A method for producing a porous
ceramic structure, comprising the following: a) Making kneaded clay by kneading a
raw material; b) Obtaining a pressed body by shaping the kneaded clay and c) Firing of the pressed body, wherein the
raw material contains the following:
Cordierite; Cer and iron and / or
manganese and / or
cobalt, wherein the process c) forms a porous
ceramic structure comprising a porous structural body formed essentially of
cordierite,
cerium-containing particles firmly attached to the structural body, and
metal oxide particles each firmly attached to an inside of a pore in the structural body, wherein the
metal oxide particles are particles of an
oxide having a
spinel structure containing iron and / or
manganese and / or
cobalt, The process c) includes the following: c1) Raising the temperature of the pressed body to a first temperature that is less than or equal to a
liquid phase formation temperature; c2) Increasing the temperature of the pressed body from the first temperature to a second temperature that is higher than the
liquid phase formation temperature and lower than a
crystallization temperature of the
metal oxide particles; c3) Increasing the temperature of the pressed body from the second temperature to a third temperature which is greater than the
crystallization temperature and less than or equal to a
maximum temperature; and c4) Maintaining the temperature of the press body at the
maximum temperature for a specified period of time, and wherein a rate of temperature increase in process c2) in the range of 100 °C / h to 200 °C / h.