The development of the metal supported automotive catalysts is of great interest, because of the greater geometrical surface and lower flow resistance which they offer with respect to traditional ceramic monolith. With such a type of substrate, in fact, high conversion efficiencies can be achieved together with a reduction of overall device volume and engine power losses. However technical problems connected with monolith durability and costs are still present so leading to intense research work on this topic. In the present study a simulation model of an automotive converter has been developed in order to compare the thermal behaviour of a metallic substrate, during warm-up period, with the analogous response of a ceramic one. Temperature history inside the different supports is analyzed so allowing to accurately compare the two different solutions.
Analysis of transient thermal response of automotive catalytic converters
Analyse der Übergangs-Wärmereaktion von Kraftfahrzeugkatalysatoren
1994
9 Seiten, 13 Bilder, 2 Tabellen, 9 Quellen
Conference paper
English
Contribution of Automotive Catalytic Converters
British Library Conference Proceedings | 2002
|Material aspects in automotive catalytic converters
SLUB | 2002
|Material aspects in automotive catalytic converters
TIBKAT | 2002
|British Library Conference Proceedings | 2001
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