Abstract: An exhaust gas filter for purifying exhaust gases including particulate matter discharged from an internal combustion engine includes a honeycomb structure whose axial direction matches an exhaust gas flow, a plug portion which selectively plugs upstream end faces of the honeycomb structure which faces the exhaust gas flow, and catalyst carried on the honeycomb structure. The honeycomb structure has a plurality of partition walls and cells surrounded by the partition walls, and pores formed inside partition walls between adjacent cells communicating with each other. The plurality of the cells have open cells which are penetrated in the axial direction and plugged cells having one upstream end which face the exhaust gas flow plugged by the plug portion. The honeycomb structure has a first region which does not carry the catalyst on the partition walls and a second region which carries the catalyst on the partition walls.

Abstract: An exhaust gas filter for purifying exhaust gases including particulate matter discharged from an internal combustion engine includes a honeycomb structure whose axial direction matches an exhaust gas flow, a plug portion which selectively plugs upstream end faces of the honeycomb structure which faces the exhaust gas flow, and catalyst carried on the honeycomb structure. The honeycomb structure has a plurality of partition walls and cells surrounded by the partition walls, and pores formed inside partition walls between adjacent cells communicating with each other. The plurality of the cells have open cells which are penetrated in the axial direction and plugged cells having one upstream end which face the exhaust gas flow plugged by the plug portion. The honeycomb structure has a first region which does not carry the catalyst on the partition walls and a second region which carries the catalyst on the partition walls.

Abstract: A carbon-based combustion catalyst is obtained by calcining sodalite at a temperature of 600° C. or more. Alternatively, a carbon-based combustion catalyst is obtained by performing the following mixing step, drying step, and calcination step. In the mixing step, aluminosilicate (sodalite), and an alkali metal source, and/or an alkaline earth metal source are mixed in water to obtain a liquid mixture. In the drying step, the liquid mixture is heated to evaporate the water, thereby obtaining a solid. In the calcination step, the solid is calcined at a temperature of 600° C. or more so that a part or all of the sodalite structure is changed. The thus-obtained catalyst can cause carbon-based material to be stably burned and removed at a low temperature for a long time.

Abstract: The present invention provides a needle-shaped ceramic body and needle-shaped ceramic catalyst body in which a base material is a high specific surface area porous cordierite body that is stable at high temperatures, and also provides methods of producing this needle-shaped ceramic body and needle-shaped ceramic catalyst body. The present invention relates to a needle-shaped ceramic body and needle-shaped ceramic catalyst body in which a base material is a high temperature-stable, high specific surface area porous cordierite body comprising a porous structure having a prescribed porosity and formed of a needle-shaped cordierite crystal phase, and further relates to methods of producing this needle-shaped ceramic body and needle-shaped ceramic catalyst body, and by using porous cordierite constituted of needle-shaped crystals as a catalyst-supporting honeycomb structure, the present invention is able to inhibit sintering-induced reduction in the specific surface area.

Abstract: To improve a CO conversion in stoichiometry-lean atmosphere, and additionally to prevent the rise of pressure loss. A catalytic coating layer 2 is constituted of a lower layer 20 including an oxygen storage capacity material and an upper layer 21 being formed on a surface of the lower layer 20 and including a catalytic noble metal, and a thickness of the upper layer is adapted so as to be 5 ?m-40 ?m. The upper layer 21 is good in terms of gas diffusibility, and thereby OSC resulting from the oxygen storage capacity material being included in the lower layer 20 is demonstrated maximally.

Abstract: To improve a CO conversion in stoichiometry-lean atmosphere, and additionally to prevent the rise of pressure loss. A catalytic coating layer 2 is constituted of a lower layer 20 including an oxygen storage capacity material and an upper layer being formed on a surface of the lower layer 20 and including a catalytic noble metal, and a thickness of the upper layer is adapted so as to be 5 ?m-40 ?m. The upper layer 21 is good in terms of gas diffusibility, and thereby OSC resulting from the oxygen storage capacity material being included in the lower layer 20 is demonstrated maximally.

Abstract: A carbon-based combustion catalyst is obtained by performing a burning step of burning sodalite at a temperature of 600° C. or more. Alternatively, a carbon-based combustion catalyst is obtained by performing the following mixing step, drying step, and burning step. In the mixing step, aluminosilicate (sodalite), and an alkali metal source, and/or an alkaline earth metal source are mixed in water to obtain a liquid mixture. In the drying step, the liquid mixture is heated to evaporate the water thereby obtaining a solid. In the burning step, the solid is burned at a temperature of 600° C. or more. The thus-obtained catalyst can cause carbon-based material to be stably burned and removed at a low temperature for a long time.

Abstract: A carbon-based material combustion catalyst is manufactured by performing a mixing step, a drying step, and a burning step. In the mixing step, zeolite except for sodalite, an alkali metal source, and/or an alkaline earth metal source are mixed in water at a predetermined ratio. In the drying step, a liquid mixture after the mixing step is heated to evaporate the water, thereby obtaining a solid. In the burning step, the solid is burned at a temperature of 600° C. or more. The obtained carbon-based material combustion catalyst causes carbon-based material to be stably burned and removed at a low temperature for a long time.

Abstract: A ceramic body that can support a required amount of catalyst component, without lowering the characteristics such as strength, manufactured without forming a coating layer and providing a high performance ceramic catalyst body that is excellent in practical utility and durability. This ceramic body is made by substituting at least one of the constituent elements of cordierite that constitutes the substrate ceramic, for example Al, with W that is the element having an empty orbit in d or f orbit, has high bonding strength and is less susceptible to deterioration since the catalyst component Pt is supported by means of chemical bonding.

Abstract: The present invention provides a needle-shaped ceramic body and needle-shaped ceramic catalyst body in which a case material is a high specific surface area porous cordierite body that is stable at high temperatures, and also provides methods of producing this needle-shaped ceramic body and needle-shaped ceramic catalyst body. The present invention relates to a needle-shaped ceramic body and needle-shaped ceramic catalyst body in which a base material is a high temperature-stable, high specific surface area porous cordierite body comprising a porous structure having a prescribed porosity and formed of a needle-shaped cordierite crystal phase and further relates to methods of producing this needle-shaped ceramic body and needle-shaped ceramic catalyst body, and by using porous cordierite constituted of needle-shaped crystals as a catalyst-supporting honeycomb structure, the present invention is able to inhibit sintering-induced reduction in the specific surface area.

Abstract: This invention provides a method for producing a ceramic catalyst body that can directly support a catalyst on a ceramic support without disposing a coating layer on the ceramic support. In the invention, a catalyst solution containing a catalyst component consisting of a negative complex ion resulting from a catalyst precursor is prepared, and a pH of the catalyst solution is adjusted in such a manner as to satisfy the relation E1>E2 and E1>0 where E1 is a surface potential of a matrix phase consisting of a cordierite-W composite body relative to the pH of the catalyst solution and E2 is a surface potential of a dispersed phase consisting of compounds other than the cordierite-W composite body. After the ceramic support is brought into contact with the catalyst solution to support the catalyst component, heat-treatment is conducted to bond the matrix phase consisting of the cordierite-W composite body and the catalyst component to support the catalyst on the ceramic support.

Abstract: This invention aims at achieving early activation by use of a catalytic body having a low thermal capacity, and a low pressure loss, without using a coating layer to reduce exhaust emission. The invention is directed also to improve exhaust purification performance by improving the combination of catalytic bodies and performance of each catalytic body. In the invention, a start catalyst 1 is arranged at an upstream portion of an exhaust pipe P of a car engine E and a three way catalyst 2 is disposed on the downstream side. The start catalyst 1 can directly support catalytic components through chemical bonds by incorporating replacing elements into a substrate ceramic having high heat resistance such as cordierite. Because a coating layer is not necessary, the catalyst of the invention has a low heat capacity and a large open area and achieves reduction of exhaust emission, and reduction of a pressure loss, through early activation.

Abstract: This invention provides a method for producing a ceramic catalyst body that can directly support a catalyst on a ceramic support without disposing a coating layer on the ceramic support. In the invention, a catalyst solution containing a catalyst component consisting of a negative complex ion resulting from a catalyst precursor is prepared, and a pH of the catalyst solution is adjusted in such a manner as to satisfy the relation E1>E2 and E1>0 where E1 is a surface potential of a matrix phase consisting of a cordierite-W composite body relative to the pH of the catalyst solution and E2 is a surface potential of a dispersed phase consisting of compounds other than the cordierite-W composite body. After the ceramic support is brought into contact with the catalyst solution to support the catalyst component, heat-treatment is conducted to bond the matrix phase consisting of the cordierite-W composite body and the catalyst component to support the catalyst on the ceramic support.

Abstract: To provide a ceramic catalyst having both promoter activity and heat resistance at a small amount of promoter component and also having a low pressure drop and a low heat capacity, a noble metal as a catalyst component and at least two layers of promoter components having oxygen storage capacities are supported on a ceramic carrier which is prepared by replacing a part of component element of the ceramic material such as cordierite to enable to support a catalyst component directly thereon. The outermost layer consists of a promoter component having the highest heat resistance, and the innermost layer consists of a promoter component having the highest oxygen storage capacity, which improve heat resistance without increasing an amount of supported promoter component.

Abstract: In a catalyst body using a direct support, this invention provides a ceramic catalyst body capable of preventing degradation resulting from aggregation of catalyst components, excellent in low thermal capacity and low pressure loss and having excellent catalytic performance and high durability. Catalyst particles prepared by supporting a catalyst metal such as Pt on intermediate substrate particles and an assistant catalyst of a metal oxide such as CeO2 are directly supported on a ceramic support using cordierite, a part of constituent elements of which is replaced, as a substrate and capable of directly supporting the catalyst components on replacing elements so introduced. Even when the CeO2 particles having low bonding strength move, the catalyst metal such as Pt is prevented from moving and aggregating because it is bonded to the intermediate substrate particles, and catalyst performance can be maintained for a long time.

Abstract: The present invention provides a ceramic catalyst body having low thermal capacity and low pressure loss, is capable of demonstrating various catalytic actions according to the application, and has high catalyst performance and practical usefulness.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to realize an oxidizing catalyst having weak oxidizing capability such that NO is oxidized to NO2 and HC is not oxidized, and high thermal durability, and to use it as a catalyst in a preceding stage for supplying NO2 and HC stably to a catalyst in the following stage.

Abstract: This invention aims at achieving early activation by use of a catalytic body having a low thermal capacity, and a low pressure loss, without using a coating layer to reduce exhaust emission. The invention is directed also to improve exhaust purification performance by improving the combination of catalytic bodies and performance of each catalytic body. In the invention, a start catalyst 1 is arranged at an upstream portion of an exhaust pipe P of a car engine E and a three way catalyst 2 is disposed on the downstream side. The start catalyst 1 can directly support catalytic components through chemical bonds by incorporating replacing elements into a substrate ceramic having high heat resistance such as cordierite. Because a coating layer is not necessary, the catalyst of the invention has a low heat capacity and a large open area and achieves reduction of exhaust emission, and reduction of a pressure loss, through early activation.

Abstract: The present invention has an object to obtain a ceramic body that can support a required amount of catalyst component, without lowering the characteristics such as strength, being manufactured without forming a coating layer and providing a high performance ceramic catalyst body that is excellent in practical utility and durability.