Abstract:
A pillar shaped honeycomb structure includes: a porous partition wall that defines a plurality of cells, the cells forming flow paths for a fluid, the cells extending from an inflow end face to an outflow end face; and an outer peripheral wall located at the outermost circumference. At least a part of surfaces of the partition walls has a surface layer, and the surface layer includes magnetic particles and has permeability.
Abstract:
A method for producing a porous body, comprising a raw-material mixing step of mixing talc having an average particle size of 1 μm or more and 18 μm or less, alumina, an auxiliary raw material containing a material that undergoes a eutectic reaction with talc and being prepared in an amount so as to satisfy a weight ratio of 0.5% or more and 1.5% or less by weight relative to the talc, and a pore-forming agent, to provide green body, and a molding and firing step of molding the green body to provide a compact and firing this compact at a firing temperature of 1350° C. to 1440° C.
Abstract:
A porous body has a flow-rate-weighted mean diameter Ru of 10 μl or more and 24 μm or less, which is obtained as follows: with reference to porous-body data obtained by a CT scan in which positional information is associated with voxel-type information, a plurality of virtual curved surface solids, which are each a curved surface solid made up of a plurality of virtual spheres, are placed to fill space voxels (Step S100); fluid analysis is carried out to obtain information regarding the flow rates of a fluid in individual space voxels during passing of the fluid through the porous body (Step S110); and, the flow-rate-weighted mean diameter Ru is obtained, which is a weighted mean obtained by weighting the equivalent diameter R′i of each virtual curved surface solid with the volume Vi and average flow rate Ui of each virtual curved surface solid (Step S120).