Patents Assigned to Umicore
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Patent number: 11777082Abstract: A negative electrode material for lithium ion secondary batteries, including composite material particles containing nanosilicon particles having a 50% particle diameter (Dn50) of 5 to 100 nm in a number-based cumulative particle size distribution of primary particles, graphite particles and an amorphous carbon material; the composite material particles containing the nanosilicon particles at a content of 30 to 60 mass % or less, and the amorphous carbon material at a content of 30 to 60 mass % or less; the composite material particles having a 90% particle diameter (DV90) in the volume-based cumulative particle size distribution of 10.0 to 40.0 ?m, a BET specific surface area of 1.0 to 5.0 m2/g, and an exothermic peak temperature in DTA measurement of 830° C. to 950° C. Also disclosed is a paste for negative electrodes, a negative electrode sheet, a lithium ion secondary battery and a method for manufacturing the negative electrode material.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2018Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignees: Showa Denko K.K., UmicoreInventors: Yasunari Otsuka, Nobuaki Ishii, Nicolas Marx, Stijn Put
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Patent number: 11702437Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing aqueous preparations of complexes of platinum group metals (PGM) Pt, Pd, Rh and Ir having the general formula [MA/MB/MC (L)a (H2O)b (O2?)c(OH?)d](OH—)e(H+)f, wherein MA=PtII or PdII, MB=PtIV, MC=Rh or Ir, L is a neutral monodentate or bidentate donor ligand, and a is an integer between 1 and 4 (or 2) and/or between 1 and 6 (or 3), b is an integer between 0 and 3 (or 5), c is an integer between 0 and 3 (or 4), d is an integer between 0 and 3 (or 5), e is an integer between 0 and 2 (or 3 or 4) and f is an integer between 0 and 4 (or 5). In the method according to the invention, the hydroxo complexes H2Pd(OH)4 (in the case of MA=PdII), H2Pt(OH)6 (in the case of MA=PtII and MB=PtIV) or H3MC(OH)6 (for MC=RhIII IrIII) are converted in the presence of the donor ligands, wherein at least one hydroxo group of the hydro complex is exchanged. Preferably, the reaction occurs at temperatures in the range of 40 to 110° C.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2022Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignee: Umicore AG & Co. KGInventors: Eileen Woerner, Ralf Karch, Andreas Rivas-Nass, Angelino Doppiu
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Patent number: 11667536Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for the preparation of a molecular sieve of the CHA-type as well as catalytic applications thereof.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2019Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignee: Umicore AG & Co. KGInventors: Peter Nicolai Ravnborg Vennestrom, Nuria Martin Garcia, Manuel Moliner Marin, Avelino Corma Canos
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Patent number: 11623874Abstract: The invention relates to a process for producing metal carbonyls, wherein a reaction with a reaction mixture containing the following components is conducted in a reactor: (a) at least one metal carboxylate of formula (MeRx)w, wherein Me is a transition metal, R is a monocarboxylate having 6 to 12 carbon atoms, x=1, 2, 3, or 4, and w=1, 2, or 3, (b) carbon monoxide, (c) an aliphatic alcohol having 4 to 7 carbon atoms—preferably, butanol—and (d) a solvent, wherein the average dwell time in the reactor is less than 60 minutes.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2017Date of Patent: April 11, 2023Assignee: Umicore AG & Co. KGInventors: Andreas Rivas Nass, Ruben Ramon Mueller, Angelino Doppiu, Eileen Woerner, Ralf Karch
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Publication number: 20230108371Abstract: An apparatus for reducing emissions that has a combustion turbine that feeds exhaust into a heat recovery steam generator (or HRSG) casing in which is positioned an emission reduction system featuring, in gas flow sequence, a first reducing reductant injector (RRI1), as in an ammonia injection grid, for providing reducing reductant, preferably ammonia, into turbine exhaust travelling within the HRSG, followed by a first SCR reactor positioned downstream of the first RRI1, followed by one of either (i) a turbulence generator (TG) as in a static mixer, or (ii) a second RRI2 as in a second ammonia injection grid, or (iii) an RRI2 with integrated TG supported on injectors of RRI2, then followed by a second SCR reactor. The emission reduction system preferably is free of a separate body oxidation catalyst or a separate body ammonia slip catalyst in an effort to utilize a limited volume within the HRSG. Methods of assembling and operating the ERS or T-H combination with ERS are also featured.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2021Publication date: April 6, 2023Applicant: Umicore AG & Co. KGInventors: Joseph Craig SHARP, Wayne Spencer JONES, Kim Hougaard Pedersen
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Patent number: 11584764Abstract: The invention relates to methods for the production of trialkylindium (InR3), wherein the production takes place in a reaction mixture that contains at least one alkylindium halide, a trialkylaluminum (AlR3), a carboxylate, and a solvent, wherein R is chosen independently of one another from C1-C4 alkyl, and X is chosen independently of one another from Cl, Br, and I.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2018Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: Umicore AG & Co. KGInventors: Wolf Schorn, Ralf Karch, Annika Frey, Angelino Doppiu, Andreas Rivas Nass, Eileen Woerner
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Patent number: 11588148Abstract: Powder comprising particles comprising a matrix material and silicon-based domains dispersed in this matrix material, whereby the matrix material is carbon or a material that can be thermally decomposed to carbon, whereby either part of the silicon-based domains are present in the form of agglomerates of silicon-based domains whereby at least 98% of these agglomerates have a maximum size of 3 ?m or less, or the silicon-based domains are not at all agglomerated into agglomerates.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2015Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignees: Umicore, Showa Denko K.K.Inventors: Stijn Put, Dirk Van Genechten, Jan Gilleir, Nicolas Marx, Arihiro Muto, Nobuaki Ishii, Masataka Takeuchi
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Patent number: 11581529Abstract: A submicron sized Si based powder having an average primary particle size between 20 nm and 200 nm, wherein the powder has a surface layer comprising SiOx, with 0<x<2, the surface layer having an average thickness between 0.5 nm and 10 nm, and wherein the powder has a total oxygen content equal or less than 3% by weight at room temperature. The method for making the powder comprises a step where a Si precursor is vaporized in a gas stream at high temperature, after which the gas stream is quenched to obtain Si particles, and the Si particles are quenched at low temperature in an oxygen containing gas.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2020Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignee: UmicoreInventors: Jean Scoyer, Stijn Put, Daniël Nelis, Kris Driesen
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Patent number: 11577232Abstract: The invention is directed to ruthenium-based metathesis catalysts of the Grubbs-Hoveyda type. The new 2-aryloxy-substituted ruthenium catalysts described herein reveal rapid initiation behavior. Further, the corresponding styrene-based precursor compounds are disclosed. The catalysts are prepared in a cross-metathesis reaction starting from styrene-based precursors which can be prepared in a cost-effective manner. The new Grubbs-Hoveyda type catalysts are suitable to catalyze ring-closing metathesis (RCM), cross metathesis (CM) and ring-opening metathesis polymerization (ROMP). Low catalyst loadings are necessary to convert a wide range of substrates including more complex and critical substrates via metathesis reactions at low to moderate temperatures in high yields within short reaction times.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2021Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignee: Umicore AG & Co. KGInventors: Herbert Plenio, Pavlo Kos, Roman Savka
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Patent number: 11498055Abstract: The present invention relates to a catalyst comprising at least one oxide of vanadium, at least one oxide of tungsten, at least one oxide of cerium, at least one oxide of titanium and at least one oxide of antimony, and an exhaust system containing said oxides.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2021Date of Patent: November 15, 2022Assignee: Umicore AG & Co. KGInventors: Elodie Quinet, Stephan Malmberg, Nicola Soeger
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Patent number: 11492945Abstract: The present invention relates to a catalyst comprising at least one oxide of vanadium, at least one oxide of tungsten, at least one oxide of cerium, at least one oxide of titanium and at least one oxide of niobium, and an exhaust system containing said oxides.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2018Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: Umicore AG & Co. KGInventors: Elodie Quinet, Stephan Malmberg, Nicola Soeger
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Patent number: 11462735Abstract: A carbonate precursor compound for manufacturing a lithium metal (M)-oxide powder usable as an active positive electrode material in lithium-ion batteries, M comprising 20 to 90 mol % Ni, 10 to 70 mol % Mn and 10 to 40 mol % Co, the precursor further comprising a sodium and sulfur impurity, wherein the sodium to sulfur molar ratio (Na/S) is 0.4<Na/S<2. Thes lithium metal (M)-oxide powder has a particle size distribution with 10 ?m?D50?20 ?m, a specific surface with 0.9?BET?5, the BET being expressed in g/cm2, the powder further comprises a sodium and sulfur impurity, wherein the sum (2*Nawt)+Swt of the sodium (Nawt) and sulfur (Swt) content expressed in wt % is more than 0.4 wt % and less than 1.6 wt %, and wherein the sodium to sulfur molar ratio (Na/S) is 0.4<Na/S<2.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2019Date of Patent: October 4, 2022Assignees: Umicore, Umicore Korea Ltd.Inventors: Jens Paulsen, Heonpyo Hong, JinDoo Oh
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Patent number: 11426709Abstract: The present invention pertains to a catalyst for use in the selective catalytic reduction (SCR) of nitrogen oxides comprising: • a monolithic substrate and • a coating A which comprises an oxidic metal carrier comprising an oxide of titanium and a catalytic metal oxide which comprises an oxide of vanadium wherein the mass ratio vanadium/titanium is 0.07 to 0.26.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2019Date of Patent: August 30, 2022Assignee: Umicore AG & Co. KGInventors: Kim Hougaard Pedersen, Anders Hjordt Pedersen, Martin Dam
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Patent number: 11421335Abstract: The present invention is directed toward an electrolyte which allows for electrolytically producing a black metal layer consisting of rhodium and ruthenium. The present invention also relates to a method for producing a corresponding article, and to the use of the electrolyte.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2020Date of Patent: August 23, 2022Assignee: Umicore Galvanotechnik GmbHInventors: Philip Schramek, Martin Stegmaier
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Patent number: 11407776Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing aqueous preparations of complexes of platinum group metals (PGM) Pt, Pd, Rh and Ir having the general formula [MA/MB/MC(L)a (H2O)b (O2—)c(OH?)d](OH—)e(H+)f, wherein MA=PtII or PdII, MB=PtIV, MC=Rh or Ir, L is a neutral monodentate or bidentate donor ligand, and a is an integer between 1 and 4 (or 2) and/or between 1 and 6 (or 3), b is an integer between 0 and 3 (or 5), c is an integer between 0 and 3 (or 4), d is an integer between 0 and 3 (or 5), e is an integer between 0 and 2 (or 3 or 4) and f is an integer between 0 and 4 (or 5). In the method according to the invention, the hydroxo complexes H2Pd(OH)4 (in the case of MA=PdII), H2Pt(OH)6 (in the case of MA=PtII and MB=PtIV) or H3MC(OH)6 (for MC=RhIII IrIII) are converted in the presence of the donor ligands, wherein at least one hydroxo group of the hydro complex is exchanged. Preferably, the reaction occurs at temperatures in the range of 40 to 110° C.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2021Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: Umicore AG & Co. KGInventors: Eileen Woerner, Ralf Karch, Andreas Rivas-Nass, Angelino Doppiu
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Patent number: 11407650Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a compound of formula MXn from a precursor compound of formula MXm, where M is a metal, X is a halide selected from F, Cl, Br, J, m is a number selected from the range 2 to 8, and n is a number selected from the range 1 to 7, with the condition that n<m, comprising a method step in which the precursor compound is reduced with a silane compound to the compound of formula MXn.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2018Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: Umicore AG & Co. KGInventors: Joerg Sundermeyer, Lisa Hamel, Ruben Ramon Mueller, Andreas Rivas-Nass, Angelino Doppiu, Eileen Woerner, Ralf Karch
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Patent number: 11384102Abstract: The invention relates to lithium alkyl aluminates according to the general formula Li[AlR4] and to a method for preparing same, starting from LiAlH4 and RLi in an aprotic solvent. The invention also relates to compounds according to the general formula Li[AlR4] which can be obtained using the claimed method, and to the use thereof. The invention also relates to the use of a lithium alkyl aluminate Li[AlR4] as a transfer reagent for transferring at least one radical R to an element halide or metal halide and to a method for transferring at least one radical R to a compound E(X)q for preparing a compound according to the general formula E(X)q-pRp, where E=aluminium, gallium, indium, thallium, germanium, tin, lead, antimony, bismuth, zinc, cadmium, mercury, or phosphorus, X=halogen, q=2, 3 or 4, and p=1, 2, 3 or 4. The invention also relates to compounds which can be obtained using such a method, to the use thereof, and to a substrate which has an aluminium layer or a layer containing aluminium on one surface.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2019Date of Patent: July 12, 2022Assignee: Umicore AG & Co. KGInventors: Susanne Herritsch, Joerg Sundermeyer
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Patent number: 11378278Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods and systems for the removal of volatile organic compounds, carbon monoxide and nitrogen oxides from off-gas, which systems comprise a source of ammonia, means for introducing ammonia into a catalytic article having an SCR functionality; a catalytic article having both an oxidation and an SCR functionality, the catalytic article comprising a catalyst substrate and a catalyst composition comprising at least one platinum group metal and/or at least one platinum group metal oxide, at least one oxide of titanium and at least one oxide of vanadium, wherein the washcoat is located in and/or on the walls of the catalyst substrate: means for measuring the amount of NOx and/or the ammonia slip between the outlet end of the catalytic article and the stack or at the stack, at least one carbon monoxide source, and means for introducing carbon monoxide into the catalytic article.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2019Date of Patent: July 5, 2022Assignee: Umicore AG & Co. KGInventors: Kim Hougaard Pedersen, Wayne S. Jones, David Taylor
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Patent number: 11352385Abstract: The invention relates to tetraalkylammonium-tetra- or hexahydroxometallates such as tetraethylammonium hexahydroxoplatinate, (N(alkyl)4)y[M(OH)x], a method for the production thereof, and the use thereof for producing catalysts.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2017Date of Patent: June 7, 2022Assignee: Umicore AG & Co. KGInventors: Eileen Woerner, Timo Ebert, Michael Lennartz, Ralf Karch, Angelino Doppiu, Andreas Rivas-Nass, Annika Frey
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Patent number: 11298692Abstract: The invention relates to a catalyst containing a BEA-type zeolite which contains iron as well as 0.05 to 1 percent by weight of sodium, the weight percentage being relative to the iron-exchanged zeolite and being calculated as metallic sodium.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2018Date of Patent: April 12, 2022Assignee: Umicore AG & Co. KGInventors: Fei Wen, Nicola Soeger, Yvonne Demel