Of Manganese Patents (Class 502/324)
  • Patent number: 12152734
    Abstract: A low-cost getter material comprising palladium and manganese oxide and methods of making the same. A tank including said getter material, and a method of removing hydrogen gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: Chart Inc.
    Inventor: Erik Gustafson
  • Patent number: 11549414
    Abstract: Sound waves of an amplitude having a waveform (first value as a function of time and a first maximum) pass into a manifold, which subdivides flow and sound into multiple paths of differing length, yielding transit times offsetting the arrival of each instance of the waveform at an outlet or exit. This minimizes the addition of energy (sound volume, amplitude) arriving at the exit or terminus from each path. Amplitude is thereby reduced (although the waveform shape remains), repeated and offset by the transit time delays of paths discharging at the terminus. One may select the number of paths based on a desired reduction in the sound amplitude. That number is approximately inversely proportional to the ratio of the reduction. For example, six unique paths in an experiment reduced original amplitude (sound volume) to a sixth at an exit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Inventor: Phillip M. Adams
  • Patent number: 11396006
    Abstract: Modified red mud catalyst compositions, methods for production, and methods of use in bi-reforming, the composition comprising: red mud material produced from an alumina extraction process from bauxite ore; and nickel oxide, the nickel oxide present at between about 5 wt. % to about 40 wt. % of the modified red mud catalyst composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventors: Bandar H. Alsolami, Bandar A. Fadhel, Mohammed A. Albuali, Rami Bamagain
  • Patent number: 10874891
    Abstract: The invention relates to methods for producing hydrophobized, doped or non-doped mixed metal oxide nanoparticles or doped metal oxide nanoparticles by flame spray pyrolysis, wherein a combustible precursor solution A, containing at least two metal alkyloates of general formula Me(OOC—R)x with differing metals Me, or a combustible precursor solution B containing at least one metal alkyloate of general formula Me(OOC—R)x and at least one metal salt containing a metal ion Me and at least one metal salt containing a metal ion Me, with Me selected from metal ions of the subgroups of the periodic system of the elements, with R=alkyl or aryl, wherein the alkyl chain is branched or straight, and wherein x corresponds to the oxidation step of the metal ion, is used in stoichiometric excess relative to a quantity of oxygen, and wherein a combustion ratio ? of 3.5 bis 0.4 is established, and hydrophobized nanoparticles and the use thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT DRESDEN
    Inventors: Tim Biemelt, Julia Grothe, Stefan Kaskel, Karl Wegner
  • Patent number: 10865306
    Abstract: A microvascular system includes a solid polymeric matrix and a woven structure in the matrix. The woven structure includes a plurality of fibers, and a plurality of microfluidic channels, where at least a portion of the microfluidic channels are interconnected. The microvascular system may be made by forming a composite that includes a solid polymeric matrix and a plurality of sacrificial fibers in the matrix, heating the composite to a temperature of from 100 to 250° C., maintaining the composite at a temperature of from 100 to 250° C. for a time sufficient to form degradants from the sacrificial fibers, and removing the degradants from the composite. The sacrificial fibers may include a polymeric fiber matrix including a poly(hydroxyalkanoate) and a metal selected from the group consisting of an alkali earth metal and a transition metal, in the fiber matrix, where the concentration of the metal in the fiber matrix is at least 0.1 wt %.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois
    Inventors: Aaron P. Esser-Kahn, Hefei Dong, Piyush R. Thakre, Jason F. Patrick, Nancy R. Sottos, Jeffrey S. Moore, Scott R. White
  • Patent number: 10835891
    Abstract: Electrokinetic devices and methods are described with the purpose of propelling a dielectric fluid medium, usually air, and optionally collecting assayable agents from the medium. Electrokinetic flow may be induced by the use of plasma generation at high voltage electrodes and consequent transport of charged particles in an electric voltage gradient. The generation of electrokinetic flow has the disadvantage that certain amounts of ozone may be formed in the process. Methods and devices are described herein where suitable catalysts can be combined with the electrokinetic device in such a way that ozone is effectively destroyed in the effluent flow without compromising the amount of flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: Inspirotec, Inc.
    Inventor: Julian Gordon
  • Patent number: 10722869
    Abstract: The present invention provides a porous metal-containing carbon-based material that is stable at high temperatures under aqueous conditions. The porous metal-containing carbon-based materials are particularly useful in catalytic applications. Also provided, are methods for making and using porous shaped metal-carbon products prepared from these materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: Archer-Daniels-Midland Company
    Inventors: Valery Sokolovskii, Alfred Hagemeyer, James A. W. Shoemaker, Elif Ispir Gürbüz, Guang Zhu, Eric L. Dias
  • Patent number: 10647583
    Abstract: The lifetime of a fluidized bed reactor containing silicon particles, for the production of chlorosilanes is greatly extended by armoring at least a portion of the reactor shell interior wall with expanded metal coated with a cement containing ceramic particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: WACKER CHEMIE AG
    Inventors: Maximilian Babl, Sebastian Liebischer
  • Patent number: 10543478
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of preparing a catalyst for oxidative dehydrogenation. More particularly, the method of preparing a catalyst for oxidative dehydrogenation includes a first step of preparing an aqueous iron-metal precursor solution by dissolving a trivalent cation iron (Fe) precursor and a divalent cation metal (A) precursor in distilled water; a second step of obtaining a slurry of an iron-metal oxide by reacting the aqueous iron-metal precursor solution with ammonia water in a coprecipitation bath to form an iron-metal oxide (step b) and then filtering the iron-metal oxide; and a third step of heating the iron-metal oxide slurry. In accordance with the present invention, a metal oxide catalyst, as a catalyst for oxidative dehydrogenation, having a high spinel phase structure proportion may be economically prepared by a simple process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: LG CHEM, LTD.
    Inventors: Kyong Yong Cha, Myung Ji Suh, Dong Hyun Ko, Dae Heung Choi, Ye Seul Hwang, Jun Kyu Han, Sun Hwan Hwang, Seong Min Kim
  • Patent number: 10518250
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a ferrite-based catalyst composite, a method of preparing the same, and a method of preparing butadiene using the same. More particularly, the present invention provides a ferrite-based catalyst composite having a shape that allows effective dispersion of excess heat generated in a butadiene production process and prevention of catalyst damage and side reaction occurrence by reducing direct exposure of a catalyst to heat, a method of preparing the ferrite-based catalyst composite, and a method of preparing butadiene capable of lowering the temperature of a hot spot and reducing generation of Cox by allowing active sites of a catalyst to have a broad temperature gradient (profile) during oxidative dehydrogenation using the ferrite-based catalyst composite, and thus, providing improved process efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: LG CHEM, LTD.
    Inventors: Dae Heung Choi, Dong Hyun Ko, Kyong Yong Cha, Myung Ji Suh, Ye Seul Hwang, Sun Hwan Hwang, Seong Min Kim, Jun Han Kang, Joo Hyuck Lee, Hyun Seok Nam, Sang Jin Han, Jun Kyu Han
  • Patent number: 10351542
    Abstract: A method for the oxidation of ethylene to form ethylene oxide which comprises: providing an aqueous stream containing ethylene glycol and impurities; introducing the aqueous stream in a first ion exchange treatment bed to reduce the content of these impurities; determining whether an outlet of the first ion exchange treatment bed has a conductivity greater than about 5 ?S/cm; upon determining that the outlet of the first ion exchange treatment bed has a conductivity greater than about 5 ?S/cm, introducing the outlet of the first ion exchange treatment bed into a second ion exchange treatment bed; and upon determining that the outlet of the first ion exchange treatment bed has a conductivity greater than about 60 ?S/cm, redirecting the introduction of the aqueous stream to the second ion exchange treatment bed and regenerating the first ion exchange bed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: Scientific Design Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Shaun McGovern, Mansoor Husain, John Sullivan
  • Patent number: 10266774
    Abstract: There is provided a process and systems for producing fuels via pyrolysis of carbonaceous feedstock under pressure and temperature in an efficient manner using a circulating fluidized bed with catalyst(s). The pressure and temperature are selected to provoke supercritical conditions, and pyrolysis, hydropyrolysis, hydrotreating, and optionally reforming treatment of the carbonaceous feedstock is carried out simultaneously in one reactor on a recirculating fluidized bed containing catalysts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Eloy Flores, III, Monica R. Medrano, Hsiang Y. Lai, Michael P. Hartmann
  • Patent number: 10179325
    Abstract: An oxidation catalyst for treating an exhaust gas produced by a compression ignition engine comprising: a substrate; a catalytic material disposed on the substrate, wherein the catalytic material comprises platinum (Pt); and a region comprising a capture material, wherein the region is arranged to contact the exhaust gas after the exhaust gas has contacted and/or passed through the catalytic material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: Johnson Matthey Public Limited Company
    Inventors: Andrew Francis Chiffey, Christopher Daly, Daniel Hatcher, James Leeland, Francois Moreau, Paul Richard Phillips
  • Patent number: 9951153
    Abstract: A method for preparing ammonium tetrakis(pentafluorophenyl)borate salt comprising reacting a secondary amine with an aldehyde to form an iminium ion; hydrogenating the iminium ion by reaction with a reducing agent to form a tertiary amine; reacting the tertiary amine with a mineral acid to form an amine salt; and reacting the amine salt with K[B(C6F5)4], Li[B(C6F5)4], or combinations thereof to form an ammonium tetrakis(pentafluorophenyl)borate salt, wherein the secondary amine is derived from a non-animal source and the aldehyde has seven or more carbon atoms; wherein the ammonium tetrakis(pentafluorophenyl)borate salt is characterized by a solubility at 25° C. in hexane, cyclohexane or methylcyclohexane of at least 10 weight percent; and wherein the tertiary amine has a molecular weight of at least 450 g/mole is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Lixin Sun, Daniel D. VanderLende
  • Patent number: 9863393
    Abstract: An ECU controls waste heat quantity of an engine according to a required heat quantity in response to a heat-utilize requirement. The ECU controls a valve opening period of an intake valve based on an engine driving condition and an ignition timing based on a most efficient timing at which fuel economy is highest. The ECU determines whether there is an ignition advance margin relative to the most efficient timing. When there is no margin, an actual compression ration of the engine is decreased by advancing or retarding a valve close timing of the intake valve and the ignition timing is advanced relative to the most efficient timing in order to increase the waste heat quantity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroaki Takeishi, Takashi Senda, Mitsuo Hara, Takanobu Kawano
  • Patent number: 9598644
    Abstract: A method of hydrogenation utilizing a reactant gas mixture comprising a carbon oxide and a hydrogen agent, and a hydrogenation catalyst comprising a mixed-metal oxide containing metal sites supported and/or incorporated into the lattice. The mixed-metal oxide comprises a pyrochlore, a brownmillerite, or mixtures thereof doped at the A-site or the B-site. The metal site may comprise a deposited metal, where the deposited metal is a transition metal, an alkali metal, an alkaline earth metal, or mixtures thereof. Contact between the carbon oxide, hydrogen agent, and hydrogenation catalyst under appropriate conditions of temperature, pressure and gas flow rate generate a hydrogenation reaction and produce a hydrogenated product made up of carbon from the carbon oxide and some portion of the hydrogen agent. The carbon oxide may be CO, CO2, or mixtures thereof and the hydrogen agent may be H2. In a particular embodiment, the hydrogenated product comprises olefins, paraffins, or mixtures thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: U.S. Department of Energy
    Inventors: Dushyant Shekhawat, David A. Berry, Daniel J. Haynes, Victor Abdelsayed, Mark W. Smith, James J. Spivey
  • Patent number: 9550174
    Abstract: This invention relates to a method of preparing a mixed manganese ferrite coated catalyst, and a method of preparing 1,3-butadiene using the same, and more particularly, to a method of preparing a catalyst by coating a support with mixed manganese ferrite obtained by co-precipitation at 10˜40° C. using a binder and to a method of preparing 1,3-butadiene using oxidative dehydrogenation of a crude C4 mixture containing n-butene and n-butane in the presence of the prepared catalyst. This mixed manganese ferrite coated catalyst has a simple synthetic process, and facilitates control of the generation of heat upon oxidative dehydrogenation and is very highly active in the dehydrogenation of n-butene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: SK INNOVATION CO., LTD
    Inventors: Yong Tak Kwon, Tae Jin Kim, Young Min Chung, Ok Youn Kim, Seung Hoon Oh
  • Patent number: 9528408
    Abstract: An apparatus comprising a compression ignition engine and an exhaust system therefor comprising at least one exhaust system component for treating exhaust gas and means for generating an exotherm for heating the at least one exhaust system component, which exotherm generating means consisting essentially of a catalyst and means for injecting hydrocarbon into exhaust gas for combustion on the catalyst, which catalyst consisting essentially of both a palladium (Pd) component and a platinum (Pt) component, and an optional support material, disposed on a substrate monolith.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: Johnson Matthey Public Limited Company
    Inventors: Bernard Paul Gabriel Ghislain Marie Oger, Paul Richard Phillips, Martyn Vincent Twigg, Andrew Peter Walker
  • Patent number: 9475037
    Abstract: The invention relates to a nickel hexaaluminate-comprising catalyst for reforming hydrocarbons, preferably methane, in the presence of carbon dioxide, which comprises hexaaluminate in a proportion in the range from 65 to 95% by weight, preferably from 70 to 90% by weight, and a crystalline, oxidic secondary phase selected from the group consisting of LaAlO3, SrAl2O4 and BaAl2O4 in the range from 5 to 35% by weight, preferably from 10 to 30% by weight. The BET surface area of the catalyst is ?5 m2/g, preferably ?10 m2/g. The molar nickel content of the catalyst is ?3 mol %, preferably ?2.5 mol % and more preferably ?2 mol %. The interlayer cations are preferably Ba and/or Sr. The process for producing the catalyst comprises the steps: (i) production of a mixture of metal salts, preferably nitrate salts of Ni and also Sr and/or La, and a nanoparticulate aluminum source, (ii) molding and (iii) calcination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2016
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Stephan Schunk, Ekkehard Schwab, Andrian Milanov, Guido Wasserschaff, Thomas Roussiere, Gerhard Cox, Bernd Hinrichsen, Ulrich Floerchinger
  • Patent number: 9433928
    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: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: Click Materials Corp.
    Inventors: Simon Trudel, Curtis Berlinguette
  • Patent number: 9409779
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the production of carbon nanotubes, in particular those having a diameter of 3-150 nm and an aspect ratio of length:diameter (L:D)>100, by decomposition of hydrocarbons on a heterogeneous catalyst which comprises Mn, Co, preferably also molybdenum, and an inert support material, and the catalyst and the carbon nanotubes themselves and the use thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: Covestro Deutschland AG
    Inventors: Sigurd Buchholz, Daniel Gordon Duff, Volker Michele, Leslaw Mleczko, Christian Münnich, Reiner Rudolf, Aurel Wolf
  • Patent number: 9341417
    Abstract: A heat-exchange medium for use in a regenerative thermal oxidizer has a coating of potassium aluminum silicate which prevents the build-up of silicon dioxide from processed gas on the surface of the ceramic heat-exchange media. The ceramic heat-exchange medium has 1% or less by weight of MgO based on the total medium weight and the coating has a thickness of from 0.2 to 0.4 mm. The coating consists of potassium aluminum silicate having a composition of about 4 to 8% by weight K2O, about 26 to 38% by weight Al2O3, and about 52 to 64% by weight SiO2 based on the total coating weight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Inventors: Richard Greco, Vinod Kumar Jain
  • Patent number: 9295975
    Abstract: A method for synthesizing a catalyst which reforms a methane gas into a hydrogen gas efficiently at a relatively low temperature comprising a palladium deposition step in which a manganese dioxide having a ramsdellite-type crystal structure is immersed in a palladium-containing aqueous solution to allow the palladium to be deposited on the surface of said manganese dioxide, and a heat treatment step in which said manganese dioxide having the palladium deposited thereon is heated under a reducing atmosphere to change said manganese dioxide to a manganese oxide Mn3O4 having the palladium carried thereon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: KYOTO UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Hideki Koyanaka, Masahiko Tsujimoto
  • Patent number: 9281525
    Abstract: The present invention refers to the conversion of gaseous or gasifiable fuels with high methane content, such as natural gas, biogas, synthesis gas or gas originated from various industrial process rejects, with or without prior desulfurization and elimination of other contaminants, in a solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC), with special anodes, based on mixed oxides or metal oxides with a perovskite type structure, either or not nano structured, into light hydrocarbons, primarily ethylene and ethane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignees: OXITENO S.A. INDUSTRIA E COMERCIO, INSTITUTO ALBERTO LUIZ COIMBRA DE POSGRADUACAO E PESQUISA DE ENGENHARIA-COPPE/UFRJ
    Inventors: Paulo Emilio Valadão De Miranda, Luis Guilherme Desá, Taísa Eva Fuziger Gutierres, Selma Aparecida Venâncio, Isabela Caldeira Leite Leocádio, Maria Auxiliadora Scaramelo Baldanza, Martin Schmal, Valéria Perfeito Vicentini
  • Publication number: 20150148224
    Abstract: Synergized PGM (SPGM) catalyst systems including ZPGM material compositions and formulations are disclosed. Variations of catalyst systems are tested to determine the synergistic effect of adding ZPGM material to PGM catalysts. The synergistic effect is determined under isothermal oscillating condition from which enhanced OSC property indicates enhanced catalytic behavior of disclosed SPGM catalyst systems as compared with commercial PGM catalysts with OSM for TWC applications. Disclosed SPGM catalyst systems is free of rare earth metals and especially Ce and may have an optimal OSC property and optimal thermal stability that increases with the temperature, showing acceptable level of O2 storage even at low temperatures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2013
    Publication date: May 28, 2015
    Applicant: CLEAN DIESEL TECHNOLOGIES INC. (CDTI)
    Inventors: Zahra Nazarpoor, Stephen J. Golden
  • Publication number: 20150148222
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to selecting support oxide for ZPGM catalyst for optimal performance under TWC condition, for achieving enhanced catalyst activity, and improved thermal stability during aging. The selected active phase material may include a chemical composition that is substantially free from PGM, including a formulation of stoichiometric Cu—Mn spinel structure active phase with Niobium-Zirconium support oxide, which may include a washcoat of pure alumina coated on a suitable ceramic substrate. The disclosed Cu—Mn spinel structure active phase with Niobium-Zirconium support oxide may be applied in overcoat to maximize efficiency of ZPGM catalyst systems, which may exhibit enhanced catalytic activity properties that may increase with temperature, showing optimized performance purifying gases in TWC condition, and enhanced stability during aging.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2013
    Publication date: May 28, 2015
    Applicant: Clean Diesel Technologies Inc. (CDTi)
    Inventor: Zahra Nazarpoor
  • Publication number: 20150148225
    Abstract: Synergized Platinum Group Metals (SPGM) catalyst systems for TWC application are disclosed. Disclosed SPGM catalyst systems may include a washcoat with a Cu—Mn spinel structure, Cu1.0Mn2.0O4, supported on Nb2O5—ZrO2 and an overcoat that includes PGM supported on carrier material oxides, such as alumina. SPGM catalyst system that includes the spinel structure of Cu1.0Mn2.0O4 show significant improvement in nitrogen oxide reduction performance under stoichiometric operating conditions and especially under lean operating conditions, which allows a reduced consumption of fuel. Additionally, disclosed SPGM catalyst system with spinel structure of Cu1.0Mn2.0O4 also enhances the reduction of carbon monoxide and hydrocarbon within catalytic converters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2013
    Publication date: May 28, 2015
    Applicant: CLEAN DIESEL TECHNOLOGIES INC. (CDTI)
    Inventors: Zahra Nazarpoor, Stephen J. Golden
  • Publication number: 20150148223
    Abstract: Synergies resulting from combinations of catalyst systems including Copper-Manganese material compositions and PGM catalysts are disclosed. Variations of catalyst system configurations are tested to determine most effective material composition, formulation, and configuration for an optimal synergized PGM (SPGM) catalyst system. The synergistic effect of the selected SPGM catalyst system is determined under steady state and oscillating test conditions, from which the optimal NO/CO cross over R-value indicates enhanced catalytic behavior of the selected SPGM catalyst system as compared with current PGM catalysts for TWC applications. According to principles in the present disclosure, application of Pd on alumina-based support as overcoat and Cu—Mn spinel structure supported on Nb2O5—ZrO2 as washcoat on suitable ceramic substrate, produce higher catalytic activity, efficiency, and better performance in TWC condition, especially under lean condition, than commercial PGM catalysts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2013
    Publication date: May 28, 2015
    Applicant: CLEAN DIESEL TECHNOLOGIES INC. (CDTI)
    Inventors: Zahra Nazarpoor, Stephen J. Golden
  • Publication number: 20150148215
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to selecting the layer of applying ZPGM active phase in washcoat, or applying ZPGM active phase in overcoat, for achieving optimized performance and enhanced thermal stability. Applying ZPGM active phase catalyst in overcoat shows improvements compare to applying ZPGM active phase in washcoat. The selected active phase material may include a chemical composition that is substantially free from PGM, including a formulation of stoichiometric Cu—Mn spinel structure active phase deposited on Niobium-Zirconium support oxide. The selected active phase layer applied in overcoat may include a washcoat of alumina coated on a suitable ceramic substrate. The disclosed active phase may be applied in overcoat to maximize efficiency of catalyst systems, which may exhibit enhanced catalytic activity properties, which may stable after aging and under steady state and oscillating condition, showing optimized performance purifying gases in TWC condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2013
    Publication date: May 28, 2015
    Applicant: CLEAN DIESEL TECHNOLOGIES INC. (CDTI)
    Inventor: Zahra Nazarpoor
  • Patent number: 9034785
    Abstract: Solution suitable for accelerating the cure of a curable resin using a peroxide, said accelerator solution comprising (i) at least one organic solvent, (ii) a manganese salt, a copper salt, or a combination thereof, and (iii) an iron complex of a tetradentate, pentadentate or hexadentate nitrogen donor ligand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: AKZO NOBEL CHEMICALS INTERNATIONAL B.V.
    Inventors: Frederik Willem Karel Koers, Johannes Martinus Gerardus Maria Reijnders, Auke Gerardus Talma, Johannes Hermanus Ter Beek
  • Patent number: 9029286
    Abstract: A method of making a metal oxide nanoparticle comprising contacting an aqueous solution of a metal salt with an oxidant. The method is safe, environmentally benign, and uses readily available precursors. The size of the nanoparticles, which can be as small as 1 nm or smaller, can be controlled by selecting appropriate conditions. The method is compatible with biologically derived scaffolds, such as virus particles chosen to bind a desired material. The resulting nanoparticles can be porous and provide advantageous properties as a catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: Massachusettes Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Brian Neltner, Angela M. Belcher
  • Patent number: 9029287
    Abstract: A component part has a catalyst surface. This surface has metallic components and components of MnO2 (13) in contact with the former. The metallic components are preferably formed of Ag and/or Ni. These material pairs achieve a great improvement in catalyst action compared to the pure metals. Especially in the case of use of Ni, which is toxicologically safe, these surfaces, for example, may also find use in ambient air purification for reduction of the ozone content. The surface can be applied, for example, by a coating of the component part, in which case the metallic component and the component of MnO2 are applied in two layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Axel Arndt, Christian Doye, Jens Dahl Jensen, Ursus Krüger, Uwe Pyritz, Oliver Stier
  • Publication number: 20150125369
    Abstract: The invention relates to a coated particle filter (3), in particular wall-flow filter, having a length (L). According to the invention, at least two zones (4, 5) which have different coatings are provided along the length (L). The invention also relates to a catalytic converter (2), wherein the catalytic converter (2) is formed with a coating which has a washcoat coating layer as a lower coating layer, onto which palladium is deposited. The invention finally relates to a device (1) for the purification of exhaust gases, in particular exhaust gases of diesel-engined motor vehicles, comprising a catalytic converter (2) and a coated particle filter (3) of length (L) positioned downstream of the catalytic converter (2), wherein the particle filter (3) and the catalytic converter (2) are designed in accordance with the invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2013
    Publication date: May 7, 2015
    Inventor: Bernhard Kahlert
  • Publication number: 20150119234
    Abstract: Disclosed in certain implementations is a catalysis composition that includes a metal catalyst and a support material impregnated with the metal catalyst.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2014
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Inventors: Mark Thomas Buelow, Steven W. Chin, Jeffrey Barmont Hoke, Nicholas R. Leclerc, David M. Robinson
  • Publication number: 20150119235
    Abstract: Disclosed in certain implementations is a catalysis composition that includes a metal catalyst and a support material impregnated with the metal catalyst.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2014
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Inventors: Mark Thomas Buelow, Steven W. Chin, Jeffrey Barmont Hoke, Nicholas R. Leclerc, David M. Robinson
  • Publication number: 20150119233
    Abstract: Disclosed in certain implementations is a catalysis composition that includes a metal catalyst and a support material impregnated with the metal catalyst.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2014
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Inventors: Mark Thomas Buelow, Steven W. Chin, Jeffrey Barmont Hoke, Nicholas R. Leclerc, David M. Robinson
  • Publication number: 20150118135
    Abstract: Disclosed in certain implementations is a catalysis composition that includes a metal catalyst and a support material impregnated with the metal catalyst.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2014
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Inventors: Mark Thomas Buelow, Steven W. Chin, Jeffrey Barmont Hoke, Nicholas R. Leclerc, David M. Robinson
  • Publication number: 20150118116
    Abstract: Disclosed in certain implementations is a catalysis composition that includes a metal catalyst and a support material impregnated with the metal catalyst.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2014
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Inventors: Mark Thomas Buelow, Steven W. Chin, Jeffrey Barmont Hoke, Nicholas R. Leclerc, David M. Robinson
  • Patent number: 9018119
    Abstract: A method for preparing manganese sulfate monohydrate by desulfurizing fume with middle-low grade manganese dioxide ore, which includes: preparing a slurry by using middle-low grade manganese dioxide ore powder, putting sulfur-containing fume in an absorbing device and controlling gas velocity and gas-liquid ratio, and then adding manganese dioxide slurry and controlling the slurry to backwards flow relative to the sulfur-containing fume, discharging the desulfurized fume from the absorbing device, pressure-filtering and separating the slurry discharged from the absorbing device, recycling the mother liquor to the absorbing device, and continuing the recycling operation until the manganese sulfate in the mother liquor is >=200 g/l, the obtained filter cake at 60-70° C., adjusting pH value of the clear solution obtained to 2-4, adding manganese sulfide under agitation at 25-95° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: Guizhou Redstar Developing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhiguang Jiang, Dong Hua, Fei Wu
  • Publication number: 20150111723
    Abstract: A process for biomass catalytic cracking is disclosed herein. More specifically, the process is in presence of is a mixed metal oxide catalyst represented by the formula (X1O).(X2O)a.(X3YbO4) wherein X1, X2 and X3 are alkaline earth elements selected from the group of Mg, Ca, Be, Ba, and mixture thereof, and Y is a metal selected from the group of Al, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cr, Ga, B, La, P and mixture thereof, wherein the catalyst is formed by calcining at least one compound comprising at least one alkaline earth element and a metal element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2014
    Publication date: April 23, 2015
    Inventors: Robert Bartek, Michael Brady, Dennis Stamires
  • Patent number: 9012351
    Abstract: A method for continuously preparing a metal oxides catalyst comprises the following steps: dissolving metal materials using nitric acid solution to produce a metal nitrate solution, and also to produce NOx and water vapor; hydrolyzing the metal nitrate solution by introducing pressurized superheated water vapor into the metal nitrate solution to obtain a slurry of the hydrates of metal oxides as well as acidic gas, the main components of the acidic gas are NO2, NO, O2 and water vapor; filtrating and drying the slurry to obtain the hydrates of metal oxides and/or metal oxides; and then utilizing the obtained hydrates of metal oxides and/or metal oxides as raw materials and preparing the metal oxides catalyst by the conventional method for preparing a catalyst. The NOx gas produced can be absorbed to produce nitric acid which can be reused.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: SynFuels China Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yong Yang, Baoshan Wu, Jian Xu, Hongwei Xiang, Yongwang Li
  • Patent number: 9012353
    Abstract: Disclosed are three-way catalysts that are able to simultaneously convert nitrogen oxides, carbon monoxide, and hydrocarbons in exhaust gas emissions into less toxic compounds. Also disclosed are three-way catalyst formulations comprising palladium (Pd)-containing oxygen storage materials. In some embodiments, the three-way catalyst formulations of the invention do not contain rhodium. Further disclosed are improved methods for making Pd-containing oxygen storage materials. The relates to methods of making and using three-way catalyst formulations of the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: Clean Diesel Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen J. Golden, Randal Hatfield, Jason D. Pless, Johnny T. Ngo
  • Publication number: 20150105246
    Abstract: The effect of aging temperature on oxygen storage materials (OSM) substantially free from platinum group (PGM) and rare earth (RE) metals is disclosed. Samples of ZPGM-ZRE metals OSM, hydrothermally aged at a plurality of high temperatures are found to have significantly high oxygen storage capacity (OSC) and phase stability than conventional PGM catalysts with Ce-based OSM. ZPGM-ZRE metals OSM includes a formulation of Cu—Mn stoichiometric spinel structure deposited on Nb—Zr oxide support and may be converted into powder to be used as OSM application or coated onto catalyst substrate. ZPGM-ZRE metals OSM, after aging condition, presents enhanced level of thermal stability and OSC property which shows improved catalytic activity than conventional PGM catalysts including Ce-based OSM. ZPGM-ZRE metals OSM may be suitable for a vast number of applications, and more particularly in underfloor catalyst systems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2014
    Publication date: April 16, 2015
    Inventors: Zahra Nazarpoor, Stephen J. Golden
  • Publication number: 20150105245
    Abstract: ZPGM-ZRE catalyst system substantially free from platinum group (PGM) and rare earth (RE) metals for TWC application is disclosed. Disclosed ZPGM-ZRE catalyst system may include pure alumina as washcoat and a Cu—Mn stoichiometric spinel with Nb2O5—ZrO2 support oxide, as ZPGM-ZRE catalyst in overcoat. Disclosed ZPGM-ZRE catalyst systems are found to have high thermal stability, catalyst activity, and high oxygen storage capacity compared to commercial PGM catalyst system that includes Ce-based oxygen storage material (OSM).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2013
    Publication date: April 16, 2015
    Applicant: CDTI
    Inventors: Zahra Nazarpoor, Stephen J. Golden
  • Publication number: 20150105242
    Abstract: Influence of a plurality of base metal loadings on TWC performance of ZPGM catalysts for TWC applications is disclosed. ZPGM catalyst samples are prepared and configured with washcoat on ceramic substrate, overcoat including doped Zirconia support oxide, and impregnation layer of Cu—Mn spinel with different base metal loadings. Testing of ZPGM catalyst samples including variations of base metal loadings is developed under isothermal steady state sweep test condition to evaluate the influence of variations of base metal loadings on TWC performance in NOX conversion. As a result of increasing Cu—Mn base metal loadings, improvements of lean NOX conversion and oxygen storage capacity may be realized at higher base metal loading ratios. The ZPGM catalyst samples exhibiting higher NOX conversion and OSC are compared with commercial PGM catalyst samples under lean condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2014
    Publication date: April 16, 2015
    Applicant: CLEAN DIESEL TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Zahra Nazarpoor, Stephen J. Golden
  • Publication number: 20150105247
    Abstract: Variations of coating processes of Cu—Mn—Fe ZPGM catalyst materials for TWC applications are disclosed. The disclosed coating processes for Cu—Mn—Fe spinel materials are enabled in the preparation ZPGM catalyst samples according to a plurality of catalyst configurations, which may include an alumina only washcoat layer coated on a suitable ceramic substrate, and an overcoat layer with or without an impregnation layer, including Cu—Mn—Fe spinel and doped Zirconia support oxide, prepared according to variations of disclosed coating processes. Activity measurements are considered under variety of lean condition to rich condition to analyze the influence of disclosed coating processes on TWC performance of ZPGM catalysts for a plurality of TWC applications. Different coating processes may substantially increase thermal stability and TWC activity, providing improved levels of NOx conversion that may lead to cost effective manufacturing solutions for ZPGM-TWC systems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2014
    Publication date: April 16, 2015
    Applicant: Clean Diesel Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Zahra Nazarpoor, Stephen J. Golden
  • Publication number: 20150105243
    Abstract: Variations of bulk powder catalyst material including Cu—Mn, Cu—Fe, and Fe—Mn spinel systems for ZPGM TWC applications are disclosed. The disclosed bulk powder catalyst samples include stoichiometric and non-stoichiometric Cu—Mn, Cu—Fe, and Fe—Mn spinels on Pr6O11—ZrO2 support oxide, prepared using incipient wetness method. Activity measurements under isothermal steady state sweep test condition may be performed under rich to lean condition. Catalytic activity of samples may be compared to analyze the influence that different binary spinel system bulk powders may have on TWC performance of ZPGM materials for a plurality of TWC applications. Stoichiometric Cu—Mn, Cu—Fe, and Fe—Mn spinel systems exhibit higher catalytic activity than non-stoichiometric Cu—Mn, Cu—Fe, and Fe—Mn spinel systems. The influence of prepared Cu—Mn, Cu—Fe, and Fe—Mn spinel systems may lead into cost effective manufacturing solutions for ZPGM TWC systems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2014
    Publication date: April 16, 2015
    Applicant: Clean Diesel Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Zahra Nazarpoor, Stephen J. Golden
  • Patent number: 9006132
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing catalyst composition for the synthesis of carbon nanotube with high yields using the spray pyrolysis method. More particularly, this invention relates to a process for preparing catalyst composition for the synthesis of carbon nanotube comprising the steps of i) dissolving multi-component metal precursors of catalyst composition in de-ionized water; ii) spraying obtained catalytic metal precursor solution into the high temperature reactor by gas atomization method; iii) forming the catalyst composition powder by pyrolysis of gas atomized material; and iv) obtaining the catalyst composition powder, wherein said catalyst composition comprises i) main catalyst selected from Fe or Co, ii) Al, iii) optional co-catalyst at least one selected from Ni, Cu, Sn, Mo, Cr, Mn, V, W, Ti, Si, Zr or Y, iv) inactive support of Mg. Further, the catalyst composition prepared by this invention has a very low apparent density of 0.01˜0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Korea Kumho Petrochemical Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Sang-Hyo Ryu, Hyun-Kyung Sung, Namsun Choi, Wan Sung Lee, Dong Hwan Kim, Youngchan Jang
  • Publication number: 20150096900
    Abstract: Disclosed is an alloy of the formula: Fe3?xAl1+xMyTzTat wherein M represents at least one catalytic specie selected from the group consisting of Ru, Ir, Pd, Pt, Rh, Os, Re and Ag; T represents at least one element selected from the group consisting of Mo, Co, Cr, V, Cu, Zn, Nb, W, Zr, Y, Mn, Cd, Si, B, C, O, N, P, F, S, CI, Na and Ti; and Ta represents tantalum. Such an alloy can be used as an electrode material for the synthesis of sodium chlorate. It can also be used as a coating for protection against corrosion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2013
    Publication date: April 9, 2015
    Inventors: Robert Schulz, Sylvio Savoie
  • Patent number: 8999882
    Abstract: A process for treating a carrier, or a precursor thereof, to at least partly remove impurities from the carrier, or the precursor thereof, comprising: contacting the carrier, or the precursor thereof, with a treatment solution comprising a salt in a concentration of at most 0.05 molar, wherein the salt comprises a cation and an anion, and wherein the cation is selected from ammonium, phosphonium, organic cations and combinations thereof, and wherein the anion is selected from organic anions, inorganic carboxylates, oxyanions of elements from Groups IIIA through VIIA of the Periodic Table of Elements, and combinations thereof; and separating at least part of the treatment solution from the carrier, or the precursor thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Shell Oil Company
    Inventors: John Robert Lockemeyer, Randall Clayton Yeates