Patent · US Expired

Catalyst for the reduction of the ignition temperature of diesel soot filtered out of the exhaust gas of diesel engines

US4588707A · kind A · utility

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18Claims

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Assignee

Degussa AG · DE

Inventors

Rainer Domesle · Alzenau, DE
Edgar Koberstein · Alzenau, DE
Hans-Dieter Pletka · Alzenau, DE
Herbert Volker · Hanau, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Mar 7, 1985
Grant date	May 13, 1986
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Mar 7, 2005

Classification

Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
CPC primaryY02T10/12
WIPO fieldChemical engineering
WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

A catalyst process is disclosed for the reduction of the ignition temperature of Diesel soot filtered out of the exhaust gas of Diesel engines by passing the exhaust gas over a catalytically active substance, which is selected from lithium oxide, copper chloride, vanadium oxide/alkali metal oxide combinations, a vanadate of an alkali metal or of cerium, or a silver or alkali metal perrhenate, preferably of sodium or silver, or mixtures of these substances.

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