Abstract: A method for producing a porous body, comprising a raw-material mixing step of mixing talc having an average particle size of 1 ?m or more and 18 ?m or less, alumina, an auxiliary raw material containing a material that undergoes a eutectic reaction with talc and being prepared in an amount so as to satisfy a weight ratio of 0.5% or more and 1.5% or less by weight relative to the talc, and a pore-forming agent, to provide green body, and a molding and firing step of molding the green body to provide a compact and firing this compact at a firing temperature of 1350° C. to 1440° C.

Abstract: In a porous body, a surface layer thickness Ts takes a relatively small value satisfying P?0.54 Ts (formula (1)), the surface layer thickness Ts being derived by a microstructure analysis using the porous-body data that is prepared through three-dimensional scanning of a region including a surface (inflow plane 61) of the porous body. Here, P denotes a porosity [%] of the porous body, and 0%<P<100% and 0 ?m<Ts are assumed. The surface layer thickness Ts is derived as a distance in a thickness direction (X direction) between a surface-layer region start plane 92 in which a straight-pore opening ratio becomes 98% or less for the first time and a surface-layer region end plane 93 in which the straight-pore opening ratio becomes 1% or less for the first time.

Abstract: Object information representing a honeycomb structure with a plurality of meshes is obtained, and an inner-wall-surface heat transfer coefficient hs, i.e., a heat transfer coefficient between an inner wall surface of a cell and a fluid, is derived as follows. First, one of the meshes as a target for derivation of the inner-wall-surface heat transfer coefficient hs is set (S200), and a dimensionless coordinate X* is derived on the basis of position information (X-coordinate) of the set mesh and fluid state information (S210). An inner-wall-surface dimensionless heat transfer coefficient Nus corresponding to the derived dimensionless coordinate X* is then derived on the basis of the inner-wall-surface dimensionless correspondence information (S220 to S250). The inner-wall-surface heat transfer coefficient hs in the mesh set as the derivation target is then derived on the basis of the derived inner-wall-surface dimensionless heat transfer coefficient Nus (S260).

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a honeycomb structure according to the present invention is a method for manufacturing a honeycomb structure provided with partitions forming a plurality of cells. This manufacturing method includes a structure formation process including a pore-forming material placement step of placing a pore-forming material for forming pores in the partitions, a raw material placement step of placing tabular grains and raw material grains such that the tabular grains are arranged in a predetermined direction with respect to the partition surfaces while the tabular grains and the raw material grains constitute a raw material for forming the partitions, and a sintering step of sintering the placed raw material. The honeycomb structure is produced by repeating the structure formation process a plurality of times.

Abstract: A CPU of an analysis apparatus performs a fluid analysis and derives transient distribution information that represents an accumulation distribution of a particulate layer on an inflow-side inner circumferential surface of a honeycomb structure at a time point after a short time interval ?t (step S130). The CPU then repeatedly performs a fluid analysis by taking into account the transient distribution information derived previous time to repeatedly derive transient distribution information (steps S130 to S150) and then derives post-transient-analysis distribution information that represents the accumulation distribution of the particulate layer at a later time point (step S160).

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a porous body includes a structure forming step that is repeatedly performed a plurality of times and includes: a pore-forming material placing step of placing a pore-forming material 50 for forming pores in the porous body; an aggregate placing step of placing aggregate particles 51 which are part of raw materials of the porous body; a binder placing step of placing binder particles 52 which are part of the raw materials of the porous body; and a binding step of heat-fusing at least part of the placed binder particles 52 to bind aggregate particles 51 together.

Abstract: A honeycomb structural body 20 comprises a porous partition portion 22 which forms a plurality of cells each functioning as a flow path of a fluid, and in the partition portion 22, the average pore diameter is 10 to 20 ?m, and a wet area rate R (=S/V) which is the rate of a wet area S of pores to a volume V of the partition portion 22 is 0.000239 ?m?1 or more.

Abstract: A porous body constituting a porous partition wall 44 of a honeycomb filter 30 has a porosity P of 20% to 60%, a permeability k of 1 ?m2 or more and satisfies k?0.2823 P?10.404. The porous body is obtained by a method for producing, for example, includes (a) a step of acquiring porous body data representing a temporary porous body having porosity higher than target porosity, (b) a step of deriving information about a flow rate for each space voxel during passage of a fluid through inside of the porous body, (c) a step of preferentially replacing the voxel having a low flow rate among the space voxels with the object voxel, and adjusting the porosity of the porous body data to the target porosity, and (d) a step of forming a porous body based on the porous body data after replacement.

Abstract: A method for producing a porous body, comprising a raw-material mixing step of mixing talc having an average particle size of 1 ?m or more and 18 ?m or less, alumina, an auxiliary raw material containing a material that undergoes a eutectic reaction with talc and being prepared in an amount so as to satisfy a weight ratio of 0.5% or more and 1.5% or less by weight relative to the talc, and a pore-forming agent, to provide green body, and a molding and firing step of molding the green body to provide a compact and firing this compact at a firing temperature of 1350° C. to 1440° C.

Abstract: A method for analyzing a microstructure of a porous body is, for example, a method using porous-body data in which positional information providing a position of a voxel of a porous body obtained by three-dimensional scanning is associated with voxel type information including information that allows determination as to whether the voxel is a spatial voxel representing a space or an object voxel representing an object. This method includes (a) a step of defining an imaginary surface that is in contact with at least one object voxel present on a surface of the porous body, and identifying, as opening-related voxels, spatial voxels that are in contact with the imaginary surface and spatial voxels that continuously lie in a linear direction from the imaginary surface; and (b) a step of analyzing a microstructure of the porous body on a basis of the opening-related voxels.

Abstract: A ceramic body is heated to a predetermined temperature by using a furnace, and a cooling gas is ejected toward a first end face of the ceramic body so that the first end face of the ceramic body is cooled. At this time, the temperature of the first end face of the ceramic body is measured by a radiation thermometer provided on the same side from which the cooling gas is ejected, and the internal temperature is measured by a thermocouple provided in the ceramic body. Thereafter, a thermal shock resistance test in which actual use conditions are simulated is performed by obtaining the temperature gradient of the ceramic body from measurement results of the temperature of the first end face of the ceramic body and the internal temperature and checking the absence or presence of cracks that occurs to the ceramic body.

Abstract: A holding jig has a tubular jig base member, and a tubular expansion/contraction member disposed on an inner peripheral surface side of the tubular jig base member. Both end sides of the tubular expansion/contraction member are fixed to both end sides of the tubular jig base member along the whole periphery. A configuration of an inner peripheral surface of the tubular expansion/contraction member is smaller than a surface configuration of a pillar-like body (a honeycomb structure) to be held. On the other hand, a configuration of an inner peripheral surface of the tubular jig base member is larger than the surface configuration of the pillar-like body (the honeycomb structure) to be held.

Abstract: In a porous body, a surface layer thickness Ts takes a relatively small value satisfying P?0.54 Ts (formula (1)), the surface layer thickness Ts being derived by a microstructure analysis using the porous-body data that is prepared through three-dimensional scanning of a region including a surface (inflow plane 61) of the porous body. Here, P denotes a porosity [%] of the porous body, and 0%<P<100% and 0 ?m<Ts are assumed. The surface layer thickness Ts is derived as a distance in a thickness direction (X direction) between a surface-layer region start plane 92 in which a straight-pore opening ratio becomes 98% or less for the first time and a surface-layer region end plane 93 in which the straight-pore opening ratio becomes 1% or less for the first time.

Abstract: A honeycomb catalyst body includes a tubular honeycomb base material having porous partition walls to define and form a plurality of cells extending as through channels of a fluid from one end surface from which the fluid flows in to the other end surface from which the fluid flows out, and a catalyst loaded onto the partition walls. In the honeycomb base material, at least one slit which is open in a side surface of the honeycomb base material is formed, and a width of the slit is from 1.0 to 10.0 mm.

Abstract: A CPU of an analysis apparatus performs a fluid analysis and derives transient distribution information that represents an accumulation distribution of a particulate layer on an inflow-side inner circumferential surface of a honeycomb structure at a time point after a short time interval ?t (step S130). The CPU then repeatedly performs a fluid analysis by taking into account the transient distribution information derived previous time to repeatedly derive transient distribution information (steps S130 to S150) and then derives post-transient-analysis distribution information that represents the accumulation distribution of the particulate layer at a later time point (step S160).

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a porous body includes a structure forming step that is repeatedly performed a plurality of times and includes: a pore-forming material placing step of placing a pore-forming material 50 for forming pores in the porous body; an aggregate placing step of placing aggregate particles 51 which are part of raw materials of the porous body; a binder placing step of placing binder particles 52 which are part of the raw materials of the porous body; and a binding step of heat-fusing at least part of the placed binder particles 52 to bind aggregate particles 51 together.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a honeycomb structure according to the present invention is a method for manufacturing a honeycomb structure provided with partitions forming a plurality of cells. This manufacturing method includes a structure formation process including a pore-forming material placement step of placing a pore-forming material for forming pores in the partitions, a raw material placement step of placing tabular grains and raw material grains such that the tabular grains are arranged in a predetermined direction with respect to the partition surfaces while the tabular grains and the raw material grains constitute a raw material for forming the partitions, and a sintering step of sintering the placed raw material. The honeycomb structure is produced by repeating the structure formation process a plurality of times.

Abstract: A method for analyzing a microstructure of a porous body is, for example, a method using porous-body data in which positional information providing a position of a voxel of a porous body obtained by three-dimensional scanning is associated with voxel type information including information that allows determination as to whether the voxel is a spatial voxel representing a space or an object voxel representing an object. This method includes (a) a step of defining an imaginary surface that is in contact with at least one object voxel present on a surface of the porous body, and identifying, as opening-related voxels, spatial voxels that are in contact with the imaginary surface and spatial voxels that continuously lie in a linear direction from the imaginary surface; and (b) a step of analyzing a microstructure of the porous body on a basis of the opening-related voxels.

Abstract: Object information representing a honeycomb structure with a plurality of meshes is obtained, and an inner-wall-surface heat transfer coefficient hs, i.e., a heat transfer coefficient between an inner wall surface of a cell and a fluid, is derived as follows. First, one of the meshes as a target for derivation of the inner-wall-surface heat transfer coefficient hs is set (S200), and a dimensionless coordinate X* is derived on the basis of position information (X-coordinate) of the set mesh and fluid state information (S210). An inner-wall-surface dimensionless heat transfer coefficient Nus corresponding to the derived dimensionless coordinate X* is then derived on the basis of the inner-wall-surface dimensionless correspondence information (S220 to S250). The inner-wall-surface heat transfer coefficient hs in the mesh set as the derivation target is then derived on the basis of the derived inner-wall-surface dimensionless heat transfer coefficient Nus (S260).