This exhaust gas purifying catalyst is provided with a substrate and a catalyst layer formed on a surface of the substrate. The catalyst layer contains zeolite particles that support a metal, and a rare earth element-containing compound that contains a rare earth element. The rare earth element-containing compound is added in such an amount that the molar ratio of the rare earth element relative to Si contained in the zeolite is 0.001 to 0.014 in terms of oxides.

An exhaust gas sample collector includes a tubular body, a plurality of inlet openings circumferentially spaced about an outer periphery of the tubular body, the plurality of inlet openings configured to receive exhaust gas, an outlet in fluid communication with the plurality of inlet openings, and a sensor configured to measure a characteristic of the exhaust gas at the outlet.

The present invention relates to an exhaust gas treatment system for treating exhaust gas from a lean burn combustion engine, wherein said exhaust gas comprises hydrocarbons and NOx, the exhaust gas treatment system comprising: (i) a means for injecting hydrocarbons into an exhaust gas stream; (ii) a diesel oxidation catalyst (DOC) comprising a substrate and a catalyst coating provided on the substrate, wherein the catalyst coating comprises one or more platinum group metals, wherein the one or more platinum group metals comprise platinum; (iii) a means for injecting a nitrogenous reducing agent into an exhaust gas stream; and (iv) a multifunctional catalyst (MFC) comprising an oxidation catalyst, and a selective catalytic reduction (SCR) catalyst for the selective catalytic reduction of NOx, wherein the MFC comprises a substrate and a catalyst coating provided on the substrate, wherein the catalyst coating comprises the oxidation catalyst and the SCR catalyst, wherein the oxidation catalyst comprises one or more platinum group metals, wherein the one or more platinum group metals comprise palladium and/or platinum, and wherein the SCR catalyst comprises a zeolitic material loaded with copper and/or iron; wherein the means for injecting hydrocarbons, the DOC, the means for injecting a nitrogenous reducing agent, and the MFC are located in sequential order in a conduit for exhaust gas, wherein the means for injecting hydrocarbons into an exhaust gas stream is located upstream of the DOC, wherein the DOC is located upstream of the MFC, and wherein the means for injecting a nitrogenous reducing agent into the exhaust gas stream is located between the DOC and the MFC. Furthermore, the present invention relates to a method for the treatment of exhaust gas using the exhaust gas treatment system according to the present invention, and to a method for the preparation of an exhaust gas treatment system according to the present invention.

A small-pore zeolite that is modified with phosphorus, is excellent in hydrothermal durability, and has an 8-membered oxygen ring structure. The 8-membered oxygen ring structure is CHA, AEI, and AFX. The small-pore zeolite incudes at least an aluminum element, a silica element, a phosphorus element, wherein the phosphorus element is defined by expression (1), and the small-pore zeolite has an 8-membered oxygen ring structure being of CHA, AEI, or AFX. The phosphorus element that modifies the zeolite is unevenly distributed and richly contained on the surface layer side of the zeolite. A method for producing a phosphorus element-containing zeolite.

The invention provides a catalyst composition, including a mixture of catalytically active particles and a magnetic material, such as superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles, capable of inductive heating in response to an applied alternating electromagnetic field. The catalytically active particles will typically include a base metal, platinum group metal, oxide of base metal or platinum group metal, or combination thereof, and will be adapted for use in various catalytic systems, such as diesel oxidation catalysts, catalyzed soot filters, lean NOx traps, selective catalytic reduction catalysts, ammonia oxidation catalysts, or three-way catalysts. The invention also includes a system and method for heating a catalyst material, which includes a catalyst article that includes the catalyst composition and a conductor for receiving current and generating an alternating electromagnetic field in response thereto, the conductor positioned such that the generated alternating electromagnetic field is applied to at least a portion of the magnetic material.

An exhaust gas heating unit for an exhaust system of an internal combustion engine includes a jacket heating conductor element (12) with a jacket (16) and with an electrical heating conductor (14). The electrical heating conductor (14) extends in the jacket (16) and is surrounded by insulating material (18). A heat transfer surface formation (20) is arranged on an outer side of the jacket (16) and is in heat transfer contact with same.

The present technology relates generally to parallel passage contactors having active layers and methods for its use. Particularly, the present technology relates to parallel passage contactors having active layers with sorbents and/or catalysts and methods of use in sorptive gas separation and/or catalytic reactions.

The present invention relates to a selective catalytic reduction catalyst for the treatment of an exhaust gas of a diesel engine comprising: a flow-through substrate comprising an inlet end, an outlet end, a substrate axial length extending from the inlet end to the outlet end and a plurality of passages defined by internal walls of the flow through substrate extending therethrough; a coating disposed on the surface of the internal walls of the substrate, wherein the coating comprises a non-zeolitic oxidic material comprising manganese and one or more of the metals of the groups 4 to 11 and 13 of the periodic table, and further comprises one or more of a vanadium oxide and a zeolitic material comprising one or more of copper and iron.

The structured catalyst for oxidation for exhaust gas purification includes a support having a porous structure constituted by a zeolite-type compound, and at least one type of oxidation catalyst that is present in the support and selected from the group consisting of metal and metal oxide, the support having channels that communicate with each other, and the oxidation catalyst being present in at least the channels of the support.

A composite, zone-coated, dual-use ammonia (AMOX) and nitric oxide oxidation catalyst (12) comprises: a substrate (5) having a total length L and a longitudinal axis and having a substrate surface extending axially between a first substrate end (I) and a second substrate end (O); two or more catalyst washcoat zones (1; 2) comprised of a first catalyst washcoat layer (9) comprising a refractory metal oxide support material and one or more platinum group metal components supported thereon and a second catalyst washcoat layer (11) different from the first catalyst washcoat layer (9) and comprising a refractory metal oxide support material and one or more platinum group metal components supported thereon, which two or more catalyst washcoat zones (1; 2) being arranged axially in series on and along the substrate surface, wherein a first catalyst washcoat zone (1) having a length L.sub.1, wherein L.sub.1<L, is defined at one end by the first substrate end (I) and at a second end (13) by a first end (15) of a second catalyst washcoat zone (2) having a length L.sub.2, wherein L.sub.2<L, wherein the first catalyst washcoat zone (1) comprises a first refractory metal oxide support material and one or more platinum group metal components supported thereon; and the second catalyst washcoat zone comprises a second refractory metal oxide support material and one or more platinum group metal components supported thereon; and a washcoat overlayer (G) extending axially from the first substrate end for up to 200% of the axial length of the underlying first catalyst washcoat layer, which washcoat overlayer comprising a particulate metal oxide loading of >48.8 g/l (>0.8 g/in.sup.3), wherein the particulate metal oxide is an aluminosilicate zeolite including at least one of copper, iron and manganese, wherein a total platinum group metal loading in the first catalyst washcoat zone (1) defined in grams of platinum group metal per litre of substrate volume (g/l) is different from the total platinum group metal loading in the second catalyst washcoat zone (2).