An air purification system that includes a housing including a pedestal and an outer shell, wherein the outer shell is operable between an extended configuration and a compacted configuration, and includes a filter arranged within the housing along a flow path between an inlet and an outlet of the housing.

The present invention provides a method for manufacturing an electro-catalytic honeycomb for controlling exhaust emissions, comprising steps of: providing a honeycomb structural frame including an outer surface, a plurality of airflow channels and a plurality of partition walls, and contacting the outer surface of the honeycomb structural frame with a molten metal to attach the molten metal in the plurality of partition walls to form a reducing environment. Accordingly, through the reducing environment in the partition wall and the oxidizing environment of a lean-burn exhaust contacted by a cathode, the electro-catalytic honeycomb generates an electromotive force between the partition wall and the cathode to drive the nitrogen oxides in the lean-burn exhaust to decompose at the cathode in order to control exhaust emissions.

An electro catalytic CO.sub.2 reduction method including forming a gas diffusion cathode including a porous layer and gas diffusion layer. The method includes electrocatalyzing the gas diffusion cathode by electrochemically depositing a CO.sub.2 reduction catalyst using a pulse current or pulse reverse current passed between the gas diffusion cathode and a counter electrode in a bath containing ions of the catalyst to balance nucleation/growth of the catalyst particles resulting in a more uniform deposition of catalyst particles of predominantly less than 20 nm. The electro catalyzed gas diffusion cathode is utilized in an electrochemical reactor along with an anode and voltage source connected to the cathode and anode to convert CO.sub.2 to another chemical (e.g., formic acid).

Metal oxide catalyst, preferably in a high surface area form, comprising a metal oxide (e.g. copper, cerium, tin or bismuth) having engineered surface defects in the form of oxygen vacancy defects. The engineered surface defects may be created by plasma treatment for a time sufficient to create oxygen vacancy defects while maintaining morphology and crystallinity of the metal oxide surface. Also a method of producing a metal oxide catalyst for NOx reduction by preparing a high surface metal oxide catalyst and plasma treating the metal oxide particle to induce a controlled level of defects. Also, a method of producing NH.sub.4+ from NOx comprising depositing the metal oxide catalyst onto a substrate to provide an electrode, or a metal coordinated with nitrogen doped carbon, contacting the electrode with an aqueous solution containing NOx species and applying a current to the electrode to reduce NOx species to NH.sub.4+/NH.sub.3.

Supporting structure having a first side surface and a second, opposite side surface, wherein the supporting structure has an electrical insulation which prevents an electrical current flow from the first side surface to the second side surface; wherein, furthermore, the supporting structure comprises at least one web which bridges or encloses a cross-sectional area, and wherein the supporting structure has a plurality of first pins and second pins which extend on both sides of the cross-sectional area.

The present disclosure relates to a particle including at least one atomic-scale channel formed on a surface of the particle or on a surface and inside of the particle; a catalyst including the particle, particularly a catalyst for efficient and selective electrochemical conversion of carbon dioxide into high value-added C.sub.2+ fuel; and a method of preparing the particle.

An electrocatalytic device for carbon dioxide conversion includes a cathode with a Catalytically Active Elementa metal in the form of supported or unsupported particles or flakes with an average size between 0.6 nm and 100 nm. The reaction products comprise at least one of CO, HCO.sup., H.sub.2CO, (HCOO).sup., HCOOH, CH.sub.3OH, CH.sub.4, C.sub.2H.sub.4, CH.sub.3CH.sub.2OH, CH.sub.3COO.sup., CH.sub.3COOH, C.sub.2H.sub.6, (COOH).sub.2, (COO.sup.).sub.2, and CF.sub.3COOH.

An electrocatalytic device for carbon dioxide conversion includes a cathode with a Catalytically Active Elementa metal in the form of supported or unsupported particles or flakes with an average size between 0.6 nm and 100 nm. The reaction products comprise at least one of CO, HCO.sup., H.sub.2CO, (HCOO).sup., HCOOH, CH.sub.3OH, CH.sub.4, C.sub.2H.sub.4, CH.sub.3CH.sub.2OH, CH.sub.3COO.sup., CH.sub.3COOH, C.sub.2H.sub.6, (COOH).sub.2, (COO.sup.).sub.2, and CF.sub.3COOH.

A honeycomb structure of the present invention includes a honeycomb structure body and a pair of electrode member arranged at a side surface of the honeycomb structure body. The honeycomb structure body has an electrical resistivity of 1 to 200 cm, and the respective pair of electrode members is formed into a band-like shape extending in a direction in which the cells extend. In a cross section perpendicular to the cell extending direction, one of the electrode members is arranged opposite to another of the electrode members sandwiching a center of the honeycomb structure body. One or more of slits, which being open to a side surface, are formed at the honeycomb structure body. At least the one slit is formed so as not to intersect with a straight line connecting center portions of the respective pair of electrode members in the cross section perpendicular to the cell extending direction.

Provided is a hydrolysis reaction device for dechlorination and decyanation of blast furnace gas, including a tower body, where a top of the tower body is provided with an air inlet channel, and a bottom of the tower body is provided with an air outlet channel, and functional zones are arranged in the tower body. The functional zones are sequentially an air inlet zone, a first protective agent zone, a first transition zone, a second protective agent zone, a second transition zone, a hydrolysis zone and an air outlet zone along a gas direction, and adjacent functional zones are communicated. Feed holes and discharge holes are uniformly arranged on an outer side surface of the tower body. Gas in a tower radially passes through the protective agent zones and the hydrolysis zone.