Ford Global Technolgoies, LLC

Sandia Corporation

Low Emissions Technologies Research and Development Partnership

Low Emmissions Technologies Research and Development Partnership

Timothy J Gardner

Linda I McLaughlin

Stephen E Lott

Shuya Shark Yamada

Shawn Michael Spannbauer

Christopher David Tiernan

Steven J Lockwood

Matthew Coon

Gregory Charles Frye-Mason

Patrick Lewis

Chris Colburn

Ronald P Manginelli

Charlene A Matlock

Deborah L Mowery-Evans

John B Oelfke

A system and methods for a vehicle are provided for adjusting each of a speed of a radiator fan and a position of grille shutters of the vehicle responsive to a temperature at a wastegate exceeding a temperature threshold. In one example, a system may include a radiator fan at a front end of a vehicle, an engine coupled to an exhaust passage, a turbine in the exhaust passage having a bypass conduit, a wastegate positioned in the turbine conduit, and the wastegate receiving airflow from downstream of the radiator fan via a cooling duct.

Turbocharger system having an air-cooled wastegate actuator

A method for catalytically reducing nitrogen oxide compounds (NO, defined as nitric oxide, NO, +nitrogen dioxide, NO) in a gas by a material comprising a base metal consisting essentially of CuO and Mn, and oxides of Mn, on an activated metal hydrous metal oxide support, such as HMO:Si. A promoter, such as tungsten oxide or molybdenum oxide, can be added and has been shown to increase conversion efficiency. This method provides good conversion of NOto N, good selectivity, good durability, resistance to SOaging and low toxicity compared with methods utilizing vanadia-based catalysts.

Method for selective catalytic reduction of nitrogen oxides

A microcombustor comprises a microhotplate and a catalyst for sustained combustion on the microscale. The microhotplate has very low heat capacity and thermal conductivity that mitigate large heat losses arising from large surface-to-volume ratios typical of the microdomain. The heated catalyst enables flame ignition and stabilization, permits combustion with lean fuel/air mixtures, extends a hydrocarbon's limits of flammability, and lowers the combustion temperature. The reduced operating temperatures enable a longer microcombustor lifetime and the reduced fuel consumption enables smaller fuel supplies, both of which are especially important for portable microsystems applications. The microcombustor can be used for on-chip thermal management and for sensor applications, such as heating of a micro gas chromatography column and for use as a micro flame ionization detector.

Microcombustor

Disclosed is a catalytic material of a calcined noble metal-doped hydrous titanium oxide with a copper promoter compound. The catalytic material is effective for NO.sub.x reduction in an oxidizing exhaust stream form a combustion process is disclosed. Also described is a device for reduction of nitrogen oxides in an exhaust stream, particularly an automotive exhaust stream, that includes a substrate coated with the activated noble-metal doped hydrous metal oxide of the invention and methods for preparing the device.

Material and system for catalytic reduction of nitrogen oxide in an

A catalytic material of activated hydrous metal oxide doped with platinum, palladium, or a combination of these, and optionally containing an alkali or alkaline earth metal, that is effective for NO.sub.X reduction in an oxidizing exhaust stream from a combustion process is disclosed. A device for reduction of nitrogen oxides in an exhaust stream, particularly an automotive exhaust stream, the device having a substrate coated with the activated noble-metal doped hydrous metal oxide of the invention is also provided.

A material effective for adsorbing NO.sub.x from an exhaust stream of a combustion process, such as from an internal combustion engine operating under lean burn conditions, is disclosed. The material comprises an alkali metal-doped and copper-doped hydrous metal oxide material that has been calcined. The alkali metal is selected from potassium and sodium. The material is coated onto a substrate, such as ceramic beads or pellets, or a honeycomb cordierite monolith, and placed in contact with the exhaust stream.

Nitrogen oxide adsorbing material

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Timothy J Gardner