Of Nickel Patents (Class 502/337)
  • Patent number: 5330955
    Abstract: A process and novel catalyst for the carbonylation of one or more of alcohols, ethers and ether alcohols to esters and, optionally, to carboxylic acids. The reaction is effected in the vapor state over a solid catalyst comprising a polyoxometalate anion in which the metal is at least one taken from Group V and VI of the Periodic Chart of the Elements complexed with a cation from a member of Group VIIIA of the Periodic Chart of the Elements. Preferably, the catalyst is deposited on a support that is inert to the reaction. The preferred support is silica.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 1993
    Date of Patent: July 19, 1994
    Assignee: Union Carbide Chemicals & Plastics Technology Corporation
    Inventor: Richard W. Wegman
  • Patent number: 5320998
    Abstract: This invention provides a catalyst for purifying exhaust gases of a diesel engine, said catalyst comprising at least one element selected from nickel and cobalt and optionally a copper element. Further, this invention provides a catalyst for purifying exhaust gases of a diesel engine, said catalyst comprising a refractory three-dimensional structure and deposited thereon a catalyst component comprising the above elements and a refractory inorganic oxide. These catalysts can remove harmful ingredients contained in exhaust gases of a diesel engine, such as carbonaceous fine particles, unburned hydrocarbons, carbon monoxide, etc. by burning from low temperatures and suppress sulfate formation from sulfur dioxide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 1992
    Date of Patent: June 14, 1994
    Assignee: Nippon Shokubai Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Makoto Horiuchi
  • Patent number: 5258340
    Abstract: This invention relates to improved catalysts for the oxidation of carbon monoxide and methods of preparing these catalysts. The catalysts of this invention are prepared using a sequential precipitation process which generates catalysts that contain substantially layered metal oxides, both supported and unsupported, and, in some embodiments of the invention, a noble metal or mixture of noble metals layered on the metal oxides. These catalysts are particularly useful in smoking articles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 1991
    Date of Patent: November 2, 1993
    Assignee: Philip Morris Incorporated
    Inventors: Robert L. Augustine, Setrak Tanielyan
  • Patent number: 5238898
    Abstract: There is provided a catalyst and a process for the direct partial oxidation of methane with oxygen, whereby hydrocarbons having at least two carbon atoms are produced. The catalyst used in this reaction is a spinel oxide, such as MgMn.sub.2 O.sub.4 or CaMn.sub.2 O.sub.4, modified with an alkali metal, such as Li or Na.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 1992
    Date of Patent: August 24, 1993
    Assignee: Mobil Oil Corp.
    Inventors: Scott Han, Lorenzo C. DeCaul, Robert E. Palermo, Dennis E. Walsh
  • Patent number: 5229345
    Abstract: Method of making a catalytic metal oxide selective to catalyzing the conversion of given gas species, comprising intimately supporting a solid film of catalytic metal oxide (i.e., TiO.sub.2, SnO.sub.2, FeO, SrTiO.sub.3, CoO) on an electrically conducting material (i.e., Au, Pt, TiN, Pd, Rh, Ni, Co), the film having an exposed outer surface spaced no greater than 1000 angstroms from said conducting material, the composition of the conducting material being matched to the composition of the oxide to change the electron state of the exposed outer surface to promote only a reaction between given gas species and said oxide.A composite metal oxide catalyst system, comprising: a substantially nonconducting support; an electrically conducting film on the support; and a catalytically active ultra-thin outer layer of a catalytic metal oxide on and in intimate contact with the conducting film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 1992
    Date of Patent: July 20, 1993
    Assignee: Ford Motor Company
    Inventors: Eleftherios M. Logothetis, Richard E. Soltis
  • Patent number: 5221656
    Abstract: A hydroprocessing catalyst and process of using such catalyst wherein such catalyst has at least one hydrogenation metal deposited on an inorganic oxide support and is further characterized by a surface area of greater than about 220 m.sup.2 /g, a pore volume of about 0.23-0.30 cc/g in pores greater than about 600 Angstroms radius, an average pore radius of about 30-70 Angstroms in pores less than 600 Angstroms, and an incremental pore volume curve with a maximum at about 25-50 Angstroms radius.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 1992
    Date of Patent: June 22, 1993
    Assignee: Amoco Corporation
    Inventors: Frederick T. Clark, Albert L. Hensley, Jr., Simon G. Kukes, David C. Arters
  • Patent number: 5217938
    Abstract: A zirconia-based catalyst is prepared by mulling a mixture of a zirconia source and a solvent, which mixture has a solids content of from 20% by weight to 60% by weight, and extruding the mixture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 1992
    Date of Patent: June 8, 1993
    Assignee: Shell Oil Company
    Inventors: Donald Reinalda, Paul Blankenstein
  • Patent number: 5182249
    Abstract: A non-precious metal three-way catalyst which reduces hydrocarbon, carbon monoxide, and nitrogen oxide from internal combustion engine exhaust and industrial emissions, with a conversion capability comparable to the conversion efficiencies of current precious metal catalysts, and with superior NO.sub.x conversion characteristics, and durable when operated under prolonged high temperature conditions. The light-off temperature is close to the light-off temperature of convertional precious metal catalysts. The active catalytic components in this catalyst are a mixture of rare-earth metal and non-noble metal oxides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 1991
    Date of Patent: January 26, 1993
    Assignee: East China University of Chemical Technology
    Inventors: Ren Wang, Shanliang Wu, Zhigang Zhang
  • Patent number: 5180872
    Abstract: The title compounds can be prepared by reaction of a styrene derivative with ethylene in the presence of a nickel catalyst which carries a phosphorus-oxygen chelate ligand, at a temperature of 20.degree.to 160.degree. C. and an ethylene pressure of 1 to 200 bar. Styrene derivatives extended with ethylene, of the formula ##STR1## in which R.sup.19 denotes hydrogen, C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -alkyl, vinyl or chlorine and R.sup.38 denotes C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -alkyl, C.sub.2 -C.sub.4 -alkenyl, C.sub.2 -C.sub.7 -acyl, flourine, chlorine or bromine andm assumes values of 4-104,with the exception of compounds wherein R.sup.19 denotes hydrogen and R.sup.38 denotes i-butyl or benzoyl, and m assumes the value 4, are new.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 1991
    Date of Patent: January 19, 1993
    Assignee: Bayer Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Karl-Heinz A. O. Starzewski
  • Patent number: 5176892
    Abstract: The present invention is a process for the production of silanes from the contact of silicon metal or a silicon containing material with hydrogen chloride. The described process employs a metal or metal compound on a solid support as a catalyst which increases the production of tetrachlorosilane. The metal or metal compound is selected from a group consisting of palladium and palladium compounds, rhodium and rhodium compounds, platinum and platinum compounds, iridium and iridium compounds, tin and tin compounds, nickel and nickel compounds, and aluminum and aluminum compounds. The process is run at a temperature of about 250.degree. C. to 500.degree. C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 1990
    Date of Patent: January 5, 1993
    Assignee: Dow Corning Corporation
    Inventors: Roland L. Halm, Brian M. Naasz, Regie H. Zapp
  • Patent number: 5160720
    Abstract: The present invention is a process for the production of silanes from the contact of hydrogen chloride with silicon. The silicon may be in the form of silicon metal or a silicon containing material. The described process employs a catalyst which increases the yield of tetrachlorosilane. The catalyst is selected from a group consisting of tin and tin compounds, nickel and nickel compounds, arsenic and arsenic compounds, palladium and palladium compounds, and mixtures thereof. The process is run at a temperature of about 250.degree. C. to 500.degree. C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 1990
    Date of Patent: November 3, 1992
    Assignee: Dow Corning Corporation
    Inventors: Roland L. Halm, Regie H. Zapp
  • Patent number: 5134108
    Abstract: This hydrogenation catalyst comprises a major amount of the oxides of a first metal selected from copper or zinc, a second metal selected from chromium, molybdenum, tungsten and vanadium, and optionally, a minor amount of the oxide of a promoter metal selected from the group consisting of manganese, barium, zinc, nickel, cobalt, cadmium, iron and any combination thereof provided that the promotor metal is not zinc if the first metal is zinc. The average particle diameter of the powder is from about 6 to about 20 microns; and the particle surface area is from about 20 to about 70 m.sup.2 /g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 1991
    Date of Patent: July 28, 1992
    Assignee: Engelhard Corporation
    Inventors: Deepak S. Thakur, Eugene Palka, Thomas J. Sullivan, Eugene Nebesh, Brian D. Roberts
  • Patent number: 5110781
    Abstract: A process for the preparation of an alumina-based catalyst which comprises:(a) selecting an alumina catalyst having a bulk density of at least 0.6 g/ml and a pore volume of less than 0.6 ml/g;(b) heating the alumina of (a) to a temperature of at least 1000.degree. C. in the presence of a sintering agent containing at least one metal selected from nickel, chromium, cobalt and platinum; and(c) recovering a sintered alumina-based catalyst having a bulk density and an attrition resistance greater than that of the alumina of (a). Catalysts prepared by this process are useful in hydrocarbon conversion processes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 1991
    Date of Patent: May 5, 1992
    Assignee: The British Petroleum Company p.l.c.
    Inventors: David C. Griffiths, Brian Kneale
  • Patent number: 5110779
    Abstract: The hydrogenation of unsaturated polymers is effected employing a heterogeneous catalyst comprising a Group VIII metal and a porous support wherein the porous support is characterized by a pore size distribution such that at least 95% of the pore volume is defined by pores having diameters greater than 450 angstroms and the ratio of metal surface area to carrier surface area is in the range from about 0.07-0.75:1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 1991
    Date of Patent: May 5, 1992
    Assignee: The Dow Chemical Company
    Inventor: Dennis A. Hucul
  • Patent number: 5106802
    Abstract: A catalyst for the purification of the exhaust gas from a diesel engine, which catalyst comprises a honeycomb carrier possessing through holes disposed parallelly to the direction of flow of the exhaust gas and a catalyst component possessing a specific surface area of not more than 200 m.sup.2 /g and deposited on said carrier in a ratio of from 0.01 to 100 g per liter of said carrier and which catalyst possesses a specific surface area of from 0.1 to 5,000 m.sup.2 /liter of said catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 1991
    Date of Patent: April 21, 1992
    Assignee: Nippon Shokubai Kagaku Kogyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Makoto Horiuchi, Koichi Saito
  • Patent number: 5094989
    Abstract: Disclosed is a process for making an activated antimony and vanadium-containing catalyst in oxide form having an atomic ratio of Sb:V in the range from 0.8-4, which comprises calcining such an oxidic vanadium and antimony-containing composition at a temperature of over 750.degree. C., and thereafter contacting said calcined catalyst with a hydroxy compound in liquid form selected from (1) cyclohexanol, (2) cyclopentanol, (3) a monohydroxy, acyclic hydrocarbon having 1-8 C atoms, and (4) a dihydroxy, acyclic hydrocarbon having 2-4 carbon atoms, and separating as a liquid said compound from said catalyst insofar as it is present beyond the amount wetting said catalyst, and thereafter drying said catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 1990
    Date of Patent: March 10, 1992
    Assignee: The Standard Oil Company
    Inventors: Charles S. Lynch, Linda C. Glaeser, James F. Brazdil, Jr., Mark A. Toft
  • Patent number: 5081083
    Abstract: Alternate, successive high temperature oxidation and reduction treatments, in either order, of intermetallic alloy hydrogenation and intermetallic alloy oxidation catalysts unexpectedly improves the impurity poisoning resistance, regeneration capacity and/or activity of the catalysts. The particular alloy, and the final high temperature treatment given alloy (oxidation or reduction) will be chosen to correspond to the function of the catalyst (oxidation or hydrogenation).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 1990
    Date of Patent: January 14, 1992
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Department of Energy
    Inventor: Randy B. Wright
  • Patent number: 5077258
    Abstract: Metal catalytic film comprising a flexible substrate having a surface, a catalytic metal layer adherent to said surface of the substrate and having a thickness ranging from 200 to 1000 Angstroms.Method for forming metal catalytic film on a flexible substrate having a surface in a vacuum chamber comprising the steps of evacuating the vacuum chamber to a predetermined vacuum, introducing a substantially inert heavy gas into the vacuum chamber, creating a vapor stream of molecules of a catalytic metal in the vacuum chamber whereby the molecules of the catalytic metal are scattered by the inert heavy gas and are subsequently deposited upon the surface of the substrate to form a catalytic metal layer to a thickness ranging from 200 to 1000 Angstroms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 1990
    Date of Patent: December 31, 1991
    Assignee: Flex Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Roger W. Phillips, Lauren R. Wendt
  • Patent number: 5051156
    Abstract: An electrocatalytic process for the partial oxidation of methane employs an electrocatalyst in the form of a deposit catalyst comprising an electrode having a conducting catalyst layer deposited thereon. The catalyst comprises an element selected from the group consisting of Group IB metals, Group VIB metals, Group VIII metals and mixtures thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 1990
    Date of Patent: September 24, 1991
    Assignee: Intevep, S.A.
    Inventors: Benjamin Scharifker, Omar Yepez, Juan Carlos De Jesus, Maria M. Ramirez De Agudelo
  • Patent number: 5036037
    Abstract: Process for producing catalysts for use within hydrogenation, oxidation, dehydration or dehydrogenation processes comprising oxides, in pure or mixed form, or being applied as mixed crystal systems, made of nickel, cobalt and molybdenum, vanadium, tungsten, titanium and chromium, starting with their corresponding aqueous solutions of their respective chlorides, fluorides or nitrates, which afterwards are processed within a pyrohydrolysis plant to gain the oxide powders, of typical specific surfaces areas of 1 to 100 m.sup.2 /g, agglomerate sizes of 1 to 500 microns and mean particle sizes of 20 to 30 microns. The corresponding anions of these salt solutions are transformed during pyrohydrolysis into their respective acids, which can be regained by absorptive means and which thereafter can be returned to a chemical dissolving process to make the salts and solutions for the pyrohydrolysis, which means an economic advantage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 1990
    Date of Patent: July 30, 1991
    Assignee: Maschinenfabrik Andritz Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Wolfgang Kladnig, Heinz Krivanec
  • Patent number: 5036038
    Abstract: The present invention pertains to novel solid solutions involving NiO, V.sub.2 O.sub.3 and TiO.sub.2 and the method for their preparation. The compositions involving NiO, V.sub.2 O.sub.3 and TiO.sub.2 fall within the shaded area of a polygon in a ternary composition diagram of NiO, V.sub.2 O.sub.3 and TiO.sub.2 as shown in the drawing herein e.g., FIG. 1. The composition may be used as an oxidation catalyst or in the manufacture of high temperature refractories.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 1990
    Date of Patent: July 30, 1991
    Assignee: Texaco Inc.
    Inventors: Arnulf Muan, Mitri S. Najjar
  • Patent number: 5030608
    Abstract: Composite materials which contain small particles of metal or metal oxide an oxide matrix are prepared by a process which comprises a) subjecting (1) one or more metal compounds and (2) one or more bifunctional compounds which contain at least one group capable of complexing the metal and at least one group which forms an inorganic network during the polycondensation, and if appropriate (3) one or more network-forming agents which are capable of polycondensation to the conditions of a complexing reaction and hydrolytic polycondensation by the sol-gel process in a liquid reaction medium, compounds (1), (2) and (3) being soluble in the reaction medium, and b) oxidizing the resulting polycondensate to form a composite material which contains small metal oxide particles with the very narrow particle size distribution in an oxide matrix, and if appropriate c) reducing the metal oxide particles of the resulting composite material to the metal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 1990
    Date of Patent: July 9, 1991
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der Angewandten Forschung E.V.
    Inventors: Ulrich Schubert, Sabine Amberg-Schwab, Boris Breitscheidel, Helmut Schmidt
  • Patent number: 5008234
    Abstract: Compositions of matter useful as catalysts in heterogeneous reactions and comprising metal atom clusters supported on inorganic supports such as silica, alumina or zeolites are prepared by vaporizing the metal at low temperatures and pressures into an environment of ethylene and a gaseous inert solvent. A metal-ethylene complex, protected by solvent molecules is formed. The complex is melted to liquid phase and used to impregnate the support. Then the material is warmed to ambient temperature to remove the solvent, decompose the complex and form monatomic or clusters of metal on the support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 1989
    Date of Patent: April 16, 1991
    Assignee: Her Majesty the Queen in the right of Canada, as represented by the Minister of Energy Mines and Resources
    Inventors: Geoffrey A. Ozin, Helmut X. Huber, Richard A. Prokopowicz, John Godber
  • Patent number: 4992408
    Abstract: A catalyst for decomposing an oxidizing agent, such as hypochlorite ions, in an effluent comprises an intimate mixture of at least one finely divided Group IIA oxide and finely divided nickel oxide, and/or hydrates thereof, supported on pieces of a non-porous substantially inert material. Some of the nickel may be replaced by cobalt. The Group IIA oxide forms 0.5 to 50% by weight of said intimate mixture. The nickel and Group IIA oxides may be applied by contacting the support with a solution of suitable salts, e.g. nitrates. Where the support is a Group IIA compound, e.g. magnesia, the Group IIA oxide may be incorporated into the intimate mixture by contacting the support with an acid solution of the nickel salt. In use the nickel oxide is oxidized to a higher oxidation state than NiO.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 1989
    Date of Patent: February 12, 1991
    Assignee: Imperial Chemical Industries plc
    Inventor: Samuel D. Jackson
  • Patent number: 4992406
    Abstract: A process for the preparation of novel binder-containing titania supports, and catalyst compositions of improved porosity prepared from such supports, useful for Fischer-Tropsch synthesis. The supports are prepared by incorporating a small amount of an inorganic metal oxide binder, constituted of alumina, zirconia or silica, with titania. The catalysts are prepared by dispersing a catalytically effective amount of a metal, or metals, preferably cobalt, or cobalt plus an additional metal, or metals, catalytically active in a Fischer-Tropsch reaction on the titania binder support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 1988
    Date of Patent: February 12, 1991
    Assignee: Exxon Research and Engineering Company
    Inventors: Charles H. Mauldin, Kenneth L. Riley
  • Patent number: 4950812
    Abstract: A single-step process for the conversion of polysaccharides to polyhydric alcohols by hydrogenation at high pressure and temperature in the presence of a catalyst comprising (i) a supported metal selected from ruthenium, copper, nickel, cobalt and their mixtures, the metal being highly dispersed on the support so as to be capable of adsorbing more than 0.58 molecules of CO per atom of metal, and (ii) a solid having acidic functions, which may or may not be identical to the support, the solid having sufficient acid functions so that the rate constant of hydrolysis of sucrose on the catalyst is greater than 70% of the rate constant of hydrogenation of glucose on the catalyst. The process gives substantially pure polyhydric alcohols in a single step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 1989
    Date of Patent: August 21, 1990
    Assignee: Fina Research S.A.
    Inventors: Pierre Jacobs, Herve Hinnekens
  • Patent number: 4916108
    Abstract: A process for producing supported metal catalysts having increased catalytic activity is provided. This process includes the steps of forming a high surface area porous support of a suitable porous material such as alumina or zirconia, dissolving a salt of a selected catalytic metal in an appropriate supercritical fluid solvent, contacting the porous support with the supercritical fluid solution of the catalytic metal salt to impregnate the porous support with the solution so that the catalytic metal salt may be adsorbed on the surfaces of the support, and removing the supercritical fluid solvent by reducing the pressure or increasing the temperature to change the supercritical fluid from the supercritical fluid phase to the gas phase, which may then be recycled for further use. The insoluble catalytic metal salt is deposited in the form of a film on the surfaces of the support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 1988
    Date of Patent: April 10, 1990
    Assignee: Westinghouse Electric Corp.
    Inventors: David F. McLaughlin, Michael C. Skriba
  • Patent number: 4912077
    Abstract: This invention is directed to the preparation of articles exhibiting catalytic activity and, in particular, to articles which are exceptionally suitable for catalytically converting gases from organically fueled power plants, internal combustion engines, and other fluid and gaseous catalysis. The inventive articles comprise a unitary composite structure consisting essentially of a catalytically active precious metal and/or a base metal which, the base metals in particular, become catalytically active upon oxidation. The catalysts are integrally combined with a supporting structural metal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 1988
    Date of Patent: March 27, 1990
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Irwin M. Lachman, Mallanagouda D. Patil, Jimmie L. Williams, Raja R. Wusirika
  • Patent number: 4898845
    Abstract: A new method for the use of microcrystallites of various materials as catalysts. The materials include metals, metal alloys and mixtures, and intermetallic compounds all of which are used as heterogeneous catalysts on porous supports. The method is different in that the microcrystallites are dispersed in molten salts which are to be used as a thin film coated on the internal surface of porous supports.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 1988
    Date of Patent: February 6, 1990
    Assignee: University of Iowa Research Foundation
    Inventors: Ravindra Datta, Darrell P. Eyman
  • Patent number: 4888317
    Abstract: A structure with encapsulated catalyst-agglomerate bodies which are integral to a porous structure is presented. The catalysts may be singly and/or multiply dispersed on and/or throughout a high surface area material and subsequently mixed with batch material prior to firing the structure. This results in a structure wherein encapsulated catalyst-agglomerate bodies in a porous structure exhibit the same catalytic activity as in a break in aged catalyst coated substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 1988
    Date of Patent: December 19, 1989
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Thomas P. DeAngelis, Irwin M. Lachman, Raja R. Wusirika
  • Patent number: 4886582
    Abstract: A catalyst useful for hydroprocessing a hydrocarbon-containing oil contains at least one hydrogenation component on an amorphous, porous refractory oxide. The catalyst is prepared by impregnating support particles having a narrow pore size distribution and a mode pore diameter from about 70 to 80 angstroms with a solution containing a precursor of the hydrogenation components, followed by drying and calcining. The catalyst is useful for promoting a number of hydrocarbon hydroprocessing reactions, particularly hydrogenative desulfurization, dedemetallization and denitrogenation, and most particularyl, hydrodesulfurization of residuum-containing oils.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 1988
    Date of Patent: December 12, 1989
    Assignee: Union Oil Company of California
    Inventor: Howard D. Simpson
  • Patent number: 4871703
    Abstract: The invention is a method for preparing electrocatalytic oxides and applying them to substrates that cannot be heated to temperatures sufficiently high to convert electrocatalytic salts into electrocatalytic oxide comprising:(a) dissolving Ru salt(s) and Ni salt(s) in a solvent to form an electrocatalytic salt solution;(b) evaporating the solvent from the electrocatalytic salt solution, leaving a electrocatalytic salt residue;(c) heating the electrocatalytic salt residue in the presence of oxygen to a temperature and for a time sufficient to convert substantially all of the electrocatalytic salt into a electrocatalytic oxide; and(d) bonding the so-formed electrocatalytic oxide to a substrate that would be detrimentally affected if it were to be heated to 480.degree.-500.degree. C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 1987
    Date of Patent: October 3, 1989
    Assignee: The Dow Chemical Company
    Inventors: Richard N. Beaver, Lloyd E. Alexander, Carl E. Byrd
  • Patent number: 4866023
    Abstract: A process for producing shaped, agglomerated, particulate solids, by combining finely divided solids with a polymeric binder solution and curing the combination with polyvalent metal cations; and the products of such process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 1988
    Date of Patent: September 12, 1989
    Assignee: Henkel Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien
    Inventors: Wolfgang Ritter, Hans-Peter Handwerk, Franz-Josef Carduck
  • Patent number: 4861746
    Abstract: A catalyst for hydrotreating a heavy hydrocarbon oil which comprises a porous refractory inorganic oxide carrier component and at least one hydrogenating active metal component selected from nickel, cobalt and the like, the metal component concentration in the cross-section of the catalyst being the highest between the center of the cross-section and the periphery thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 1988
    Date of Patent: August 29, 1989
    Assignees: Nippon Oil Co., Ltd., Petroleum Energy Center Foundation
    Inventors: Yasuyuki Oishi, Akira Inoue
  • Patent number: 4834865
    Abstract: Disclosed is a hydrocracking process employing a plurality of reaction zones wherein at least one reaction zone contains a small nominal size hydrocracking catalyst (10 to 16 U.S. Sieve mesh size) and wherein the catalyst situated upstream of the small nominal size hydrocracking has a particle size greater than the small nominal size hydrocracking catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 1988
    Date of Patent: May 30, 1989
    Assignee: Amoco Corporation
    Inventors: Simon G. Kukes, Jeffrey T. Miller, L. C. Gutberlet, Jeffrey C. Kelterborn
  • Patent number: 4824482
    Abstract: Diffusion aluminizing, when applied to titanium is effected with little or no activator to produce more uniform case and less etching.Workpieces are very rapidly pack-diffusion coated by using an excess of energizers in the pack, heating the retort containing the packed workpieces at a rate that brings the workpieces to diffusion-coating temperature and then completing the diffusion coating, all in less than 50 minutes, then cooling the retort.Diffusion aluminizing can also be applied to foils and powder to make pyrophoric product after leaching out much of the introduced aluminum. Powder can also be diffusion boronized. Pyrophoric boron-containing iron or nickel powder mixed with Ba(NO.sub.3).sub.2 will ignite to cause generation of large quantity of NO.sub.2 gas, and generation is improved when powdered boron and/or an oxidizer like NaClO.sub.3 is added.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 1985
    Date of Patent: April 25, 1989
    Assignee: Alloy Surfaces Company, Inc.
    Inventor: Alfonso L. Baldi
  • Patent number: 4797196
    Abstract: Disclosed is a hydrocracking process wherein the feedstock is first contacted with a first catalyst containing a nickel component and a tungsten component supported on a support containing alumina and a crystalline molecular sieve followed by subsequent contact with a second hydrocracking catalyst containing a cobalt component and a molybdenum component supported on a support containing silica-alumina and a crystalline molecular sieve and the first catalyst. This subsequent contact with the second and first catalysts is carried out either serially or in one step wherein the first and second catalysts are physically mixed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 1988
    Date of Patent: January 10, 1989
    Assignee: Amoco Corporation
    Inventors: Simon G. Kukes, L. Charles Gutberlet, Albert L. Hensley, Jr.
  • Patent number: 4797195
    Abstract: Disclosed is a hydrocracking process wherein the feedstock is contacted in a first reaction zone with a first reaction zone catalyst comprising a nickel component and a molybdenum component deposed on a support consisting essentially of a refractory inorganic oxide. The effluent from the first reaction zone is then contacted in a second reaction zone with a second reaction zone catalyst comprising a nickel component and a tungsten component deposed on a support component consisting essentially of an alumina component and a crystalline molecular sieve component. The effluent from the second reaction zone effluent is then contacted in a third reaction zone with a third reaction zone catalyst comprising a cobalt component and a molybdenum component deposed on a support component comprising a silica-alumina component and a crystalline molecular sieve component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 1988
    Date of Patent: January 10, 1989
    Assignee: Amoco Corporation
    Inventors: Simon G. Kukes, L. Charles Gutberlet, Jeffrey T. Miller
  • Patent number: 4760045
    Abstract: The present invention provides a catalyst for hydrotreatment of heavy oils in which at least one active metal component for hydrogenation selected from the Groups Vb, VIb and VIII of the periodic table is supported in a porous refractory carrier, the catalyst being characterized in that a distribution of the metal concentrative in each catalyst satisfies the relation of Cr.sub.1 <Cr.sub.2 in the case of R.sub.1 >R.sub.2 in the sectional surface of said catalyst, and a method for preparing the catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 1986
    Date of Patent: July 26, 1988
    Assignee: Nippon Oil Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuyuki Oishi, Ken Kawakatsu, Akira Inoue
  • Patent number: 4758546
    Abstract: Catalysts containing one of the metals iron, cobalt or nickel or a mixture of these are prepared by reduction of the particular catalyst intermediate with hydrogen at from 80.degree. to 260.degree. C. and under from 1 to 300 bar, in the liquid phase and in the presence of a redox system, and are used in the hydrogenation and amination of organic compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 1986
    Date of Patent: July 19, 1988
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Karl Baer, Wolfgang Reiss, Juergen Schossig, Herbert Toussaint
  • Patent number: 4749675
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a catalyst for the selective dimerization of ethylene or of propylene into monoolefines of the type based on nickel on a silica support whose active sites are complexes of the Ni.sup.+ ion. This catalyst is characterized in that practically the whole of the nickel is present in the form of Ni.sup.+ complexes co-ordinated with the oxygen of the surface of the silica support and whose co-ordination sphere comprises one or two trialkylphosphine ligands. The invention also relates to a process for the preparation of these catalysts and to a process of dimerization employing them.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 1986
    Date of Patent: June 7, 1988
    Assignee: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
    Inventors: Daniele Olivier, Feng X. Cai, Christine Lepetit, Maggy Kermarec
  • Patent number: 4746641
    Abstract: Disclosed is a process for ammoxidation of paraffins containing 2-5 C atoms over a vanadium-antimony oxide catalyst, the catalyst, and a precursor slurry for making such catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 1985
    Date of Patent: May 24, 1988
    Assignee: Standard Oil Company
    Inventors: Andrew T. Guttmann, Robert K. Grasselli, James F. Brazdil
  • Patent number: 4729981
    Abstract: Catalyst for synthesis gas conversion in which a gas comprising carbon monoxide and hydrogen is converted to a liquid hydrocarbon is prepared by subjecting cobalt or nickel on a refractory metal oxide support to an activation procedure at a temperature of from about 100.degree. to about 450.degree. C. comprising, in sequence, (A) reduction in hydrogen, (B) oxidation in an oxygen-containing gas, and (C) reduction in hydrogen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 1986
    Date of Patent: March 8, 1988
    Assignee: Shell Internationale Research Maatschappij B.V.
    Inventors: Thaddeus P. Kobylinski, Charles L. Kibby, Richard B. Pannell, Elizabeth L. Eddy
  • Patent number: 4708917
    Abstract: Molten carbonate fuel cell cathodes formed from a composition comprising oxides of nickel, lithium salts and barium salts having improved strength. These cathodes are fabricated by prefiring oxides of nickel and optionally lithium salts. The prefired powder is optionally leached with an organic acid and optional barium salts may be added. These powders are formed into an electrode and sintered. The resulting electrodes have improved strength.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 1985
    Date of Patent: November 24, 1987
    Assignee: International Fuel Cells Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas E. Swarr, John C. Trocciola
  • Patent number: 4673663
    Abstract: A catalyst support and process for preparing same are provided wherein a metal substrate is coated with a layer of adherent alumina with a layer of chromium interposed between the alumina catalyst support and the metal substrate. The catalyst supports of the invention are especially useful in catalytic converters for the purification and control of exhaust gas emissions from internal combustion engines by the active catalyst oxidation/reduction of carbon monoxide, unburned hydrocarbons and nitrogen oxides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 1984
    Date of Patent: June 16, 1987
    Assignee: Rhone-Poulenc Specialites Chimiques
    Inventor: Claude Magnier
  • Patent number: 4670416
    Abstract: A hydrogenation catalyst is disclosed, said catalyst consisting essentially of 10-90 parts by weight of nickel and 90-10 parts by weight of silica and having an overall active nickel surface area of 70-200 m.sup.2 /g. A two-step process for preparing the catalyst is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 1984
    Date of Patent: June 2, 1987
    Assignee: Internationale Octrooi Maatschappij"Octropa"B.V.
    Inventors: Helmut Klimmek, Gunter Klauenberg
  • Patent number: 4661468
    Abstract: A catalyst for cleaning exhaust fumes is disclosed, comprised of a catalyst ingredient of a base metal hyperfine powder of iron, nickel, or the like produced by the vaporization in gas, or their mixture, and a ceramic catalyst carrier of .gamma. (gamma) - alumina, titanium oxide, or the like, the catalyst ingredient being set on a ceramic catalyst carrier. This catalyst has high activity and the ability to remain stable over a long period of time. Furthermore, this catalyst has a new effect provided by hyperfining of particles, and a new physical or chemical characteristic indicated as a result of mixing them.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 1985
    Date of Patent: April 28, 1987
    Assignee: CPUS Corporation
    Inventors: Byong G. Lee, Ju M. Song, Chi S. Kim
  • Patent number: 4615920
    Abstract: Workpieces are very rapidly pack diffusion coated by using an excess of energizers in the pack, heating the retort containing the packed workpieces at a rate that brings the workpieces to diffusion-coating temperature and then completing the diffusion coating, all in less than 50 minutes, then cooling the retort. Workpiece can have top coating layer of aluminum flake covered by a layer of extremely fine alumina or silica in a magnesium chromate binder, to provide surface having roughness at least about 10 micro-inches smoother than before the top coating. More active diffusion coated products are also produced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 1983
    Date of Patent: October 7, 1986
    Assignee: Alloy Surfaces Company, Inc.
    Inventor: Alfonso L. Baldi
  • Patent number: 4591429
    Abstract: Supported, hydroprocessing catalysts comprising a sulfide of (i) trivalent chromium, (ii) Mo, W or mixture thereof and (iii) at least one metal selected from the group consisting of Ni, Co, Mn, Cu, Zn and mixture thereof and mixture thereof with Fe. These catalysts are made by compositing a preselected quantity of support material with a precursor comprising a mixture of (i) hydrated oxide of trivalent chromium and (ii) a salt containing a thiometallate anion of Mo or W and a cation comprising at least one divalent promoter metal chelated by at least one, neutral, nitrogen-containing polydentate ligand and heating the composite in the presence of sulfur and hydrogen in an oxygen-free atmosphere. These catalysts have been found to be useful hydrotreating catalysts having nitrogen removal activity superior to that of commercial catalysts such as sulfided cobalt-molybdate on alumina.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 1984
    Date of Patent: May 27, 1986
    Assignee: Exxon Research and Engineering Co.
    Inventors: Teh C. Ho, Archie R. Young, II, Russell R. Chianelli, Allan J. Jacobson
  • Patent number: RE34706
    Abstract: The title compounds can be prepared by reaction of a styrene derivative with ethylene in the presence of a nickel catalyst which carries a phosphorus-oxygen chelate ligand, at a temperature of 20.degree. to 160.degree. C. and an ethylene pressure of 1 to 200 bar. Styrene derivatives extended with ethylene, of the formula ##STR1## in which R.sup.19 denotes hydrogen, C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -alkyl, vinyl or chlorine and R.sup.38 denotes C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -alkenyl, C.sub.2 -C.sub.7 -acyl, flourine, chlorine or bromine andm assumes values of 4-104,with the exception of compounds wherein R.sup.19 denotes hydrogen and R.sup.38 denotes i-butyl or benzoyl, and m assumes the value 4, are new.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 1993
    Date of Patent: August 23, 1994
    Assignee: Bayer Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Karl-Heinz A. O. Starzewski