Porous metal oxide catalytic materials with planar morphologies which are derived from metal-organic framework (MOF) materials via thermal decomposition, oxidation pretreatment and pyrolysis processes. The porous metal oxides are mainly transition metal oxides, derived from MOFs containing the corresponding transition metal ions, such as Cu, Zn, Y, La, Ce, Ti, Zr, V, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, and Ni ions. The transformation conditions from MOF materials to metal oxides, such as temperature, atmosphere and duration, are well defined to obtain metal oxides with controlled morphologies. Furthermore, the present subject matter relates to a low-temperature catalytic decomposition of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) with a wide concentration range on two-dimensional metal oxides.

The present invention disclose catalyst compositions for the selective catalytic reduction of nitrogen oxides, consisting of at least one oxide of vanadium in an amount of 2.0 to 4.0 wt.-%, calculated as V.sub.2O.sub.5 and based on the total weight of the catalyst composition, at least one oxide of tungsten in an amount of 2.5 to 7.2 wt.-%, calculated as WO.sub.3 and based on the total weight of the catalyst composition, at least one oxide of antimony in an amount of 0.6 to 3.4 wt.-%, calculated as Sb.sub.2O.sub.5 and based on the total weight of the catalyst composition, at least one oxide of zirconium in an amount of 0 to 1.0 wt.-%, calculated as ZrO.sub.2 and based on the total weight of the catalyst, and at least one oxide of titanium in an amount of 84.6 to 94.9 wt.-% calculated as TiO.sub.2 and based on the total weight of the catalyst, wherein the weight ratio of the oxides of vanadium, tungsten, antimony, titanium and optionally zirconium, calculated as V.sub.2O.sub.5, WO.sub.3, Sb.sub.2O.sub.5, TiO.sub.2 and optionally ZrC.sub.2, respectively, add up to 100 wt.-%. Furthermore, SCR catalytic articles are disclosed wherein an SCR catalyst composition according to the invention is affixed in the form of a coating. Suitable catalyst carriers are corrugated substrates and cordierite monoliths. The SCR catalytic articles can be used in a method for the reduction of nitrogen oxides in exhaust gases of lean-burn internal combustion engines, and they can furthermore be comprised in an exhaust gas purification system for the treatment of diesel exhaust gas.

The present invention discloses a crystalline aluminosilicate small-pore zeolite having a maximum ring size of eight tetrahedral atoms, wherein the zeolite comprises copper, wherein the Cu:Al atomic ratio is between 0.12 and 0.55; and a metal M1, which is calcium, magnesium, or strontium, wherein the M1:Cu atomic ratio is between 0.05 and 0.95; and a metal M2, wherein M2 is selected from magnesium, calcium, barium, strontium, yttrium, titanium, zirconium, niobium, iron, zinc, silver, lanthanum, cerium, praseodymium, neodymium, promethium, samarium, europium, gadolinium, terbium, dysprosium, holmium, erbium, thulium, ytterbium, lutetium and mixtures thereof, and wherein M1 and M2 are different from one another, and wherein the M2:Cu atomic ratio is between 0.05 and 0.80; and wherein the sum of the atomic ratios of copper, metal M1 and metal M2 to aluminum, (Cu+M1+M2):Al, is between 0.20 and 0.80; and wherein the zeolite comprises at least 2.5 wt.-% of copper, calculated as CuO and based on the total weight of the zeolite. Catalyst substrate monoliths comprising the crystalline aluminosilicate zeolite are also disclosed. These catalyst substrate monoliths can be used in a process for the removal of nitrogen oxides from combustion exhaust gases, and they can be part of emissions treatment systems.

A honeycomb filter includes a honeycomb structure having a porous partition wall disposed to surround a plurality of cells; and a plugging portion provided at one end of the cell, wherein the honeycomb structure has an inflow side region including a range of up to at least 30% with respect to the total length of the honeycomb structure with the inflow end face as the starting point and an outflow side region including a range of up to at least 20% with respect to the total length of the honeycomb structure with the outflow end face as the starting point, in the extending direction of the cell of the honeycomb structure, an average pore diameter of the partition wall in the inflow side region is 15 to 20 m and an average pore diameter of the partition wall in the outflow side region is 9 to 14 m.

The present disclosure generally relates to emission control catalyst articles comprising a platinum group metal (PGM) enriched zone, methods of making such emission control catalyst articles, and methods of using such emission control catalyst articles.

A gas treatment system includes a first scrubber, a regenerative catalytic oxidizer (RCO) that treats gas that passes through the first scrubber, a second scrubber that treats the gas that passed through the regenerative catalytic oxidizer, and a dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) plasma reactor that treats the gas that passed through the second scrubber. The regenerative catalytic oxidizer includes a two-bed regenerative catalytic reactor.

A catalyst for purification of exhaust gas including a substrate, and a catalyst coat layer which is formed on a surface of the substrate and contains catalyst particles, wherein the catalyst coat layer has an average thickness ranging 25 to 150 m, a void fraction, as determined by scanning electron microscope observation of a cross-section of the catalyst coat layer, ranging 1.5 to 8.0% by volume, 60 to 90% by volume of all voids in the catalyst coat layer are high-aspect ratio pores which have equivalent circle diameters ranging 2 to 50 m in a cross-sectional image of a cross-section of the catalyst coat layer perpendicular to a flow direction of exhaust gas in the substrate, and which ratios of 5 or higher, the high-aspect ratio pores have an average aspect ratio ranging 10 to 50, and a noble metal is supported on the entire catalyst coat layer.

To achieve an object of providing an exhaust gas purification catalyst with improved exhaust gas purification performance, the present invention provides an exhaust gas purification catalyst (1), including a substrate (10) and a first catalyst layer (20) provided on the substrate (10), wherein the first catalyst layer (20) contains Rh, Ce, and Y, and wherein a value of a /b, wherein a represents a mole percentage of a molar amount of Ce in the first catalyst layer (20) based on a total molar amount of all metal elements in the first catalyst layer (20), and b represents a mole percentage of a molar amount of Y in the first catalyst layer (20) based on the total molar amount of all metal elements in the first catalyst layer (20), is 0.010 or more and 0.400 or less.

The present invention relates to a catalyst for the selective catalytic reduction of NOx comprising a wall-flow filter substrate comprising a plurality of passages defined by internal walls of the substrate extending therethrough, wherein the plurality of passages comprises inlet passages having an open inlet end and a closed outlet end, and outlet passages having a closed inlet end and an open outlet end; wherein the porous walls of the substrate comprises a coating, the coating comprising a zeolitic material, copper, a first non-zeolitic oxidic material comprising zirconium, wherein the coating comprises the zeolitic material at loading, L(z), in g/in.sup.3, and N the first non-zeolitic oxidic material at a loading L1, in g/in.sup.3, the loading ratio L(z) (g/in.sup.3):L1 (g/in.sup.3) being of at most 10:1; and wherein from 90 to 100 weight-% of the first non-zeolitic oxidic material consists of zirconium, calculated as ZrO.sub.2.

The present invention relates to a catalyst comprising two layers on an inert catalyst carrier. Layer A contains at least palladium as a platinum group metal, alumina, and a first cerium/zirconium/lanthanum/yttrium mixed oxide. A layer B applied to layer A contains at least rhodium as a platinum group metal, alumina, and a second cerium/zirconium/lanthanum/yttrium mixed oxide.