A reference material for performance evaluation of a catalyst of a selective catalytic reduction includes a ceramic carrier and a coating material that coats the ceramic carrier. The coating material includes copper (Cu), alumina (Al.sub.2O.sub.3), and silica (SiO.sub.2). A method of preparing the reference material includes mixing copper (Cu) and an acidic solution to prepare a copper-containing solution, mixing the copper-containing solution, alumina, and silica to prepare a mixture, and coating the mixture on the ceramic carrier, and drying and baking the mixture coated on the ceramic carrier.

A cordierite-containing ceramic body with % P≥50%, df≤0.50, and a combined weight percentage of crystalline phases containing cordierite and indialite of at least 85 wt %. The porous ceramic body contains, as expressed on a relative oxide weight percent basis in terms of MgO, Al.sub.2O.sub.3, and SiO.sub.2 that is within a field defined by (15.4, 34.1, and 50.5), (12.2, 34.1, and 53.7), (13.3, 31.2, and 55.5), and (16.6, 31.1, and 52.3). Batch composition mixtures and methods of manufacturing a porous ceramic body using the batch compositions are provided, as are other aspects.

A reference material for performance evaluation of a catalyst of a selective catalytic reduction includes a ceramic carrier and a coating material that coats the ceramic carrier. The coating material includes copper (Cu), alumina (Al.sub.2O.sub.3), and silica (SiO.sub.2). A method of preparing the reference material includes mixing copper (Cu) and an acidic solution to prepare a copper-containing solution, mixing the copper-containing solution, alumina, and silica to prepare a mixture, and coating the mixture on the ceramic carrier, and drying and baking the mixture coated on the ceramic carrier.

An exhaust gas purification device comprises a first heating element made from an electrically conductive material, a second heating element made from an electrically conductive material, and a power supply configured to circulate an electric current in the first heating element and in the second heating element. The power supply comprises a first electrode electrically connected to the first heating element and a second electrode electrically connected to the second heating element. The heating device includes a substrate extending between the first heating element and the second heating element, and a connecting element electrically connecting the first heating element and the second heating element.

A three-way catalyst article, and its use in an exhaust system for internal combustion engines, is disclosed. The catalyst article for treating exhaust gas comprising: a substrate comprising an inlet end, an outlet end with an axial length L; an inlet catalyst layer beginning at the inlet end and extending for less than the axial length L, wherein the inlet catalyst layer comprises an inlet palladium component; an outlet catalyst layer beginning at the outlet end and extending for less than the axial length L, wherein the outlet catalyst layer comprises an outlet rhodium component; and wherein the outlet catalyst layer overlaps with the inlet catalyst layer.

Methods and systems are provided for emissions control of a vehicle. In one example, a catalyst may include a cerium-based support material and a transition metal catalyst loaded on the support material, the transition metal catalyst including nickel and copper, wherein nickel in the transition metal catalyst is included in a monatomic layer loaded on the support material. In some examples, limiting nickel to the monatomic layer may mitigate extensive transition metal catalyst degradation ascribed to sintering of thicker nickel washcoat layers. Further, by utilizing the cerium-based support material, side reactions involving nickel in the transition metal catalyst with other support materials may be prevented.

An exhaust gas treatment system includes in order: an intake for receiving an exhaust gas from a lean burn combustion engine; an injector for the provision of a nitrogenous reductant; a close-coupled vanadium-containing SCR catalyst composition; one or more downstream PGM-containing oxidation catalyst compositions, wherein the close-coupled vanadium-containing SCR catalyst composition includes cerium in a Ce:V molar ratio of greater than 0.3.

The present invention relates to a catalyst comprising a carrier substrate of the length L extending between substrate ends a and b and two washcoat zones A and B, wherein washcoat zone A comprises a first platinum group metal and extends starting from substrate end a over a part of the length L, and washcoat zone B comprises the same components as washcoat zone A and in addition a second platinum group metal and extends from substrate end b over a part of the length L, wherein L=L.sub.A+L.sub.B, wherein L.sub.A is the length of washcoat zone A and L.sub.B is the length of substrate length B.

Disclosed herein is a particulate filter for use in an emission treatment system of an internal combustion engine. The particulate filter provides high fresh filtration efficiency and has minimal to no impact on backpressures.

Described herein is a layered catalytic article which includes a) a top layer including a front zone and a rear zone, where the front zone includes a palladium component and a rhodium component, supported individually or together on a support, and the rear zone includes a platinum component, a rhodium component and optionally a palladium component, supported individually or together on a support; b) a bottom layer including a platinum component and a palladium component supported individually or together on a support; and c) a substrate. Also described herein are an exhaust treatment system including the layered catalytic article and a method of using the layered catalytic article for abatement of hydrocarbons, carbon monoxide and nitrogen oxides in an exhaust stream.