Catalytic waste gas converter for combustion machines

US4385031A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Degussa AG · DE

Inventors

• Gerhard Fratzer · Rheinfelden (Baden), DE
• Bernhard Beck · Rheinfelden (Baden), DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 23, 1982
• Grant date: May 24, 1983
• Expiry date: Jun 23, 2002

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02T10/12
• WIPO field: Chemical engineering
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

There is disclosed a catalytic waste gas converter for internal combustion engines of various types in which there is used as carrier for the catalyst a carrier matrix made of a steel screen arranged in a housing holder. There are employed special flow guides made of spirally wound steel matrices for the various flow through possibilities favorable to conversion of the waste gas to be purified.