Solid, Extended Surface, Fluid Contact Type Patents (Class 422/171)
  • Patent number: 8747508
    Abstract: There is provided a honeycomb filter including: a honeycomb base material; plugged portions; and a porous collecting layer disposed on the surface of the partition wall parent material in at least the remaining cells. The collecting layer has a constitution in which a plurality of particles combine or intertwine with one another, and the collecting layer includes flat plate-like particles as the plurality of particles. The plurality of particles are particles in which an average long diameter is 0.2 ?m or larger and smaller than 10 ?m, an average value of ratios (long diameters/short diameters) of the long diameters to the short diameters of the respective particles is smaller than 3, and an average value of ratios (the long diameters/thicknesses) of the long diameters to thicknesses of the respective particles is 3 or larger. An open area ratio of the surface of the collecting layer is 10% or larger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshinori Isoda, Yoshio Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 8747509
    Abstract: There is provided a honeycomb filter including a honeycomb base material including a porous partition wall parent material; plugged portions arranged in open frontal areas of predetermined cells in an end surface on an inflow side of the fluid, and open frontal areas of the remaining cells in an end surface on an outflow side of the fluid; and a porous collecting layer disposed on the surface of the partition wall parent material in the remaining cells. In a cross section orthogonal to an extending direction of the cells, a shape of the cells is a rectangular shape, and a thickness of a portion of the collecting layer which is positioned in each of corner portions of each of the cells is from one to three times that of a portion of the collecting layer which is positioned in the center of each of sides of the cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoshio Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 8747510
    Abstract: An exhaust treatment unit including a longitudinal core around an axis, a support mat, and powdered insulation impregnated between first and second layers of the support mat. In assembly, the mat is first wrapped around the core once, and powdered insulation is applied to the surface of the unwrapped portion of the mat prior to further winding whereby powdered insulation is disposed between mat layers after further winding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: Tenneco Automotive Operating Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Ruth Latham, William Alcini
  • Patent number: 8747511
    Abstract: A honeycomb filter includes a tubular honeycomb structure having porous partition walls with which there are formed a plurality of cells extending from one end surface to the other end surface to become through channels of a fluid; and plugged portions arranged in one open end portion of each of predetermined cells and the other open end portion of each of the remaining cells, porosities of the partition walls are 46% or less, a pore volume ratio of pores having pore diameters of 40 ?m or more is 7.5% or less, and a pore volume ratio of pores having pore diameters of 10 ?m or less is 25% or less, a permeability of the honeycomb structure is 0.8 ?m2 or more, and a coefficient of thermal expansion of the honeycomb structure in a range of 40 to 800° C. is 1.0×10?6/° C. or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Koji Motoki, Hiroyuki Suenobu, Eriko Kodama
  • Publication number: 20140154163
    Abstract: Provided is a catalyst article for treating an emission gas comprising (a) a noble metal catalyst layer comprising one or more noble metals disposed on a first refractory metal oxide support; and (b) a vanadium catalyst layer comprising vanadium pre-fixed on a second refractory metal oxide support selected from alumina, titania, zirconia, ceria, silica, and mixtures of these, wherein the first catalyst layer is in physical contact with said second catalyst layer. Also provided is a method for making such a catalyst article, a method for treating gas emissions using such an article, and an emission gas treatment system incorporating such an article.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2013
    Publication date: June 5, 2014
    Applicant: JOHNSON MATTHEY PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY
    Inventors: PAUL JOSEPH ANDERSEN, KEVIN DOURA
  • Patent number: 8741020
    Abstract: An object is to provide an exhaust gas purification filter that can achieve high trapping efficiency of particulate matter and low pressure loss, and the exhaust gas purification filter includes an inflow surface through which exhaust gas containing particulate matter flows in, a discharge surface from which purified gas is discharged, and a filter base body that is formed from a porous body, wherein the filter base body includes porous partition walls and gas flow paths surrounded by the partition walls, a porous film having a pore size smaller than that of pores of the partition walls is provided on each surface of the partition walls, and microgrooves having a depth shallower than the thickness of the porous film are formed on at least a part of a surface of the porous film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignees: Sumitomo Osaka Cement Co., Ltd., Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsushi Kishimoto, Masamichi Tanaka, Keita Ishizaki, Katsunori Hanamura
  • Patent number: 8734558
    Abstract: An exhaust gas purification filter 100 includes: a honeycomb structure 10 having partition walls 12, plugging portions 13, and a surface trapping layer 14 having an average pore size of 0.1 ?m or more and 5 ?m or less, a porosity of 50% or more and 80% or less, and a thickness of 1 ?m or more and 50 ?m or less. The partition walls 12 have a thickness of 0.05 mm or more and 0.18 mm or less and an average pore size of 10 or more and 18 ?m or less, and the proportion of the volume of the pores having a size of twice the average pore size or more in the entire pore volume in a pore size distribution of the partition walls 12 is 5% or more and 40% or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventor: Yukio Miyairi
  • Publication number: 20140140899
    Abstract: Wall flow particulate filter catalysed at its inlet side with a catalyst having activity in the removal of residual hydro-carbons and carbon monoxide and catalysing at rich burn engine operation conditions the reaction of nitrogen oxides with hydrogen and/or carbon monoxide to ammonia and catalysed at its outlet side with a catalyst having activity in the selective reduction of NOx by reaction with ammonia being formed in the inlet side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2012
    Publication date: May 22, 2014
    Applicant: Haldor Topsøe A/S
    Inventors: Pär L. Gabrielsson, Keld Johansen
  • Publication number: 20140130760
    Abstract: The invention provides an exhaust gas cleaning oxidation catalyst and in particular to an oxidation catalyst for cleaning the exhaust gas discharged from internal combustion engines of compression ignition type (particularly diesel engines). The invention further relates to a catalysed substrate monolith comprising an oxidising catalyst on a substrate monolith for use in treating exhaust gas emitted from a lean-burn internal combustion engine. In particular, the invention relates to a catalysed substrate monolith comprising a first washcoat coating and a second washcoat coating, wherein the second washcoat coating is disposed in a layer above the first washcoat coating.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2014
    Publication date: May 15, 2014
    Applicants: JOHNSON MATTHEY PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY, JOHNSON MATTHEY JAPAN G.K.
    Inventors: SATOSHI SUMIYA, LIFENG WANG, HANAKO OYAMADA, PHILIP GERALD BLAKEMAN, MICHAEL GAVIN BROWN, SOUGATO CHATTERJEE, ANDREW FRANCIS CHIFFEY, JANE GAST, PAUL RICHARD PHILLIPS, RAJ RAO RAJARAM, ANDREW PETER WALKER
  • Patent number: 8722003
    Abstract: A system and method of capturing carbon dioxide from a flow of raw synthesis gas generated in a gasification system are provided. The carbon capture system includes an acid gas removal subsystem configured to generate a flow of reduced acid gas content syngas, a flow of hydrogen sulfide (H2S) lean gas, and a first flow of H2S-rich gas from a stream of particulate-free raw syngas, an H2S selective membrane separator, said H2S selective membrane separator configured to separate the flow of H2S-lean gas from the AGR into a second flow of H2S-rich gas and a flow of CO2 gas, and a sulfur recovery unit (SRU) coupled in flow communication with said H2S membrane separator downstream of said membrane separator, said SRU configured to generate a flow of elemental sulfur and a flow of tail gas from the first flow of H2S-rich gas and the second flow of H2S-rich gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Aaron John Avagliano, John Saunders Stevenson
  • Patent number: 8721776
    Abstract: A reactor unit includes a bed of desiccant and a bed of media for treating pollutants. The media includes an adsorptive material and a reactive material. The adsorptive material is selected from at least one of activated carbon and zeolite. The reactive material is selected from at least one of potassium permanganate and sodium hydroxide. The adsorptive material is impregnated with reactive materials to enhance performance. A method of using the reactor unit includes delivering a moldable material into a mold. An effluent stream carrying pollutants produced by the moldable material flows through the reactor unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignee: Mektech Composites Inc.
    Inventor: Blaise A. LeWark, Sr.
  • Patent number: 8707687
    Abstract: A diesel exhaust treatment system for treating exhaust gas from a diesel engine comprises at least one diesel particulate filter, at least one diesel exhaust fluid mixing chamber and at least one selective catalytic reduction converter (SCR). In one desirable embodiment, plural diesel particulate filters are arranged in parallel and plural SCRs are arranged in parallel. These components including the diesel exhaust fluid mixing chamber can be included in a common housing with the exhaust flow reversing directions a plurality of times as it passes through the treatment system from an exhaust inlet to an exhaust outlet. The housing can be coupled to one vehicle frame rail with most of the housing and components contained therein positioned outside the outer surface of the one frame rail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignee: Daimler Trucks North America LLC
    Inventors: Rakesh Aneja, Jeffrey M. Girbach, Jeffrey A. Begeman, Matthew Oaks, Jason T. Krajewski, Andrew S. McLandress, Napolyon Isikbay
  • Patent number: 8709366
    Abstract: Sulfur oxides are removed from an oxygen-containing acid gas in configurations and methods in which oxygen is catalytically removed using hydrogen sulfide, and in which the sulfur oxides react with the hydrogen sulfide to form elemental sulfur. A first portion of the remaining sulfurous compounds is reduced to form the hydrogen sulfide for oxygen removal, while a second portion of the sulfurous compounds is further converted to elemental sulfur using a Claus reaction or catalytic direct reduction reaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignee: Fluor Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas King Chow, Vincent Wai Wong, John Gebur, Theresa Flood
  • Patent number: 8702845
    Abstract: The invention pertains to a system for purification of a carbon dioxide rich flue gas generated in a boiler combusting a fuel in the presence of a gas containing oxygen, and being contaminated by NOx gases, wherein the system comprising one or more gas drier(s) comprising desiccants for removal of at least a portion of water content of the further compressed carbon dioxide rich flue gas; and a closed loop connected to the drier(s) for regeneration of desiccants of the drier(s) wherein the NOx gases are removed substantially separately from the water vapor. The invention pertains also to a method for removing the NOx gases substantially separately from the water vapor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignee: ALSTOM Technology Ltd
    Inventor: Olaf Stallmann
  • Patent number: 8702832
    Abstract: A securable mounting material comprises: a mounting material comprising inorganic fibers and having a major surface; and a layer of thermally activatable adhesive inwardly disposed on the inorganic fibers proximate the major surface. The thermally activatable adhesive comprises at least one compound represented by the formula: (Mm+)d((ZpOq(OH)r)n?)e.(H2O)f M represents a cationic species other than H+; O represents oxygen; Z represents boron or phosphorus; f is a real number greater than or equal to zero; d, n, q, and r are integers greater than or equal to zero; e, m, and p are integers greater than or equal to one; and d times m equals e times n. The mounting material is useful in pollution control devices. A method of making the mounting material is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventor: Peter T. Dietz
  • Patent number: 8696776
    Abstract: An abnormality determination apparatus includes a particulate filter provided in the exhaust passage of an internal combustion engine that collects particulate matter in the exhaust gas discharged from the internal combustion engine, a particulate matter deposition amount detection device provided downstream of the particulate filter, and a abnormality determination portion. The particulate matter deposition amount detection device includes a detecting element that detects the particular matter that flows toward the particulate matter deposition amount detection device and that is not trapped by the particulate filter, and then outputs a value corresponding to a deposition amount deposited the particulate matter on the detecting element. The abnormality determination portion determines, whether an abnormality is present in the particulate filter based on the gradient of an output waveform of the particulate matter deposition amount detection device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hiroki Nishijima
  • Publication number: 20140099246
    Abstract: A catalytic converter apparatus for use in an exhaust system of an internal combustion engine includes a housing having a gas inlet and a gas outlet, and at least one catalytic substrate element disposed in the housing. The at least one substrate element is divided into a plurality of zones or sections, the zones at least partially separated from one another to inhibit heat flow. The zones can be at least partially separated with walls. The walls can include insulating material for reducing the mobility of heat radially outwardly. Each of the zones defines a generally separate flow passage connecting the inlet and outlet in fluid communication. The apparatus can heat more rapidly from a cold start compared with conventional catalytic converters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2013
    Publication date: April 10, 2014
    Applicant: Vida Holdings Ltd.
    Inventors: Stefano Plati, Michael Decesare, Sarry Al-Turk, Amanda Sistilli, Gregory Kiyoshi Koyanagi, Voislav Blagajevic
  • Publication number: 20140090374
    Abstract: An engine exhaust gas treatment system includes an oxidation catalyst, a NOX adsorber, and a turbine. The oxidation catalyst and the NOX adsorber are fluidly connected to an exhaust manifold of the engine. The turbine is fluidly connected to, and downstream of the oxidation catalyst and the NOx adsorber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2012
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Applicant: Caterpollar Inc.
    Inventor: Praveen Chavannavar
  • Publication number: 20140093442
    Abstract: A dual function catalytic filter is provided having a soot filter with an inlet and an outlet, a soot oxidation layer on the inlet, wherein the soot oxidation layer comprises a soot oxidation catalytic component consisting essentially of at least one transition metal dispersed on a cerium and zirconium mixed and/or composite oxide, wherein the at least one transition metal is selected from the group consisting of W, Cr, Ce, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, and combinations thereof, and an SCR layer coated on the outlet, wherein the SCR layer comprises an SCR catalytic component. Also provided are methods for removing NOx and soot from a lean burn exhaust gas using the dual function catalytic filter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2012
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Applicant: JOHNSON MATTHEY PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY
    Inventors: Glen Spreitzer, Sougato Chatterjee, Raj Rao Rajaram, Jillian Elaine Collier, Paul James Millington, Sylvie Cecile Laroze
  • Publication number: 20140093436
    Abstract: A honeycomb filter 100 includes honeycomb segments 4, plugging portions 5, and joining layers 7, area of outflow end surface 12 of honeycomb segment is larger than area of inflow end surface 11, and shape of cross section of honeycomb segment vertical to axial direction X has a similarity in axial direction X. Moreover, thickness of joining layer decreases in at least a part of joining layer in direction from inflow end surface side toward outflow end surface side, and length L2 of joining layer in axial direction X is smaller than 95% of length L1 of honeycomb segment in axial direction X. Furthermore, a region of honeycomb segments 4, 5 mm or more from outflow end surface 12 in axial direction X, is not provided with joining layers 7 which join side surfaces of honeycomb segments 4 to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2013
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Applicant: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Akifumi NISHIO, Takahiro KONDO, Yukio MIYAIRI
  • Patent number: 8685127
    Abstract: A compact filter has a compact filter element for exchangeable use in a filter housing and the compact filter element has a filter body of a web-shaped filter medium. The web-shaped filter medium has at least one flat filter medium web and one corrugated filter medium web that are placed onto each other and at least partially connected to each other by ultrasonic welding. At least one of the flat and corrugated filter medium webs is a composite filter medium web of at least two components, wherein at least one component is a synthetic material and one component is a non-synthetic material. The non-synthetic material is a plant-derived material and forms a support of the composite filter medium web and the synthetic material is a synthetic layer applied on the support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: Mann + Hummel GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Heim, Thomas Sieber, Josef Rohrmeier, Klaus Gehwolf, Joachim-Paul Krieger, Sven Epli, Tanja Majer, Andrés Moreno Linares, Jobst Eisengraeber-Pabst
  • Patent number: 8685140
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a particle filter and a method for operating a particle filter. The particle filter includes at least one filter portion forming an open filter system and also a heatable particle collecting element which is arranged adjacently to this filter portion and comprises a material having temperature-dependent electrical resistance. The method for operating the particle filter includes heating the particle collecting element and measuring the electrical resistance of the particle collecting element to determine whether to regenerate the particle filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Yasser Yacoub
  • Patent number: 8679209
    Abstract: A method for removing matter from a filter is disclosed. The method may include measuring loading conditions of a filter media. The method may also include applying at least one voltage pulse between an electrode external to the filter media and a housing of the filter media to induce a plurality of shock waves directed toward the filter media, based on the loading conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventor: Sergey Korenev
  • Patent number: 8679411
    Abstract: A Rh-including catalyst layer of an upstream catalyst 3 includes Rh-doped CeZr-based mixed oxide and Rh-loading CeZr-based mixed oxide as oxygen storage/release materials. A Rh-including catalyst layer of a downstream catalyst 5 includes only Rh-doped CeZr-based mixed oxide as an oxygen storage/release material. The content of the oxygen storage/release materials included in the Rh-including catalyst layer of the upstream catalyst 3 is smaller than that of the downstream catalyst 5. The Rh-doped CeZr-based mixed oxide of the upstream catalyst 3 shows a particle size distribution having a peak particle size smaller than that of the Rh-doped CeZr-based mixed oxide of the downstream catalyst 5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: Mazda Motor Corporation
    Inventors: Masaaki Akamine, Masahiko Shigetsu
  • Patent number: 8679431
    Abstract: An air pollution control system comprises a SOx removal equipment for reducing sulfur oxides from flue gas from a boiler, a cooler for reducing the sulfur oxides that remain in the flue gas and for decreasing a gas temperature, CO2 recovery equipment including an absorber for bringing CO2 in the flue gas into contact with a CO2 absorption liquid so as to be reduced, a regenerator for causing the CO2 absorption liquid to emit CO2 so as to recover CO2 and regenerate the CO2 absorption liquid, a heat exchanger which for decreasing a temperature of the flue gas, and calcium carbonate spraying equipment for spraying calcium carbonate between the heat exchanger and an electric dust collector, wherein a mist generation material in the flue gas is converted from a gas state to a mist state to arrest and reduce the mist generation material in the mist state using calcium carbonate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tatsuto Nagayasu, Takashi Kamijo, Masayuki Inui, Tsuyoshi Oishi, Hiromitsu Nagayasu, Hiroshi Tanaka, Takuya Hirata, Tatsuya Tsujiuchi, Susumu Okino, Naoyuki Kamiyama, Seiji Yoshihara
  • Patent number: 8673045
    Abstract: Disclosed are ceramic bodies comprised of composite cordierite aluminum magnesium titanate ceramic compositions and methods for the manufacture of same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Gregory Albert Merkel, Patrick David Tepesch, Raja Rao Wusirika
  • Patent number: 8673044
    Abstract: The invention is to provide a process for producing an aluminum titanate-based ceramics body, wherein, as a regenerated starting material, a fired body recovered in a production process for an aluminum titanate-based ceramics body is used and the aluminum titanate-based ceramics body excellent in a mechanical strength and in a thermal characteristics such as low thermal expansion and heat resistance can be obtained. The invention provides a process for producing an aluminum titanate-based ceramics body using a fired ceramics body recovered in a production process for an aluminum titanate-based ceramics body, comprising the following steps: a step of preparing a pulverized product having a median particle diameter of 100 ?m or less from the fired ceramics body; a step of preparing a regenerated clay containing the pulverized product and water; a step of shaping the regenerated clay to form a shaped body; and a step of firing the shaped body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: Sumitomo Chemical Company, Limited
    Inventors: Akiyoshi Nemoto, Hajime Yoshino, Masayuki Narumi
  • Patent number: 8673043
    Abstract: A straight through flow filter element is provided in which the seal and/or seal support may be arranged to be generally flush with the flow face of the filter media pack. In some embodiments, long filter media packs may be facilitated. Additionally, certain processing advantages in simplicity of molding a seal on the support can be accomplished.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: Baldwin Filters, Inc.
    Inventor: Steven J. Merritt
  • Patent number: 8673064
    Abstract: A partial wall-flow filter having some unplugged flow-through channels and some plugged channels. Desirable combinations of filtration efficiency and back pressure may be provided by combinations of t wall?305 urn, MPD?20 ?m, % P?50%, and CD?250 cpsi wherein t wall is the transverse thickness of the porous walls, MPD is a mean pore diameter of the porous walls, % P is the total porosity of the porous walls, and CD is the cell density of the channels. In one embodiment, some of the plugged channels are located adjacent to the inlet end and some are located adjacent to the outlet end. Systems and method including the partial wall-flow filter are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Izhar Zahoor Ahmed, Douglas Munroe Beall, Achim Karl-Erich Heibel, Pushkar Tandon
  • Patent number: 8673227
    Abstract: A system for removal of carbon dioxide from a process gas includes an absorption arrangement arranged to allow contact between the process gas and an ammoniated solution within the absorption arrangement such that at least a part of the carbon dioxide of the process gas is captured by the ammoniated solution. The absorption arrangement is arranged to, with regard to the ammoniated solution, only accommodate ammoniated solution without solids. A first heat exchanger is arranged to cool the ammoniated solution including captured carbon dioxide after it has exited the absorption arrangement. A separator is arranged to remove at least a part of any solids in the cooled ammoniated solution. A second heat exchanger is arranged to heat the ammoniated solution after it has exited the separator and returned to the absorption arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: ALSTOM Technology Ltd
    Inventors: Sean E. Black, Sanjay K. Dube, David J. Muraskin, Frederic Z. Kozak
  • Patent number: 8668757
    Abstract: In a method for producing a ceramic filter element for an exhaust gas filter for an internal combustion engine or a catalyst support, a combustible non-ceramic support web is used and holes or recesses are introduced into the non-ceramic support web at defined locations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2014
    Assignee: Mann+Hummel GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Franz, Jochen Linhart, Holger Findeisen, Kathrin Fischer, Sabine Otterbach, Kathrin Lichtenwalter
  • Patent number: 8663567
    Abstract: The present invention is to provide a catalyst for removing nitrogen oxides which is capable of keeping sufficient denitrification performance, i.e., a high removal rate of nitrogen oxides in exhaust gas having a high NO2 content especially under conditions where the ratio of NO2/NO in exhaust gas is 1 or higher, a catalyst molded product therefor, and an exhaust gas treating method. The catalyst is designed for removing nitrogen oxides, which is used to denitrify exhaust gas containing nitrogen oxides having a high NO2 content, which comprises: at least one kind of oxide selected from the group consisting of copper oxides, chromium oxides, and iron oxides as a component for reducing NO2 to NO; and which further comprises: at least one kind of titanium oxide; at least one kind of tungsten oxide; and at least one kind of vanadium oxide as components for reducing NO to N2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigeru Nojima, Kozo Iida, Yoshiaki Obayashi, Masashi Kiyosawa, Masanori Demoto
  • Patent number: 8663356
    Abstract: A honeycomb structure wherein the thickness of each partition wall is 50.8 ?m inclusive to 161.5 ?m exclusive, the cell density is 15.5 to 62.0 cells/cm2, the cell opening ratio of the honeycomb structure body is 76 to 91%, the porosity of the partition walls is 35 to 45%, the average pore diameter of the partition walls is 2 ?m inclusive to 10 ?m exclusive, the material for the partition walls includes at least one member selected from the group consisting of cordierite, aluminum titanate, silicon carbide, alumina and mullite, and the value obtained by dividing the average pore diameter of the partition walls by the thickness of the partition walls is larger than 0.04 but smaller than 0.065.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Chika Goto, Masataka Yamashita, Yukio Miyairi
  • Patent number: 8663357
    Abstract: A holding sealing material includes a plurality of mats and at least one belt-shaped body. The plurality of mats include inorganic fibers and are layered. The plurality of mats are bundled by the at least one belt-shaped body. The at least one belt-shaped body has no fixing force which fixes the plurality of mats to the at least one belt-shaped body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: Ibiden Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenichi Mitani, Takahiko Okabe
  • Patent number: 8663586
    Abstract: A method and system for high performance mercury capture from solid fuel combustion flue gas is provided. The method includes injecting pulverized activated carbon into a mercury capture system with at least a first and a second fabric filter, collecting the pulverized activated carbon captured in the second fabric filter, and injecting the collected pulverized activated carbon from the second fabric filter upstream of the first fabric filter for reuse to capture mercury from the process gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: ALSTOM Technology Ltd
    Inventor: Dennis James Laslo
  • Patent number: 8663587
    Abstract: Catalysts, catalytic articles, and catalyst systems and methods for treating exhaust gas streams utilizing the catalytic articles are described. In one or more embodiments, a catalytic article includes a first SCR catalyst permeating the porous walls of a substrate and a second SCR catalyst coating the walls of the substrate. Methods for treating an exhaust gas stream are also provided. Methods of making and using such catalysts and catalytic articles are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: BASF Corporation
    Inventor: R. Samuel Boorse
  • Patent number: 8661788
    Abstract: A low-oxygen content exhaust flow produced by an engine that is combusting, on average, a stoichiometric mixture of air and fuel generally contains various unwanted gaseous emissions. The exhaust flow is treated by an exhaust aftertreatment system that includes a three-way-catalyst (TWC) and an ammonia-selective catalytic reduction (ammonia-SCR) catalyst positioned downstream from the TWC in a flow direction of the exhaust flow. The ammonia-SCR catalyst includes (1) a base metal ion-substituted zeolite and/or a base metal ion-substituted silicoaluminophosphate and (2) an oxygen storage material selected from the group consisting of a metal oxide or a mixed metal oxide that exhibits oxygen storage and release capacity. The serial arrangement of the TWC and the ammonia-SCR catalyst enhances the conversion of NOX to N2 in the low oxygen-content exhaust flow produced by the engine and helps prevent ammonia slip to the atmosphere.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Gongshin Qi, Chang H. Kim, Wei Li, Steven J. Schmieg
  • Publication number: 20140056789
    Abstract: A process which solves the problem of supplying NO2 in accordance with requirements by means of temperature control of the precatalyst which is decoupled from the operating state of the engine. In an associated apparatus, a precatalyst which contains at least one oxidation component and whose temperature can be controlled independently of the operating state of the engine and an active SCR stage comprising an SCR catalyst with upstream metering facility for a reducing agent from an external source are arranged in series. A particle filter can be arranged between precatalyst and metering facility. The precatalyst preferably additionally contains a nitrogen oxide storage material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2013
    Publication date: February 27, 2014
    Applicant: UMICORE AG & CO. KG
    Inventors: Lothar MUSSMANN, Ingo Lappas, Andreas Geisselmann, Wilfried Mueller
  • Patent number: 8657914
    Abstract: There is provided an exhaust gas purifying filter, which includes an inflow surface into which exhaust gas including particulate matter flows, an exhaust surface from which purified gas is exhausted, and a filter substrate which is constructed of a porous body, the filter substrate including a porous partition and a gas passage which is enclosed by the porous partition, a porous film which includes silicon carbide is provided on a surface of the porous partition, and in a pore diameter distribution of the porous film, pores with the pore diameter of 0.01 ?m or more and 3.0 ?m or less are 70% or more of total volume of the pores, and pores with the pore diameter of 0.01 ?m or more and 0.3 ?m or less are 5% or more and 90% or less of total volume of the pores.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2014
    Assignees: Sumitomo Osaka Cement Co., Ltd., Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masamichi Tanaka, Atsushi Kishimoto, Tadashi Neya, Keita Ishizaki
  • Publication number: 20140050627
    Abstract: An exhaust gas purification catalyst apparatus. The apparatus has a noble metal component for oxidizing NOx in an exhaust gas discharged from a diesel engine, a reducing agent spraying means for supplying the reducing agent selected from a urea component or an ammonia component, and a selective reduction catalyst (SCR) not comprising a noble metal for removing by reduction NOx by contacting with the reducing agent, in this order from the upstream side of an exhaust gas passage. Activity of the selective reduction catalyst (SCR) is maintained by setting that the noble metal component of the oxidation catalyst (DOC) comprises platinum and palladium, and ratio of platinum particles existing alone is 20% or less, or average particle diameter of the noble metal is 4 nm or larger, and by suppressing volatilization of platinum from the oxidation catalyst (DOC), even when catalyst bed temperature increases up to 900° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2012
    Publication date: February 20, 2014
    Applicant: N.E. CHEMCAT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeshi Mende, Toshinori Okajima, Yasuyuki Banno, Makoto Nagata
  • Publication number: 20140044603
    Abstract: An exhaust line of a motor vehicle includes an upstream monolith and a downstream monolith for treating exhaust gases passing along the exhaust line. The upstream and downstream monoliths are positioned in series. An injection portion is positioned between an upstream face defined by the upstream monolith and a downstream face defined by the downstream monolith and includes a duct through which a stream of exhaust gas flows. The duct extends from the upstream face to the downstream face and has a central line of a set length between the faces. A reagent injector is mounted on the injection portion and is designed to inject reagent in gaseous form into the injection portion. At least one cup is positioned inside the duct in the path of the exhaust gas stream so that a mean path of the exhaust gas stream line is at least 20% longer than the set length.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2010
    Publication date: February 13, 2014
    Applicant: Faurecia Systemes D'Echappement
    Inventor: Frederic Greber
  • Patent number: 8641791
    Abstract: The invention concerns a method for supplying iron, via the fuel, to the particulate trap of a diesel engine exhaust in a form suitable for promoting trap regeneration. The method involves the addition to the fuel of a defined colloid of iron oxide. Combustion of this colloid produces iron-containing compounds, especially iron oxides, which collect in association with carbonaceous particulate matter in the particulate trap, and function to promote the combustion of this matter. The colloid in particular shows a lower level of associated deposit formation on the fuel injectors than the iron additives of the prior art. The method is thus particularly suitable for modern engines showing increased susceptibility to fuel injector deposits. The colloid also shows a balance of properties providing excellent suitability for use as an additive in fuels, and especially in diesel engine on-board dosing devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: Infineum International Limited
    Inventor: Russell M. Thompson
  • Patent number: 8636821
    Abstract: A ceramic honeycomb structure having a large number of flow paths partitioned by porous cell walls, the cell walls meeting the conditions; (a) the cell walls having porosity of 55-80%, (b) the cell walls having a median pore diameter D50 (measured by mercury porosimetry) of 5-27 ?m, (c) pores open on cell wall surfaces having an opening area ratio of 20% or more, (d) pores open on cell wall surfaces having a median opening diameter d50 (determined from equivalent circle diameters on an area basis) of 10-45 ?m, (e) the density of pores open on cell wall surfaces having equivalent circle diameters of 10 ?m or more and less than 40 ?m being 350/mm2 or more, (f) the maximum inclination of a curve of a cumulative pore volume relative to a pore diameter (determined from a pore distribution measured by mercury porosimetry) being 1.6 or more, and (g) a ratio D50/d50 of the median pore diameter D50 to the median opening diameter d50 being 0.65 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Hitachi Metals, Ltd.
    Inventor: Shunji Okazaki
  • Patent number: 8636959
    Abstract: The present invention is an exhaust gas purification catalyst equipment, and a method of use thereof, formed by arranging a selective catalytic reduction type catalyst for purifying nitrogen oxides in exhaust gas exhausted from lean combustion engines using ammonia or urea as a reducing agent, it is provided with a selective catalytic reduction type catalyst, characterized in that said catalyst comprises a lower-layer catalyst layer (A) having an oxidative function for nitrogen monoxide (NO) in exhaust gas and an upper-layer catalyst layer (B) having an adsorbing function for ammonia on the surface of a monolithic structure type carrier (C), and that the lower-layer catalyst layer (A) comprises a noble metal component (i), an inorganic base material constituent (ii) and zeolite (iii), and the upper-layer catalyst layer (B) comprises substantially none of component (i) but the component (iii), in a flow path of exhaust gas, characterized in that a spraying means to supply an urea aqueous solution or an aqueous
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: N.E. Chemcat Corporation
    Inventors: Ryuji Ando, Takashi Hihara, Yasuharu Kanno, Makoto Nagata
  • Patent number: 8632620
    Abstract: A holding sealing material includes inorganic fibers, a mat shape, a first and a second end faces, a contact section and a void-forming section. The first end face and the second end face are approximately parallel in a width direction. The contact section includes a first distance between the first and the second end faces. The first distance is longest in a length direction. The void-forming section includes a second distance between the first and the second end faces. The second distance is shorter than the first distance. The holding sealing material has a structure to provide a void in a vicinity of the first and the second end faces of the void-forming section in a state where the holding sealing material is rolled up so that the first end face is made in contact with the second end face of the contact section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2014
    Assignee: Ibiden Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hisashi Ando, Takahiko Okabe
  • Patent number: 8632619
    Abstract: A filter element, in particular for filtering exhaust gases of an internal combustion engine, includes mutually parallel flow channels, at least two filter segments being provided which each have a subset of flow channels, the filter segments having a spacing from one another and being interconnected via connecting device(s) arranged integrally with the filter segments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2014
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Teruo Komori, Rainer Mueller, Lars Thuener
  • Publication number: 20140004013
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a configuration method of a multifunctional particulate filter (MFPF), capable of reducing the content of particulate material (PM), carbon monoxide (CO) and hydrocarbons (HC), and increasing the content of nitrogen dioxide (NO2), The MFPF may coat zeolite and an oxidation catalyst on both exhaust gas intake/discharge sides simultaneously, so as to minimize the slippage of HC and generate high-concentration NO2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2011
    Publication date: January 2, 2014
    Applicant: KOREA INSTITUTE OF ENERGY RESEARCH
    Inventors: Jong-Soo Park, Young-Jae Lee, Kyung-Ran Hwang, Shin-Kun Ryi, Dong-Kook Kim, Tae-Hwan Kim, Chun-Boo Lee, Kyung-Sun Yoo
  • Patent number: 8617474
    Abstract: Systems for treating exhaust gas incorporating catalysts comprising metal-loaded non-zeolitic molecular sieves having the CHA crystal structure, including Cu-SAPO-34, and methods for preparing such catalysts are disclosed. The catalysts can be used to remove nitrogen oxides from a gaseous medium across a broad temperature range and exhibit hydrothermal stability at high reaction temperatures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: BASF Corporation
    Inventors: Ivor Bull, Gerald Stephen Koermer, Ahmad Moini, Signe Unverricht
  • Patent number: 8617295
    Abstract: An air filter that includes a primary filter and a polishing filter. The primary filter comprises a monolith 10 that contains active-particulate. The air-to-be-filtered travels through the primary filter in a path generally parallel to the passageways 12. The polishing filter 36 has first and second major surfaces and also contains active-particulate. The polishing filter is generally arranged such that air travels from the first major surface to the second major surface when passing through it. The inventive filter demonstrates extraordinary performance over the same primary and polishing filters taken individually.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Britton G. Billingsley, Larry A. Brey
  • Patent number: 8617494
    Abstract: An apparatus and method to clean flue gases. As shown in FIG. 1, a condenser 10 is provided having two packed beds (20/26) and two condensate loops. The condensate loops are configured such that anti-corrosive agent (40/41) may injected. Corrosives are removed from flue gases as condensate containing anti-corrosive agents passes over the flue gases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: ALSTOM Technology Ltd
    Inventors: Wuyin Wang, Stefan Ahman