The invention relates to a leakage treatment member (50) and an exhaust aftertreatment unit (40) configured to be sealingly arranged in a fluid passage (30) of an exhaust aftertreatment system for treating exhaust from an internal combustion engine, said exhaust aftertreatment unit (40) comprising an exhaust aftertreatment element (42) confined by an outer wall (44) of said exhaust aftertreatment unit, said leakage treatment member being configured to be arranged between:—an inner perimeter (32) of the fluid passage of the exhaust aftertreatment system, and—the outer wall of the exhaust aftertreatment unit, the leakage treatment member comprising an exhaust aftertreatment component for aftertreatment of any leakage of exhaust gases past said aftertreatment unit in said fluid passage.

An exhaust purification device has a catalytic converter provided with: an outer cylinder welded at the upstream end portion to an exhaust gas inlet of an inlet-side flange and welded at the downstream end portion to an exhaust gas outlet of the outlet-side flange. An inner cylinder has an upstream end portion held by the upstream side portion of the outer cylinder with no gap and has a downstream end portion disposed at the downstream side of the outer cylinder with a gap, the inner cylinder housing a catalyst support. An opening end is formed at the downstream end portion of the inner cylinder with a gap with respect to the outer cylinder, and a gas layer is formed by the exhaust gas having entered from the exhaust gas inlet and convected to an upstream side between the outer cylinder and the inner cylinder.

A catalytic converter (11) for exhaust gas purification is formed by disposing a retaining mat (14) between an inner peripheral face of a metal shell (12) and an outer peripheral face of a catalyst support (13), and retaining the catalyst support (13) in an interior of the metal shell (12) by the retaining mat (14). Since a thickness of the retaining mat (14) in a released state after being heated by exhaust gas is 210% or greater of a clearance (α) between the inner peripheral face of the metal shell (12) and the outer peripheral face of the catalyst support (13), it is possible to reliably retain the catalyst support (13) over a long period of time by compensating for a decrease in surface pressure due to deterioration of the retaining mat (14) with an increase in the surface pressure due to sufficient expansion of the retaining mat (14). Moreover, since it is unnecessary to strongly compress the retaining mat (14) when assembling so as to enhance the surface pressure, there is no possibility that the catalyst support (13) will be damaged by excessive surface pressure.

Provided is a method of manufacturing an insulator including disposing first and second covering members, and swaging the first covering member with the second covering member. The first and second covering members each include a groove and flanges including a perforated flange. The second covering member is disposed on the first covering member such that an inner side of the groove of the second covering member faces an inner side of the groove of the first covering member; the flanges of the second covering member are individually placed on the flanges of the first covering member; and a pin retained on a base is inserted through the perforated flange of the second covering member, to thereby fix the second covering member in position. In the swaging, at least the respective perforated flanges of the first and second covering members are swaged with each other with the pin being inserted therethrough.

A heater includes: a conductive ceramic cylinder tube provided with a plurality of cells, each cell being defined by a pair of first cell-walls and a pair of second cell-walls, each first cell-wall extending in a radial direction of the ceramic cylinder tube, and each second cell-wall extending so as to cross the radial direction of the ceramic cylinder tube; an inner electrode electrically coupled to an inner wall of the ceramic cylinder tube; and an outer electrode electrically coupled to an outer wall of the ceramic cylinder tube. Linear portions are radially arranged in the ceramic cylinder tube, each linear portion linearly extending in the radial direction of the ceramic cylinder tube so as to include a plurality of first cell-walls that are arranged on the same axial line that in the radial direction and current flows radially at least via the linear portions between the inner and outer electrodes.

A method of making nonwoven fibrous materials suitable for use in a pollution control device or as a firestop, where the method comprises: providing a first slurry comprising water, first inorganic fibers, a first organic binder, and a first neutral pH flocculent; removing first waste water from the first slurry; optionally forming a first nonwoven fibrous material from the first slurry; providing a second slurry comprising a quantity of the first waste water, an optional quantity of relatively clean water, second inorganic fibers, a second organic binder, and a second flocculent that is the same and/or a different flocculent than that used in the first slurry; and forming a second nonwoven fibrous material from the second slurry. The addition of the first waste water in the second slurry does not adversely affect the flocculation of the second organic binder in the second slurry.

A holding material for a pollution control element which can sufficiently suppress scattering of inorganic fibers when the pollution control element is assembled in a casing, and which has a sufficiently high coefficient of friction. The holding material includes: a sheet-like main body made of first inorganic fibers having a minor axis in the range of from about 3 to 10 μm; and a surface layer which is provided on at least one surface of the main body and contains second inorganic fibers having a minor axis in the range of from about 1 to 15 nm.

An element frame assembly (1) comprising an element frame (2) for holding at least one monolith (3) containing catalysts in the flow of exhaust gases from a combustion source. The element frame (2) comprising two pairs of opposing walls (10), an interior (11) formed by the walls (10), an inlet end (12) and an outlet end (13). The least one monolith (3) comprising an inlet (20), an outlet (20), four sides (22) and at least one catalyst. At least one knit wire mesh bearing element (4) is provided such that there is at least a portion of the at least one knit wire mesh bearing element (4) between the at least one monolith (3) and each adjacent wall (10) of the element frame (2).

An apparatus includes a housing and at least one substrate enclosed within the housing and extending along an axis. The substrate includes at least one internal open area that is of a predetermined size and at a predetermined location within the substrate. At least one heater is configured to heat the at least one substrate by directing heat into the at least one internal open area.

The present invention relates to an alumina fiber having the content of sodium oxide of 530 to 3,200 ppm and a mass ratio (A/B) of the content (A) of the sodium oxide to the content (B) of calcium oxide of 5 to 116.