Abstract: A catalyst including cobalt, a carrier including silica, and a selective promoter including zirconium. The cobalt and the selective promoter are disposed on the surface of the carrier, and the outer surfaces of the active component cobalt and the selective promoter zirconium are coated with a shell layer including a mesoporous material. A method for preparing the catalyst, including: 1) soaking the carrier including silica into an aqueous solution including a zirconium salt, aging, drying, and calcining a resulting mixture to yield a zirconium-loaded carrier including silica; 2) soaking the zirconium-loaded carrier including silica into an aqueous solution including a cobalt salt, aging, drying, calcining a resulting mixture to yield a primary cobalt-based catalyst; 3) preparing a precursor solution of a mesoporous material; and 4) soaking the primary cobalt-based catalyst into the precursor solution of the mesoporous material; and crystalizing, washing, drying, and calcining a resulting mixture.

Abstract: A catalyst including between 50.0 and 99.8 percent by weight of iron, between 0 and 5.0 percent by weight of a first additive, between 0 and 10 percent by weight of a second additive, and a carrier. The first additive is ruthenium, platinum, copper, cobalt, zinc, or a metal oxide thereof. The second additive is lanthanum oxide, cerium oxide, magnesium oxide, aluminum oxide, silicon dioxide, potassium oxide, manganese oxide, or zirconium oxide.

Abstract: A catalyst, including a molecular sieve carrier and an active component. The active component includes: iron, manganese, copper, and a basic promoter potassium. The molecular sieve carrier is a cerium salt and/or praseodymium salt modified-aluminosilicate molecular sieve carrier and/or silica-rich molecular sieve carrier. A method for preparing a catalyst for Fischer-Tropsch synthesis, includes: 1) fully dissolving a ferric salt, a manganese salt, a copper salt, and an alkali or a salt containing potassium element in water to yield an aqueous solution, stirring and adding sodium lauryl sulfate to the aqueous solution, and continuing stirring to yield a uniform solution; and impregnating a modified molecular sieve in the uniform solution to yield a mixed solution; and 2) drying and calcining the mixed solution to yield the catalyst.

Abstract: A monolithic catalyst, including cobalt, a metal matrix, a molecular sieve membrane, and an additive. The metal matrix is silver, gold, copper, platinum, titanium, molybdenum, iron, tin, or an alloy thereof. The molecular sieve membrane is mesoporous silica SBA-16 which is disposed on the surface of the metal matrix and is a carrier of the active component and the additive. The thickness of the carrier is between 26 and 67 ?m. The additive is lanthanum, zirconium, cerium, rhodium, platinum, rhenium, ruthenium, titanium, magnesium, calcium, strontium, or a mixture thereof. A method for preparing the monolithic catalyst is also provided.

Abstract: A system for cogenerating gas-steam based on gasification and methanation of biomass, the system including a gasification unit, a shift unit, a purification unit, a methanation unit, and a methane concentration unit. A waste heat boiler is provided in an upper part of a gasifier of the gasification unit. The methanation unit includes a first primary methanation reactor, a second primary methanation reactor, a first secondary methanation reactor, and a second secondary methanation reactor connected in series. An outlet of the second primary methanation reactor is provided with two bypasses, one of which is connected to an inlet of the first primary methanation reactor, the other of which is connected to the first secondary methanation reactor. The second secondary methanation reactor is connected to the methane concentration unit.

Abstract: A method for modifying bio-oil derived from biomass pyrolysis, the method including: 1) adding an inorganic salt and an organic demulsifier to a bio-oil; oscillating or stirring the resulting mixture, and resting the resulting mixture, to yield a lower layer being an aqueous solution and an upper layer being the bio-oil, and collecting the bio-oil; 2) employing a zeolite molecular sieve-loaded clay as a catalyst, and aging the catalyst using pure steam, to yield a modified catalyst; and 3) adding the modified catalyst obtained in 2) to a conventional catalytic cracking reactor, injecting the bio-oil obtained in 1) to the conventional catalytic cracking reactor using a piston pump, and allowing the bio-oil to react under a weight hourly space velocity (WHSV) of between 6 and 15 h?1, a temperature of between 380 and 700° C., and a pressure between 0.1 and 0.8 megapascal.

Abstract: A catalyst, including: a transition metal; and an organic solvent. The transition metal is dispersed in the organic solvent in the form of monodisperse nanoparticles; the transition metal has a grain size of between 1 and 100 nm; and the catalyst has a specific surface area of 5 and 300 m2/g. The invention also provides a method for preparing a catalyst, including: 1) dissolving an organic salt of a transition metal in an organic solvent including a polyhydric alcohol, to yield a mixture; and 2) heating and stirring the mixture in the presence of air or inert gas, holding the mixture at the temperature of between 150 and 250° C. for between 30 and 240 min, to yield the catalyst.

Abstract: A catalyst for preparing aviation fuel from synthetic oil obtained by Fischer-Tropsch process, including: between 20 and 50 percent by weight of an amorphous aluminum silicate, between 5 and 20 percent by weight of alumina, between 20 and 60 percent by weight of a hydrothermally modified zeolite, between 0.5 and 1.0 percent by weight of a Sesbania powder, between 0.5 and 5 percent by weight of nickel oxide, and between 5 and 15 percent by weight of molybdenum oxide. The invention also provides a method for preparing the catalyst.

Abstract: A method for recovering ruthenium from a spent ruthenium-based catalyst carried on aluminum oxide includes: drying, calcining, and cooling a spent catalyst; grinding the spent catalyst into black powder; placing the black powder in a fluidized bed reactor, purging the reactor with hydrogen and heating the black powder to obtain ruthenium metal, then heating the black powder in a mixed atmosphere of oxygen and ozone to obtain RuO4 gas; absorbing the RuO4 gas with a sufficient amount of hydrochloric acid to obtain a H3RuCl6 solution; adding an excess oxidant to the H3RuCl6 solution to oxidize the H3RuCl6 into H2RuCl6; adding excess NH4Cl to the H2RuCl6 and then filtering, and washing the filter cake to obtain solid (NH4)2RuCl6; and reducing the solid (NH4)2RuCl6 by hydrogen to obtain ruthenium metal.

Abstract: A system for cogenerating gas-steam based on gasification and methanation of biomass, the system including a gasification unit, a shift unit, a purification unit, a methanation unit, and a methane concentration unit. A waste heat boiler is provided in an upper part of a gasifier of the gasification unit. The methanation unit includes a first primary methanation reactor, a second primary methanation reactor, a first secondary methanation reactor, and a second secondary methanation reactor connected in series. An outlet of the second primary methanation reactor is provided with two bypasses, one of which is connected to an inlet of the first primary methanation reactor, the other of which is connected to the first secondary methanation reactor. The second secondary methanation reactor is connected to the methane concentration unit.

Abstract: A method of surface modification of an alumina carrier. The method includes: 1) dissolving a soluble kazoe in deionized water to yield a kazoe aqueous solution; 2) submerging an alumina carrier in the kazoe aqueous solution and drying the alumina carrier in a vacuum environment; 3) placing the dried alumina carrier in a reactor, adding silicon tetrachloride and Grignard reagent dropwise to the reactor, sealing the reactor and heating it to a constant temperature, and maintaining the constant temperature for between 3 and 18 hours, where a volume ratio of the added silicon tetrachloride and the alumina carrier is between 0.5:1 and 5:1, the constant temperature is controlled to be between 160 and 350° C.; and 4) cooling the reactor, filtering, washing, and drying the alumina carrier in the vacuum environment.

Abstract: A method for cogenerating gas-steam based on gasification and methanation of biomass. The method includes: 1) mixing oxygen and water vapor with biomass, transporting the resulting mixture via a nozzle to a gasifier, gasifying the biomass to yield crude gasified gas, and transporting superheated steam having a pressure of 5-6 MPa resulting from sensible heat recovery to a steam turbine; 2) adjusting the hydrogen/carbon ratio of the crude gasified gas generated from step 1) to 3:1, and eluting the crude gasified gas whereby yield purified syngas; 3) introducing the purified syngas from step 2) to a methanation unit and transporting intermediate pressure superheated steam generated in the methanation unit to the steam turbine; and 4) concentrating methane of synthetic natural gas containing trace nitrogen and water vapor obtained from step 3) through pressure swing adsorption.

Abstract: A catalyst for preparing aviation fuel from synthetic oil obtained by Fischer-Tropsch process, including: between 20 and 50 percent by weight of an amorphous aluminum silicate, between 5 and 20 percent by weight of alumina, between 20 and 60 percent by weight of a hydrothermally modified zeolite, between 0.5 and 1.0 percent by weight of a Sesbania powder, between 0.5 and 5 percent by weight of nickel oxide, and between 5 and 15 percent by weight of molybdenum oxide. The invention also provides a method for preparing the catalyst.

Abstract: A catalyst including between 50.0 and 99.8 percent by weight of iron, between 0 and 5.0 percent by weight of a first additive, between 0 and 10 percent by weight of a second additive, and a carrier. The first additive is ruthenium, platinum, copper, cobalt, zinc, or a metal oxide thereof. The second additive is lanthanum oxide, cerium oxide, magnesium oxide, aluminum oxide, silicon dioxide, potassium oxide, manganese oxide, or zirconium oxide.

Abstract: A catalyst including cobalt, a carrier including silica, and a selective promoter including zirconium. The cobalt and the selective promoter are disposed on the surface of the carrier, and the outer surfaces of the active component cobalt and the selective promoter zirconium are coated with a shell layer including a mesoporous material. A method for preparing the catalyst, including: 1) soaking the carrier including silica into an aqueous solution including a zirconium salt, aging, drying, and calcining a resulting mixture to yield a zirconium-loaded carrier including silica; 2) soaking the zirconium-loaded carrier including silica into an aqueous solution including a cobalt salt, aging, drying, calcining a resulting mixture to yield a primary cobalt-based catalyst; 3) preparing a precursor solution of a mesoporous material; and 4) soaking the primary cobalt-based catalyst into the precursor solution of the mesoporous material; and crystalizing, washing, drying, and calcining a resulting mixture.

Abstract: A monolithic catalyst, including cobalt, a metal matrix, a molecular sieve membrane, and an additive. The metal matrix is silver, gold, copper, platinum, titanium, molybdenum, iron, tin, or an alloy thereof. The molecular sieve membrane is mesoporous silica SBA-16 which is disposed on the surface of the metal matrix and is a carrier of the active component and the additive. The thickness of the carrier is between 26 and 67 ?m. The additive is lanthanum, zirconium, cerium, rhodium, platinum, rhenium, ruthenium, titanium, magnesium, calcium, strontium, or a mixture thereof. A method for preparing the monolithic catalyst is also provided.

Abstract: A method for modifying bio-oil derived from biomass pyrolysis, the method including: 1) adding an inorganic salt and an organic demulsifier to a bio-oil; oscillating or stirring the resulting mixture, and resting the resulting mixture, to yield a lower layer being an aqueous solution and an upper layer being the bio-oil, and collecting the bio-oil; 2) employing a zeolite molecular sieve-loaded clay as a catalyst, and aging the catalyst using pure steam, to yield a modified catalyst; and 3) adding the modified catalyst obtained in 2) to a conventional catalytic cracking reactor, injecting the bio-oil obtained in 1) to the conventional catalytic cracking reactor using a piston pump, and allowing the bio-oil to react under a weight hourly space velocity (WHSV) of between 6 and 15 h?1, a temperature of between 380 and 700° C., and a pressure between 0.1 and 0.8 megapascal.

Abstract: A catalyst, including a molecular sieve carrier and an active component. The active component includes: iron, manganese, copper, and a basic promoter potassium. The molecular sieve carrier is a cerium salt and/or praseodymium salt modified-aluminosilicate molecular sieve carrier and/or silica-rich molecular sieve carrier. A method for preparing a catalyst for Fischer-Tropsch synthesis, includes: 1) fully dissolving a ferric salt, a manganese salt, a copper salt, and an alkali or a salt containing potassium element in water to yield an aqueous solution, stirring and adding sodium lauryl sulfate to the aqueous solution, and continuing stirring to yield a uniform solution; and impregnating a modified molecular sieve in the uniform solution to yield a mixed solution; and 2) drying and calcining the mixed solution to yield the catalyst.

Abstract: A method for preparing solid ruthenium nitrosyl nitrate, including: 1) drying a ruthenium-containing spent catalyst, and calcining the spent catalyst, and cooling to room temperature, whereby yielding a ruthenium-containing solid; 2) grinding the ruthenium-containing solid to yield a powder, introducing the powder to a fluidized bed reactor, aerating the fluidized bed reactor with nitrogen or an inert gas, charging hydrogen, whereby yielding ruthenium metal; 3) contacting a mixed gas of ozone and air with the ruthenium metal, whereby yielding gaseous ruthenium tetroxide; 4) introducing the gaseous ruthenium tetroxide into a three-stage absorption plant, whereby yielding an acid solution including ruthenium nitrate; 5) adding a solid of sodium nitrite to the acid solution, stirring, and heating a resulting solution, whereby yielding a solution of ruthenium nitrosyl nitrate; and 6) extracting the solution of ruthenium nitrosyl nitrate with anhydrous ether.

Abstract: A method for preparing crystalline cobalt nitrate. The method includes: 1) calcining a spent Co/SiO2 catalyst, cooling the calcined material to room temperature, and grinding it to yield a powder; 2) heating the powder in a fluidized bed reactor; 3) adding the heated powder into excess dilute nitric acid solution and filtering to obtain a cobalt nitrate solution; 4) adjusting the pH value of the cobalt nitrate solution to 1.5, adding a preheated oxalic acid solution, adjusting a pH value of the resulting solution to 1.5, immediately filtering the resulting solution to yield a precipitate of cobalt oxalate, washing the precipitate of cobalt oxalate to yield a neutral filtrate; 5) drying the precipitate and calcining to yield cobalt oxide; 6) dissolving the cobalt oxide in nitric acid to yield a second cobalt nitrate solution; and 7) evaporating the second cobalt nitrate solution to obtain crystalline cobalt nitrate.