaction firing, to silicon carbide. Additionally, a recrystallization firing at greater than 2000.degree. C. is implemented.

Abstract: A porous permeable molded body designed especially for use in the removal of diesel soot particles from the exhaust gas of diesel engines is disclosed. The body includes an alternatingly closed honeycombed body made of silicon carbide and possessing the following features:______________________________________ wall thickness: 1.25 .+-. 0.5 mm; porosity: 55 to 60%; average pore diameter: 25 to 70 .mu.m; specific permeability: 20 to 100 nPm. ______________________________________In the production method, a starting powder of silicon or a mixture of silicon with portions of silicon carbide and/or carbon is combined with an organic binding agent that can be coked and molded into a green body. This is then subjected to a coking fire in an inert-gas atmosphere; the molded body obtained in this manner is then heated in the presence of nitrogen or a nitrogenous inert gas to a temperature where free silicon is converted with the carbon, in a reaction firing, to silicon carbide.

Abstract: Disclosed are means and method for forming elastic connection between ceramic and metallic structural elements. The means comprises a ceramic structural element; a metallic structural element having thermal and elastic properties different from those of the ceramic structural element; and a connecting element connecting the ceramic and metallic structural elements and comprising an insulating resilient body of ceramic material having a thermal conductivity of between about 0.02 and 0.25 W/cmK at a temperature difference between the ceramic and metallic structural elements of from about 100 to 1500 Centigrade degrees, an elastic modulus of between about 5000 and 150,000 N/mm.sup.2 and being substantially free of plastic deformation.

Abstract: The invention relates to a recuperative heat exchanger comprising an elongate rotationally symmetric body of ceramic material having radially outwardly extending, flow channels of slot like cross-section extending along the axis of the body. Alternate flow channels extend further toward the surface of the body and further toward the axis of the body, respectively. Inlet and outlet openings are provided for the flow channels about at the ends of the body. The invention also comprises a process for making such a heat exchanger, including extruding ceramic material through an extrusion nozzle with a free cross-section in which core bodies are shaped and positioned for generating the flow channels and inner and outer cover walls defining the flow channels. The invention further comprises the extrusion nozzle in which the process is performed.

Abstract: Disclosed is a recuperative heat exchanger, comprising a body of ceramic material having a plurality of generally parallel flow channels arranged adjacently to one another generally axially with respect to the body, with adjacent flow channels having a common partition wall. The plurality of flow channels include a plurality of first flow channels for carrying a first heat transfer medium and a plurality of second flow channels, alternatingly arranged with respect to the first flow channels, for carrying a second heat exchange medium. Each of the first channels has an inlet positioned on one lateral side of the body near a first longitudinal end of the body and an outlet positioned in the opposite, second longitudinal end of the body, and each of the second flow channels has an inlet positioned on one lateral side of the body near the second longitudinal end of the body and an outlet in the first longitudinal end of the body.

Abstract: Refractory products such as foundry articles and composite metal-ceramic articles are prepared from a sepiolite (2 MgO.3SiO.sub.2.2H.sub.2 O) and silicate containing aluminum titanate.

Abstract: A heat exchanger of a ceramic body, or the like, having a plurality of elongate flow passages in parallel relationship with the placement of the passages staggered with respect to the opposite end cover walls of the ceramic body, transversely extending parts of both cover walls being absent to expose those staggered passages that pass closer to the respective cover wall, thereby to permit access for fluid media to the flow passages; particular characteristic features of the passages are disclosed.