SMART: Smart nox abatement systems for next-generation environmental technologies

• Research unit: EU RFP
• Project number: 01.0216

Key words (English)

Industrial Manufacture; Materials Technology

Alternative project number (English)

EU project number: G5RD-CT-2002-00710

Research programs (English)

EU-programme: 5. Frame Research Programme - 1.3.8 Generic R&D activities

Short description (English)

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Abstract (English)

The project relates to new advanced smart materials characterized by a self- tunable and adaptive activity to be applied as novel catalytic devices for the removal of NO(x) in car exhaust emissions containing oxygen (lean burn and diesel engines ) and novel highly sensitive NO(x) sensors able to operate with oxygen concentrations up to 20%.

The main objectives are to:
(i) reach a NO(x) reduction higher than 50% in the presence of oxygen;
(ii) develop NO(x) sensors which can detect NO(x) in concentrations lower than 100 ppm even in the presence of O(2);
(iii) demonstrate the techno-economical feasibility and advantages of combining and integrate NO(x) sensors and catalysts controlled and promoted by non-faraidic electrochemical effect, and;
(iv) show the feasibility of developing smart catalytic device for a range of different applications.

References in databases (English)

Swiss Database: Euro-DB of the
State Secretariat for Education and Research
Hallwylstrasse 4
CH-3003 Berne, Switzerland
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Swiss Project-Number: 01.0216