A cooking apparatus and method for use of the same are disclosed that utilize forced convection and radiant heating cooking. In one embodiment, the cooking apparatus includes an oven housing defining a cooking chamber, a circulation chamber, and a catalyst chamber. The catalyst chamber is superposed to the circulation chamber and the circulation chamber is superposed to the cooking chamber. Heating elements are located in at least one of the cooking chamber and the circulation chamber. An airflow circulation loop is located between the cooking chamber and the circulation chamber. An exhaust airflow path is provided from the circulation chamber to the catalyst chamber to an exterior of the oven housing. A fan subassembly is located within the oven housing and the fan subassembly circulates convection air along the airflow circulation loop with a portion of the convection air being diverted into the exhaust airflow path.

A method for preparing a porous organic framework-supported atomic noble metal catalyst for catalytic oxidation of VOCs at room temperature, including: (1) adding 2,6-diaminopyridine and 1,3,5-benzenetricarboxylic acid chloride to a triethylamine-containing dichloromethane solution and stirring the reaction mixture; reacting the reaction mixture in an oil bath under heating to produce a porous pyridine-amide framework; (2) impregnating the porous pyridine-amide framework completely in a noble metal salt solution followed by ultrasonication and standing; reducing the porous organic framework-supported noble metal ions with sodium borohydride solution; washing and drying to produce a semi-finished porous pyridine-amide framework-supported atomic noble metal catalyst; (3) calcining the semi-finished catalyst in a muffle furnace to obtain a finished catalyst. The catalyst provided herein has high atomic dispersion and atomic active sites, significantly improving the catalytic efficiency.

Disclosed herein are base metal catalyst devices for removing ozone, volatile organic compounds, and other pollutants from an air flow stream. A catalyst device includes a housing, a solid substrate disposed within the housing, and a catalyst layer disposed on the substrate. The catalyst layer includes a first base metal catalyst at a first mass percent, a second base metal catalyst at a second mass percent, and a support material impregnated with at least one of the first base metal catalyst or the second base metal catalyst.

Compositions for removing air pollutants from the air are provided. These compositions can be sprayed on a variety of surfaces to remove air pollutants such as volatile organic compounds (VOCs) from the environment, and are suitable for use in human dwellings.

A system for fluidizing particles includes a fluidization reactor having a base, a gas injection surface positioned at the base configured to inject a first gas into the fluidization reactor, and a gas outlet, a secondary gas injector comprising a nozzle, positioned in the fluidization reactor and configured to deliver a secondary flow of a second gas into the fluidization reactor, a vibration inducing device rigidly attached to the fluidization reactor and configured to induce a vibrational acceleration on the fluidization reactor, and a vibration isolating device rigidly attached to the fluidization reactor and a mounting surface, configured to isolate vibrational forces from the vibration inducing device from the mounting surface. A method of fluidizing particles is also described.

A fuel tank inerting system is disclosed. The system includes a fuel tank and a catalytic reactor with an inlet, an outlet, a reactive flow path between the inlet and the outlet, and a catalyst on the reactive flow path. The catalytic reactor is arranged to receive fuel from a fuel flow path in operative communication with the fuel tank and oxygen from an oxygen source, and to catalytically react a mixture of the fuel and oxygen along the reactive flow path to generate an inert gas. An inert gas flow path provides inert gas from the catalytic reactor to the fuel tank. An adsorbent is disposed along the fuel flow path or along the reactive flow path.

Provided is a concentrated catalyst combustion system including an active concentration rate control means. The concentrated catalyst combustion system including an active concentration rate control means includes an absorption blower fan absorbing exhaust gas containing volatile organic compounds (VOCs), a VOC concentrator into which the exhaust gas passing through the absorption blower fan is introduced, and in which adsorption and desorption of the VOCs are carried out, a flow rate regulating blower fan absorbing a portion of the exhaust gas flowing into the VOC concentrator in a direction in which the VOCs are desorbed, a concentration measurer, arranged between the VOC concentrator and the flow rate regulating blower fan, measuring the concentration of the VOCs after desorption, a catalyst combustor burning concentrated VOCs provided by the flow rate regulating blower fan, and a controller controlling the flow rate regulating blower fan to regulate the flow rate absorbed from the VOC concentrator to maintain within a certain range the concentration of the VOCs measured by the concentration measurer.

The present invention relates to a photocatalytic module for an automobile air conditioner and an automobile air conditioner having the same and, more particularly, to a photocatalytic module capable of eliminating various germs resulting from dew formed on an evaporator installed in an automobile air conditioner and corresponding bad smell, and an air conditioner having the same. The photocatalytic module includes a duct fixation frame 54 adjacent to an inner wall of the duct 10; a filter fixation frame 55 having one end connected to the duct fixation frame, the filter fixation frame 55 fixing the photocatalytic filter 52; a photocatalytic filter 52 fixed by the fixation frame 55, being formed by applying a photocatalytic material onto a supporter having a shape of a plurality of cells neighboring each other and provided with a plurality of airflow paths; and a substrate 58 fixed to the duct fixation frame 54 and equipped with an ultraviolet (UV) light emitting diode (LED) 59 for radiating ultraviolet light toward the photocatalytic filter 52. The present provides an air conditioner having the photocatalytic module installed therein and an LED disposed upstream of the photocatalytic filter on the flow path of the duct.

A process for purifying a feed gas stream containing at least 90% of CO.sub.2, at least 20% RH and at least one impurity chosen from chlorinated, sulfur-bearing, nitrated or fluorinated compounds is provided. The process includes a) subjecting the feed gas stream to catalytic oxidation producing a stream containing at least one of HCl, NOx, SOx or hydrofluoric acid; b) maintaining the temperature of the gas stream above the highest value between the dew points of water and the acid(s) contained in the gas; c) removing at least a part of the acid impurities by bringing the gas stream into contact with a corrosion-resistant heat exchanger to condense the acid compounds while regulating the temperature of the gas stream exiting below the dew point of water; and d) separating the acid condensates with a corrosion-resistant separator in such a way as to produce a CO.sub.2-enriched gas stream.

The invention discloses a catalyst for removing volatile organic compounds and a preparation method therefor. In the catalyst, aluminum oxide modified by iron, cobalt and nickel is used as a carrier, cordierite honeycomb ceramic is used as a matrix, and an extremely low content of a mixture of platinum and palladium is used as an active component; a molar ratio of platinum to palladium is 0-1:0-9, and an amount of the mixture of platinum and palladium accounts for 0.01% to 0.05% of a mass of the matrix; and an amount of the carrier accounts for 3% to 5% of the mass of the matrix.