Patents Examined by Elizabeth D. Wood
  • Patent number: 11014073
    Abstract: An improved cluster-supporting catalyst has heteroatom-removed zeolite particles, and catalyst metal clusters supported within the pores of the heteroatom-removed zeolite particles. A method for producing a cluster-supporting catalyst includes the following steps: providing a dispersion liquid containing a dispersion medium and the heteroatom-removed zeolite particles dispersed in the dispersion medium; and in the dispersion liquid, forming catalyst metal clusters having a positive charge, and supporting the catalyst metal clusters within the pores of the heteroatom-removed zeolite particles through an electrostatic interaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, GENESIS RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Egashira, Yoshihiro Takeda, Namiki Toyama, Toshiaki Tanaka, Seitoku Ito, Masahiko Ichihashi
  • Patent number: 11007514
    Abstract: The present disclosure features a high metal cation content zeolite-based binary catalyst (e.g., a high copper and/or iron content zeolite-based binary catalyst, where the zeolite can be a chabazite) for NOx reduction, having relatively low N2O make, and having low corresponding metal oxide content; where the metal in the metal oxide corresponds to the metal of the metal cation. The present disclosure also describes the synthesis of the zeolite-based binary catalyst having high metal cation content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: PACCAR INC
    Inventor: Randal A. Goffe
  • Patent number: 11007505
    Abstract: Provided is a zeolitic adsorbent material. The material is based on LSX zeolite crystals the particle size distribution of which is characterized by a peak width (2?) in a range from 6.0 to 20.0, limits included, for a number average diameter (d50) in a range from 0.5 ?m to 20.0 ?m. The material has an Si/Al atomic ratio comprised in a range from 1.00 to 1.15, limits included. The lithium content of the material, expressed by weight of Li2O, is in a range from 9% to 12% by weight relative to the total weight of the material. The material has a non-zeolitic phase (NZP) content such that 0<NZP?8% by weight relative to the total weight of the material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: Arkema France
    Inventors: Guillaume Ortiz, Cécile Lutz, Sylvie Szendrovics, Quitterie Persillon
  • Patent number: 11007512
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to hydrocracking catalysts and methods of making same. The hydrocracking catalyst comprises a platinum encapsulated zeolite having a crystallinity greater than 20% determined by X-ray powder diffraction analysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventors: Lianhui Ding, Manal Al-Eid
  • Patent number: 11000836
    Abstract: SCR-active molecular-sieve based catalysts with improved low-temperature performance are made by heating a molecular-sieve in a non-oxidizing atmosphere with steam (hydrothermal treatment), or in a reducing atmosphere without steam (thermal treatment), at a temperature in the range of 600-900° C. for a time period from 5 minutes to two hours. The resulting SCR-active iron-containing molecular sieves exhibit a selective catalytic reduction of nitrogen oxides with NH3 or urea at 250° C. that is at least 50% greater than if the iron-containing molecular-sieve were calcined at 500° C. for two hours without performing the hydrothermal or thermal treatment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Inventors: Guy Richard Chandler, Jillian Elaine Collier, Alexander Nicholas Michael Green, Desiree Duran-Martin, Paul Richard Phillips, Raj Rao Rajaram, Stuart David Reid
  • Patent number: 10994247
    Abstract: A process for producing a zeolite membrane composite includes a step of obtaining FAU-type seed crystals, a step of depositing the FAU-type seed crystals on a support, a step of forming an AFX-type zeolite membrane on the support by immersing the support in a raw material solution and growing an AFX-type zeolite from the FAU-type seed crystals by hydrothermal synthesis, and a step of removing a structure-directing agent from the AFX-type zeolite membrane. In this way, the AFX-type zeolite membrane can be provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Makoto Miyahara, Kenichi Noda
  • Patent number: 10994267
    Abstract: The present invention is directed towards the use of an ion-exchanged zeolite containing ASC as a trap for volatile vanadium compounds in a downstream position of a vanadium containing SCR-catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: UMICORE AG & CO. KG
    Inventors: Matthias Duisberg, Alain Ristori, Stephan Malmberg, Marcus Pfeifer
  • Patent number: 10987661
    Abstract: The presently disclosed and claimed inventive concept(s) generally relates to a method of making a solid catalyst component comprising a zeolite with a modifier and at least one Group VIII metal alloyed with at least one transition metal and a process of converting mixed waste plastics into low molecular weight organic compounds using the solid catalyst component. The process of converting mixed waste plastics into low molecular weight organic compounds may employ the use of a non-thermal catalytic plasma reactor, which may be configured as a fluid bed reactor or fixed bed reactor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: AMG Chemistry and Catalysis Consulting, LLC
    Inventor: Anne Mae Gaffney
  • Patent number: 10987662
    Abstract: A method of making a xylene isomerization catalyst comprises the steps of (i) contacting a ZSM-5 zeolite starting material having a silica to alumina molar ratio of 20 to 50 and having a mesopore surface area in the range of 50 m2/gram to 200 m2/gram in a reactor with a base to provide an intermediate zeolite material; (ii) recovering the intermediate ZSM-5 zeolite material of step (i); (iii) contacting the intermediate zeolite material with an acid to provide an acid treated ZSM-5 zeolite product; (iv) recovering the acid treated ZSM-5 zeolite material; and (v) calcining the acid treated ZSM-5 zeolite material to provide a desilicated ZSM-5 zeolite product having a silica to alumina molar ratio of 20 to 150 and having a mesopore surface area in the range of 100 m2/gram to 400 m2/gram.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: Ineos US Chemicals Company
    Inventor: Philip Nubel
  • Patent number: 10981160
    Abstract: A method of producing a hierarchical zeolite composite catalyst is provided. The method includes dissolving, in an alkaline solution and in the presence of a surfactant, a catalyst precursor comprising mesoporous zeolite to yield a dissolved zeolite solution, where the mesoporous zeolite comprises large pore ZSM-12 and medium pore ZSM-5. The method also includes condensing the dissolved zeolite solution to yield a solid zeolite composite from the dissolved zeolite solution and heating the solid zeolite composite to remove the surfactant. The method further includes impregnating the solid zeolite composite with one or more active metals selected from the group consisting of platinum, rhenium, rhodium, molybdenum, nickel, tungsten, chromium, ruthenium, gold, and combinations thereof to yield impregnated solid zeolite composite and calcining the impregnated solid zeolite composite to produce the hierarchical zeolite composite catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventors: Veera Venkata Ramakrishna Tammana, Raed Hasan Abudawoud, Ahmad A Jazzar, Mohammed Al Amer
  • Patent number: 10981153
    Abstract: A catalyst includes LTA zeolite including copper ions, wherein a Si/Al ratio of the LTA zeolite is 2 to 50. The catalyst is coated on a honeycomb carrier or a filter. The catalyst removes NOx from a reaction gas at 100° C. or above. The catalyst has an NOx conversion rate of 80% at 450° C. or above.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATION, POSTECH ACADEMY-INDUSTRY FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Suk Bong Hong, Donghui Jo, Taekyung Ryu, Gi Tae Park, In-Sik Nam, Pyung Soon Kim, Chang Hwan Kim
  • Patent number: 10961886
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a particle filter which comprises a wall-flow filter and SCR-catalytically active material, wherein the wall-flow filter comprises ducts which extend in parallel between a first and a second end of the wall-flow filter and which are alternately closed off in gas-type fashion either at the first or at the second end and which are separated by porous walls, and wherein the SCR-active material comprises a zeolite which is exchanged with copper and/or iron and which is situated in the form of a coating in the porous walls of the wall-flow filter, characterized in that the SCR-catalytically active coating comprises palladium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: Umicore AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Anke Schuler, Franz Dornhaus
  • Patent number: 10960387
    Abstract: Direct conversion of syngas to light olefins is carried out in a fixed bed or a moving bed reactor with a composite catalyst A+B. The active ingredient of catalyst A is active metal oxide; and catalyst B is one or more than one of zeolite of CHA and AEI structures or metal modified CHA and/or AEI zeolite. A spacing between geometric centers of the active metal oxide of the catalyst A and the particle of the catalyst B is 5 ?m-40 mm. A spacing between axes of the particles is preferably 100 ?m-5 mm, and more preferably 200 ?m-4 mm. A weight ratio of the active ingredients in the catalyst A and the catalyst B is within a range of 0.1-20 times, and preferably 0.3-5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: DALIAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Xinhe Bao, Feng Jiao, Xiulian Pan, Minzheng Ding
  • Patent number: 10953391
    Abstract: Provided is a Fluid Catalytic Cracking catalyst composition having increased propylene production with respect to other Fluid Catalytic Cracking catalysts (measured at constant conversion). The catalyst composition comprises a particulate which comprises (a) non-rare earth metal exchanged Y-zeolite in an amount in the range of about 5 to about 50 wt %, based upon the weight of the particulate; and (b) ZSM-5 zeolite in an amount in the range of about 2 to about 50 wt %, based upon the weight of the particulate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: ALBEMARLE EUROPE SPRL
    Inventors: Maria Margaret Ludvig, Erja Paivi Helena Rautiainen, Albert Carel Pouwels
  • Patent number: 10953392
    Abstract: A process for preparing a catalyst composition comprising (a) preparing a carrier comprising (i) mordenite in an amount in the range of from 20 to 80 wt %, based on total weight of carrier, (ii) ZSM-5 type zeolite in an amount in the range of from 10 to 70 wt %, based on total weight of carrier; and (iii) an inorganic binder in an amount in the range of from 10 to 50 wt %, based on total weight of carrier; (b) incorporating in the carrier molybdenum in an amount in the range of from 1 to 10 wt %, as metal based on total weight of catalyst composition, and subjecting the thus treated carrier to a temperature of from 100 to at most 300° C. and (c) incorporating in the molybdenum containing carrier obtained in step (b) platinum in an amount of from 0.005 to 1 wt %, as metal based on total weight of catalyst composition, and subjecting the thus treated carrier to a temperature of from 200 to at most 600° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: Shell Oil Company
    Inventors: Erik Zuidema, Ingrid Maria Van Vegchel, Daniël Banen
  • Patent number: 10953396
    Abstract: A method of making a multifunctional catalyst for upgrading pyrolysis oil includes contacting a hierarchical mesoporous zeolite support with a solution including at least a first metal catalyst precursor and a second metal catalyst precursor, each or both of which may include a heteropolyacid. The hierarchical mesoporous zeolite support may have an average pore size of from 2 nm to 40 nm. Contacting the hierarchical mesoporous zeolite support with the solution deposits or adsorbs the first metal catalyst precursor and the second catalyst precursor onto outer surfaces and pore surfaces of the hierarchical mesoporous zeolite support to produce a multifunctional catalyst precursor. The method further includes removing excess solution and calcining the multifunctional catalyst precursor to produce the multifunctional catalyst comprising at least a first metal catalyst and a second metal catalyst deposited on the outer surfaces and pore surfaces of the hierarchical mesoporous zeolite support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignees: Saudi Arabian Oil Company, Aramco Services Company
    Inventors: Miao Sun, Ke Zhang, Veera Venkata R Tammana
  • Patent number: 10940458
    Abstract: Provided is a zeolite-based adsorbent in the form of agglomerates, where the adsorbent having a tortuosity factor, calculated from the pore distribution determined by mercury intrusion porosimetry, of greater than 1 and less than 3. The adsorbent also has a porosity as determined by mercury intrusion porosimetry of between 25% and 35%. The adsorbent is useful in the field of separations in particular in a process for separating para-xylene from aromatic hydrocarbon isomer fractions containing 8 carbon atoms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignees: IFP ENERGIES NOUVELLES, ARKEMA FRANCE
    Inventors: Catherine Laroche, Philibert Leflaive, Ludivine Bouvier, Cécile Lutz
  • Patent number: 10933383
    Abstract: A zeolite membrane structure includes a porous support, and a zeolite membrane. The zeolite membrane has a first zeolite layer located in a surface of the porous support, and a second zeolite layer located outside of the surface of the porous support and integrally formed with the first zeolite layer. The porous support has an outermost layer in which the first zeolite layer is located. An average thickness of the first zeolite layer is less than or equal to 5.4 micrometers. A porosity of the outermost layer is greater than or equal to 20% and less than or equal to 60%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryujiro Nagasaka, Hideyuki Suzuki, Akimasa Ichikawa, Shinji Nakamura
  • Patent number: 10939195
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a sound absorbing material. The sound absorbing material comprising a heteroatom zeolite molecular sieve comprising a framework and an extra-framework cation, the framework comprising SiO2 and a metal oxide MxOy comprising a metal element M, wherein the framework has a molar ratio of Si/M between 250 to 500, wherein the M includes Fe, and that the extra-framework cation is at least one of a monovalent copper ion, a monovalent silver ion, a monovalent gold ion, an alkali metal ion or an alkaline earth metal ion. The sound absorbing material provided by the present disclosure, sound absorbing material to have better oxygen adsorption capacity, good waster repellency and stability. When such a sound absorbing material is applied to a speaker box, the speaker box will have better low frequency acoustic performance and better reliability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: AAC Acoustic Technologies (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jiqiang Dai, Hezhi Wang, Hongshu Feng, Guochuang Huang, Kun Tang
  • Patent number: 10913695
    Abstract: The present invention relates to zeolite adsorbents based on agglomerated zeolite X crystals comprising barium, potassium and sodium. These adsorbents find applications in the separation of aromatic C8 isomer fractions and especially xylene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Inventors: Catherine Laroche, Ludivine Bouvier, Javier Perez-Pellitero