The novel catalyst, created using single or few palladium atoms, has demonstrated the ability to remove methane from natural gas engine exhaust at temperatures less than 350° Celsius while maintaining ...

A gasoline engine’s dirtiest moment lasts only a few seconds. In the time between ignition and the catalytic converter ...

(Nanowerk News) A research team headed by Dr. Hideki Abe, Senior Researcher of the Advanced Electronic Materials Center and Dr. Katsuhiko Ariga, Principal Investigator of the International Center for ...

A team of engineers from the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering have received a $1.9 million grant from the Department of Energy to develop a new exhaust-gas catalyst system that will ...

(PhysOrg.com) -- This dramatic improvement in thermal agglomeration resistance opens the road to a large reduction in the amount of rare metals used in exhaust gas purification technologies. A ...

Cold starts are the dirtiest moment—Bosch thinks it’s solved them with fire.

Platinum compounds are widely used in the creation of catalytic materials in the chemical industry, oil refining, medicine, ...

Precious metals (Pt and Pd) and rare earth elements (CeO 2) are typical materials for heterogeneous exhaust-gas catalysts in automotive systems. However, their limited resources and high market-driven ...

• A novel platinum-alumina catalyst that allows removal by oxidation of harmful volatile organic compounds present in factory exhaust gases has been developed. • The reaction temperature is 100 ºC ...

A common concern for gas turbine power plants is treating exhaust gases to comply with laws restricting pollutants present in the gases that are emitted into the ambient atmosphere. The challenge for ...