A carbon dioxide conversion apparatus 1 includes: a carbon dioxide electrolysis part 3 that includes: a cathode chamber 8 to reduce carbon dioxide to produce carbon monoxide; and an anode chamber 9 to oxidize an oxidizable substance to produce oxygen and carbon dioxide; a carbon dioxide capture part 5 to separate and capture the carbon dioxide from an oxygen-carbon dioxide containing gas produced in the anode chamber 9; a carbon monoxide purification part 4 to purify the carbon monoxide in a carbon monoxide containing gas produced in the cathode chamber 8; and an oxidation part 6 to perform a reaction between a reducing gas and a carbon dioxide containing gas, the reducing gas containing a residual carbon monoxide discharged from the carbon monoxide purification part 4, and the carbon dioxide containing gas being separated and captured in the carbon dioxide capture part 5 and containing a residual oxygen.

A method for the treatment of flue dusts containing arsenic and/or antimony from pyrometallurgical methods, wherein a reducing agent is added to the flue dusts, the flue dusts are heated together with the reducing agent, and volatile components are separated from a slag. The reducing agent is a carbonaceous compound.

An apparatus for reactivating a sulfur poisoned oxidation catalyst operating in the exhaust of a lean burn, methane source (as in natural gas) fueled combustion device as in an engine. The reactivation includes desulfation of the poisoned catalyst through the use of a CO supplementation apparatus in communication with the control unit that is adapted to supplement the CO content in the exhaust reaching the catalyst, while avoiding an overall rich exhaust atmosphere at the catalyst. An example includes the added supply of hydrocarbons to one or more, preferably less than all, of the lean burn engine's combustion chambers such as by an ECU controlled extra supply of NG (e.g., CNG) to some of the combustion chambers. Also featured is a method for desulfation of an oxidation catalyst of a lean burn CNG engine by supplying excess CO to the exhaust reaching the catalyst while retaining an overall lean state, and a method of assembling an apparatus for reactivating a sulfur deactivated lean burn NO engine catalyst by assembling a CO supplementation apparatus with a control unit.

For the purification of waste gas containing carbon compounds and nitrogen oxides by means of a regenerative post-combustion system, at least two regenerators (A, B, C) filled with heat accumulator bodies (7a, 7b, 7c) and connected by a combustion chamber (10) are provided, wherein the waste gas is alternately heated in a regenerator (A, B, C), the carbon compounds are oxidised in the combustion chamber (10), and, with the addition of a nitrogen-hydrogen compound, the nitrogen oxides are reduced in the combustion chamber (10) thermally and thus not catalytically. Remaining nitrogen oxides are removed by means of a catalytically active heat accumulator layer (6a, 6b, 6c) and the addition of a further nitrogen-hydrogen compound in the regenerator (A, B, C) from which the clean gas exits.

The present disclosure is directed at a ruthenium based catalyst for NOx reduction. More specifically, ruthenium based catalysts are used for NOx reduction in an internal combustion engine to reduce NO.sub.X to nitrogen, at relatively high conversion and selectivity, using carbon monoxide and hydrogen as reductants. The ruthenium based catalyst has particular utility in exhaust gas recirculation such as in dedicated exhaust gas recirculation (D-EGR) systems.

A plasma abatement process for abating effluent containing compounds from a processing chamber is described. A plasma abatement process takes gaseous foreline effluent from a processing chamber, such as a deposition chamber, and reacts the effluent within a plasma chamber placed in the foreline path. The plasma dissociates the compounds within the effluent, converting the effluent into more benign compounds. Abating reagents may assist in the abating of the compounds. The abatement process may be a volatizing or a condensing abatement process. Representative volatilizing abating reagents include, for example, CH.sub.4, H.sub.2O, H.sub.2, NF.sub.3, SF.sub.6, F.sub.2, HCl, HF, Cl.sub.2, and HBr. Representative condensing abating reagents include, for example, H.sub.2, H.sub.2O, O.sub.2, N.sub.2, O.sub.3, CO, CO.sub.2, NH.sub.3, N.sub.2O, CH.sub.4, and combinations thereof.

Provided is a new catalyst that can have heightened purification performance for NOx under lean conditions. Proposed is an exhaust gas purification catalyst composition provided with: a carrier (A) comprising zirconium phosphate; a catalyst active component (a) supported on the carrier (A); a carrier (B) comprising an inorganic oxide porous body; and a catalyst active component (b) supported on the carrier (B).

A plasma abatement process for abating effluent containing compounds from a processing chamber is described. A plasma abatement process takes gaseous foreline effluent from a processing chamber, such as a deposition chamber, and reacts the effluent within a plasma chamber placed in the foreline path. The plasma dissociates the compounds within the effluent, converting the effluent into more benign compounds. Abating reagents may assist in the abating of the compounds. The abatement process may be a volatizing or a condensing abatement process. Representative volatilizing abating reagents include, for example, CH.sub.4, H.sub.2O, H.sub.2, NF.sub.3, SF.sub.6, F.sub.2, HCl, HF, Cl.sub.2, and HBr. Representative condensing abating reagents include, for example, H.sub.2, H.sub.2O, O.sub.2, N.sub.2, O.sub.3, CO, CO.sub.2, NH.sub.3, N.sub.2O, CH.sub.4, and combinations thereof.

The present disclosure is directed at a ruthenium based catalyst for NOx reduction. More specifically, ruthenium based catalysts are used for NOx reduction in an internal combustion engine to reduce NO.sub.x to nitrogen, at relatively high conversion and selectivity, using carbon monoxide and hydrogen as reductants. The ruthenium based catalyst has particular utility in exhaust gas recirculation such as in dedicated exhaust gas recirculation (D-EGR) systems.

An air preheating and denitration integrated reactor and reaction method. The reactor includes a rotary catalyst body, housing arranged outside the rotary catalyst body, and gas inlet and outlet channels on upper and lower surfaces of the housing; the gas inlet and outlet channel is in divided three, namely flue gas, reductant, and air inlet and outlet channels, the rotary catalyst body is cylindrical and includes a central shaft rotor and multiple circular catalyst layers rotate around the central shaft rotor, each circular catalyst layer is divided into air, flue gas and reductant zones by a radial sealing plate and axial sealing plate. In each circular catalyst layer, a catalyst in the reactor alternately circulates in flue gas, reductant and air zones. The catalyst performs heating-reheating-cooling process on catalyst layers along with the reactor rotation, different temperatures and reaction atmospheres in zones conductive of air preheating and denitration.