Utilizing As Solid Sorbent, Catalyst, Or Reactant A Material Containing A Transition Element Patents (Class 423/213.2)
  • Publication number: 20130142727
    Abstract: There is disclosed a microporous crystalline material having pore opening ranging from 3 to 5 Angstroms, where the material comprises a first metal chosen from alkali earth group, rare earth group, alkali group, or mixtures thereof, and a second metal chosen from iron, copper or mixtures thereof; and has a molar silica to alumina ratio (SAR) from 3 to 10. The microporous crystalline material disclosed herein may comprise a crystal structure having building units of double-6-rings (d6r) and pore opening of 8-rings as exemplified with framework types defined by the Structure Commission of the International Zeolite Association having structural codes of CHA, LEV, AEI, AFT, AFX, EAB, ERI, KFI, SAT, TSC, and SAV. There is also disclosed a method of selective catalytic reduction of nitrogen oxides in exhaust gas, comprising at least partially contacting the exhaust gases with an article comprising the disclosed microporous crystalline material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2012
    Publication date: June 6, 2013
    Applicant: PQ CORPORATION
    Inventor: PQ CORPORATION
  • Publication number: 20130142713
    Abstract: A composition is described that includes zirconium oxide, cerium oxide and yttrium oxide, or zirconium oxide, cerium oxide and at least two oxides of two rare earths different from cerium in a mass proportion of at least 20% of zirconium oxide and of at most 70% of cerium oxide, wherein the composition further includes, after calcination at 900° C. for 4 hours, two populations of pores having respective diameters centered, for the first population, about a value of 20 nm to 40 nm and, for the second, about a value of 80 nm to 200 nm. The composition can be used for processing exhaust gases of internal combustion engines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2011
    Publication date: June 6, 2013
    Applicant: RHODIA OPERATIONS
    Inventors: Simon Ifrah, Olivier Larcher
  • Patent number: 8454917
    Abstract: A nitrogen oxide storage catalyst is provided, which has two catalytically active coatings on a support body. The lower coating applied directly to the support body has a nitrogen oxide storage function and includes platinum as a catalytically active component applied to a homogeneous magnesium-aluminum mixed oxide in combination with a nitrogen oxide storage material, in which a nitrogen oxide storage component is likewise present and applied to a homogeneous magnesium-aluminum mixed oxide. The second layer is notable for three-way catalytic activity, and includes palladium applied to aluminum oxide and barium oxide or strontium oxide, but no platinum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2013
    Assignee: Umicore AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Ruediger Hoyer, Stephan Eckhoff, Thomas R. Pauly
  • Publication number: 20130136676
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the use, for the reduction of oxidizing contaminating entities of the NOx type, in particular NO2, present in a gas to be purified, of a catalytic system comprising or composed of an oxide corresponding to the molar formulation: Ce1-y-zO2-xMyNz, in which: Ce is cerium, M is an element chosen from: Gd, Y, Sc, Sm, La, Pr, Nd, Er or Tb, y is between 0.01 and 0.4, N is an element having several degrees of valency chosen from: Ti, V, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni or Cu, z is less than 0.4, x is greater than 0.05.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2011
    Publication date: May 30, 2013
    Applicants: SAINT-GOBAIN CENTRE DE RECHERCHES ET D'ETUDES EUROPEEN, UNIVERSITE CLAUDE BERNARD-LYON 1, CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE
    Inventors: Agnes Princivalle, Philippe Vernoux, Abdelkader Hadjar, Christian Guizard
  • Publication number: 20130121902
    Abstract: The invention relates to the use of mixed oxides made of cerium oxide, zirconium oxide, rare earth sesquioxide and niobium oxide as catalytically active materials for the selective catalytic reduction of nitrogen oxides with ammonia or a compound that can decompose to form ammonia in the exhaust gas of internal combustion engines in motor vehicles that are predominantly leanly operated, and to compositions or catalysts which contain said mixed oxides in combination with zeolite compounds and/or zeolite-like compounds and are suitable for the denitrogenation of lean motor vehicle exhaust gases in all essential operating states.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2011
    Publication date: May 16, 2013
    Applicant: UMICORE AG & CO. KG
    Inventors: Katja Adelmann, Gerald Jeske, Rainer Domesle, Nicola Soeger, Michael Seyler, Anke Schuler, Thomas R. Pauly, Barry W.L. Southward
  • Patent number: 8440156
    Abstract: The invention relates generally to molecular sieve SSZ-28 and its use in the reduction of oxides of nitrogen in a gas stream such as the exhaust from an internal combustion engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Chevron U.S.A. Inc.
    Inventors: Stacey I. Zones, Robert J. Saxton
  • Patent number: 8440155
    Abstract: An exhaust gas after-treatment system includes at least first and second substrates. The first substrate has a first region and a second region circumferentially surrounding the first region. The first region of the first substrate has a higher average cell density than the average cell density of the second substrate. The system can also include at least a third substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Mikhail Sergeevich Chivilikhin, David R Heine, Ameya Joshi
  • Patent number: 8435919
    Abstract: The mixed oxide of the invention mainly consists of cerium oxide and of at least one oxide of another rare earth. It has a specific surface area of at least 20 m2/g after calcining at 1000° C. for 5 hours. It is obtained by forming a liquid medium comprising a cerium compound; by heating this medium; by adding to the precipitate obtained a compound of the other rare earth, by heating the medium thus obtained and by bringing its pH to a basic value and by calcining the precipitate. The mixed oxide may be used as a catalyst support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2013
    Assignee: Anan Kasei Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Yokota, Naotaka Ohtake
  • Patent number: 8431099
    Abstract: The invention provides a process for purification of an exhaust gas comprising nitrogen oxides, carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons and particulate matters from an internal combustion engine comprising the step of contacting the exhaust gas with one or more catalysts on one or more cross corrugated wire mesh sheets (5) being arranged between two or more gas impermeable cross corrugated sheets (4). The exhaust gas is contacted with one or more catalysts being coated in different zones on the one or more cross corrugated wire mesh sheets (5). Particulate matters in the exhaust gas are retained in a zone of the gas impermeable sheets (4), where the zone is porous and optionally coated with an oxidation catalyst. The exhaust gas from the combustion engine can be heated by the purified exhaust gas. The invention further comprises an apparatus for the purification process of an exhaust gas from an internal combustion engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2013
    Assignee: Haldor Topsoe A/S
    Inventors: Jesper Norsk, Keld Johansen, Niels Poul Dalskov
  • Publication number: 20130095012
    Abstract: A method of using a catalyst comprises exposing a catalyst to at least one reactant in a chemical process. The catalyst comprises copper and a small pore molecular sieve having a maximum ring size of eight tetrahedral atoms. The chemical process undergoes at least one period of exposure to a reducing atmosphere. The catalyst has an initial activity and the catalyst has a final activity after the at least one period of exposure to the reducing atmosphere. The final activity is within 30% of the initial activity at a temperature between 200 and 500° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2012
    Publication date: April 18, 2013
    Inventors: PAUL JOSEPH ANDERSEN, HAI-YING CHEN, JOSEPH MICHAEL FEDEYKO, ERICH WEIGERT
  • Patent number: 8420036
    Abstract: Methods and systems for treating NOx-containing exhaust from an internal combustion engine. An exhaust aftertreatment system has at least a primary oxidation catalyst, a particulate filter, and a selective reduction catalyst (SCR). A bypass line diverts a portion of the exhaust from the exhaust line from a point downstream the particulate filter to a point upstream the SCR. A secondary oxidation catalyst on the bypass line is used to generate NO or NO2 to be returned to the exhaust line upstream the SCR.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignee: Southwest Research Institute
    Inventor: Jason T. Miwa
  • Patent number: 8420035
    Abstract: The invention relates to a coating composition for diesel oxidation catalysts or a combination of diesel oxidation catalysts and diesel particle filters, said coating composition comprising a combination of a noble metal on a metal oxide, with the exception of cerium oxide, and a zeolite doped with iron. The invention also relates to a catalyst provided with the coating according to the invention, and to a method for treating the exhaust gas of diesel internal combustion engines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignee: Sued-Chemie IP GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Gerd Maletz, Volker Kurth, Andreas Bentele, Klaus Wanninger, Arno Tissler
  • Publication number: 20130089494
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a copper-containing KFI-type zeolite, wherein the zeolite contains 1 to 4.5 wt.-% copper. The invention is also directed towards a method for producing the copper-containing zeolite according to the invention as well as towards the use of the zeolite in SCR catalysis. Further subjects of the invention are a washcoat which contains the zeolite according to the invention, an SCR catalyst which contains the zeolite according to the invention as well as an exhaust-gas cleaning system which comprises the SCR catalyst.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2011
    Publication date: April 11, 2013
    Applicant: SUD-CHEMIE IP GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Markus Reichinger, Gerd Maletz, Kristof Eisert
  • Patent number: 8413420
    Abstract: To alleviate and possibly even reverse global warming while providing a liquid fuel to replace petroleum, apparatus and methods are disclosed for capturing CO2 from an air mixture and converting it to a useful substance, especially a methanol-containing fuel, utilizing preferably an MgO-loaded cartridge, which is converted partly into MgCO3 as it captures CO2 by a carbonation reaction and is reconverted into MgO by a calcination reaction while emitting a stream of substantially pure CO2. The emitted CO2 stream is reacted with hydrogen or water to yield a methanol-containing fuel or other useful chemical agent. The hydrogen is preferably derived from water electrolysis using inexpensive solar or wind driven electricity thereby also reducing the cost of such electricity by providing an economical energy storage means. Said air mixture may be the effluent from an internal combustion engine of a motor vehicle or from other fossil fuel burning sources or from the ambient atmosphere.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2013
    Inventor: Solomon Zaromb
  • Patent number: 8409536
    Abstract: A technique that, in an exhaust gas purification apparatus of an internal combustion engine, can avoid a decrease in a NOx purification rate by adding a reducing agent as continuously as possible, while avoiding NH3 from passing through a selective reduction type NOx catalyst to a downstream side thereof. The selective reduction type NOx catalyst has an active spot which purifies NOx by the use of NH3, and an adsorption site which adsorbs NH3, wherein a vicinity site, which is located in the vicinity of the active spot, and a distant site, which is located distant from the active spot, exist in the adsorption site. The addition of the reducing agent from the reducing agent addition part is controlled based on the desorption rate of NH3 in the vicinity site so as to continue to cause the NH3 adsorbed to the vicinity site to exist.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2013
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Koichiro Fukuda, Shinya Hirota, Shunsuke Toshioka, Sakutaro Hoshi
  • Patent number: 8410013
    Abstract: Provided is a catalyst for treating exhaust gas capable of reducing the amount of a highly corrosive mercury-chlorinating agent to be added while keeping the mercury oxidation efficiency high in an exhaust gas treatment. By the catalyst for treating exhaust gas, nitrogen oxide in the exhaust gas is removed upon contact with ammonia serving as a reducing agent, and mercury is oxidized using a halogen serving as an oxidant. The catalyst includes: TiO2 as a support; an oxide of at least one selected from the group consisting of V, W and Mo, which is supported as an active component on the support; and at least one selected from the group consisting of Bi, P, and compounds containing Bi and/or P, which is supported as a co-catalyst component on the support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2013
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsumi Nochi, Yoshiaki Obayashi, Masashi Kiyosawa
  • Patent number: 8404201
    Abstract: The oxidation of nitrogen oxide (NO) in an oxygen-containing exhaust gas flow from a diesel or other lean-burn engine may be catalyzed using particles of co-precipitated and calcined manganese (Mn), cerium (Ce) and zirconium (Zr) mixed oxides. In preferred embodiments, the molar ratios of Mn, Ce and Zr to the total amount of base metals in the ternary mixed oxide catalyst are in the range of 0.25-0.35, 0.40-0.50 and 0.20-0.25, respectively. Further, this ternary mixed oxide catalyst is less susceptible to sulfur poisoning than previously-disclosed binary mixed oxide catalysts. The ternary mixed oxide catalyst may also be regenerated—and the inhibiting effect of SO2 reversed—by briefly exposing the catalyst to a reducing exhaust gas environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2013
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Gongshin Qi, Wei Li
  • Patent number: 8404203
    Abstract: Zeolite catalysts and systems and methods for preparing and using zeolite catalysts having the CHA crystal structure are disclosed. The catalysts can be used to remove nitrogen oxides from a gaseous medium across a broad temperature range and exhibit hydrothermal stable at high reaction temperatures. The zeolite catalysts include a zeolite carrier having a silica to alumina ratio from about 15:1 to about 256:1 and a copper to aluminum ratio from about 0.25:1 to about 1:1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2013
    Assignee: BASF Corporation
    Inventors: Ivor Bull, Wen-Mei Xue, Patrick Burk, R. Samuel Boorse, William M. Jaglowski, Gerald S. Koermer, Ahmad Moini, Joseph A. Patchett, Joseph C. Dettling, Matthew T. Caudle
  • Patent number: 8404202
    Abstract: According to at least one aspect of the present invention, a urea-resistant catalytic unit is provided. In at least one embodiment, the catalytic unit includes a catalyst having a catalyst surface, and a urea-resistant coating in contact with at least a portion of the catalyst surface, wherein the urea-resistant coating effectively reduces urea-induced deactivation of the catalyst. In at least another embodiment, the urea-resistant coating includes at least one oxide from the group consisting of titanium oxide, tungsten oxide, zirconium oxide, molybdenum oxide, aluminum oxide, silicon dioxide, sulfur oxide, niobium oxide, molybdenum oxide, yttrium oxide, nickel oxide, cobalt oxide, and combinations thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2013
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Yisun Cheng, Yinyan Huang, Christine Kay Lambert
  • Patent number: 8394348
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a layered, three-way conversion catalyst having the capability of simultaneously catalyzing the oxidation of hydrocarbons and carbon monoxide and the reduction of nitrogen oxides being separated in a front and rear portion is disclosed. Provided is a catalytic material of at least two front and two rear layers in conjunction with a substrate, where each of the layers includes a support, all layers comprise a platinum group metal component, and the rear bottom layer is substantially free of a ceria-containing oxygen storage component (OSC).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2013
    Assignee: Umicore AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: John G. Nunan, Raoul Klingmann, Ryan Andersen, Davion Clark, David Moser
  • Patent number: 8394347
    Abstract: An exhaust gas conversion system includes an oxide catalyst, a filter, a selective catalytic reduction catalyst and an ammonia supplying device. The filter has a honeycomb structural body including a honeycomb unit. The selective catalytic reduction catalyst has a honeycomb structural body including a honeycomb unit. The oxide catalyst, the filter and the selective catalytic reduction catalyst are sequentially arranged in a direction in which an exhaust gas flows. A ratio of an area of a cross section of the selective catalytic reduction catalyst perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of the selective catalytic reduction catalyst with respect to an area of a cross section of the filter perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of the filter is approximately 0.55 or more and approximately 0.90 or less. The area of the cross section of the filter is approximately 300 cm2 or more and approximately 1000 cm2 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2013
    Assignee: Ibiden Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masafumi Kunieda, Shigeaki Goto
  • Publication number: 20130052108
    Abstract: A composition is described that includes oxides of zirconium, cerium and another rare earth different from cerium, having a cerium oxide content not exceeding 50 wt % and, after calcination at 1000° C. for 6 hours, a maximal reducibility temperature not exceeding 500° C. and a specific surface of at least 45 m2/g. The composition can be prepared according to a method that includes continuously reacting a mixture that includes compounds of zirconium, cerium and another rare earth having a basic compound for a residence time not exceeding 100 milliseconds, wherein the precipitate is heated and contacted with a surfactant before calcination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2011
    Publication date: February 28, 2013
    Applicant: RHODIA OPERATIONS
    Inventors: Simon Ifrah, Emmanuel Rohart, Julien Hernandez, Stéphane Denaire
  • Patent number: 8377400
    Abstract: An after-treatment system architecture and method for oxidizing the nitric oxide component of a gas stream are disclosed. One embodiment may include treatment of a gas stream that includes NOx with a perovskite catalyst of the general formula ABO3 or a modified formula of ABO3 wherein a small amount of a promoter material is substituted for a portion of at least one of element A or element B in a catalytic oxidation reaction to oxidize nitric oxide in the gas stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Steven J. Schmieg, Chang H Kim, Gongshin Qi, Wei Li, David B. Brown
  • Patent number: 8372364
    Abstract: An exhaust gas post treatment system for, in particular, a self-igniting internal combustion engine including a catalytic converter that is arranged in an exhaust gas line, a fine particle filter and an introduction device for a reduction agent arranged upstream of the catalytic converter in the direction of the flow of the exhaust gas, and to a method for operating said type of exhaust gas post treatment system. An exhaust gas post treatment system and a method for operating said type of system that is simple to use and compact. This is achieved by virtue of the fact that the catalytic converter is a reductively or oxidatively operated catalytic converter, or that the introduction device, the catalytic converter, that can be operated reductively or oxidatively, and the fine particle filter are arranged in said sequence and in the exhaust line in the direction of flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2013
    Assignee: Deutz Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Peter Broll, Markus Mueller
  • Publication number: 20130034482
    Abstract: The invention relates generally to molecular sieve SSZ-23 and its use in the reduction of oxides of nitrogen in a gas stream such as the exhaust from an internal combustion engine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2011
    Publication date: February 7, 2013
    Applicant: Chevron U.S.A Inc.
    Inventors: Stacey I. Zones, Robert J. Saxton
  • Publication number: 20130034483
    Abstract: The invention relates generally to molecular sieve SSZ-25 and its use in the reduction of oxides of nitrogen in a gas stream such as the exhaust from an internal combustion engine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2011
    Publication date: February 7, 2013
    Applicant: Chevron U.S.A. Inc.
    Inventors: Stacey I. Zones, Robert J. Saxton
  • Publication number: 20130034484
    Abstract: The invention relates generally to molecular sieve SSZ-28 and its use in the reduction of oxides of nitrogen in a gas stream such as the exhaust from an internal combustion engine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2011
    Publication date: February 7, 2013
    Applicant: Chevron U.S.A. Inc.
    Inventors: Stacey I. Zones, Robert J. Saxton
  • Patent number: 8361423
    Abstract: A method of operating an exhaust gas after-treatment device with a substrate having a catalyst thereon directs exhaust gas through a first portion of the substrate during a cold-start of the after-treatment device, where the first portion of the substrate less than an entirety of the substrate. After light-off of the catalyst in the first portion of the substrate, exhaust gas is directed through the entirety of the substrate. An exhaust gas after-treatment device for carrying out the method includes a flow control device having a cold start configuration and a light off configuration, wherein the cold start configuration directs exhaust gas through the first portion of the substrate, and the light off configuration directs exhaust gas through the entirety of the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2013
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Mikhail Sergeevich Chivilikhin, Ameya Joshi
  • Publication number: 20130004392
    Abstract: An assembly and method for reducing nitrogen oxides, carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons and hydrogen gas in exhausts of internal combustion engines and simultaneously generating electrical power, wherein the exhaust is acted upon in a first stage catalytic converter and is at least in part passed through a thermoelectric generator for production of electrical power. The exhausts are thereafter directed to a second stage catalytic converter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Publication date: January 3, 2013
    Inventors: Jean Roy, Robert A. Panora, Joseph B. Gehret, Ranson Roser
  • Publication number: 20130004391
    Abstract: A diesel particle filter which comprises a ceramic wall flow filter substrate and two coatings is described. The first coating which is applied in the inflow channels and is composed of high-melting materials has such a nature that it closes the inflow channels and pores in the wall connecting the inflow channels and outflow channels to soot particles on the inflow side without preventing passage of the gaseous exhaust gas constituents. The second coating is introduced into the wall between inflow channels and outflow channels and is of such a nature that it can effectively catalyze the selective reduction of nitrogen oxides by means of a reducing agent. The resulting component is an SCR-catalytically active particle filter and displays excellent banking-up pressure properties combined with high filtration efficiency and good regeneration properties. Furthermore, the component displays good aging stability of the NOx conversion activity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2011
    Publication date: January 3, 2013
    Applicant: UMICORE AG & CO. KG
    Inventors: Marcus Pfeifer, Stephan Basso, Franz Dornhaus
  • Publication number: 20120328500
    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.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2012
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Applicants: MAGNESIUM ELEKTRON LIMITED, RHODIA OPERATIONS
    Inventors: Olivier LARCHER, Emmanuel ROHART, Stephan VERDIER, Heather BRADSHAW, Clive BUTLER, Deborah HARRIS, Mairead FEELEY, Guillaume CRINIERE
  • Patent number: 8337791
    Abstract: An exhaust gas purification catalyst, which is suitable as a three way catalyst for efficiently purifying carbon monoxide (CO), hydrocarbons (HC), and nitrogen oxides (NOx) in exhaust gas discharged from a gasoline automobile and exhaust gas purification apparatus using the same and an exhaust gas purification method. <The upper layer> A catalyst composition having an activated metal (A), a heat resistant inorganic oxide (B) and a cerium-zirconium-type composite oxide (C) containing a pyrochlore phase in a crystal structure, wherein the activated metal (A) is rhodium. <The lower layer> A catalyst composition having an activated metal (A), a heat resistant inorganic oxide (B) and a cerium-containing oxide (C?) having a cubic crystal and/or tetragonal crystal structure as a major crystal structure, wherein the activated metal (A) is palladium, or palladium and platinum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignees: Daiichi Kigenso Kagaku Kogyo Co., Ltd., N.E. Chemcat Corporation
    Inventors: Akira Kohara, Yoshiro Hirasawa, Takashi Yamada
  • Publication number: 20120315204
    Abstract: Provided are an exhaust purification device for a diesel engine and an exhaust purification method that utilizes the exhaust purification device enabling effective utilization of exhaust gas heat and allowing reduction in the size of the device, by virtue of the design of the layout of each post-processing units.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2011
    Publication date: December 13, 2012
    Inventor: Kazuo Osumi
  • Patent number: 8329607
    Abstract: Provided are diesel exhaust components where palladium is segregated from a molecular sieve, specifically a zeolite, in a catalytic material. In the catalytic material, therefore, there are at least two layers: a palladium-containing layer that is substantially free of a molecular sieve and a hydrocarbon trap layer that comprises at least one molecular sieve and is substantially free of palladium. The palladium is provided on a high surface area, porous refractory metal oxide support. The catalytic material can further comprise a platinum component, where a minor amount of the platinum component is in the hydrocarbon trap layer, and a majority amount of the platinum component is in the palladium-containing layer. Systems and methods of using the same are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: BASF Corporation
    Inventors: M. Shahjahan Kazi, Michel Deeba, Torsten Neubauer, Alfred Helmut Punke, Torsten Wolfgang Mueller-Stach, Gerd Grubert, Stanley A. Roth, Jeffrey Barmont Hoke, Shlang Sung, Yuejin Li, Xinyi Wei, Chung-Zong Wan
  • Patent number: 8329127
    Abstract: A catalyst comprising: (a) a first layer comprising an oxidizing catalyst having an effective PGM loading such that oxidation of hydrocarbons generates sufficient heat to regenerate soot, wherein said effective amount of PGM is greater than about 10 g/ft3; and (b) a second layer adjacent to said first layer and comprising a reducing catalyst to selectively reduce NOx.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Johnson Matthey Public Limited Company
    Inventor: Julian Peter Cox
  • Patent number: 8323600
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method and a catalyst for removal of nitrogen oxides in a flue gas from a combustion engine or gas turbine by injecting a reducing agent and reducing the nitrogen oxides in the presence of a catalyst. The catalyst is a zeolite based catalyst on a corrugated monolithic substrate, the substrate has a density of 50-300 g/l and a porosity of at least 50%. The monolithic substrate is a paper of high silica content glass or a paper of E-glass fiber with a layer of diatomaceous earth or a layer of titania, and the catalyst is a Fe-? zeolite.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: Haldor Topsoe A/S
    Inventor: Joakim Reimer Thøgersen
  • Patent number: 8323599
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a layered, three-way conversion catalyst having the capability of simultaneously catalyzing the oxidation of hydrocarbons and carbon monoxide and the reduction of nitrogen oxides being separated in a front and rear portion is disclosed. Provided is a catalytic material of at least two front and two rear layers in conjunction with a substrate, where each of the layers includes a support, all layers comprise a platinum group metal component, and the rear bottom layer is substantially free of a ceria-containing oxygen storage component (OSC).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: Umicore AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: John G. Nunan, Raoul Klingmann, Ryan Andersen, Davion Clark, David H. Moser
  • Publication number: 20120301379
    Abstract: A method of converting nitrogen oxides in a gas to nitrogen by contacting the nitrogen oxides with a nitrogenous reducing agent in the presence of a zeolite catalyst containing at least one transition metal, wherein the zeolite is a small pore zeolite containing a maximum ring size of eight tetrahedral atoms, wherein the at least one transition metal is selected from the group consisting of Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ce, Ni, Cu, Zn, Ga, Mo, Ru, Rh, Pd, Ag, In, Sn, Re, Jr and Pt.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2012
    Publication date: November 29, 2012
    Applicant: JOHNSON MATTHEY PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY
    Inventors: JOSEPH MICHAEL FEDEYKO, RODNEY KOK SHIN FOO, JOHN LEONELLO CASCI, HAI-YING CHEN, PAUL JOSEPH ANDERSEN, JILLIAN ELAINE COLLIER, RAJ RAO RAJARAM
  • Publication number: 20120301381
    Abstract: A method of converting nitrogen oxides in a gas to nitrogen by contacting the nitrogen oxides with a nitrogenous reducing agent in the presence of a zeolite catalyst containing at least one transition metal, wherein the zeolite is a small pore zeolite containing a maximum ring size of eight tetrahedral atoms, wherein the at least one transition metal is selected from the group consisting of Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ce, Ni, Cu, Zn, Ga, Mo, Ru, Rh, Pd, Ag, In, Sn, Re, Ir and Pt.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2012
    Publication date: November 29, 2012
    Applicant: JOHNSON MATTHEY PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY
    Inventors: JOSEPH MICHAEL FEDEYKO, RODNEY KOK SHIN FOO, JOHN LEONELLO CASCI, HAI-YING CHEN, PAUL JOSEPH ANDERSEN, JILLIAN ELAINE COLLIER, RAJ RAO RAJARAM
  • Publication number: 20120301380
    Abstract: A method of converting nitrogen oxides in a gas to nitrogen by contacting the nitrogen oxides with a nitrogenous reducing agent in the presence of a zeolite catalyst containing at least one transition metal, wherein the zeolite is a small pore zeolite containing a maximum ring size of eight tetrahedral atoms, wherein the at least one transition metal is selected from the group consisting of Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ce, Ni, Cu, Zn, Ga, Mo, Ru, Rh, Pd, Ag, In, Sn, Re, Ir and Pt.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2012
    Publication date: November 29, 2012
    Applicant: JOHNSON MATTHEY PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY
    Inventors: JOSEPH MICHAEL FEDEYKO, RODNEY KOK SHIN FOO, JOHN LEONELLO CASCI, HAI-YING CHEN, PAUL JOSEPH ANDERSEN, JILLIAN ELAINE COLLIER, RAJ RAO RAJARAM
  • Publication number: 20120301378
    Abstract: A method of converting nitrogen oxides in a gas to nitrogen by contacting the nitrogen oxides with a nitrogenous reducing agent in the presence of a zeolite catalyst containing at least one transition metal, wherein the zeolite is a small pore zeolite containing a maximum ring size of eight tetrahedral atoms, wherein the at least one transition metal is selected from the group consisting of Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ce, Ni, Cu, Zn, Ga, Mo, Ru, Rh, Pd, Ag, In, Sn, Re, Ir and Pt.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2012
    Publication date: November 29, 2012
    Applicant: JOHNSON MATTHEY PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY
    Inventors: JOSEPH MICHAEL FEDEYKO, RODNEY KOK SHIN FOO, PAUL JOSEPH ANDERSEN, JILLIAN ELAINE COLLIER, JOHN LEONELLO CASCI, HAI-YING CHEN, RAJ RAO RAJARAM
  • Patent number: 8318630
    Abstract: The present invention provides a catalyst which can sufficiently remove nitrogen oxides in an exhaust gas. The catalyst for removing nitrogen oxides to achieve an object of the present invention includes a monolithic support which is coated with a lower layer containing a catalytic component A comprising cerium oxide and an upper layer containing a catalytic component B comprising at least one kind of metal selected from a group consisting of copper, manganese, iron, cobalt and nickel or a compound thereof, and zeolite.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignees: ICT Co., Ltd., International Catalyst Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Takuji Nakane, Naohiro Kato, Akihisa Okumura
  • Patent number: 8321082
    Abstract: In a hybrid vehicle, control is executed to operate an engine with fuel injection being performed, when an unexecuted percentage of catalyst degradation suppression control is equal to or greater than a threshold value of the unexecuted percentage, when a power storage percentage of a battery is equal to or greater than a threshold value of the power storage percentage and the battery is charging, and also when a vehicle speed is equal to or greater than a threshold value of the vehicle speed and a cumulative air amount is equal to or greater than a threshold value of the cumulative air amount, when a catalyst temperature is less than a first threshold temperature and equal to or greater than a second threshold temperature, when the catalyst temperature is equal to or greater than the first threshold temperature, when there is a braking request while the engine is operating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yasushi Ando
  • Publication number: 20120288427
    Abstract: Disclosed is a catalyzed soot filter with layered design wherein the first coating of the filter comprises an oxidation catalyst comprising platinum (Pt) and optionally palladium (Pd), wherein the second coating of the filter comprises an oxidation catalyst comprising Pd and optionally Pt, wherein the Pt concentration in the second coating is lower than the Pt concentration in the first coating, and wherein the weight ratio of Pt:Pd in the second coating is in the range of from 1:1 to 0:1; and wherein the first coating and the second coating are present on the wall flow substrate at a coating loading ratio in the range of from 0.25 to 3, calculated as ratio of the loading of the first coating (in g/inch3 (g/(2.54 cm)3)): loading of the second coating (in g/inch3 (g/(2.54 cm)3)).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2012
    Publication date: November 15, 2012
    Applicants: BASF Corporation, BASF SE
    Inventors: Gerd Grubert, Alfred Punke, Torsten Neubauer, Ruediger Wolff, Stanley Roth, Yuejin Li, Torsten Müller-Stach, Marcus Hilgendorff
  • Patent number: 8309044
    Abstract: An after-treatment device for an automotive engine includes a substrate having a thermoelectric generation element disposed in an interior volume thereof. The substrate has a first end, a second end, and an outermost lateral dimension that defines an interior volume, and is configured to flow engine exhaust gas from the first end to the second end such that the flowing exhaust gas is in thermal contact with the thermoelectric generation element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Monika Backhaus-Ricoult, Peng Chen, Mark J Soulliere
  • Patent number: 8304364
    Abstract: An oxidation catalyst is provided which is capable of combusting PM in a diesel engine exhaust gas at a low temperature and which has low degradation due to heat generated during combustion (i.e., has high heat resistance). A composite oxide for an exhaust gas purification catalyst is formed from Ce, Bi, R, R?, and oxygen, and when the molar ratios of Ce, Bi, R, and R? are expressed as Ce:Bi:R:R?=(1?x?y?z) :x:y:z, it satisfies 0<x?0.4, 0<y<1.0, and 0<z?0.5. Since this composite oxide has no change in its BET value even when treated at a high temperature, and can withstand a high amount of sulfur poisoning, retrogradation due to poisoning is low. Therefore, this exhaust gas purification catalyst is suitable as a PM combustion catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Dowa Electronics Materials Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Michiaki, Yoshichika Horikawa
  • Patent number: 8298504
    Abstract: Several embodiments of high-efficiency catalytic converters and associated systems and methods are disclosed. In one embodiment, a catalytic converter for treating a flow of exhaust gas comprising a reaction chamber, a heating enclosure enclosing at least a portion of the reaction chamber, and an optional coolant channel encasing the heating enclosure. The reaction chamber can have a first end section through which the exhaust gas flows into the reaction chamber and a second end section from which the exhaust gas exits the reaction chamber. The heating enclosure is configured to contain heated gas along the exterior of the reaction chamber, and the optional coolant channel is configured to contain a flow of coolant around the heating enclosure. The catalytic converter can further include a catalytic element in the reaction chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: in the works
    Inventors: Todd K. Hansen, David A. Endrigo
  • Patent number: 8297046
    Abstract: An exhaust gas aftertreatment installment and associated exhaust gas aftertreatment method utilizes a nitrogen oxide storage catalytic converter and an SCR catalytic converter. A particulate filter is provided upstream of the nitrogen oxide storage catalytic converter or between the latter and the SCR catalytic converter or downstream of the SCR catalytic converter. The time of regeneration operating phases of the nitrogen oxide storage catalytic converter can be determined as a function of the nitrogen oxide content of the exhaust gas downstream of the nitrogen oxide storage catalytic converter or of the SCR catalytic converter and/or as a function of the ammonia loading of the latter. Moreover, a desired ammonia generation quantity can be determined for a respective regeneration operating phase. The installation and method are adopted for use for motor vehicle internal combustion engines and other engines which are operated predominantly in lean-burn mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Brigitte Bandl-Konrad, Andreas Hertzberg, Bernd Krutzsch, Arno Nolte, Markus Paule, Stefan Renfftlen, Norbert Waldbuesser, Michel Weibel, Guenter Wenninger, Rolf Wunsch
  • Patent number: 8293198
    Abstract: Disclosed are processes for the preparation of copper containing molecular sieves with the CHA structure wherein the copper is exchanged into the Na+-form of the Chabazite, using a liquid copper solution wherein the concentration of copper is in the range of about 0.001 to about 0.4 molar. Also described are copper containing molecular sieves with the CHA structure, catalysts incorporating molecular sieves, systems and methods for their use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: BASF Corporation
    Inventors: Tilman W. Beutel, Ivor Bull, Ahmad Moini, Michael Breen, Martin Dieterle, Saeed Alerasool, Xinsheng Liu, Wenyong Lin, Barbara Slawski, Ulrich Mueller
  • Patent number: 8293677
    Abstract: There is provided a core-shell structure characterized by comprising a core section composed mainly of a first metal oxide and a shell section composed mainly of a second metal oxide different from the first metal oxide, wherein the thickness of the shell section is no greater than 20 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Masahide Miura