Patents Assigned to Anan Kasei Co., Ltd.
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Publication number: 20150321175Abstract: Disclosed are a composite oxide which is capable of maintaining a large volume of pores even used in a high temperature environment, and which has excellent heat resistance and catalytic activity, as well as a method for producing the composite oxide and a catalyst for exhaust gas purification employing the composite oxide. The composite oxide contains cerium and at least one element selected from aluminum, silicon, or rare earth metals other than cerium and including yttrium, at a mass ratio of 85:15 to 99:1 in terms oxides, and has a property of exhibiting a not less than 0.30 cm3/g, preferably not less than 0.40 cm3/g volume of pores with a diameter of not larger than 200 nm, after calcination at 900° C. for 5 hours, and is suitable for a co-catalyst in a catalyst for vehicle exhaust gas purification.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 2, 2015Publication date: November 12, 2015Applicant: ANAN KASEI CO., LTD.Inventors: Naotaka OHTAKE, Kazuhiko YOKOTA
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Patent number: 8921255Abstract: Disclosed are a silicon-containing cerium composite oxide which is capable of maintaining a large specific surface area even used in a high temperature environment, and which has excellent heat resistance and reducibility, as well as a method for producing the composite oxide and a catalyst for exhaust gas purification employing the composite oxide. The composite oxide contains 2 to 20 mass % silicon in terms of SiO2, has properties of exhibiting a specific surface area of not less than 40 m2/g as measured by the BET method after calcination at 1000° C. for 5 hours, and a reducibility of not lower than 30% as calculated from measurement of temperature-programmed reduction from 50° C. to 900° C. after calcination at 1000° C. for 5 hours, and is suitable for a co-catalyst for a catalyst for exhaust gas purification.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2010Date of Patent: December 30, 2014Assignee: Anan Kasei Co., Ltd.Inventors: Naotaka Ohtake, Kazuhiko Yokota
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Patent number: 8435919Abstract: The mixed oxide of the invention mainly consists of cerium oxide and of at least one oxide of another rare earth. It has a specific surface area of at least 20 m2/g after calcining at 1000° C. for 5 hours. It is obtained by forming a liquid medium comprising a cerium compound; by heating this medium; by adding to the precipitate obtained a compound of the other rare earth, by heating the medium thus obtained and by bringing its pH to a basic value and by calcining the precipitate. The mixed oxide may be used as a catalyst support.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2008Date of Patent: May 7, 2013Assignee: Anan Kasei Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kazuhiko Yokota, Naotaka Ohtake
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Publication number: 20120316059Abstract: Disclosed are a silicon-containing cerium composite oxide which is capable of maintaining a large specific surface area even used in a high temperature environment, and which has excellent heat resistance and reducibility, as well as a method for producing the composite oxide and a catalyst for exhaust gas purification employing the composite oxide. The composite oxide contains 2 to 20 mass-% silicon in terms of SiO2, has properties of exhibiting a specific surface area of not less than 40 m2/g as measured by the BET method after calcination at 1000° C. for 5 hours, and a reducibility of not lower than 30% as calculated from measurement of temperature-programmed reduction from 50° C. to 900° C. after calcination at 1000° C. for 5 hours, and is suitable for a co-catalyst for a catalyst for exhaust gas purification.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 25, 2010Publication date: December 13, 2012Applicant: ANAN KASEI CO., LTD.Inventors: Naotaka Ohtake, Kazuhiko Yokota
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Publication number: 20120309614Abstract: Disclosed are a composite oxide which is capable of maintaining a large volume of pores even used in a high temperature environment, and which has excellent heat resistance and catalytic activity, as well as a method for producing the composite oxide and a catalyst for exhaust gas purification employing the composite oxide. The composite oxide contains cerium and at least one element selected from aluminum, silicon, or rare earth metals other than cerium and including yttrium, at a mass ratio of 85:15 to 99:1 in terms oxides, and has a property of exhibiting a not less than 0.30 cm3/g, preferably not less than 0.40 cm3/g volume of pores with a diameter of not larger than 200 nm, after calcination at 900° C. for 5 hours, and is suitable for a co-catalyst in a catalyst for vehicle exhaust gas purification.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 24, 2010Publication date: December 6, 2012Applicant: ANAN KASEI CO., LTD.Inventors: Naotaka Ohtake, Kazuhiko Yokota
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Publication number: 20120302438Abstract: Disclosed are a composite oxide which is capable of maintaining a large specific surface area even used in a high temperature environment, and which has excellent heat resistance and reducibility, as well as a method for producing the composite oxide and a catalyst for exhaust gas purification employing the composite oxide. The composite oxide contains cerium and at least one of rare earth metal elements other than cerium and including yttrium, at amass ratio of 85:15 to 99:1 in terms oxides, and further containing silicon at more than 0 parts by mass and not more than 20 parts by mass in terms of SiO2 with respect to 100 parts by mass of the total of the cerium and the at least one of rare earth metal elements other than cerium and including yttrium, wherein the composite oxide has a specific surface area of not less than 40 m2/g as measured by the BET method after calcination at 900° C.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 25, 2010Publication date: November 29, 2012Applicant: ANAN KASEI CO., LTD.Inventors: Naotaka Ohtake, Kazuhiko Yokota
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Patent number: 7361322Abstract: The present invention relates to ceric oxide that has excellent heat resistance and oxygen absorbing and desorbing capability useful as a co-catalyst material suitable for a catalyst for purifying exhaust gas, that is capable of maintaining a large specific surface area even in use in a high temperature environment, and that is suitable for use in a high temperature environment, yet capable of exhibiting high oxygen absorbing and desorbing capability also in a lower temperature range, a method for preparing such ceric oxide, and a catalyst for purifying exhaust gas utilizing such ceric oxide. The ceric oxide is an oxide composed essentially of ceric oxide, and has a specific surface area of not smaller than 30.0 m2/g after calcination at 900° C. for 5 hours.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2007Date of Patent: April 22, 2008Assignee: Anan Kasei Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shigeru Aozasa, Emmanuel Rohart, Lianxin Dai, Bernard Pacaud
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Publication number: 20070128097Abstract: The present invention relates to ceric oxide that has excellent heat resistance and oxygen absorbing and desorbing capability useful as a co-catalyst material suitable for a catalyst for purifying exhaust gas, that is capable of maintaining a large specific surface area even in use in a high temperature environment, and that is suitable for use in a high temperature environment, yet capable of exhibiting high oxygen absorbing and desorbing capability also in a lower temperature range, a method for preparing such ceric oxide, and a catalyst for purifying exhaust gas utilizing such ceric oxide. The ceric oxide is an oxide composed essentially of ceric oxide, and has a specific surface area of not smaller than 30.0 m2/g after calcination at 900° C. for 5 hours.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 9, 2007Publication date: June 7, 2007Applicant: ANAN KASEI CO., LTD.Inventors: Lianxin Dai, Bernard Pacaud, Shigeru Aozasa, Emmanuel Rohart
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Patent number: 7119041Abstract: The invention provides a cerium based composite oxide and its production method, which hardly forms aggregates, is composed of particular acicular particles providing sinterable ceramic materials, has a sharp particle size distribution, and inhibited from aggregating. The composite oxide contains 0.1–50 mol % of metal such as Y, Sc, or rare earth elements excluding Ce and Pm, in terms of oxides, and 50 to 99.9 mol % of cerium in terms of oxides, wherein the composite oxide takes the acicular primary particle form having an average aspect ratio of 1.05–10.0, or secondary particle form, aggregates of the primary particles. The composite oxide containing the primary and second particles have a BET specific surface area of 5 to 40 m2/g, an average particle size of 0.1 to 0.5 ?m, and a particle size distribution index represented by formula (1) of not higher than 1.6: Particle Size Distribution Index=(D84?D16)/(2×D50).Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2002Date of Patent: October 10, 2006Assignee: Anan Kasei Co., Ltd.Inventors: Eisaku Suda, Bernard Pacaud
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Publication number: 20050119108Abstract: The invention provides a cerium based composite oxide and its production method, which hardly forms aggregates, is composed of particular acicular particles providing sinterable ceramic materials, has a sharp particle size distribution, and inhibited from aggregating. The composite oxide contains 0.1-50 mol % of metal such as Y, Sc, or rare earth elements excluding Ce and Pm, in terms of oxides, and 50 to 99.9 mol % of cerium in terms of oxides, wherein the composite oxide takes the acicular primary particle form having an average aspect ratio of 1.05-10.0, or secondary particle form, aggregates of the primary particles. The composite oxide containing the primary and second particles have a BET specific surface area of 5 to 40 m2/g, an average particle size of 0.1 to 0.5 ?m, and a particle size distribution index represented by formula (1) of not higher than 1.6: Particle Size Distribution Index=(D84?D16)/(2×D50) ??(1).Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2002Publication date: June 2, 2005Applicant: Anan Kasei Co., LTD.Inventors: Eisaku Suda, Bernard Pacaud
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Patent number: 6294097Abstract: There is disclosed a method for treating waste water containing nitrate ions by subjecting the waste water to decomposition and oxidation to eliminate a harmful gas, the method including the steps of: (a) mixing a waste water containing 10 to 90% by weight nitrate ions in terms of ammonium nitrate with a lower alcohol having 1 to 4 carbon atoms to prepare a mixture, (b) decomposing the mixture at a temperature of 250° C. or higher to generate a decomposition gas, and (c) reacting the decomposition gas with a gas containing oxygen at a temperature of 250° C. or higher to render the decomposition gas harmless.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 1999Date of Patent: September 25, 2001Assignee: Anan Kasei Co., Ltd.Inventors: Michiya Ohashi, Yoshimasa Katayama
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Patent number: 6171572Abstract: A zirconium—cerium composite oxide having excellent heat resistance and being capable of maintaining its large specific surface area even when used under high-temperature conditions, which composite oxide contains zirconium and cerium at a weight ratio of 51 to 95:49 to 5 in terms of zircomium oxide and ceric oxide, the composite oxide having a specific surface area of not smaller than 50 m2/g, wherein said composite oxide is capable of maintaining a specific surface area of not smaller than 20 m2/g even after heating at 1100° C. for 6 hours, a method for preparing the same, and a co-catalyst for purifying exhaust gas prepared with the composite oxide.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 1999Date of Patent: January 9, 2001Assignee: Anan Kasei Co., Ltd.Inventor: Shigeru Aozasa