Cataler Corporation

Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Kohei Takasaki

Tatsuya Ohashi

Koji Sugiura

Takaya Ota

Masatoshi Ikebe

Takeshi Hirabayashi

Keisuke Murawaki

Takeshi Morishima

Akemi Satou

Ryota Onoe

Keiichi Narita

Akemi Sato

Tsuyoshi Ito

Takahiro Noguchi

Tomohito Mizukami

Nobuaki Bando

Hiroshi Ono

Yu Onohara

Yuji Matsuhisa

Provided is an exhaust gas purification catalyst that includes a base material containing a silicon-silicon carbide composite material and a catalyst layer containing a barium component and that has excellent high-temperature durability of oxygen storage capacity. The exhaust gas purification catalyst disclosed here includes a base material and a catalyst layer in contact with the base material. The base material contains a silicon-silicon carbide composite material. The catalyst layer contains a platinum-group catalyst, a barium component, and an oxygen storage material. The barium component is one material selected from the group consisting of barium and a barium compound. The barium component is present on at least a surface of the oxygen storage material. The barium component has an average particle size of 100 nm or more and 350 nm or less.

Exhaust gas purification catalyst

According to a technique disclosed herein, provided is an exhaust gas purification catalyst, which both suppresses OSC when using a new vehicle and maintains OSC during life cycles. The exhaust gas purification catalyst disclosed herein is an exhaust gas purification catalyst includes a substrate, and a catalyst coated layer formed on the surface of the substrate, wherein the catalyst coated layer contains an OSC material having an oxygen storage capacity. The catalyst coated layer includes a Rh layer mainly containing Rh as a catalyst metal, and a Pd/Pt layer mainly containing Pd and/or Pt as a catalyst metal. At least a portion of the Pd/Pt layer in the catalyst coated layer contains, as the OSC material, a low specific surface area OSC material, including a ceria-zirconia composite oxide and having a specific surface area of 40 m/g or more and 60 m/g or less.

An exhaust gas purification device suppresses a pressure loss increase and includes a honeycomb substrate and inflow cell side catalyst layer. The substrate includes a porous partition wall defining several cells extending from an inflow side end surface to an outflow side end surface. The cells include an inflow and outflow cell adjacent across the wall. The inflow cell has an open inflow side end and sealed outflow side end. The outflow cell has a sealed inflow side end and open outflow side end. The catalyst layer is on an inflow cell side surface in an region extending from the inflow side end positioned 10% or more of the partition wall length. At this position, a filled portion of the inflow cell side catalyst layer pores are 40% or less. The pores are present to a depth of 50% of a thickness of the partition wall.

Exhaust gas purification device

There is provided an exhaust gas purification device that shows a high HC removal performance under a condition in which a rich air-fuel mixture is introduced. The exhaust gas purification device includes a substrate, a first catalyst layer, and a second catalyst layer. The substrate includes an upstream end and a downstream end. The first catalyst layer is disposed on a surface of the partition wall in an upstream region including the upstream end of the substrate. The second catalyst layer is disposed inside the partition wall in a downstream region including the downstream end of the substrate. The first catalyst layer contains a first metal catalyst and alumina-zirconia composite oxide. The second catalyst layer contains a second metal catalyst.

An exhaust gas purification catalyst device having a substrate, a first catalyst coating layer on the substrate, and a second catalyst coating layer on the first catalyst coating layer. The first catalyst coating layer includes inorganic oxide particles, palladium carried on the inorganic oxide particles, and a barium compound. The second catalyst coating layer includes alumina particles and rhodium carried by the alumina particles. The ratio (M/M) between the mass (M) of barium in the first catalyst coating layer and the mass (M) of rhodium in the second catalyst coating layer is 5.0-60.0 inclusive.

Exhaust gas purification catalyst device

The exhaust gas purification device includes a substrate, a first catalyst layer, and a second catalyst layer. The substrate includes an upstream end, a downstream end, and a porous partition wall defining a plurality of cells extending between the upstream end and the downstream end. The plurality of cells include an inlet cell opening at the upstream end and sealed at the downstream end, and an outlet cell adjacent to the inlet cell sealed at the upstream end and opening at the downstream end. The first catalyst layer is disposed on a surface of the partition wall in an upstream region. In a downstream region, the second catalyst layer is disposed inside the partition wall, and a second catalyst-containing wall including the partition wall and the second catalyst layer has a porosity of 35% or more.

An exhaust gas purification device has a metal substrate and a catalyst layer on the metal substrate, wherein the metal substrate is a wound body of one or a plurality of metal foils, at least one of the one or a plurality of metal foils is a perforated metal foil having holes, the catalyst layer contains noble metal catalyst particles and a carrier for carrying the noble metal catalyst particles, and more noble metal catalyst particles are present in the catalyst layer on side surfaces of holes, which face an upstream side of an exhaust gas flow, than in the catalyst layer on side surfaces of holes, which face a downstream side of the exhaust gas flow.

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Kohei Takasaki