And Group Iii Metal Containing (i.e., Sc, Y, Al, Ga, In Or Tl) Patents (Class 502/332)
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Patent number: 8476321Abstract: The present invention is directed to a catalyst suitable for catalyzing a Fischer-Tropsch reaction, said catalyst comprising cobalt metal supported on zinc-oxide and an amount of zirconium(IV)oxide and/or aluminum oxide of between 0.5 and 2.5 wt. % calculated as metal, based on the weight of the calcined catalyst.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2010Date of Patent: July 2, 2013Assignee: BASF CorporationInventor: Cornelis Roeland Baijense
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Patent number: 8476186Abstract: The invention concerns a catalyst comprising palladium on an oxide of aluminum support. In the calcined state, the oxide of aluminum support has a diffractogram obtained by X ray diffraction comprising peaks which correspond to the following interplanar spacings and relative intensities: Interplanar spacings d (10?10 m) Relative intensities ±5 × 10?3 d I/I0 (%) 4.54? ?3-10 2.70-2.75 ?5-25 2.41? 35-45 2.28? 15-30 2.10? ?0-10 1.987 30-50 1.958 30-50 1.642 0-5 1.519 10-20 1.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2009Date of Patent: July 2, 2013Assignee: IFP Energies NouvellesInventors: Antoine Fecant, Lars Fischer, Bernadette Rebours, Renaud Revel, Cecile Thomazeau
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Patent number: 8475921Abstract: A composite material includes an aggregate which contains a first metal particle constituting a core and second metal oxide particulates surrounding the first metal particle and having an average primary particle diameter ranging from 1 to 100 nm.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2006Date of Patent: July 2, 2013Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Chuo KenkyushoInventors: Tomoyuki Kayama, Kouzi Banno, Kiyoshi Yamazaki, Koji Yokota
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Patent number: 8466082Abstract: A shell catalyst for the preparation of vinyl acetate monomer, comprising an oxidic porous catalyst support with an outer shell, containing metallic Pd and Au, wherein the framework structure of the porous catalyst support contains hafnium oxide units. This shell catalyst is suitable for the preparation of VAM and is characterized by a relatively high activity and VAM selectivity and maintains this activity and selectivity over relatively long service lives. Also, processes for the preparation and use of the shell catalyst.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2008Date of Patent: June 18, 2013Assignee: Sued-Chemie IP GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Alfred Hagemeyer, Gerhard Mestl, Peter Scheck
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Publication number: 20130149221Abstract: A catalysed substrate monolith 12 for use in treating exhaust gas emitted from a lean-burn internal combustion engine, which catalysed substrate monolith 12 comprising a first washcoat coating 16 and a second washcoat coating 18, wherein the first washcoat coating comprises a catalyst composition comprising at least one platinum group metal (PGM) and at least one support material for the at least one PGM, wherein at least one PGM in the first washcoat coating is liable to volatilise when the first washcoat coating is exposed to relatively extreme conditions including relatively high temperatures, wherein the second washcoat coating comprises at least one metal oxide for trapping volatilised PGM and wherein the second washcoat coating is oriented to contact exhaust gas that has contacted the first washcoat coating.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2012Publication date: June 13, 2013Applicant: JOHNSON MATTHEY PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANYInventor: JOHNSON MATTHEY PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY
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Patent number: 8461373Abstract: Disclosed is a catalyst for use in production of carboxylic acid ester by reacting (a) aldehyde and alcohol, or (b) one or more types of alcohols, in the presence of oxygen; wherein oxidized nickel and X (wherein X represents at least one element selected from the group consisting of nickel, palladium, platinum, ruthenium, gold, silver and copper) are loaded onto a support within the range of the atomic ratio of Ni/(Ni+X) of from 0.20 to 0.99.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2008Date of Patent: June 11, 2013Assignee: Asahi Kasei Chemicals CorporationInventors: Ken Suzuki, Tatsuo Yamaguchi
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Patent number: 8461073Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a catalyst support which can maintain the purifying ability of HC, CO and NO even after being exposed to a high temperature atmosphere such as about 1000° C. for a long term and a method which can easily produce the catalyst support. According to the present invention there is provided a method for producing a catalyst support of porous alumina formed with pores within which magneto-plumbite type complex oxide ((La.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2010Date of Patent: June 11, 2013Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha F.C.C.Inventors: Akihiko Tomoda, Ryou Suzuki, Shintaro Yagi
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Patent number: 8460937Abstract: A method of screening catalysts for liquid-phase selective hydrogenation by preparing a test catalyst by adding a promoter to a reference catalyst; preparing a liquid reactant stream comprising C2H2 dissolved in n-methyl-2-pyrrolidone; testing the test and reference catalysts by contacting the reactant stream and gas mixture comprising hydrogen and carbon monoxide in continuous flow with the test catalyst and reference catalyst, respectively, at selective hydrogenation reaction conditions to produce a product stream, condensing substantially all of the n-methyl-2-pyrrolidone from the product stream; measuring the concentrations of products comprising C2H2, C2H4, and C2H6 in the product stream at steady state; determining performance parameters for the test catalyst and the reference catalyst comprising the respective C2H2 conversion Sc and C2H4 selectivity relative to C2H6 Ss; and comparing the test catalyst performance parameters to those for the reference catalyst.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2012Date of Patent: June 11, 2013Assignee: Synfuels International, Inc.Inventors: Marvin M. Johnson, Edward R. Peterson, Sean C. Gattis
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Patent number: 8455390Abstract: An exhaust gas purifying catalyst includes a monolithic substrate (2), and a transition metal oxide layer (3) formed in the monolithic substrate (2). The transition metal oxide layer (3) contains transition metal oxide powder including: transition metal oxide particles (10); a first compound (20) on which the transition metal oxide particles (10) are supported; and a second compound (30) that surrounds a single body or an aggregate of the transition metal oxide particles (10) and the first compound (20).Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2009Date of Patent: June 4, 2013Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroto Kikuchi, Masanori Nakamura, Hironori Wakamatsu, Katsuo Suga, Toshiharu Miyamura, Jun Ikezawa, Tetsuro Naito, Junji Ito
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Patent number: 8450236Abstract: A process for making a catalyst having precious metal nanoparticles deposited on a support includes first providing an aqueous dispersion of support particles. A pre-treatment slurry is prepared by mixing the aqueous dispersion of support particles with a water-soluble precious metal precursor and a reducing agent. The pre-treatment slurry is hydrothermally treated at a temperature in the range of from about 40° C. to about 220° C. for a time sufficient to deposit precious metal nanoparticles on the surface of the support particles, the precious metal nanoparticles having an average particle size less about 50 nm.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2010Date of Patent: May 28, 2013Assignee: Cristal USA Inc.Inventors: Guoyi Fu, Mark B. Watson, Charles B. Muehlberger
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Patent number: 8450235Abstract: A supported composite particle material comprises: a composite particle formed of an oxidized nickel and X (wherein X represents at least one of elements selected from the group consisting of nickel, palladium, platinum, ruthenium, gold, silver and copper); and a support on which the composite particle is supported, the supported composite particle material having a supported layer in which the composite particle is localized.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2008Date of Patent: May 28, 2013Assignee: Asahi Kasei Chemicals CorporationInventors: Ken Suzuki, Tatsuo Yamaguchi
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Publication number: 20130131399Abstract: A process for producing a catalyst, the process comprising the steps of: impregnating a first metal from a first metal precursor on a support to form a first impregnated support; calcining the first impregnated support; impregnating a second metal from a second metal precursor on the first impregnated support to form a second impregnated support; calcining the second impregnated support to form the catalyst, wherein the catalyst has a total metal loading of at least 2 wt. % based on the total weight of the catalyst. A method for hydrogenating alkanoic acids in the presence of the catalyst is also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 23, 2011Publication date: May 23, 2013Applicant: CELANESE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATIONInventors: Heiko Weiner, Ana Rita Almeida, Graham Ormsby
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Patent number: 8415269Abstract: A supported palladium-gold catalyst is produced under mild conditions using a commonly available base, such as sodium hydroxide (NaOH) or sodium carbonate (Na2CO3). In this method, support materials and a base solution are mixed together and the temperature of the mixture is increased to a temperature above room temperature. Then, palladium salt and gold salt are added to the mixture while maintaining the pH of the mixture to be greater than 7.0 and keeping the mixture at a temperature above room temperature. This is followed by cooling the mixture while adding acetic acid to maintain the pH of the mixture to be within a desired pH range, filtering out the supported palladium-gold particles, washing with a pH buffer solution and calcining.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2010Date of Patent: April 9, 2013Assignee: WGCH Technology LimitedInventors: Xianghong Hao, Ramesh Sharma, Geoffrey McCool, Brian Harrison, Dietmar Wahl
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Patent number: 8415511Abstract: A catalyst composition/system can include: a platinum catalyst metal (Pt) and/or rhenium catalyst metal (Re) on a first support; and a ruthenium catalyst metal (Ru) and/or rhenium catalyst metal (Re) on a second support or a platinum catalyst metal (Pt) and a ruthenium catalyst metal (Ru) and/or a rhenium catalyst metal (Re) on the same support. The Pt:Ru, Re:Pt and/or Re:Ru weight ratio can be between about 1:4 and about 4:1. The support can be alumina, carbon, silica, a zeolite, TiO2, ZrO2 or another suitable material. The first and second support can be on the same support structure or on different support structures. In one option, the first and second supports can be positioned such that the Pt and/or Re are capable of catalyzing a dehydrogenation and/or reforming reaction that produces hydrogen and the Ru and/or Re are capable of catalyzing a hydrogenolysis reaction.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2010Date of Patent: April 9, 2013Assignee: University of KansasInventors: Raghunath V. Chaudhari, Debdut S. Roy, Bala Subramaniam
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Patent number: 8410014Abstract: Especially physically stable metal oxide catalyst supports are prepared by suspending a metal oxide in a continuous phase, activating by fine dispersion, coagulation to a viscoelastic mass, shaping, drying, and calcining. The catalyst support thus prepared may be treated with catalytic agents to produce supported catalysts for olefin oxidation.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2007Date of Patent: April 2, 2013Assignee: Wacker Chemie AGInventors: Roland Heidenreich, Hans-Jurgen Eberle, Johann Weis
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Patent number: 8398393Abstract: A gas fired catalytic heater is provided that foregoes the need for an electrical heating element to provide the activation energy for the hydrocarbon catalyst pad. An alcohol self-igniting catalyst pad is used to provide the activation energy to the hydrocarbon catalyst pad thereby removing dependence of the heater on an outside electrical energy source to initiate start-up of the heater. The catalyst pad includes a flexible wash coat; a noble metal dispersed on the wash coat; an anti-sintering element saturating the wash coat; and a catalyst promoter saturating the wash coat.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2009Date of Patent: March 19, 2013Assignee: CCI Thermal Technologies Inc.Inventors: Jarek Szynkarczuk, Kowlasar Misir, Harold A. Roozen
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Publication number: 20130041052Abstract: A method for producing an activated Fischer-Tropsch synthesis catalyst comprising a hydrogen reduction step of subjecting a catalyst comprising 3 parts by mass to 50 parts by mass, as a metal atom, of a cobalt compound and/or a ruthenium compound, based on 100 parts by mass of a carrier containing a porous inorganic oxide, supported on the carrier, to reduction in a gas containing molecular hydrogen at a temperature of 300° C. to 600° C.; and a CO reduction step of subjecting the catalyst to reduction in a gas containing carbon monoxide and containing no molecular hydrogen at a temperature of 200° C. to 400° C.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 6, 2011Publication date: February 14, 2013Applicant: JX NIPPON OIL & ENERGY CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshiyuki Nagayasu, Kazuaki Hayasaka, Hideki Ono
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Publication number: 20130022523Abstract: A combined hydrocarbon/ozone converter includes a substrate, a metal oxide washcoat and a hydrocarbon converting catalyst, such as platinum. The metal oxide washcoat comprises an ozone reacting component, such as cobalt oxide, and a non-catalytic component, such as aluminum oxide. The weight ratio of the hydrocarbon converting catalyst to the ozone reacting component may be between about 1:5 and about 1:100.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2011Publication date: January 24, 2013Applicant: Honeywell International Inc.Inventors: Belinda Sue Foor, Mariola Jolanta Proszowski, Peter Michalakos
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Patent number: 8349761Abstract: A catalyst material for use at elevated temperatures is provided. The material can include a plurality of fibers and a plurality of particles supported on the fibers. In addition, a porous layer can cover the plurality of particles and allow for process fluid to come into contact with the particles, and yet retard sintering of the particles at elevated temperatures is present. The plurality of fibers can be a plurality of nanofibers which may or may not be oxide nanofibers. The particles can be metallic nanoparticles and the porous layer can be a porous oxide layer.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2010Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignees: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., University of Washington Center for Commercialization, Washington UniversityInventors: Younan Xia, Charles Taylor Campbell, Yunqian Dai, Byungkwon Lim, Benjamin Alan Grayson, Paul T. Fanson
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Patent number: 8349762Abstract: The present invention provides a method for producing a catalyst for use in preferential carbon monoxide oxidation, which catalyst has a high preferential carbon monoxide oxidation activity and a high methanation activity with respect to the carbon monoxide contained in hydrogen gas, can thus stably reduce the carbon monoxide concentration to an extremely lower level and comprises porous inorganic oxide support particles and, on the basis of the mass thereof, 0.01 to 10 percent by mass of ruthenium and 0.01 to 1 percent by mass of platinum, loaded on the support. The method comprises (1) a step of loading 30 to 70 percent of the total amount of ruthenium to be loaded, on the support particles by a competitive adsorption method and (2) a step of loading the rest of the total amount of ruthenium to be loaded and the total amount of platinum to be loaded, on the ruthenium-loaded support particles produced in step (1) without using a competitive adsorption agent.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2010Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: JX Nippon Oil & Energy CorporationInventors: Yasuyuki Iwasa, Takaya Matsumoto
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Patent number: 8343888Abstract: Precursor cations of A and B elements of an ABO3 perovskite in aqueous solution are formed as an ionic complex gel with citric acid or other suitable polybasic carboxylic acid. The aqueous gel is coated onto a desired catalyst substrate and calcined to form, in-situ, particles of the crystalline perovskite as, for example, an oxidation catalyst on the substrate. In one embodiment, a perovskite catalyst such as LaCoO3 is formed on catalyst supporting cell walls of an extruded ceramic monolith for oxidation of NO in the exhaust gas of a lean burn vehicle engine.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2009Date of Patent: January 1, 2013Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLCInventors: Chang H Kim, Wei Li, Kevin A Dahlberg
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Publication number: 20120325226Abstract: A low sidestream smoke cigarette comprises a conventional tobacco rod, and a combustible treatment paper having a sidestream smoke treatment composition. The treatment composition comprises in combination, an oxygen storage and donor metal oxide oxidation catalyst and an essentially non-combustible finely divided porous particulate adjunct for said catalyst.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 24, 2012Publication date: December 27, 2012Applicant: ROTHMANS, BENSON & HEDGES, INC.Inventors: Stanislav M. Snaidr, E. Robert Becker
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Publication number: 20120329889Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of manufacturing a cobalt metal foam catalyst including a metal foam coated with cobalt catalyst powder, a cobalt metal foam catalyst manufactured by the method, a thermal medium-circulated heat exchanger type reactor using the cobalt metal foam catalyst, and a method of producing liquid fuel by Fischer-Tropsch synthesis using the reactor. An object of the present invention is to provide a catalyst, which is used to obtain high liquid fuel productivity even at a low CO conversion ratio because the reaction temperature can be kept stable by controlling reaction heat with high efficiency in Fischer-Tropsch synthesis so that the mass transfer characteristics of a catalyst layer can be improved, and a method of manufacturing the catalyst, a reactor filled with the catalyst, and a method of producing liquid fuel using the reactor.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2010Publication date: December 27, 2012Applicant: KOREA INSTITUTE OF ENERGY RESEARCHInventors: Jung-Il Yang, Jung-Hoon Yang, Chang-Hyun Ko, Heon Jung, Ho-Tae Lee, Hak-Joo Kim, Dong-Hyun Chun
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Patent number: 8338654Abstract: Selective hydrogenation of unsaturated hydrocarbon compounds, e.g. of acetylene to ethylene, uses a hydrogenation catalyst comprising an ordered intermetallic compound. The ordered intermetallic compound comprises at least one metal of type A capable of activating hydrogen, and at least one metal of type B not capable of activating hydrogen. The structure of the ordered intermetallic compound is such that the type A metal is mainly surrounded by atoms of the type B metal.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2007Date of Patent: December 25, 2012Assignee: Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der Wissenschaften E.V.Inventors: Rainer Giedigkeit, Marc Armbruester, Kirill Kovnir, Juri Grin, Robert Schloegl, Juergen Osswald, Thorsten Kessler, Rolf E. Jentoft
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Patent number: 8329961Abstract: The present invention provides a catalyst for producing alcohols from carboxylic acids by hydrogenation, containing Co metal as an essential component and one or more elements selected from Zr, Y, La, Ce, Si, Al, Sc, V and Mo as a first co-catalyst component, and having 20% or more of cubic phase in the crystal phase of the Co metal, the method for producing the catalyst, and the method for producing an alcohol from a carboxylic acid as a raw material by hydrogenation using the catalyst.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2008Date of Patent: December 11, 2012Assignee: Kao CorporationInventors: Hiroshi Danjo, Noriaki Fukuoka, Taku Mimura
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Patent number: 8324127Abstract: In the present invention, slurry is formed by mixing noble metal-supported powder particles (3) and a binder (4) with each other in a liquid (Step S1), and the noble metal-supported powder particles (3) are dispersed by applying vibrations to the slurry (Step S2), and thereafter, the slurry is spray dried while keeping a state where the noble metal-supported powder particles (3) are dispersed (Step S3), whereby noble metal-supported powder (1) is produced. In the noble metal-supported powder (1) produced by such a method, pores through which exhaust gas flows are formed appropriately, and accordingly, exhaust gas purification performance can be enhanced.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2008Date of Patent: December 4, 2012Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Fumihiro Uchikawa, Yoshiaki Hiramoto, Haruhiko Shibayama, Keita Manyu
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Patent number: 8324128Abstract: A catalyst for use in a Fischer-Tropsch synthesis reaction which comprises cobalt supported on alumina, in which: the catalyst average particle size is in the range 20 to 100 ?m; the specific surface area of the impregnated and calcined catalyst particles is greater than 80 m2/g; the average pore size of the impregnated and calcined catalyst is at least 90 ? (9 nm); and the pore volume of the impregnated and calcined catalyst is greater than 0.35 cm3/g.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2003Date of Patent: December 4, 2012Assignees: Statoil ASA, Petroleum Oil & Gas Corporation of South Africa (PTY) LimitedInventors: Erling Rytter, Sigrid Eri, Dag Schanke
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Publication number: 20120297779Abstract: Ceramic catalyst carriers that are mechanically, thermally and chemically stable in a ionic salt monopropellant decomposition environment and high temperature catalysts for decomposition of liquid high-energy-density monopropellants are disclosed. The ceramic catalyst carrier has excellent thermal shock resistance, good compatibility with the active metal coating and metal coating deposition processes, melting point above 1800° C., chemical resistance to steam, nitrogen oxides and acids, resistance to sintering to prevent void formation, and the absence of phase transition associated with volumetric changes at temperatures up to and beyond 1800° C.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 25, 2011Publication date: November 29, 2012Applicant: SIENNA TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Ender Savrun, Stephanie J. Sawhill
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Patent number: 8318632Abstract: An exhaust gas purification catalyst includes a substrate, and a first catalyst layer formed on the substrate, the first catalyst layer containing palladium and/or platinum and alumina doped with an alkaline-earth metal element. The exhaust gas purification catalyst has a correlation coefficient ?Al,AE given by the following formula of 0.75 or more: ? Al , AE = C Al , AE ? Al ? ? AE .Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2011Date of Patent: November 27, 2012Assignee: Cataler CorporationInventors: Satoshi Matsueda, Akimasa Hirai, Kenichi Taki, Keiichi Narita, Yuji Yabuzaki, Daisuke Ochiai
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Patent number: 8318629Abstract: A catalyzed diesel particulate filter (CDPF) and a method for filtering particulates from diesel engine exhaust are provided, where the catalyzed diesel particulate filter includes a substrate and a catalyst composition, where the catalyst composition contains at least one first component, at least one second component, and at least one third component, where the first component is at least one first component selected from the group consisting of cerium and a lanthanide and mixtures thereof, the at least one second component is selected from the group consisting of cobalt, copper, manganese and mixtures thereof; and the third component comprises strontium, where the first component, the second component, and the third component are in an oxide form after calcination. The catalyst on the catalyzed diesel particulate filter lowers the temperature at which particulates are removed from the CDPF by oxidizing the particulates on the filter. The catalyzed diesel particulate filter may also include a washcoat.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2005Date of Patent: November 27, 2012Assignees: Catalytic Solutions, Inc., ECS Holdings, Inc.Inventors: Keshavaraja Alive, Anne-Laure Baudoux, Stephen J. Golden, Svetlana Iretskaya
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Publication number: 20120292231Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 25, 2012Publication date: November 22, 2012Applicant: SHELL OIL COMPANYInventor: Opinder Kishan BHAN
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Patent number: 8309489Abstract: An inverse micelle-based method for forming nanoparticles on supports includes dissolving a polymeric material in a solvent to provide a micelle solution. A nanoparticle source is dissolved in the micelle solution. A plurality of micelles having a nanoparticle in their core and an outer polymeric coating layer are formed in the micelle solution. The micelles are applied to a support. The polymeric coating layer is then removed from the micelles to expose the nanoparticles. A supported catalyst includes a nanocrystalline powder, thin film, or single crystal support. Metal nanoparticles having a median size from 0.5 nm to 25 nm, a size distribution having a standard deviation ?0.1 of their median size are on or embedded in the support. The plurality of metal nanoparticles are dispersed and in a periodic arrangement. The metal nanoparticles maintain their periodic arrangement and size distribution following heat treatments of at least 1,000° C.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2010Date of Patent: November 13, 2012Assignee: University of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc.Inventors: Beatriz Roldan Cuenya, Ahmed R. Naitabdi, Farzad Behafarid
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Patent number: 8309488Abstract: An exhaust gas purifying catalyst includes a catalyst substrate and a catalyst coating layer containing a noble metal and a refractory inorganic oxide. The catalyst coating layer includes an upstream portion located upstream and a downstream portion located downstream in a flow direction of an exhaust gas. The upstream portion has a layered structure including an upstream portion inside layer containing a cerium-zirconium composite oxide in which a relative proportion of CeO2 is 50 to 95 wt %, as the refractory inorganic oxide and an upstream portion outside layer containing a cerium-zirconium composite oxide in which a relative proportion of ZrO2 is 50 to 95 wt %, as the refractory inorganic oxide. The upstream portion outside layer and the downstream portion contain Rh as the noble metal, and an amount of Rh contained in the upstream portion outside layer is larger than an amount of Rh contained in the downstream portion.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2006Date of Patent: November 13, 2012Assignee: Cataler CorporationInventors: Ichiro Kitamura, Kenichi Taki, Akimasa Hirai
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Patent number: 8309487Abstract: An exhaust gas purifying catalyst (1) is composed of: a noble metal (2); a first compound (3); and a second compound (4). The noble metal (2) is supported on the first compound (3). The exhaust gas purifying catalyst (1) includes units having a structure in which the first compound (3) supporting the noble metal (2) is surrounded by the second compound (4), and the first compound (3) supporting the noble metal (2) is isolated from one another by the second compound (4). The noble metal (2) is one or more selected from [Pt, Pd and Rh], the first compound (3) contains Ti as a main component, and the second compound (4) contains, as a main component, one or more selected from [Al and Si].Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2009Date of Patent: November 13, 2012Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kazuyuki Shiratori, Masanori Nakamura, Hironori Wakamatsu, Katsuo Suga
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Patent number: 8304367Abstract: The present invention aims at providing a catalyst as a porous catalyst body for decomposing hydrocarbons which comprises at least magnesium, aluminum and nickel, wherein the catalyst has an excellent catalytic activity for decomposition and removal of hydrocarbons, an excellent anti-sulfur poisoning property, an excellent anti-coking property even under a low-steam condition, a sufficient strength capable of withstanding crushing and breakage even when coking occurs within the catalyst, and an excellent durability.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2010Date of Patent: November 6, 2012Assignee: Toda Kogyo CorporationInventors: Shinji Takahashi, Naoya Kobayashi
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Patent number: 8304366Abstract: One aspect of the present invention relates to a system for remediating emissions using a hybrid oxidation catalyst system. The hybrid oxidation catalyst system includes a noble metal oxidation catalyst having noble metal particles in a first ceramic layer. The system also includes a base metal oxide catalyst disposed in a second ceramic layer situated downstream of the noble metal oxidation catalyst. The noble metal oxidation catalyst is effective to substantially prevent hydrocarbon or carbon monoxide inhibition of the base metal oxide catalyst when enhancing the NO+O2 conversion effectiveness of the base metal oxide catalyst.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2010Date of Patent: November 6, 2012Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Andrew Robert Drews, Robert J. Kudla
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Patent number: 8293676Abstract: The present invention provides catalyst compositions useful for transamination reactions. The catalyst compositions have a catalyst support that includes transitional alumina, use a low metal loading (for example, less than 25 wt. %), and do not require the presence of rhenium. The catalyst compositions are able to advantageously promote transamination of a reactant product (such as the transamination of EDA to DETA) with excellent activity and selectivity, and similar to transaminations promoted using a precious metal-containing catalyst.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2009Date of Patent: October 23, 2012Assignee: Union Carbide Chemicals & Plastics Technology LLCInventors: Stephen W. King, Stefan K. Mierau
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Publication number: 20120263633Abstract: Described is a metal oxide support material nanoscaled iron-platinum group metal particles having a particle size in the range of 0.5 to 10 nm, wherein at least 70% of all nanoscaled iron-platinum group metal particles are located on an outside surface layer of the metal oxide support material, and wherein the outside surface layer has an average volume of less than 50% based on the total volume of the metal oxide support material. Additionally, described is a process for the preparation of such metal oxide support material comprising nanoscaled iron-platinum group metal particles. Furthermore, described is the use of metal oxides containing nanoscaled iron-platinum group metal particles as catalysts, for example as a diesel oxidation catalyst for the treatment of exhaust gas emissions from a diesel engine.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2010Publication date: October 18, 2012Applicant: BASF SEInventors: Tobias Joachim Koplin, Imme Domke, Christopher R. Castellano, Gerald Stephen Koermer, Wolfgang Schrof, Robert Feuerhake, Gunnar Schornick, Anna Cristadoro, Daniel Schönfelder, Hartmut Hibst, Mattijs Gregor Jurriaan Ten Cate
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Publication number: 20120258037Abstract: A catalytic membrane reactor assembly for producing a hydrogen stream from a feed stream having liquid hydrocarbons, steam, and an oxygen source through the use of an autothermal reforming reaction, a water-gas-shift reaction, and a hydrogen permeable membrane.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 11, 2011Publication date: October 11, 2012Applicant: Saudi Arabian Oil CompanyInventors: Thang V. Pham, Sai P. Katikaneni, Jorge N. Beltramini, Moses O. Adebajo, Joao Carlos Diniz Da Costa, G.Q. Lu
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Patent number: 8278240Abstract: There is provided a method of stably producing nanoparticles of a metal alone, in particular a transition metal alone, the method comprises heating a chelate complex (M-DMG) comprised of two dimethyl glyoxime (DMG) molecules and one transition metal (M) ion at 300 to 400° C. so as to generate transition metal (M) nanoparticles carried on carbon particles. The method preferably comprises heating a mixture of said chelate complex (M-DMG) and alumina so as to generate transition metal (M) nanoparticles carried on alumina. Preferably, the transition metal (M) is one of Ni, Cu, Pd, and Pt. Typically, the generated transition metal (M) nanoparticles have a size of a diameter of 5 to 15 nm.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2008Date of Patent: October 2, 2012Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kyoichi Tange, Alexander Talyzin, Fanny Barde
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Publication number: 20120245023Abstract: A catalyst for hydrotreating and/or hydroconverting heavy metal-containing hydrocarbon feeds, comprises a support in the form of mainly irregular and non-spherical alumina-based agglomerates the specific shape. The catalyst is prepared by a specific order of steps: crushing, calcining, acidic autoclaving, drying, further calcining and impregnation with catalytic metals.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 3, 2012Publication date: September 27, 2012Applicant: IFP ENERGIES NOUVELLESInventors: Stephane KRESSMANN, Magalie ROY-AUBERGER, Jean Luc LELOARER, Denis GUILLAUME, Jean Francois CHAPAT
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Patent number: 8273681Abstract: An exhaust gas purifying catalyst includes: rhodium; a zirconium-containing oxide which supports rhodium, and comprises: at least one element selected from the group consisting of calcium, lanthanum, cerium, neodymium and yttrium; and zirconium; and a NOx absorbing material comprising at least one selected from the group consisting of magnesium, barium, sodium, potassium and cesium. A degree of dispersion of rhodium is 20% or more after baking at 900° C. in air for three hours. A method for manufacturing the exhaust gas purifying catalyst includes: mixing the zirconium-containing oxide with water, thereby preparing an aqueous liquid of the zirconium-containing oxide; and supporting rhodium on the zirconium-containing oxide by mixing the aqueous liquid of the zirconium-containing oxide with an aqueous solution of a rhodium salt. A pH of a mixed liquid of the aqueous solution of the rhodium salt and the aqueous liquid of the zirconium-containing oxide is adjusted to 7 or more.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2009Date of Patent: September 25, 2012Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tetsuro Naito, Masanori Nakamura, Hironori Wakamatsu
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Patent number: 8273504Abstract: The invention provides a method for manufacturing supported noble metal based alloy catalysts with a high degree of alloying and a small crystallite size. The method involves using polyol solvents as reaction medium and comprises a two-step reduction process in the presence of a support material. In the first step, the first metal (transition metal; e.g. Co, Cr, Ru) is activated by increasing the reaction temperature to 80 to 160° C. In the second step, the second metal (noble metal; e.g. Pt, Pd, Au) is added and the slurry is heated to the boiling point of the polyol solvent in a range of 160 to 300 ° C. The catalysts manufactured according to the method are used as electrocatalysts for polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells (PEMFC), direct-methanol fuel cells (DMFC) or as gas phase catalysts for CO oxidation or exhaust gas purification.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2011Date of Patent: September 25, 2012Assignee: Umicore AG & Co. KGInventors: Dan V. Goia, Marco Lopez, Tapan Kumar Sau, Mihaela-Ortansa Jitianu
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Patent number: 8268289Abstract: The present invention relates to a catalyst for decomposing hydrocarbons including hydrocarbons having 2 or more carbon atoms, comprising magnesium, aluminum, nickel and cobalt as constitutional elements, and further comprising ruthenium and/or palladium, wherein the metallic ruthenium and/or metallic palladium in the form of fine particles have an average particle diameter of 0.5 to 20 nm, and a content of the metallic ruthenium and/or metallic palladium is 0.05 to 5.0% by weight based on the weight of the catalyst. The catalyst of the present invention is capable of efficiently decomposing hydrocarbons including hydrocarbons having 2 or more carbon atoms (C2 or more hydrocarbons), is less expensive, and exhibits an excellent catalytic activity for decomposition and removal of hydrocarbons, in particular, an excellent capability of decomposing propane, and an excellent anti-coking property.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2008Date of Patent: September 18, 2012Assignee: Toda Kogyo CorporationInventors: Shinji Takahashi, Naoya Kobayashi
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Patent number: 8263523Abstract: A method for forming a cobalt-containing Fischer-Tropsch catalyst involves precipitating a cobalt oxy-hydroxycarbonate species by turbulent mixing, during which a basic solution collides with an acidic solution comprising cobalt. The method further involves depositing the cobalt oxy-hydroxycarbonate species onto an acidic support to provide a catalyst comprising cobalt and the acidic support. The acidic support comprises a zeolite, a molecular sieve, or combinations thereof.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2009Date of Patent: September 11, 2012Assignee: Chevron U.S.A. Inc.Inventors: Charles L. Kibby, Alfred Haas
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Patent number: 8263290Abstract: The invention is directed to iridium oxide based catalysts for use as anode catalysts in PEM water electrolysis. The claimed composite catalyst materials comprise iridium oxide (IrO2) and optionally ruthenium oxide (RuO2) in combination with a high surface area inorganic oxide (for example TiO2, Al2O3, ZrO2 and mixtures thereof). The inorganic oxide has a BET surface area in the range of 50 to 400 m2/g, a water solubility of lower than 0.15 g/l and is present in a quantity of less than 20 wt. % based on the total weight of the catalyst. The claimed catalyst materials are characterized by a low oxygen overvoltage and long lifetime in water electrolysis. The catalysts are used in electrodes, catalyst-coated membranes and membrane-electrode-assemblies for PEM electrolyzers as well as in regenerative fuel cells (RFC), sensors, and other electrochemical devices.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2011Date of Patent: September 11, 2012Assignee: Umicore AG & Co. KGInventors: Marco Lopez, Andreas Schleunung, Peter Biberbach
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Publication number: 20120225956Abstract: A catalytic composition is provided for methanol production. The composition includes an alloy of at least two different metals M and M?, where M is selected from Ni, Pd, Ir, and Ru, and M? is selected from Ga, Zn, and Al. A molar ratio of M to M? is in the range of 1:10 to 10:1, and the alloy is configured to catalyze a reduction of CO2 to methanol.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2012Publication date: September 6, 2012Applicant: The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior UniversityInventors: Felix Studt, Frank Abild-Pedersen, Jens K. Norskov, Soren Dahl, Irek Sharafutdinov, Christian F. Elkjaer
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Patent number: 8258075Abstract: To provide a catalyst for treating exhaust gases containing nitrogen monoxide, carbon monoxide and volatile organic compounds whose oxidation power has been enhanced without increasing the amount of precious metal supported thereon; a method for producing the same; and a method for treating exhaust gases. A catalyst for treating exhaust gases, including coat layers made up of a plurality of layers, an upper layer of which has an active component contained uniformly therein and a lower layer of which has no active component contained therein, can be obtained through the steps of: forming the lower layer by coating the surface of substrate with a slurry of a porous inorganic compound, followed by drying; and forming the upper layer, which is to be the top surface of the catalyst, by coating the surface of the lower layer with a slurry of a porous inorganic compound that has the active component composed of one or more precious metals supported thereon, followed by drying.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2007Date of Patent: September 4, 2012Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Katsumi Nochi, Masanao Yonemura, Yoshiaki Obayashi, Hitoshi Nakamura
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Patent number: 8247340Abstract: A composition and method for preparation of a catalyst for the liquid phase selective hydrogenation of alkynes to alkenes with high selectivity to alkenes relative to alkanes, high alkyne conversion, and sustained catalytic activity comprising a Group VIII metal and a Group IB, Group IIB, Group IIIA, and/or Group VIIB promoter on a particulate support.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2011Date of Patent: August 21, 2012Assignee: Synfuels International, Inc.Inventors: Marvin M. Johnson, Edward R. Peterson, Sean C. Gattis
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Patent number: 8246922Abstract: Provided are catalyst articles, emission treatment systems and methods for simultaneously remediating the carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides (NOx), particulate matter, and gaseous hydrocarbons present in diesel engine exhaust streams. The emission treatment system of specific embodiment effectively treats diesel engine exhaust with a single catalyst article.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2009Date of Patent: August 21, 2012Assignee: BASF CorporationInventors: R. Samuel Boorse, Martin Dieterle