Catalytic trap with potassium component and method of using the same

US6497848B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• Engelhard Corporation · US

Inventors

• Michel Deeba · East Brunswick Township, US
• Uwe Dahle · Garbsen, DE
• Stefan Brandt · Braunschweig, DE
• John K. Hochmuth · Bound Brook, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 22, 2000
• Grant date: Dec 24, 2002
• Expiry date: Aug 22, 2020

Classification

• Technology area (CPC F): Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
• CPC primary: F01N2610/03
• WIPO field: Chemical engineering
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

A catalytic trap (10, 110) effective for conversion of NOx in an exhaust gas stream is inert to high-temperature reaction with basic oxygenated compounds of lithium, sodium or potassium. The catalytic trap may be substantially free of silica components and may include a catalytic trap material (20, 120) which contains a refractory metal oxide support, e.g., alumina, having dispersed thereon a catalytic component, such as a platinum group metal catalytic component, and a NOx sorbent comprised of one or more of the basic oxygenated compounds. The catalytic trap material is coated onto a suitable carrier member (12, 112), such as one made from stainless steel, titanium, alumina, titania, zirconia or silica-leached cordierite. A method of treating a NOx-containing gas stream involves maintaining the gas stream in alternating periods of (1) lean and (2) rich or stoichiometric conditions and contacting the gas stream with the catalytic trap under conditions in which NOx is adsorbed during periods of lean operation and released and reduced to nitrogen during periods of rich operation.