Umicore

About: Umicore is a company organization based out in Brussels, Belgium. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Catalysis & Exhaust gas. The organization has 1253 authors who have published 1516 publications receiving 23358 citations. The organization is also known as: Union Miniere.

On the relevance of P poisoning in real-world DOC aging

Abstract: Understanding the real aging of Diesel oxidation catalysts (DOC) is key to predict their useful lifetime. This work comprises a detailed study of a commercial DOC in its unused state and after use in vehicle for 288,000 km. The activity of the samples was correlated to a range of characterisation results obtained by microscopy, energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy, 31P nuclear magnetic resonance and infrared spectroscopy. While noble metal sintering had a minor role, the deactivation of aged DOC was predominantly driven by chemical poisoning. The distribution of the poisons in the washcoat revealed a preferential accumulation of P over S; additionally the poison concentration trends point P to be particularly detrimental for NO oxidation. The fundamentals of poisoning were studied by modifying the unused catalyst with P. The oxidation state of the active metals was affected by the presence of 2.5 wt.% P providing further insight into the deactivating role of this poison.

Carbonate precursors for high lithium and manganese containing cathode materials

Abstract: A carbonate precursor compound of a lithium manganese based oxide powder for a positive electrode of a rechargeable battery, the oxide having the general formula Li 1+v M 1-v O 2 , wherein -0.03≤v≤0.25, wherein M is a composition comprising at least 50mol% of manganese, and wherein the carbonate precursor compound has a secondary particle size D50 expressed in µm, and a tap density TD expressed in g/cm 3 , with either ≤ TD ≤ (2.78*D50)/(D50+7.23) and the compound having a particle size distribution having a span S≤1.8 with S=(D90-D10)/D50; or 1 ≤ TD ≤ (2.78*D50)/(D50+7.50).

Method and apparatus for making uniform and ultrasmall nanoparticles

Abstract: A system comprising: a plasma production chamber configured to produce a plasma; a reaction chamber vaporize a precursor material with the plasma to form a reactive mixture; a quench chamber having a frusto-conical surface and a quench region formed within the quench chamber between an ejection port of the reaction chamber and a cooled mixture outlet, wherein the quench region configured to receive the reactive mixture from the ejection port, to cool the reactive mixture to form a cooled mixture, and to supply the cooled mixture to the cooled mixture outlet; and a conditioning fluid injection ring disposed at the ejection port and configured to flow a conditioning fluid directly into the reactive mixture as the reactive mixture flows through the ejection port, thereby disturbing the flow of the reactive mixture, creating turbulence within the quench region and cooling the reactive mixture to form a cooled mixture comprising condensed nanoparticles.

Ink for producing catalyst layers

Abstract: The present invention relates to an ink for producing catalyst layers for electrochemical devices, which comprises catalyst material, ionomer material, water and at least one organic solvent selected from the group consisting of tert.-butanol, 2-methyl-2-butanol, 2-methyl-2-pentanol, 2,3-dimethyl-2-butanol, 2,3-dimethyl-2,3-butanediol, 2,4-dimethyl-2,4-pentanediol, 2,4-dimethyl-2,4-hexanediol, 2,5-dimethylhexane-2,5-diol, 3-hydroxy-3-methyl-2-butanone, 4-hydroxy-4-methyl-2-pentanone (diacetone alcohol) and mixtures thereof, wherein the organic solvent is present in the ink in an amount of 5 to 80% by weight and wherein the ink contains water in an amount of 1 to 50% by weight, based on the total weight of the ink.