Dow Global Technolgoies LLC

Cheng G Li

Robin Paul Ziebarth

Fuhe Mao

Clark H Cummins

David F May

Martin C Cornell

Steven B Swartzmiller

Steven B Swatzmiller

Brandon M Simmons

An improved Diesel exhaust filter element of the type having a rigid porous wall portion formed of an acicular ceramic (such as acicular mullite), the porous wall portion having a first side and a second side, the porous wall portion being coated with a precious metal catalyst and a Noabsorbent, such that when exhaust gas from a Diesel engine is flowed through the rigid porous wall from the first side to the second side, the exhaust gas containing excess oxygen, Nox and soot, the soot in the exhaust gas in trapped within the rigid porous wall and catalytically oxidized to carbon dioxide, the NO is catalytically oxidized to NO, which NOis then absorbed by the Noabsorbent, and such that when the exhaust gas is caused to contain excess hydrocarbon and carbon monoxide, then the Noabsorbent is regenerated and the remaining hydrocarbon and carbon monoxide are catalytically converted to nitrogen and carbon dioxide. In addition, a process for depositing precipitated metal ions on the surfaces of such a rigid porous wall.

Diesel exhaust filter

A method of operating a combustion ignition engine comprises introducing an amount of a compressibly non-ignitable fuel into the air induction system of a compression ignition engine during the intake stroke of the engine and then injecting an amount of compressibly ignitable fuel (e.g., Diesel fuel) in the cylinder chamber at a crank angle sufficiently advanced during the compression stroke of the compression ignition engine such that the compressibly ignitable fuel and incompressible non-ignitable fuel ignite and combust such that substantially all of the fuel in the cylinder is combusted, where the amount of compressibly non-ignitable fuel introduced into the cylinder has an energy content that is at least about 50% to at most about 99% of the total energy content of the total amount of fuel introduced.

Method of operating a compression ignition internal combustion engine

A catalyzed soot filter is comprised of a monolithic ceramic honeycomb body that has a catalyzed inlet zone that has a catalyst within the walls of the ceramic honeycomb inlet end to at most about 45% of the length of the catalyzed soot filter. The catalyzed inlet zone has a porosity that is at least &#x2153; the porosity of a wall of the ceramic honeycomb that does not have a catalyst in the wall.

Zone catalyzed soot filter

A catalyzed Diesel soot filter and process. The Diesel soot filter incorporates a porous filter element coated with a catalytic agent so that Diesel soot from Diesel exhaust gas is deposited into contact with the catalytic agent when Diesel exhaust gas is passed through the porous filter element and so that the ignition temperature or oxidation temperature of the deposited Diesel soot is reduced. The catalytic agent is a mixture of alkali metal and cerium oxides. The mole ratio of alkali metal to cerium of the catalytic agent is in the range of from 0.5 to 5.

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Midland, MI, United States of America

Cheng G Li