Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a ceramic having aluminum titanate as a main component capable of being fired at a lower temperature, and used at a high temperature without affecting desired characteristics.SOLUTION: A method for making an aluminum titanate article comprises: formulating a batch of inorganic raw materials comprising sources of silica, alumina, and titania and sources of combinations of strontium and calcium; adding to the batch of inorganic raw materials an amount of 0.01 to 10%, as expressed on a weight percent oxide basis of a rare earth metal oxide; mixing the batch of inorganic raw materials and the rare earth metal oxide with processing aids selected from the group consisting of plasticizers, lubricants, binders, pore formers, and solvents, to form a plasticized mixture; shaping the plasticized mixture into a green body; heating the green body to a top temperature of less than 1,500°C, with a hold time sufficient to form a predominant phase of aluminum titanate.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method of firing a green body to obtain an aluminum titanate article having a desired high porosity. SOLUTION: The method includes: providing the green body containing inorganic batch materials and at least one pore former; heating the green body for less than 40 hrs at a first average temperature-rising rate of >14°C/hr and 500°C to the upper limit of 30°C/hr in a third heating stage; and holding the green body at the furnace temperature within a second holding temperature range from the lower limit of >1,350°C to the upper limit of COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an aluminum titanate plugging mixture that can provide a stably and favorably coupled long-term seal suitable for forming an aluminum titanate ceramic wall flow filter.SOLUTION: There is provided the plugging mixture for a ceramic wall flow filter, comprising an end plug formed by an aluminum titanate precursor reactive batch composition including an alumina source, a silica source, and a titania source; a sintering aid; an organic binder; and a liquid vehicle. The plugging material is fired at a maximum firing temperature in the range of from 1,350°C to 1,500°C, and more preferably at a maximum firing temperature in the range of from 1,375°C to 1,425°C, so that the fired plug is formed in a selectively plugged channel of a honeycomb structure.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for firing green body which achieves the desired high porosity in aluminum titanate articles while doing so with reduced firing cycle length and/or without producing cracked parts and/or complicating the drying process. SOLUTION: The method for firing green body comprises heating the green body containing aluminum titanate forming inorganic batch materials and a pore former in a furnace to a top temperature within a hold temperature range having an upper limit of below 1,550°C and a lower limit of above 1,350°C to form a main phase of aluminum titanate, and fast cooling from the lower limit at an average cooling rate greater than 100°C/hour to below 1,000°C, wherein decomposition of the main phase of aluminum titanate is minimized. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
The invention is directed at a mullite-aluminum titanate porous diesel particulate filter constituting a porous ceramic body containing, expressed in terms of weight percent of the total body, of 60-90%, preferably 70-80%, most preferably 70% iron-aluminum titanate solid solution having a stoichiometry of Al2(1-x)Fe2xTiO5, where x is 0-0.1, and 10-40%, preferably 20-30%, most preferably 30% mullite (3Al2O3.2SiO2), and consists essentially, expressed in terms of weigh percent on the oxide basis, of 3 to 15% SiO2, 55 to 65% Al2O3, 22 to 40% TiO2, and 0 to 10% Fe2O3, and being useful for filtration of diesel exhaust. The inventive diesel particulate filter exhibits high interconnected open porosity and large median pore size, in combination with high permeability when fired to a temperature of between 1650° to 1700° C., along with high thermal shock resistance and good filtration capability.
Abstract:
The invention is directed at a mullite-aluminum titanate porous diesel particulate filter constituting a porous ceramic body containing, expressed in terms of weight percent of the total body, of 60-90%, preferably 70-80%, most preferably 70% iron-aluminum titanate solid solution having a stoichiometry of Al2(1-x)Fe2xTiO5, where x is 0-0.1, and 10-40%, preferably 20-30%, most preferably 30% mullite (3Al2O3.2SiO2), and consists essentially, expressed in terms of weigh percent on the oxide basis, of 3 to 15% SiO2, 55 to 65% Al2O3, 22 to 40% TiO2, and 0 to 10% Fe2O3, and being useful for filtration of diesel exhaust. The inventive diesel particulate filter exhibits high interconnected open porosity and large median pore size, in combination with high permeability when fired to a temperature of between 1650° to 1700° C., along with high thermal shock resistance and good filtration capability.
Abstract:
An aluminum titanate-based ceramic article having a composition comprising u (Al 2 O 3 -TiO 2 )+v (R)+w (3Al 2 O 3 -2SiO 2 )+x (Al 2 O 3 )+y (SiO 2 )+z (1.1SrO-1.5Al 2 O 3 -13.6SiO 2 -TiO 2 )+a (Fe 2 O 3 -TiO 2 )+b (MgO-2TiO 2 ), where, R is SrO-Al 2 O 3 -2SiO 2 or 11.2SrO-10.9Al 2 O 3 -24.1SiO 2 -TiO 2 , where u, v, w, x, y, z, a and b are weight fractions of each component such that (u+v+w+x+y+z+a+b=1), and 0.5