Abstract: An activated AlF3 based catalyst is produced by treating a crude AlF3 for more than 5 hours with a gas stream at a temperature from 300° C. to 450° C.

Abstract: Aluminium fluoride obtainable by impregnation of aluminium fluoride having a fluorine content not less than 90% with an aqueous solution containing one or more alkali metal salts.

Abstract: A process in gaseous phase to obtain CFC 113a starting from CFC 113, wherein CFC 113, optionally diluted with a gas inert under the reaction conditions, is let flow on a catalyst formed by aluminum fluoride.

Abstract: A gaseous process for reducing the amount of chloropentafluoroethane (CFC 115) impurity present in pentafluoroethane (HFC 125) characterized in that pentafluroethane is allowed to flow on a catalyst formed by a trivalent chromium salt, optionally supported, at temperatures in the range 200° C.-400° C., obtaining the reaction of chloropentafluoroethane with pentafluoroethane with formation of hexafluoroethane (FC 116) and tetrafluorochloroethane (HCFC 124).

Abstract: A gaseous process for eliminating chlorine atoms from a chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) of formula CnFxCly, wherein n is an integer from 1 to 3 and x+y=2n+2, wherein said compound is reacted with an hydrofluorocarbon of formula Cn′Fx′Hy′, wherein n′, x′, y′ are as above defined, in the presence of a fluorination catalyst in solid phase at temperatures in the range 200° C.-400° C.

Abstract: A process in gaseous phase to obtain CFC 113a starting from CFC 113, wherein CFC 113, optionally diluted with a gas inert under the reaction conditions, is let flow on a catalyst formed by aluminum fluoride.

Abstract: A gaseous process for obtaining pentafluoroethane by dismutation of chlorotetrafluoroethane in the presence of a supported catalyst, said catalyst being formed of a mixture of trivalent chromium oxide with at least an alkaline-earth metal oxide selected from Mg, Ca, Sr and Ba.

Abstract: Process for preparing aluminum fluoride which comprises fluorination of alumina with gaseous HF, characterized in that the alumina is fluorinated with HF at an initial temperature lower than 300° C., the temperature is raised with a temperature gradient ≦100° C./hour up to the final temperature >320° C. and <450° C., fluorination is continued at the final temperature until feeding a HF molar amount at least equal to the stoichiometric with respect to the alumina, fluorination being carried out until a fluorinated alumina with a fluorine content not lower than 95% of the stoichiometric is obtained.

Abstract: A gaseous process for obtaining pentafluoroethane by dismutation of chlorotetrafluoroethane in the presence of a supported catalyst, said catalyst being formed of a mixture of trivalent chromium oxide with at least an alkaline-earth metal oxide selected from Mg, Ca, Sr and Ba.

Abstract: A reductive dimerization process of 1,1,1-trifluoro, 2,2,2-trichloroethane (CFC-113a) with hydrogen, with formation of 1,1,1,4,4,4-hexafluoro-2,2,3,3-tetrachlorobutane and 1,1,1,4,4,4-hexafluoro-2,2-dichlorobutene, and mixtures thereof, wherein the catalyst is constituted by metal ruthenium supported on graphitized carbon obtainable by treatment of the carbon at temperatures higher than 2000° C., in inert gas, or aluminum fluoride having an high surface area.

Abstract: A process for obtaining pentafluoroethane HFC 125 by dismutation of gaseous tetrafluorochloroethane HCFC 124, at temperatures in the range 200°-300° C., on a trivalent chromium oxide (Cr2O3) catalyst, supported on aluminum fluoride, by feeding HF in such amount that the HCFC 124/HF molar ratio is in the range 10/1-1/1.

Abstract: Process for preparing aluminum fluoride having an high surface area and high pore volume comprising the fluorination with HF of alumina having surface area of at least 150 m2/g and pore volume not lower than 0.3 cc/g, said alumina comprising from about 0.5 up to about 15% by weight of silicon oxide.

Abstract: In the preparation of 1,1,1-trifluoro-2-chloroethane (HCFC 133a) by means of hydrofluorination in the gas phase of trichloroethylene (TCE) in the presence of a carried catalyst based on Cr2O3 it is possible to prolong the catalyst life by feeding to the hydrofluorination reactor, along with trichloroethylene, little amounts (7-25 mols % calculated on the mixture with trichloroethylene) of 133a.

Abstract: Catalyst comprising a supported Cr(III) amorphous compound, characterized in that the support is formed by an aluminum trifluoride (AlF3) having an high surface area obtainable by alumina fluorination with gaseous HF at an initial temperature lower than 300° C., the temperature is rised with a temperature gradient≦100° C./hour up to the final temperature>320° C. and <450° C., the fluorination is continued at the final temperature until feeding a HF molar amount at least equal to the stoichiometric with respect to the alumina, the fluorination being carried out until a fluorinated alumina with a fluorine content not lower than 95% of the stoichiometric is obtained.

Abstract: Process for preparing HCFC-123 with a content of olefins lower than 10 ppm and very small amounts of HCFC-123a and 123b by dismutation of HCFC-124 in gaseous phase by contact with a catalyst which essentially consists of three valence chromium oxide supported on aluminum fluoride, at temperatures in the range 150°-260° C., and with contact times between 5-25 sec.

Abstract: Process for preparing pentafluoroethane (HFC-125) wherein 1,1,1-trifluorodichloroethane (HFC-123) is reacted with HF at a temperature from 310° to 380° C., in the presence of a catalyst comprising Cr2O3 supported on preformed AlF3. HFC-125 is obtained with high yields (up to 60-70% and over), high conversions (over 80%) and high selectivity, i.e. formation of by-product in very low amounts (5% by moles at most) Moreover, the catalyst maintains a high activity for a long time also with high organic charges.

Abstract: Process for preparing aluminum fluoride having an high surface area and high pore volume comprising the fluorination with HF of alumina having surface area of at least 150 m2/g and pore volume not lower than 0.3 cc/g, said alumina comprising from about 0.5 up to about 15% by weight of silicon oxide.

Abstract: Perfluoropropene (PFP) hydrofluorination process in gaseous phase to obtain CF3—CHF—CF3 (A-227ea), characterized in that as catalyst fluorinated alumina containing at least 90% by weight of AlF3, is used, the HF/PFP molar ratios range from about 4:1 to 20:1, the hydrofluorination process temperature being in the range 320°-420° C.

Abstract: Process for the regeneration of a fluorination catalyst based on Cr(III) compounds optionallay supported comprising a) the treatment at 350.degree. C.-400.degree. C. with an air/inert gas mixture and b) treatment at 300.degree. C.-380.degree. C. with a mixture of an inert gas containing from 1 to 10% by volume of hydrogen.

Abstract: 1,1,1,2-tetrafluoroethane (134a) is prepared by reacting, in the gas phase, trichloroethylene with 1,1,1-trifluorochloroethane (133a) and hydrofluoric acid with trichloroethylene/133a molar ratios ranging from 5/95 to 50/50, in the presence of a catalyst consisting of Cr.sub.2 O.sub.3 carried on AlF.sub.3.The process provides 134a yields higher than 90% and permits an exceptionally long life of the catalyst. In this way it is possible to realize a continuous process by recycling the unreacted trichloroethylene and 133a, thereby making up for the relatively low global conversion of the reagents.