94-932. Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993 Feasibility of Catalytic Preheating Using Latent Heat Energy Storage

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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
 

Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and Production Act 
of 1993 Feasibility of Catalytic Preheating Using Latent Heat Energy 
Storage

    Notice is hereby given that, on October 18, 1993, pursuant to 
section 6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 
1993, 15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), the Southwest Research 
Institute (``SwRI'') has filed written notifications simultaneously 
with the Attorney General and the Federal Trade Commission disclosing 
(1) the identities of the parties and (2) the nature and objective of 
the research project. The notifications were filed for the purpose of 
invoking the Act's provisions limiting the recovery of antitrust 
plaintiffs to actual damages under specified circumstances. Pursuant to 
section 6(b) of the Act, the identities of the parties are Daimler 
Benz, Stuttgart, Germany; Nissan Motor Company, Ltd., through Nissan 
Research and Development, Inc., Farmington, MI; and Nippon Shokubai, 
Hyogo, Japan. The objective of the research project is to investigate 
the feasibility of preheating on automotive exhaust catalytic converter 
using stored thermal exhaust energy through the evaluation of several 
reactor designs using various storage media such as packed beds and 
phase change materials, so as to define the medium's operating 
conditions; obtain and analyze potential media; design and evaluate a 
variety of storage beds; examine insulation and heat transfer aspects 
of the storage medium and container design; and outline a prototype 
system for implementation on a vehicle. Membership in the project 
remains open, and the parties intend to file additional written 
notification disclosing all changes in membership to the group research 
project.
Joseph H. Widmar,
Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 94-932 Filed 1-13-94; 8:45 am]
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