Claims
- 1. A porous open-celled sintered product comprising sintered inorganic powder and having a pore volume of from 50 to 90%, a surface area of from 0.1 to 50 M2 /g and an at least bimodal pore size distribution having maxima in the ranges from 0.02 to 5 .mu.m and from 20 to 500 .mu.m, wherein the inorganic powder is selected from the group consisting of aluminum oxide, zirconium oxide which is partially or fully stabilized with magnesium oxide or yttrium oxide, steatite, cordierite, zirconium silicate, and mullite, metal carbide and metal nitride.
- 2. A sintered product as claimed in claim 1 onto which from 0.1 to 5% by weight, based on the total weight of the sintered product, of catalytically active materials or their precursors are applied.
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Parent Case Info
This application is a division of application Ser. No. 08/972,736, filed Nov. 18, 1997, now U.S. Pat. No. 5,998,317.
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