Of Molybdenum Patents (Class 502/321)
  • Patent number: 10780427
    Abstract: A catalytic composition useful for the conversion of an olefin selected from the group consisting of propylene, isobutylene or mixtures thereof, to acrylonitrile, methacrylonitrile, and mixtures thereof. The catalytic composition comprises a complex of metal oxides comprising bismuth, molybdenum, iron, cerium and other promoters, with a desirable composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: INEOS EUROPE AG
    Inventors: James F. Brazdil, Mark A. Toft, Charles J. Besecker, Michael J. Seely
  • Publication number: 20150148221
    Abstract: The disclosure provides molybdenum and/or tungsten containing catalyst materials useful for the sour gas shift reactions and methods for using such catalyst materials, for example, for converting carbon monoxide and steam to carbon dioxide and hydrogen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2013
    Publication date: May 28, 2015
    Applicant: Clariant Corporation
    Inventors: Justin X. Wang, William M. Faris, Yeping Cai
  • Patent number: 9034782
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a catalyst composition for conversion of vegetable oils to hydrocarbon products in the diesel boiling range, comprising a porous support; Group III A or VA element in the range of 1-10 wt %; Group VI B elements in the range of 1 to 20 wt %; Group VIII B elements in range of 0.01 to 10 wt %. The present invention further provides the process for preparing the catalyst composition for conversion of vegetable oils to hydrocarbon products in the diesel boiling range. The present invention also provides the process for conversion of vegetable oils to hydrocarbon products in the diesel boiling range using the catalyst composition or discarded refinery spent hydro-treating catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited
    Inventors: Chiranjeevi Thota, Pragya Rai, N. Jose, Dattatraya Tammannashastri Gokak, Poyyamani Swaminathan Viswanathan
  • Publication number: 20150126774
    Abstract: There is provided a process for producing a shaped catalyst for a fixed bed oxidation reaction or a fixed bed oxidative dehydrogenation reaction, the catalyst having both of sufficient mechanical strength and catalyst performance, and the catalyst is produced by supporting a catalyst powder containing a complex metal oxide having molybdenum as an essential ingredient on an inert support by a tumbling granulation method at a relative centrifugal force of 1 to 35G.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2013
    Publication date: May 7, 2015
    Inventors: Ryota Hiraoka, Yumi Hino, Kimito Okumura, Motohiko Sugiyama, Hiroki Motomura
  • Patent number: 9018126
    Abstract: A catalyst for the epoxidation of an olefin comprising a carrier and deposited on the carrier, silver, a promoting amount of one or more promoters selected from the group consisting of alkali metals and rhenium and a promoting amount of nickel, wherein the nickel is added as a nickel compound or nickel complex during the initial impregnation along with the silver and other promoters; including a process for preparing the catalyst; a process for preparing an olefin oxide by reacting a feed comprising an olefin and oxygen in the presence of the catalyst; and a process for preparing a 1,2-diol, a 1,2-diol ether, a 1,2-carbonate, or an alkanolamine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: Shell Oil Company
    Inventor: Marek Matusz
  • Publication number: 20150105244
    Abstract: An electrode material for a direct fuel cell or an electrochemical hydrogenation electrolytic tank, includes component A, or component B, or the mixture of component A and component B. The component A is any one of or a mixture of two or more than two of HnNb2O5, HnV2O5, HnMoO3, HnTa2O5 or HnWO3 at any ratio, where 0<n?4. The component B is any one of or a mixture of two or more than two of Nb2O5, V2O5, MoO3, Ta2O5, WO3 at any ratio.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2014
    Publication date: April 16, 2015
    Inventors: Hansong Cheng, Chaoqun Han, Ming Yang, Gang Ni, Liang Huang, Libin Pei
  • Patent number: 9000207
    Abstract: A method for producing a silica-supported catalyst comprising Mo, V. Nb, and a component X (Sb and/or Te) to be used in a vapor phase catalytic oxidation or ammoxidation of proprane, comprising the steps of: (I) preparing a raw material mixture solution by mixing Mo, V, Nb, component X, a silica sol, and water; (II) obtaining a dry powder by drying the raw material mixture solution; and (III) obtaining a silica-supported catalyst by calcining the dry powder, wherein the silica sol contains 10 to 270 wt ppm of nitrate ions based on SiO2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Asahi Kasei Chemicals Corporation
    Inventors: Yusuke Ishii, Takaaki Kato
  • Patent number: 8999876
    Abstract: Catalyst compositions comprising molybdenum, sulfur and an alkali metal ion supported on a nanofibrous, mesoporous carbon molecular sieve are useful for converting syngas to higher alcohols. The compositions are produced via impregnation and may enhance selectivity to ethanol in particular.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Georgia Tech Research Corporation
    Inventors: Christopher W. Jones, Pradeep K. Agrawal, Tien Thao Nguyen
  • Patent number: 8992871
    Abstract: A CO shift catalyst according to the present invention reforms carbon monoxide (CO) contained in gas. The CO shift catalyst is prepared from one or both of molybdenum (Mo) and cobalt (Co) as an active ingredient and an oxide of one of, or a mixture or a compound of, titanium (Ti), silicon (Si), zirconium (Zr), and cerium (Ce) as a carrier for supporting the active ingredient. The CO shift catalyst can be used in a halogen-resistant CO shift reactor (15) that converts CO contained in gasified gas (12) generated in a gasifier (11) into CO2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshinobu Yasutake, Tetsuya Imai, Masanao Yonemura, Susumu Okino, Keiji Fujikawa, Shinya Tachibana
  • Patent number: 8940157
    Abstract: Hydrodesulphurization of a gasoline cut containing hydrocarbons containing at least 2 carbon atoms per molecule and having an end point of 250° C. or less, by contacting the gasoline cut with at least one catalyst having an active phase of at least one metal from group VIII and at least one metal from group VIB deposited on a support, said catalyst being prepared using a process of: i) contacting support with precursors of group VIII and group VIB metals; ii) contacting support with at least one organic compound formed from at least one cyclic oligosaccharide composed of at least 6?-(1,4)-bonded glucopyranose subunits; iii) drying to obtain at least said metal from group VIII and at least said metal from group VIB in the oxide form; then iv) sulphurization such that said active phase is in the sulphide form; i) and ii) being carried out separately, in any order, or simultaneously.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: IFP Energies Nouvelles
    Inventors: Fabrice Diehl, Elodie Devers
  • Patent number: 8901033
    Abstract: In one aspect, structural catalyst bodies comprising one or more gradients of catalytic material are provided herein. In some embodiments, a structural catalyst body described herein comprises an inner partition wall having a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface, the inner partition wall having a gradient of catalytic material along the width of the inner partition wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: Cormetech, Inc.
    Inventors: Christian Trefzger, Chris E DiFrancesco, Raymond H. Oh
  • Patent number: 8889078
    Abstract: A porous oxide catalyst includes porous oxide, and an oxygen vacancy-inducing metal which induces an oxygen vacancy in a lattice structure of a porous metal oxide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sang-min Ji, Hyun-chul Lee, Doo-hwan Lee, Seon-ah Jin
  • Patent number: 8883670
    Abstract: A method is described to prepare a Mo containing supported catalyst comprising TeO2 as active promoter and a process for preparing methanethiol in the presence of said catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Evonik Degussa GmbH
    Inventors: Yiquan Yang, Aiping Chen, Qi Wang, Jan-Olaf Barth, Christoph Weckbecker, Klaus Huthmacher
  • Patent number: 8865614
    Abstract: A process for producing a ringlike oxidic shaped body by mechanically compacting a pulverulent aggregate introduced into the fill chamber of a die, wherein the outer face of the resulting compact corresponds to that of a frustocone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Knut Eger, Jens Uwe Faust, Holger Borchert, Ralf Streibert, Klaus Joachim Mueller-Engel, Andreas Raichle
  • Publication number: 20140309105
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for manufacturing a homogeneous supported catalyst for carbon nanotubes. Advantageously, the method induces deep impregnation of a catalyst in micro pores of a support by using high-temperature aging impregnation, thus providing a high CNT yield.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2013
    Publication date: October 16, 2014
    Inventors: Kyung Yeon Kang, Jin Do Kim, Sung Jin Kim, Jae Keun Yoon
  • Patent number: 8852518
    Abstract: The present invention is to provide a catalyst for removing nitrogen oxides which is capable of keeping sufficient denitrification performance, i.e., a high removal rate of nitrogen oxides in exhaust gas having a high NO2 content especially under conditions where the ratio of NO2/NO in exhaust gas is 1 or higher, a catalyst molded product therefor, and an exhaust gas treating method. The catalyst is designed for removing nitrogen oxides, which is used to denitrify exhaust gas containing nitrogen oxides having a high NO2 content, which comprises: at least one kind of oxide selected from the group consisting of copper oxides, chromium oxides, and iron oxides as a component for reducing NO2 to NO; and which further comprises: at least one kind of titanium oxide; at least one kind of tungsten oxide; and at least one kind of vanadium oxide as components for reducing NO to N2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigeru Nojima, Kozo Iida, Yoshiaki Obayashi, Masashi Kiyosawa, Masanori Demoto
  • Patent number: 8834710
    Abstract: A process for starting up a hydrotreating process using a bulk metal catalyst. The process comprises the steps of providing a hydrocarbon feed stream containing less than 100 ppmw nitrogen containing species; and adding a nitrogen-containing compound to the hydrocarbon feed stream followed by contacting the resulting feed stream with the bulk metal catalyst in the presence of hydrogen and a sulfur-containing species.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: Shell Oil Company
    Inventors: László Domokos, Hermanus Jongkind, Pieter Van Der Laan, Marcello Stefano Rigutto
  • Publication number: 20140227481
    Abstract: Provided is a structure for forming carbon nanofiber, including a base material containing an oxygen ion-conductive oxide, and a metal catalyst that is provided on one surface side of the base material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2014
    Publication date: August 14, 2014
    Applicant: FUJIKURA LTD.
    Inventor: Masayasu INAGUMA
  • Publication number: 20140213441
    Abstract: The present invention provides an electrocatalytic material and a method for making an electrocatalytic material. There is also provided an electrocatalytic material comprising amorphous metal or mixed metal oxides. There is also provided methods of forming an electrocatalyst, comprising an amorphous metal oxide film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2012
    Publication date: July 31, 2014
    Inventors: Simon Trudel, Curtis Berlinguette
  • Patent number: 8785345
    Abstract: A method for preparing hydrorefining catalyst comprises the following steps: (1) mixing an aqueous ammonia solution with a polyamine complexing agent to form a mixed solvent; (2) adding a cobalt salt to the mixed solvent, dissolving the cobalt salt, and then adding a molybdenum salt and optional salts of other active components, and dissolving them to prepare an impregnating solution; and (3) impregnating a support with the impregnating solution, followed by aging, drying, and activating the impregnated support to form a hydrorefining catalyst. The hydrorefining catalyst prepared by this method has good activity, selectivity and stability in use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: Petrochina Company Limited
    Inventors: Shunqin Liang, Wei Xie, Zongbao Wang, Huifeng Xue, Guangbi Gong, Tinghai Wang, Jie Wu, Limin Sun, Hongmin Kang, Dehua Huang, Shufeng Wang, Yundi Zheng, Cailan Jiang, Longgang Lv
  • Patent number: 8772195
    Abstract: To produce a silica-supported catalyst having an excellent yield of a target product and excellent catalyst attrition resistance. A method for producing a silica-supported catalyst comprising Mo, V, Nb, and a component X (Sb and/or Te) to be used in a vapor phase catalytic oxidation or ammoxidation of propane, comprising the steps of: (I) preparing a raw material mixture solution by mixing Mo, V, Nb, component X, a silica sol, and water; (II) obtaining a dry powder by drying the raw material mixture solution; and (III) obtaining a silica-supported catalyst by calcining the dry powder, wherein the silica sol contains 10 to 270 wt ppm of nitrate ions based on SiO2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: Asahi Kasei Chemicals Corporation
    Inventors: Yusuke Ishii, Takaaki Kato
  • Publication number: 20140140904
    Abstract: The present invention provides methods and designs of enclosed-channel reactor system for manufacturing catalysts or supports. Both of the configuration designs force the gaseous precursors and purge gas flow through the channel surface of reactor. The precursors will transform to thin film or particle catalysts or supports under adequate reaction temperature, working pressure and gas concentration. The reactor body is either sealed or enclosed for isolation from atmosphere. Another method using super ALD cycles is also proposed to grow alloy catalysts or supports with controllable concentration. The catalysts prepared by the method and system in the present invention are noble metals, such as platinum, palladium, rhodium, ruthenium, iridium and osmium, or transition metals such as iron, silver, cobalt, nickel and tin, while supports are silicon oxide, aluminum oxide, zirconium oxide, cerium oxide or magnesium oxide, or refractory metals, which can be chromium, molybdenum, tungsten or tantalum.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2013
    Publication date: May 22, 2014
    Applicant: National Applied Research Laboratories
    Inventors: Chi-Chung Kei, Bo-Heng Liu, Chien-Pao Lin, Chien-Nan Hsiao, Yang-Chih Hsueh, Tsong-Pyng Perng
  • Patent number: 8709968
    Abstract: A catalyst composition that is especially useful in the hydroconversion of pitch, micro carbon residue and sulfur contents of a heavy hydrocarbon feedstock without the excessive formation of sediment. The catalyst composition is a reasonably high surface area composition containing alumina and a low molybdenum content with a high ratio of nickel-to-molybdenum. The catalyst composition further has a unique pore distribution that in combination with the special metals loading provide for good conversion of pitch and micro carbon residue without an excessive yield of sediment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignee: Shell Oil Company
    Inventors: Josiane Maria-Rose Ginestra, John George Kester, David Andrew Komar, David Edward Sherwood
  • Patent number: 8703641
    Abstract: In a process for forming a bulk hydroprocessing catalyst by sulfiding a catalyst precursor made in a co-precipitation reaction, up to 60% of the metal precursor feeds end up in the supernatant. The metals can be recovered via any of chemical precipitation, ion exchange, electro-coagulation, and combinations thereof to generate an effluent stream containing less than 50 mole % of metal ions in at least one of the metal residuals, and for at least one of the metal residuals recovered as a metal precursor feed for use in the co-precipitation reaction. In one embodiment, the resin functions as an anion exchange resin with an acidic supernatant to recover Group VIB metal residuals, and a cation exchange resin with a basic supernatant to recover Promoter metal residuals. An effluent stream from the process to waste treatment contains less than 50 ppm metals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignee: Chevron U.S.A. Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander E. Kuperman, Theodorus Maesen, Dennis Dykstra, Ping Wang, Soy Uckung
  • Patent number: 8697597
    Abstract: A method and system for the reduction of pollutant NOx gases from automobile exhaust, as well as a method of reforming hydrocarbons, using a self-sustaining catalyst comprising an ion conductive support, a dispersed cathodic phase, a dispersed anodic phase, and a dispersed sacrificial phase, and a method of forming the self-sustaining catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: University of Miami
    Inventor: Xiangyang Zhou
  • Patent number: 8691723
    Abstract: The sequential production of a library of N different solids, in particular heterogeneous catalysts, where N within a day is an integer of at least 2, is performed by a) producing at least two different sprayable solutions, emulsions and/or dispersions of elements and/or element compounds of the chemical elements present in the catalyst and optionally of dispersions of inorganic support materials, b) continuously metering the at least two different solutions, emulsions and/or dispersions in a predefined ratio into a mixing apparatus in which the solutions, emulsions and/or dispersions are homogeneously mixed, c) continuously drying the mixture removed from the mixing apparatus and recovering the dried mixture, d) changing the ratios in step b) and repeating steps b), c) and d) (N?1) times until N different dried mixtures are obtained, e) optionally shaping and optionally calcining the mixtures to give the solids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Hartmut Hibst, Frieder Borgmeier, Martin Dieterle
  • Patent number: 8663567
    Abstract: The present invention is to provide a catalyst for removing nitrogen oxides which is capable of keeping sufficient denitrification performance, i.e., a high removal rate of nitrogen oxides in exhaust gas having a high NO2 content especially under conditions where the ratio of NO2/NO in exhaust gas is 1 or higher, a catalyst molded product therefor, and an exhaust gas treating method. The catalyst is designed for removing nitrogen oxides, which is used to denitrify exhaust gas containing nitrogen oxides having a high NO2 content, which comprises: at least one kind of oxide selected from the group consisting of copper oxides, chromium oxides, and iron oxides as a component for reducing NO2 to NO; and which further comprises: at least one kind of titanium oxide; at least one kind of tungsten oxide; and at least one kind of vanadium oxide as components for reducing NO to N2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigeru Nojima, Kozo Iida, Yoshiaki Obayashi, Masashi Kiyosawa, Masanori Demoto
  • Publication number: 20140057779
    Abstract: The present subject matter provides a method of preparing a multicomponent metal-hybrid nanocomposite using co-gasification, in which a multicomponent metal-hybrid nanocomposite can be prepared by a one-step process without using a complicated process including the steps of supporting-drying-calcining-annealing and the like at the time of preparing a conventional alloy catalyst, and provides a multicomponent metal-hybrid nanocomposite prepared by the method. The method is advantageous in that a multicomponent metal-hybrid nanocomposite can be synthesized by a simple process of simultaneously gasifying two kinds of metal precursors, and in that an additional post-treatment process is not required.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2013
    Publication date: February 27, 2014
    Inventors: Hee-Yeon Kim, Seok-yong Hong, Kwang-Sup Song, Hong-Soo Kim
  • Patent number: 8637418
    Abstract: A method for treating a catalyst base that comprises a contact area of porous material. A fluid, such as a flue gas stream, can be conducted along the contact area. A catalytically relevant substance is introduced into pores of the catalyst base using a transport fluid and remains on pore wall areas after removal of the transport fluid. The introduction is carried out such that an amount of the catalytically relevant substance relative to the surface remains on the pore wall areas as a function of location within the pore and decreases within the pore after exceeding a specific pore depth. A blocking fluid can first be introduced into pore regions beyond the specific pore depth, thus blocking these regions when transport fluid containing the catalytically relevant substance is introduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: STEAG Energy Services GmbH
    Inventors: Hermann Brüggendick, Maik Blohm
  • Publication number: 20140024525
    Abstract: A catalyst is provided, the catalyst comprising rods having mean length of 100 microns or less, the rods comprising a metal molybdate or tungstate, the metal being selected from the group consisting of iron, manganese, nickel, chromium, vanadium, aluminium, silver, titanium, copper, bismuth, and cobalt. A method of making such a catalyst is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2011
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Inventors: Zhonjie Lin, Jonathan Keith Bartley, Stuart Hamilton Taylor, Graham John Hutchings, Nicholas Francois Dummer
  • Publication number: 20140024861
    Abstract: [Problem] Catalyst for use in selective reduction of propionaldehyde in acrolein and/or acrylic acid and/or acrylonitrile containing propionaldehyde and/or propionic acid and/or propionitrile at low concentration. In particular, a novel catalyst for selectively reducing propionaldehyde from acrolein containing the propionaldehyde. [Solution] Catalyst for use in selective reduction of propionaldehyde in acrolein containing the propionaldehyde, characterized in that the catalyst contains Mo as an indispensable component, and at least one element selected from a group comprising P, Si, W, Ti, Zr, V, Nb, Ta, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn, Ga, In, Tl, Sn, Ag, As, Ge, B, Bi, La, Ba, Sb, Te, Ce, Pb, Mg, K, Rb, Cs and Al.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2012
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Applicant: NIPPON KAYAKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kimito Okumura, Toru Kawaguchi, Yasushi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 8633131
    Abstract: A mesoporous oxide-catalyst complex including: a mesoporous metal oxide; and a catalyst metal supported on the mesoporous metal oxide, wherein the catalyst on the mesoporous metal oxide has a degree of dispersion of about 30 to about 90 percent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Doo-hwan Lee, Hyun-chul Lee, Sang-min Ji, Kyo-sung Park, Seung-jae Lee, Seon-ah Jin
  • Patent number: 8623781
    Abstract: The oxidative dehydrogenation of propane provides a highly selective catalyst for the oxidative dehydrogenation of propane to propylene, and a process for preparing the catalyst. The catalyst is a mixed metal oxides catalyst of the general formula MoaVbOx, where the molar ratio of molybdenum to vanadium is between 1:1 and 9:1 (a:b is between 0.5:0.5 and 0.9:0.1) and x is determined according to the oxidation state of the cations present. The catalyst is prepared by mixing the metals by sol-gel technique, heating the gel to dry the mixed oxides, further heating the dried product to induce auto-combustion, washing the product with isopropyl alcohol, and drying with a supercritical CO2 dryer. Oxidative dehydrogenation is carried out by contacting a stream of propane gas with the bulk mixed metal oxides catalyst at a temperature between 350° C. and 550° C. Propylene selectivity of 100% is reached at conversion rates between 1.9% and 4.8%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Assignee: King Fahd University of Pretroleum and Minerals
    Inventors: Shakeel Ahmed, Hassan S. Alasiri, Faizur Rahman, Adnan M. J. Al-Amer
  • Patent number: 8617386
    Abstract: A process is disclosed for converting heavy hydrocarbon feed into lighter hydrocarbon products. The heavy hydrocarbon feed is slurried with a catalyst comprising molybdenum supported on a base, such as boehmite or pseudo-boehmite alumina. Iron oxide may also be in the base. The base is preferably bauxite. The heavy hydrocarbon slurry is hydrocracked in the presence of the catalyst to produce lighter hydrocarbons.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: UOP LLC
    Inventors: Alakananda Bhattacharyya, Beckay J. Mezza, Maureen L. Bricker, Lorenz J. Bauer
  • Patent number: 8618015
    Abstract: A method of making a high activity catalyst composition suitable for use in the hydrodesulfurization of a middle distillate feed, such as diesel fuel, having a high concentration of sulfur, to thereby provide a low sulfur middle distillate product. The method comprises heat treating aluminum hydroxide under controlled temperature conditions thereby converting the aluminum hydroxide to gamma-alumina to give a converted aluminum hydroxide, and controlling the fraction of converted aluminum hydroxide that is gamma-alumina. A catalytic component is incorporated into the converted aluminum hydroxide to provide an intermediate, which is heat treated to provide the high activity catalyst composition. The high activity catalyst composition can suitably be used in the hydrodesulfurization of a middle distillate feed containing a high sulfur concentration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Shell Oil Company
    Inventor: Opinder Kishan Bhan
  • Patent number: 8614161
    Abstract: A CO2 reforming catalyst composition includes a hydroxyl group-containing porous oxide, and a composite porous catalyst supported by a porous supporter. The composite porous catalyst includes a catalyst metal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seung Jae Lee, InHyuk Son, Chan Ho Pak, Hyun Chul Lee, Jeong Kuk Shon, Young Gil Jo
  • Patent number: 8608945
    Abstract: A process is disclosed for converting heavy hydrocarbon feed into lighter hydrocarbon products. The heavy hydrocarbon feed is slurried with a catalyst comprising molybdenum supported on a base, such as boehmite or pseudo-boehmite alumina. Iron oxide may also be in the base. The base is preferably bauxite. The heavy hydrocarbon slurry is hydrocracked in the presence of the catalyst to produce lighter hydrocarbons.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2013
    Assignee: UOP LLC
    Inventors: Alakananda Bhattacharyya, Beckay J. Mezza, Maureen L. Bricker, Lorenz J. Bauer
  • Patent number: 8609575
    Abstract: A catalyst of one or more complex oxides having a nominal composition as set out in formula (1): AxB1-y-zMyPzOn (1) wherein A is selected from one or more group III elements including the lanthanide elements or one or more divalent or monovalent cations; B is selected from one or more elements with atomic number 22 to 24, 40 to 42 and 72 to 75; M is selected from one or more elements with atomic number 25 to 30; P is selected from one or more elements with atomic number 44 to 50 and 76 to 83; x is defined as a number where 0<x?1; y is defined as a number where 0?y<0.5; and z is defined as a number where 0<z<0.2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2013
    Assignee: Very Small Particle Company Limited
    Inventors: Peter Cade Talbot, Jose Antonio Alarco, Geoffrey Alan Edwards
  • Patent number: 8586500
    Abstract: In a process for forming a bulk hydroprocessing catalyst by sulfiding a catalyst precursor made in a co-precipitation reaction, up to 60% of the metal precursor feeds do not react to form catalyst precursor and end up in the supernatant. In the present disclosure, the metals can be recovered via any of chemical precipitation, ion exchange, electro-coagulation, and combinations thereof to generate an effluent stream containing less than 50 mole % of metal ions in at least one of the metal residuals, and for at least one of the metal residuals is recovered as a metal precursor feed, which can be recycled for use in the co-precipitation reaction. An effluent stream from the process to waste treatment contains less than 50 ppm metal ions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: Chevron U.S.A. Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander E. Kuperman, Theodorus Maesen, Dennis Dykstra
  • Patent number: 8586786
    Abstract: A catalyst for use in the production of an unsaturated aldehyde and/or an unsaturated carboxylic acid, the catalyst comparing (or, preferably, being composed of) a mixed oxide containing molybdenum, bismuth and iron, which has improved methanical strength, is produced by a method including the steps of (1) drying an aqueous solution or an aqueous slurry containing raw materials of the catalyst and then firstly calcining a dried product in a molecular oxygen-containing gas atmosphere to obtain a calcined product; (2) heating the calcined product obtained in Step (1) in the presence of a reducing material to obtain a reduced product having a mass loss of 0.05 to 6%; and (3) secondly calcining the reduced product obtained in Step (2) in a molecular oxygen-containing gas atmosphere.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: Sumitomo Chemical Company, Limited
    Inventors: Naoki Miura, Eiichi Shiraishi, Koichi Nagai
  • Patent number: 8575061
    Abstract: In a process for forming a bulk hydroprocessing catalyst by sulfiding a catalyst precursor made in a co-precipitation reaction, up to 60% of metal ions in at least one of the metal precursor feeds do not react to form catalyst precursor and end up in the supernatant as metal residuals. In the present disclosure, the metals can be recovered via ion-exchange, wherein an exchange resin is provided for a portion of the metal ions in the supernatant to be exchanged and bound onto the resin. The previously resin-bound metals can be subsequently recovered, or the effluent stream for the exchange resin column can also be recovered, forming at least a metal precursor feed which can be used in the co-precipitation reaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: Chevron U.S.A. Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander E. Kuperman, Theodorus Maesen, Dennis Dykstra
  • Patent number: 8575062
    Abstract: In a process for forming a bulk hydroprocessing catalyst by sulfiding a catalyst precursor in a co-precipitation reaction, up to 60% of the metal precursor feeds do not react to form catalyst precursor and stay in the supernatant. In one embodiment, at least a precipitant is added to the product mixture at a molar ratio of precipitant to metal residuals in the supernatant ranging from 1.5:1 to 20:1 to precipitate at least 50 mole % of metal ions in the residuals forming additional catalyst precursor. The remaining metal residuals can be recovered via any of chemical precipitation, ion exchange, electro-coagulation, and combinations thereof to generate an effluent stream containing less than 50 mole % of at least one of the metal residuals. In one embodiment, at least one of the metal residuals is recovered and recycled for use as a metal precursor feed in the co-precipitation reaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: Chevron U.S.A. Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander E. Kuperman, Theodorus Maesen, Dennis Dykstra
  • Patent number: 8563774
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for producing a catalyst, in which physical properties of a dried material or a calcined material in a production process of the catalyst are stable and a change in at least one of a catalyst activity and a selectivity to a target product is small and hence reproducibility of the catalyst is excellent. The present invention is a method for producing a catalyst containing molybdenum, bismuth, and iron, which contains the steps of washing a surface of at least one device equipped in an apparatus for the production of catalyst, to which a solid matter adheres, with a basic solution, and producing the catalyst with the apparatus for the production of catalyst thus washed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Rayon Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahide Kondo, Masanori Nitta, Hiroyuki Naitou, Toru Kuroda, Seiichi Kawato
  • Patent number: 8563460
    Abstract: A catalyst unit is described comprising a cylinder with a length C and a diameter D, wherein said unit has five holes arranged in a pentagonal pattern extending longitudinally therethrough, with five flutes running along the length of the unit, said flutes positioned equidistant adjacent holes of said pentagonal pattern. The catalyst may be used particularly in steam reforming reactors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: Johnson Matthey PLC
    Inventors: David James Birdsall, Mileta Babovic, Mikael Per Uno Carlsson, Samuel Arthur French, Michiel Nijemeisland, William Maurice Sengelow, Edmund Hugh Stitt
  • Patent number: 8557728
    Abstract: A catalyst unit is described in the form of a cylinder having a length C and diameter D, which has one or more holes extending therethrough, wherein said cylinder has domed ends of lengths A and B, such that (A+B+C)/D is in the range 0.50 to 2.00, and (A+B)/C is in the range 0.40 to 5.00. The catalyst or catalyst unit preferably has one or more flutes miming along its length. The catalyst may be used particularly in steam reforming reactors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Assignee: Johnson Matthey PLC
    Inventors: David James Birdsall, Mileta Babovic, Mikael Per Uno Carlsson, Samuel Arthur French, Michiel Nijemeisland, William Maurice Sengelow, Edmund Hugh Stitt
  • Patent number: 8557729
    Abstract: A catalyst unit is described in the form of a cylinder having a length C and diameter D, which has two or more flutes running along its length, wherein said cylinder has domed ends of lengths A and B, such that (A+B+C)/D is in the range 0.50 to 2.00, and (A+B)/C is in the range 0.40 to 5.00. The catalyst may be used particularly in reactions where hydrogen is a reactant such as hydroprocessing, hydrogenation, water-gas shift reactions, methanation, hydrocarbon synthesis by the Fischer-Tropsch reaction, methanol synthesis and ammonia synthesis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Assignee: Johnson Matthey PLC
    Inventors: Daniel Lee Cairns, Mileta Babovic, Terence James Fitzpatrick, Elizabeth Margaret Holt, Colin William Park, William Maurice Sengelow, Edmund Hugh Stitt
  • Patent number: 8546634
    Abstract: There is provided a method for production of a conjugated diene from a monoolefin having four or more carbon atoms by a fluidized bed reaction. The method for production of a conjugated diolefin includes bringing a catalyst in which an oxide is supported on a carrier into contact with a monoolefin having four or more carbon atoms in a fluidized bed reactor in which the catalyst and oxygen are present, wherein the method satisfies the following (1) to (3): (1) the catalyst contains Mo, Bi, and Fe; (2) a reaction temperature is in the range of 300 to 420° C.; and (3) an oxygen concentration in a reactor outlet gas is in the range of 0.05 to 3.0% by volume.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: Asahi Kasei Chemicals Corporation
    Inventors: Hideo Midorikawa, Hiroyuki Yano, Takashi Kinoshita
  • Patent number: 8524631
    Abstract: A method of producing a catalyst material with nano-scale structure, the method comprising: introducing a starting powder into a nano-powder production reactor, the starting powder comprising a catalyst material; the nano-powder production reactor nano-sizing the starting powder, thereby producing a nano-powder from the starting powder, the nano-powder comprising a plurality of nano-particles, each nano-particle comprising the catalyst material; and forming a catalyst precursor material from the nano-powder, wherein the catalyst precursor material is a densified bulk porous structure comprising the catalyst material, the catalyst material having a nano-scale structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: SDCmaterials, Inc.
    Inventor: Maximilian A. Biberger
  • Patent number: 8507403
    Abstract: A process is described for producing a powder batch comprises a plurality of particles, wherein the particles include (a) a first catalytically active component comprising at least one transition metal or a compound thereof; (b) a second component different from said first component and capable of removing oxygen from, or releasing oxygen to, an exhaust gas stream; and (c) a third component different from said first and second components and comprising a refractory support. The process comprises providing a precursor medium comprising a liquid vehicle and a precursor to al least one of said components (a) to (c) and heating droplets of said precursor medium carried in a gas stream to remove at least part of the liquid vehicle and chemically convert said precursor to said at least one component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2013
    Assignee: Cabot Corporation
    Inventors: Miodrag Oljaca, Toivo T. Kodas, Ranko P. Bontchev, Klaus Kunze, Kenneth C. Koehlert
  • Publication number: 20130178670
    Abstract: The present invention relates to catalysts, to processes for making catalysts and to chemical processes employing such catalysts. The catalysts are preferably used for converting acetic acid and ethyl acetate to ethanol. The catalyst comprises an extruded modified support, and a precious metal. The processes for making the catalysts comprises modifying the catalyst, extruding the catalyst, and impregnating the precious metal onto the catalyst.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2013
    Publication date: July 11, 2013
    Applicant: Celanese International Corporation
    Inventor: Celanese International Corporation