Magnesium Patents (Class 502/251)
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Patent number: 4939113Abstract: H.sub.2 S formation by three way catalyst is suppressed by incorporating copper, nickel, manganese or iron oxides into a monolith section downstream of the three way catalyst.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 1987Date of Patent: July 3, 1990Assignee: Engelhard CorporationInventors: Samuel Tauster, Lawrence Murrell, Charles R. Penquite, Joseph C. Dettling
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Patent number: 4920087Abstract: Catalytic cracking catalysts which contain a basic alkaline earth metal component in amounts greater than 5 percent by weight (expressed as the oxides) are used to crack hydrocarbon feedstocks that contain substantial quantities of metals such as vanadium, nickel, copper and iron. In a particularly preferred embodiment natural or synthetic particulate magnesium oxide (MgO) containing composites such as dolomite or a formed particulate coprecipitated magnesia-silica cogel (MgO.SiO.sub.2) having a substantial intra-particle pore volume in pores ranging from about 200-10,000 .ANG. in diameter and an average pore diameter greater than about 400 .ANG. in the 200-10,000 .ANG. diameter range is mixed with a zeolite containing fluid cracking catalyst (FCC) either as an integral component of the catalyst particle or as a separate additive.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 1988Date of Patent: April 24, 1990Assignee: W. R. Grace & Co.-Conn.Inventor: Richard F. Wormsbecher
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Patent number: 4857499Abstract: A high temperature combustion catalyst for use in a catalytic combustion type gas turbine combustor and the like, having a superior low temperature ignitionability and a superior thermal durability at a high temperature, which comprises a porous carrier layer, a catalyst component such as palladium and platinum, and first, second and third promoter components, the latter four components being carried on the porous carrier layer, in which the first promoter component includes one of rare earth elements such as lanthanum, cerium, praseodymium and neodymium, alkaline earth metals such as barium, strontium and calcium, and oxides thereof, in which the second promoter component includes magnesium, silicon and oxides thereof, and in which the third promotor component includes one of heavy metals such as nickel, zirconium, cobalt, iron and manganese, and oxides thereof. A method for producing this high temperature combustion catalyst is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 1988Date of Patent: August 15, 1989Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Tokyo Electric Power CompanyInventors: Masamichi Ito, Akio Ohkoshi, Kenjiro Shizukawa, Terunobu Hayata, Tomiaki Furuya, Susumu Yamanaka, Junji Koezuka
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Patent number: 4849394Abstract: A silica-magnesia cogelled material is usable as a base for petroleum cracking catalysts based on zeolites. Invention described provides cogel base in which the silica and magnesia components are intimately mixed. This feature is achieved by controlling the pH during the mixing procedure.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 1987Date of Patent: July 18, 1989Assignee: Unilever Patent Holdings B.V.Inventor: Andrew P. Chapple
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Patent number: 4849395Abstract: Amorphous metal/magnesium silicates of the general formulaM.sub.x Mg.sub.y (SiO.sub.2).nH.sub.2 O.where M is a divalent, reducible metal atom from the group consisting of Cu, FeII, Co and Ni, x and y are numbers which together can add up to a value of 1.5 and n after drying, expressed in % by weight, ranges from 0 to 80 are prepared by subjecting a freshly precipitated magnesium silicate to an ion exchange, washing the product and then neutralizing it with an alkali and are used in catalytic reactions after the reducible metal in the metal/magnesium silicates has been converted into the metallic state with a reducing gas.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 1988Date of Patent: July 18, 1989Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Laszlo Marosi, Joachim Stabenow, Knut Eger, Matthias Irgang, Guenter Zirker
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Patent number: 4841060Abstract: Catalytic vapor phase intramolecular dehydration reaction of an alkanolamine represented by the general formula ##STR1## wherein each of R and R' is selected from hydrogen, a methyl group and an ethyl group, and n is an integer of 2 to 5, to convert it into a cyclic amine represented by the general formula ##STR2## wherein R, R' and n are as defined above. The catalyst is an oxide composition represented by the following formulaSi.sub.a X.sub.x Y.sub.y O.sub.bwherein Si is silicon, X is at least one element selected from alkali metals and alkaline earth metals, Y is at least one element selected from B, Al, Ti, Zr, Sn, Zn and Ce, and O is oxygen; and the suffixes a, x, y and b represent the atomic ratios of the elements Si, X, Y and O respectively, and when a=1, x=0.0005-1 and y=0-1, and b is a value determined by a, x and y.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 1988Date of Patent: June 20, 1989Assignee: Nippon Shokubai Kagaku Kogyo Co., Ltd.Inventors: Youichi Hino, Yuuji Shimasaki, Michio Ueshima
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Patent number: 4830843Abstract: A synthetic lamellar magnesium phyllosilicate has as the main component a composition represented by the following formula:Mg.sub.3 Si.sub.4 O.sub.10 (OH).sub.2.nH.sub.2 O (1)wherein n is a number of up to 5, and has X-ray diffraction peaks at spacings of 4.5-4.6 .ANG., 2.5-2.6 .ANG. and 1.5-1.6 .ANG., wherein the lamination asymmetry index (Is) defined by the following formula:Is=tan .theta..sub.2 /tan .theta..sub.1 (2)wherein.theta..sub.1 stands for the angle formed by the peak perpendicular and the peak tangent on the small diffraction angle side in said X-ray diffraction peak at a spacing of 4.5-4.6 .ANG., and.theta..sub.2 stands for the angle formed by the peak perpendicular and the peak tangent on the large diffraction angle side in said X-ray diffraction peak,is at least 3.0, the BET specific surface area is at least 300 m.sup.2 /g and the Methylene Blue decolorizing power (JIS K-1470) is at least 100 ml/g.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 1987Date of Patent: May 16, 1989Assignee: Mizusawa Industrial Chemicals, Ltd.Inventors: Kiochi Usui, Teiji Sato, Masanori Tanaka, Noriyuki Takahashi
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Patent number: 4794100Abstract: An improved process for the production of a contact agent comprising digesting a reducible oxide of at least one metal, the oxide of which forms a reduced metal oxide, and a support in the presence of a silicon component, drying the precipitate of the reducible oxide and calcining the precipitate to form the contact agent.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 1985Date of Patent: December 27, 1988Assignee: Atlantic Richfield CompanyInventor: E. William Breder, Jr.
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Patent number: 4774217Abstract: A catalytic structure for cleaning exhaust gas from automobiles, etc., is provided. The catalytic structure comprises a ceramic carrier having a three-dimensional network skeleton forming the intercommunicating voids therein and a catalyst-carried activated alumina layer formed on the surface of the three-dimensional network skeleton. This catalytic structure is produced by contacting a ceramic carrier with a catalyst-containing solution and drying the carrier by evaporating the solvent in the solution so that the catalyst will be carried at a higher density in the activated alumina layer on the side of the skeleton surface against which side the incoming exhaust gas does not impinge, than on the side against which the exhaust gas impinges.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 1986Date of Patent: September 27, 1988Assignee: Nippondenso Co., Ltd.Inventors: Akira Takeuchi, Yukihisa Takeuchi, Hitoshi Yoshida, Kazuyuki Ito
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Patent number: 4764498Abstract: In the new shaped articles a hollow space or a lumpy inorganic base material is surrounded by a porous silica-containing layer. They can be prepared by applying silica sol or a mixture containing water, silica sol and/or waterglass and, if appropriate, finely pulverulent water-insoluble silica and/or porosity producing agents to a lumpy base material, and, if use is made of organic base materials, then removing these organic base materials by heating. The new shaped articles can be used as support material for catalysts or, if the layer containing the porous silica contains catalytically active substances, as catalysts.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 1985Date of Patent: August 16, 1988Assignee: Bayer AktiengesellschaftInventors: Adolf Wissner, Josef Haydn, Udo Birkenstock
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Patent number: 4749676Abstract: A crystalline swellable sheet silicate of the saponite type, of the formula[Mg.sub.6 (Si.sub.8-x Al.sub.x)O.sub.20 (OH).sub.4 ].sup.x-.(x/z)M.sup.z+ n H.sub.2 Oin whichx is a number which is less than 1.5 but at least 0.2,z is an integer from 1 to 3,M denotes a cation having the valency of z andn is a number less than 20, is prepared. For this purpose, an aqueous solution or suspension containing magnesium ions, a silica source, an alumina source and a sodium oxide source are combined. The atomic ratio of Mg/Si and Mg/Al used in this procedure correspond to the composition of the desired saponite. The atomic ration (Na-Al):(Mg+Si+3/2.Al) should be between x/5 and 1, Na denoting the amount of sodium atoms present in alkaline compounds. The pH of the reaction mixture should be at least 9.0. The crystals of the resulting synthetic saponite in the sodium form are separated off from the mother liquor and, if appropriate, treated with an aqueous solution or suspension of a salt having the cation M.sup.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 1986Date of Patent: June 7, 1988Assignee: Hoechst AktiengesellschaftInventors: Thomas Blumenthal, Hans-Jurgen Kalz
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Patent number: 4749671Abstract: An exhaust gas cleaning catalyst composed of a refractory three-dimensional structure and a catalytically active substance supported thereon. That surface or part of the catalyst which makes contact with an exhaust gas is formed of numerous irregularly arranged protrusions composed of a refractory inorganic powder having a particle diameter of 5 to 300 micrometers or a mixture of it with refractory inorganic fibers and the catalytically active substance supported on the protrusions.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 1986Date of Patent: June 7, 1988Assignee: Nippon Shokubai Kagaku Kogyo Co., Ltd.Inventors: Koichi Saito, Kenji Ueda, Yasuo Ikeda
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Patent number: 4743575Abstract: An improved support for a contact agent, useful for converting methane to higher hydrocarbon products by contacting a gas comprising methane with a contact agent at a selected temperature, is formed by sintering the surface of the support.Type: GrantFiled: January 2, 1986Date of Patent: May 10, 1988Assignee: Atlantic Richfield CompanyInventor: John A. Jaecker
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Patent number: 4732747Abstract: Novel crystalline porous magnesium silicates having catalytic activity or other useful properties and processes for preparing said silicates.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 1985Date of Patent: March 22, 1988Assignee: The Dow Chemical CompanyInventor: Juan M. Garces
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Patent number: 4711869Abstract: Crystalline silica-titania catalyst compositions, optionally containing magnesium, are disclosed; the titanium is introduced through the use of organo-titanate chelates wherein the titanium has a coordination number of at least 5. The compositions are used in acid-catalyzed reactions such as alkylation reactions.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 1985Date of Patent: December 8, 1987Assignee: Aristech Chemical CorporationInventors: Leonard A. Cullo, Francis J. Shiring, III
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Patent number: 4705769Abstract: Compositions of matter comprise oxides of silicon, aluminum and/or titanium mixed with combinations of manganese oxide and magnesium oxide; iron oxide and magnesium oxide; calcium, strontium, barium, tin and/or antimony oxides, manganese oxide and magnesium oxide; and iron oxide, manganese oxide and magnesium oxide. These compositions are particularly useful as catalysts for selectively converting propane and butanes to ethylene and ethane and particularly to ethylene. A method for converting propane and butanes to less saturated hydrocarbons is also disclosed in which the catalyst life is extended and the selectivity to ethylene and ethane, particularly ethylene, is improved by carrying out the contacting with the catalyst in the presence of steam, when the catalyst contains an oxide of iron and, optionally, when the catalyst does not contain an oxide of iron.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 1986Date of Patent: November 10, 1987Assignee: Phillips Petroleum CompanyInventors: John H. Kolts, Gary A. Delzer
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Patent number: 4701435Abstract: A method for producing a catalyst for use in the hydrotreatment, hydrodemetallization and hydrocracking of heavy hydrocarbon feedstocks containing high metal levels of vanadium, nickel and sulfur comprises the steps of preparing a carrier from a naturally occurring material consisting essentially of magnesium silicate having a sheet-type structure, iron and nickel wherein the carrier is prepared directly from the above naturally occurring material or, in the alternative, it can be prepared from the naturally occurring material in combination with a catalyst component. In the event the carrier for the catalyst is prepared from the above naturally occurring material without the addition of the catalyst component, the carrier can be impregnated with the catalyst component. The resultant catalyst is particularly useful in the treatment of heavy hydrocarbon feedstocks.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 1986Date of Patent: October 20, 1987Assignee: Intevep, S.A.Inventors: Juan J. Garcia, Roberto E. Galiasso, Magdalena M. Ramirez de Agudelo, Luis Rivas, Juan Hurtado
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Patent number: 4629719Abstract: An improved olefin disproportionation catalyst produced by contacting an inorganic refractory oxide containing a catalytic amount of molybdenum oxide with a promoting amount of elemental metals of the group consisting of tin and magnesium.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 1984Date of Patent: December 16, 1986Assignee: Phillips Petroleum CompanyInventors: Simon G. Kukes, Robert L. Banks
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Patent number: 4624940Abstract: Catalysts having three types of particles dispersed on a monolith have surprising oxidation and three-way activity even after exposure to temperatures above 1000.degree. C. The particle types are: (1) palladium dispersed on stabilized alumina; (2) ceria-containing promoter particles and (3) washcoat stabilization particles.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 1985Date of Patent: November 25, 1986Assignee: Engelhard CorporationInventors: Chung-Zong Wan, Joseph C. Dettling
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Patent number: 4623530Abstract: Novel aromatic alkylation catalysts are manufactured by an extended hydrothermal treatment of the precipitation product of a magnesium salt with sodium silicate in the presence of tetrapropylammonium bormide or related compound.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 1985Date of Patent: November 18, 1986Assignee: United States Steel CorporationInventors: Leonard A. Cullo, Edward F. Restelli, Jr., Francis J. Shiring, III
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Patent number: 4581343Abstract: A pollution control catalyst for a catalytic converter in the exhaust system of an internal combustion engine, which catalyst comprises a support impregnated with (i) at least one platinum group precious metal, and with (ii) cerium base metal, or a combination of cerium and at least one other base metal, is facilely prepared by (1) impregnating a catalyst support with precursor compounds of said cerium base metal, or of said cerium base metal and of at least one other base metal, (2) activating said impregnated support, under a neutral or oxidizing atmosphere, at a temperature ranging from 120.degree. to 800.degree. C.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 1984Date of Patent: April 8, 1986Assignee: Pro-CatalyseInventors: Gilbert Blanchard, Jean-Pierre Brunelle, Richard Doziere, Emmanuel Goldenberg, Michel Prigent
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Patent number: 4559320Abstract: The disproportionation/skeletal isomerization of olefins can be carried out with high conversions and selectivity in the presence of catalyst compositions containing Group IIA and at least one of Group VIB and rhenium components.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 1985Date of Patent: December 17, 1985Assignee: Phillips Petroleum CompanyInventor: Robert E. Reusser
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Patent number: 4537867Abstract: Iron-cobalt spinels which contain low levels of cobalt, in an iron/cobalt atomic ratio of 7:1 to 35:1, are converted to Fischer-Tropsch catalysts upon reduction and carbiding that exhibit high activity and selectivity to C.sub.2 --C.sub.6 olefins and low CH.sub.4 production.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 1983Date of Patent: August 27, 1985Assignee: Exxon Research and Engineering Co.Inventors: Rocco A. Fiato, Stuart L. Soled, Angelo A. Montagna
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Patent number: 4521529Abstract: A catalyst capable of cracking kerosene under lower pressure and temperature comprising (A) kerosene; (B) metal powder mixture of chromium powder, copper powder, lead powder, zinc powder, nickel powder, manganese powder in an amount of 12 to 13 parts by weight per 100 parts by weight of said kerosene; (C) sulfuric acid in an amount of 15 to 30 parts by weight per 100 parts by weight of said kerosene; (D) inorganic powder mixture of aluminum oxide powder, serpentine powder, alum powder, magnesium oxide powder, limestone powder, slake lime powder, silica powder, and granite powder in an amount of 150 to 170 parts by weight per 100 parts by weight of said kerosene.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 1984Date of Patent: June 4, 1985Assignee: Son Su KungInventor: C. H. Hsie
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Patent number: 4518703Abstract: Para-xylene is selectively prepared by reacting toluene and a methylating agent in the presence of a phosphorus modified catalyst comprising a silica polymorph intermixed with an inorganic refractory oxide, said catalyst having an alkali content of less than about 1.3 milliequivalents per gram as available alkali.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 1982Date of Patent: May 21, 1985Assignee: Union Oil Company of CaliforniaInventor: Dean A. Young
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Patent number: 4455389Abstract: Novel compositions are prepared by reacting magnesium hydride and metal oxide gels in the slurry phase. These compositions are useful as catalysts and catalyst supports.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 1983Date of Patent: June 19, 1984Assignee: Shell Oil CompanyInventors: Robert M. Lewis, Lynn H. Slaugh
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Patent number: 4422960Abstract: A catalyst for hydrotreating a heavy hydrocarbon oil containing asphaltenes comprises a porous carrier composed of one or more inorganic oxides of at least one element selected from among those of Groups II, III and IV of the Periodic Table, and at least one catalytic metal component composited with the carrier. The metal of the catalytic metal component is selected from among those of Groups VB, VIB, VIII and IB of the Periodic Table. The catalyst contains about 1 to 30% by weight of such catalytic metal component and has the following pore characteristics with regard to its pores having a diameter of 75 .ANG. or more: an average pore diameter APD of about 180 to 500 .ANG., a total pore volume PV, expressed in cc/g, being equal to or greater than a value X ##EQU1## the volume of pores with a diameter of about 180 to 500 .ANG. being at least about 0.2 cc/g, the volume of pores with a diameter of at least 1,500 .ANG. being not greater than about 0.03 cc/g, and a total surface area being at least about 60 m.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 1980Date of Patent: December 27, 1983Assignee: Chiyoda Chemical Engineering & Construction Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshimi Shiroto, Takeo Ono, Sachio Asaoka, Munekazu Nakamura
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Patent number: 4416800Abstract: A method is provided for producing a catalyst and a carrier therefor in the form of sheet or honeycomb. The method comprises: beating a heat-resistant fiber such as asbesto fiber in water to form a slurry; mixing the slurry with a catalytically active agent, a carrier material therefor and/or their precursors to fix such materials in the fiber, thus forming a stock; and forming the stock into a sheet and drying the same. The sheet thus obtained may be formed into a honeycomb structure with an improved adhesive.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 1981Date of Patent: November 22, 1983Assignee: Sakai Chemical Industry Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kazunobu Abe, Tadao Nakatsuji
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Patent number: 4407737Abstract: In the process for the preparation of catalysts for heterogeneous synthesis, particularly for the ammonia synthesis, in which a mixture of magnetite and oxides of calcium, aluminium, potassium and silicon is molten, the molten mass is air cooled, freed from the slag, crushed and powdered, the so obtained powders are pelletized and the prepared spheres are dried and sintered in an argon atmosphere, the improvement consisting in that the crushing is carried to a content of at least 80% of fine powders with a granulometry of from 325 to 400 mesh.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 1982Date of Patent: October 4, 1983Assignee: Ammonia Casale S.A.Inventor: Attilio Passariello