Zeolite Patents (Class 502/64)
  • Patent number: 8771639
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for preparing composites of substrate-molecular sieve, in particular, to a method for preparing a composite of substrate-molecular sieve, which comprises applying a physical pressure to molecular sieve crystals against a substrate to form a chemical bond between the molecular sieve crystal and the substrate. The present invention requiring no solvents, reactors and other equipments enables molecular sieve crystals to be stably attached to the surface of substrates through various chemical bonds, particularly ionic present invention ensures the synthesis of substrate-molecular sieve composites with enhanced attachment rate, degree of lateral close packing (DCP) and attachment strength in more time-saving and energy-saving manners. The present method works well for molecular sieve crystals with lager sizes (e.g., more than 3 ?m) with no generation of parasitic crystals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: Industry-University Cooperation Foundation Sogang University
    Inventors: Kyung Byung Yoon, Jin Seok Lee, Jae Hyun Kim, Young Ju Lee, Nak Cheon Jeong
  • Patent number: 8772564
    Abstract: This invention relates to a method wherein a high-purity paraxylene can be produced efficiently by using a catalyst having a molecular sieving action (or shape selectivity) and being excellent in the catalytic activity without isomerization and adsorption-separation steps. More particularly, it relates to a method of producing a high-purity paraxylene, characterized in that MFI type zeolite having a primary particle size of not more than 100 ?m, a structure defining agent and silica material having an average particle size of not less than 10 nm but less than 1.0 ?m are used as a starting material, and a synthetic zeolite catalyst produced by subjecting the MFI type zeolite to a coating treatment with an aqueous solution obtained by mixing so as to satisfy X×Y<0.05 (wherein X is a concentration of the silica material (mol %) and Y is a concentration of the structure defining agent (mol %)) is used in the alkylation or disproportionation of at least one of benzene and toluene as a starting material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: JX Nippon Oil & Energy Corporation
    Inventors: Koichi Matsushita, Chikanori Nakaoka, Norikazu Nishiyama
  • Patent number: 8765067
    Abstract: An exhaust gas oxidation catalyst characterized as an exhaust gas oxidation catalyst comprising a catalyst substrate, wherein a plurality of exhaust gas channels has been formed, and a catalyst layer formed on the surface of the exhaust gas channels in the catalyst substrate; wherein a catalyst layer consisting of a bottom catalyst layer, a top catalyst layer exposed within the exhaust gas channels, and an intermediate catalyst layer located between the bottom catalyst layer and top catalyst layer, is provided so as to cover not less than 25% of the exhaust gas channel surface, and wherein the bottom catalyst layer contains at least an oxygen-occluding agent as catalyst component but does not contain a hydrocarbon adsorbent, the intermediate catalyst layer contains at least catalyst metal, supported on a metal oxide support, and a hydrocarbon adsorbent as catalyst components, and the top catalyst layer contains at least an oxygen-occluding agent and a hydrocarbon adsorbent as catalyst components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: Johnson Matthey Public Limited Company
    Inventors: Takeshi Kadono, Satoshi Sumiya, Lifeng Wang
  • Patent number: 8759598
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a process of producing propylene by contacting ethylene with a catalyst, where propylene is produced with high selectivity. The present invention relates to a production process of propylene, comprising contacting ethylene with a catalyst, wherein the catalyst comprises a zeolite as an active ingredient and an acid content in the outer surface of the zeolite is 5 % or less based on an acid content of the entire zeolite.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Mikio Hayashi, Masashi Yamaguchi, Yumiko Yoshikawa, Takahiko Takewaki, Tohru Setoyama
  • Publication number: 20140171667
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a micropowder, wherein the particles of the micropowder have a Dv10 value of at least 2 micrometer and the micropowder comprises mesopores which have an average pore diameter in the range of from 2 to 50 nm and comprise, based on the weight of the micropowder, at least 95 weight-% of a microporous aluminum-free zeolitic material of structure type MWW containing titanium and zinc.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2013
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: ANDREI-NICOLAE PARVULESCU, Ulrich Mueller, Joaquim Henrique Teles, Bianca Seelig, Philip Kampe, Markus Weber, Robert Bayer, Karsten Seidel, Peter Resch
  • Publication number: 20140171291
    Abstract: A new family of crystalline aluminosilicate zeolites has been synthesized that has been designated UZM-43. These zeolites are similar to previously known ERS-10, SSZ-47 and RUB-35 zeolites but are characterized by unique x-ray diffraction patterns and compositions and have catalytic properties for carrying out various hydrocarbon conversion processes. Catalysts made from these zeolites are useful in hydrocarbon conversion reactions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2012
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: UOP LLC
    Inventors: Jaime G. Moscoso, Deng-Yang Jan
  • Patent number: 8753596
    Abstract: The invention relates to a catalyst for removal of nitrogen oxides from the exhaust gas of diesel engines, and to a process for reducing the level of nitrogen oxides in the exhaust gas of diesel engines. The catalyst consists of a support body of length L and of a catalytically active coating which in turn may be formed from one or more material zones. The material zones comprise a copper-containing zeolite or a zeolite-like compound. The materials used include chabazite, SAPO-34, ALPO-34 and zeolite ?. In addition, the material zones comprise at least one compound selected from the group consisting of barium oxide, barium hydroxide, barium carbonate, strontium oxide, strontium hydroxide, strontium carbonate, praseodymium oxide, lanthanum oxide, magnesium oxide, magnesium/aluminum mixed oxide, alkali metal oxide, alkali metal hydroxide, alkali metal carbonate and mixtures thereof. Noble metal may optionally also be present in the catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2014
    Assignee: Umicore AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Paul Spurk, Nicola Soeger, Elena Mueller, Stephan Malmberg
  • Publication number: 20140162866
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method of making a reinforced catalytic microporous and/or mesoporous bound composition comprising the steps of: providing a pre-formed catalytic crystalline material; mixing the catalytic crystalline material with water, a metal oxide binder, and a reinforcing glass fiber to form an extrudable composition; extruding the extrudable slurry under conditions sufficient to form the reinforced catalytic bound extrudate; and calcining the reinforced catalytic bound extrudate at a temperature and for a time sufficient to form a calcined reinforced catalytic bound catalyst. Advantageously, the reinforcing glass fiber can have a diameter from 5-100 microns and a length-to-diameter ratio from 300:1-3000:1 and can be present in an amount from about 1-50 parts, based on about 1000 parts combined of catalytic crystalline material and metal oxide binder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2013
    Publication date: June 12, 2014
    Applicant: ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company
    Inventors: Wenyih Frank Lai, Nicholas S. Rollman
  • Patent number: 8748333
    Abstract: Surface-modified zeolites and methods for preparing surface-modified zeolites are provided. A hybrid polymer formed from a silicon alkoxide and a metal alkoxide, a co-monomer, or both, is contacted with a zeolite suspension. The zeolite suspension comprises a sodium-, an ammonium-, or a hydrogen-form zeolite and a solvent. The hybrid polymer and zeolite suspension are contacted under conditions sufficient to deposit hybrid polymer on external surfaces of the zeolite to form a treated zeolite. Solvent is removed therefrom. The treated zeolite is dried and calcinated to form a dried and calcinated treated zeolite. Forming of the zeolite suspension and the contacting, removing, drying, and calcinating steps are provided in one selectivation sequence to produce a surface-modified zeolite from the ammonium-form zeolite and the hydrogen-form zeolite. If the dried and calcinated treated zeolite is a sodium-form zeolite, the sodium is exchanged with ammonium and then additionally dried and calcinated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: UOP LLC
    Inventors: Laszlo T. Nemeth, Feng Xu
  • Patent number: 8741240
    Abstract: The selective reduction-type catalyst effectively purifies nitrogen oxides contained in exhaust gas from a lean-burn engine such as a boiler, a gas turbine or a lean-burn engine, a diesel engine, even under high SV, as well as having small pressure loss, by supplying by spraying urea water or ammonia water, as a reducing component, to the selective reduction-type catalyst; and an exhaust gas purification apparatus along with an exhaust gas purification method using the same. The selective reduction-type catalyst for selectively reducing a nitrogen oxide by adding urea or ammonia as a reducing agent of the nitrogen oxide to exhaust gas discharged from a lean-burn engine, characterized by coating a catalyst layer including zeolite containing at least an iron element, and a composite oxide of silica, tungsten oxide, ceria and zirconia, as denitration components, at the surface of a monolithic structure-type substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: N.E. Chemcat Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Hihara, Tomoaki Ito, Yasushi Tanaka, Makoto Nagata
  • Patent number: 8741175
    Abstract: A desiccant composition containing a polymeric binder and a dispersion of powders of desiccant materials is described. The desiccant composition has desiccant powders that are dispersed at least in part in form of micro-aggregates of desiccant particles surrounded by a polymeric encapsulating material having a different composition with respect to the polymeric binder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Saes Getters S.p.A.
    Inventors: Giorgio Macchi, Alessandra Colombo, Paolo Vacca, Roberto Giannantonio
  • Patent number: 8742189
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a catalyst for dehydroaromatizing C1-C4-aliphatics, said catalyst being obtainable by twice treating a zeolite from the group of MFI and MWW with NH4-containing mixtures, in each case with subsequent drying and calcination. The catalyst comprises molybdenum and, if appropriate, as further elements, Cu, Ni, Fe, Co, Mn, Cr, Nb, Ta, Zr, V, Zn and/or Ga. The present invention further provides a process for dehydroaromatizing a mixture comprising C1-C4-aliphatics by conversion in the presence of the catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Frank Kiesslich, Joana Coelho Tsou, Bilge Yilmaz, Sebastian Ahrens, Thomas Heidemann, Veronika Will, Christian Bechtold
  • Patent number: 8735643
    Abstract: The invention relates to aggregate zeolitic adsorbents based on faujasite X type zeolite powder having a low silica content and small crystals, exchanged with barium or based on faujasite X type zeolite having a low silica content and small crystals, exchanged with barium and potassium. The invention also relates to the method for preparing said aggregate zeolitic adsorbents, and also their uses for separating sugars, polyhydric alcohols, isomers of substituted toluene, cresols, or for recovering very high purity paraxylene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignees: Cece S.A., Institut Francais du Petrole
    Inventors: Ludivine Bouvier, Stéphane Kieger, Catherine Laroche, Philibert Leflaive, Tom Frising
  • Patent number: 8734743
    Abstract: Described is a nitrogen oxide storage catalyst comprising: a substrate; a first washcoat layer provided on the substrate, the first washcoat layer comprising a nitrogen oxide storage material, a second washcoat layer provided on the first washcoat layer, the second washcoat layer comprising a hydrocarbon trap material, wherein the hydrocarbon trap material comprises substantially no element or compound in a state in which it is capable of catalyzing selective catalytic reduction, preferably wherein the hydrocarbon trap material comprises substantially no element or compound in a state in which it is capable of catalyzing a reaction wherein nitrogen oxide is reduced to N2, said catalyst further comprising a nitrogen oxide conversion material which is either comprised in the second washcoat layer and/or in a washcoat layer provided between the first washcoat layer and the second washcoat layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Torsten W. Müller-Stach, Susanne Stiebels, Edith Schneider, Torsten Neubauer
  • Patent number: 8728969
    Abstract: A process for obtaining a catalyst composite comprising the following steps: a). selecting a molecular sieve having pores of 10-or more-membered rings b). contacting the molecular sieve with a metal silicate different from said molecular sieve comprising at least one alkaline earth metal and one or more of the following metals: Ga, Al, Ce, In, Cs, Sc, Sn, Li, Zn, Co, Mo, Mn, Ni, Fe, Cu, Cr, Ti and V, such that the composite comprises at least 0.1 wt % of silicate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: Total Research & Technology Feluy
    Inventors: Nikolai Nesterenko, Walter Vermeiren, Sander Van Donk
  • Patent number: 8722000
    Abstract: Catalytic articles, systems and methods for treating exhaust gas streams are described. A catalytic article comprising a wall flow filter having gas permeable walls, a hydrolysis catalyst, an optional soot oxidation catalyst, a selective catalytic reduction catalyst permeating the walls, an ammonia oxidation catalyst and an oxidation catalyst to oxidize CO and hydrocarbons is described. Methods of treating exhaust gas streams comprising soot, an ammonia precursor such as urea, ammonia, NOx, CO and hydrocarbons are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignee: BASF Corporation
    Inventor: R. Samuel Boorse
  • Publication number: 20140127088
    Abstract: A honeycomb structure includes honeycomb units which contain silicoaluminophosphate particles and an inorganic binder and are provided with a plurality of cells that extend in the longitudinal direction from a first end surface to a second end surface of the honeycomb structure and are partitioned by cell walls, in which Si/(Al+P) of the silicoaluminophosphate particles is in a range of 0.16 to 0.33 by molar ratio, a thickness of the cell wall is in a range of 0.10 mm to 0.25 mm, a cell density of the cells is in a range of 93 cells/cm2 to 155 cells/cm2, and a ratio R/L of a diameter R of the honeycomb structure to a total length L of the honeycomb structure is 1.0 or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2011
    Publication date: May 8, 2014
    Applicant: IBIDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Miyashita, Shin Fujii
  • Publication number: 20140127087
    Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide composite particles that have excellent NOx purification performance and can suppress water adsorption-caused contraction and water desorption-caused expansion and to provide a honeycomb structure that has excellent NOx purification performance and can suppress the breakage of the honeycomb unit due to the adsorption or desorption of water, a method for manufacturing the honeycomb structure, and an exhaust gas purifying apparatus including the honeycomb structure. The composite particles of the invention are composite particles having a metallic oxide attached to silicoaluminophosphate particles with a ratio of an amount of Si to a sum of amounts of Al and P in a range of 0.16 to 0.33, in which a specific surface area is in a range of 250 m2/g to 450 m2/g, and an external surface area is in a range of 30 m2/g to 90 m2/g.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2011
    Publication date: May 8, 2014
    Applicant: IBIDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshitoyo Nishio, Takunari Murakami
  • Publication number: 20140124410
    Abstract: A hydrocracking catalyst having a support of a composite of mesoporous materials, molecular sieves and alumina, is used in the last bed of a multi-bed system for treating heavy crude oils and residues and is designed to increase the production of intermediate distillates having boiling points in a temperature range of 204° C. to 538° C., decrease the production of the heavy fraction (>538° C.), and increase the production of gasoline fraction (<204° C.). The feedstock to be processed in the last bed contains low amounts of metals and is lighter than the feedstock that is fed to the first catalytic bed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2013
    Publication date: May 8, 2014
    Inventors: Patricia RAYO MAYORAL, Jorge ANCHEYTA JUAREZ, Gustavo Jesus MARROQUIN SANCHEZ, Guillermo CENTENO NOLASCO, Jorge Fernando RAMIREZ SOLIS
  • Patent number: 8715487
    Abstract: This invention relates to the composition, method of making and use of a fluidized catalytic cracking (“FCC”) catalyst that is comprised of a new Y zeolite which exhibits an exceptionally low small mesoporous peak around the 40 ? (angstrom) range as determined by nitrogen adsorption measurements. FCC catalysts made from this new zeolite exhibit improved rates of heavy oil cracking heavy oil bottoms conversions and gasoline conversions. The fluidized catalytic cracking catalysts herein are particularly useful in fluidized catalytic cracking (“FCC”) processes for conversion of heavy hydrocarbon feedstocks such as gas oils and vacuum tower bottoms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company
    Inventors: Jianxin Jason Wu, William A. Wachter, Colin L. Beswick, Edward Thomas Habib, Jr., Terry G. Roberie, Ruizhong Hu
  • Patent number: 8716162
    Abstract: The zeolite structure is a porous zeolite structure constituted of a formed article obtained by extruding a zeolite raw material containing zeolite particles and an inorganic binding material including at least basic aluminum chloride, a ratio P1 (P1=V2/V1×100) of a volume V2 of the inorganic binding material in the zeolite structure with respect to a volume V1 of the zeolite structure is from 10 to 50 vol %, and a relation of equation (1) is satisfied: P2/P1?1.0??(1), in which P1 is the ratio of the volume V2 of the inorganic binding material in the zeolite structure with respect to the volume V1 of the zeolite structure and P2 (P2=Vb/Va×100) is a ratio of volumes Vb of pores having pore diameters of 0.003 to 0.03 ?m with respect to the whole pore volume Va of the zeolite structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshio Kikuchi, Haruo Otsuka
  • Patent number: 8703636
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a catalyst body which includes: combining one or more inorganic components with an inorganic binder, and optionally with an organic binder, to form a mixture, the one or more inorganic components comprising a primary phase material being zeolite, or CeO2—ZrO2, or a combination; forming the mixture into a shaped body; firing the shaped body to allow the inorganic binder to bind the one or more inorganic components; impregnating the shaped body with a source of a reducing or oxidizing element; and heating the impregnated shaped body to form a redox oxide from the source, the redox oxide being supported by the shaped body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Steven Bolaji Ogunwumi, Mallanagouda Dyamanagouda Patil
  • Patent number: 8703635
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to a catalyst composition comprising (a) MCM-22 family material; and (b) a binder comprising at least 1 wt. % of a titanium compound based on the weight of said catalyst composition, wherein said titanium compound was anatase and rutile phases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc.
    Inventors: Christine N. Elia, Frederick Y. Lo, Jeffrey T. Elks, Darryl D. Lacy, Mohan Kalyanaraman
  • Publication number: 20140100401
    Abstract: The present invention relates to catalyst composition prepared by a method wherein an aluminosilicate zeolite having its pores filled with templating agent with a specific organic silicon compound to deposit said organic silicon compound on the surface of the zeolite to provide an organosilicon treated catalyst precursor; and calcining the organosilicon treated catalyst precursor under conditions sufficient to remove the templating agent from the zeolite. Furthermore, the present invention relates to a method for preparing said catalyst composition and a process for alkylation of an aromatic hydrocarbon comprising contacting the catalyst composition of the present invention with a feed stream comprising said aromatic hydrocarbon and an alkylating agent under aromatic alkylation conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2012
    Publication date: April 10, 2014
    Applicant: Saudi Basic Industries Corporation
    Inventor: Debasish Das
  • Patent number: 8685875
    Abstract: Methods for enhancing the mesoporosity of a zeolite-containing material. Such methods may comprise contacting a composite shaped article containing at least one zeolite and at least one non-zeolitic material with at least one pH controlling agent and at least one surfactant. Such methods may be performed under conditions sufficient to increase the pore volume of at least one 10 angstrom subset of mesoporosity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: Rive Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Javier Garcia-Martinez, Lawrence B. Dight, Barry K. Speronello
  • Patent number: 8680355
    Abstract: A novel olefin production process of the invention can be established as an industrial and practical process of producing an olefin with high selectivity by directly reacting a ketone and hydrogen in a single reaction step. In particular, a novel olefin production process is provided in which propylene is obtained with high selectivity by directly reacting acetone and hydrogen. An olefin production process of the invention includes reacting a ketone and hydrogen at a reaction temperature in the range of 50 to 300° C. in the presence of a Cu-containing hydrogenation catalyst and a solid acid substance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsui Chemcials, Inc.
    Inventors: Tsuneyuki Ohkubo, Kenji Fujiwara, Terunori Fujita
  • Patent number: 8680344
    Abstract: A process for the production and use of a molecular sieve blend with improved performance characteristics produced by preparing or obtaining a hydrophilic zeolite, particularly a hydrophilic zeolite 3A with a low SiO2:Al2O3 ratio, preparing or obtaining a hydrophobic silica binder, particularly a hydrophobic colloidal silica, mixing the zeolite with the silica binder to form a mixture, and forming the mixture into the molecular sieve blend.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: Zeochem LLC
    Inventors: Kerry C. Weston, Patrick Purcell
  • Patent number: 8679433
    Abstract: Disclosed are, inter alia, methods of forming coated substrates for use in catalytic converters, as well as washcoat compositions and methods suitable for using in preparation of the coated substrates, and the coated substrates formed thereby. The catalytic material is prepared by a plasma-based method, yielding catalytic material with a lower tendency to migrate on support at high temperatures, and thus less prone to catalyst aging after prolonged use. Also disclosed are catalytic converters using the coated substrates, which have favorable properties as compared to catalytic converters using catalysts deposited on substrates using solution chemistry. Also disclosed are exhaust treatment systems, and vehicles, such as diesel vehicles, particularly light-duty diesel vehicles, using catalytic converters and exhaust treatment systems using the coated substrates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: SDCmaterials, Inc.
    Inventors: Qinghua Yin, Xiwang Qi, Maximilian A. Biberger, Jayashir Sarkar
  • Publication number: 20140080696
    Abstract: A method of forming a zeolite shaped body is carried out by preparing an aqueous mixture containing a zeolite, a silica binder material and an extrusion aid. The extrusion aid is at least one of PVAc-PVA1 (80-89) and polyacrylamide. The mixture is formed into a body having a selected shape. The shaped body is heated to form the zeolite shaped body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2012
    Publication date: March 20, 2014
    Applicant: SAUDI BASIC INDUSTRIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ashim Kumar Ghosh, Corina Mihut, Meghann Simmons
  • Patent number: 8673803
    Abstract: An alkaline-earth metal compound-containing zeolite catalyst composed of a composite material comprising at least a first component, a second component, and a third component. The first component is composed of at least one of zeolites selected from a group consisting of proton-type zeolites and ammonium type zeolites. The second component is composed of at least one of alkaline-earth metal compounds. The third component is composed of at least one selected from a group consisting of aluminum oxides, aluminum hydroxides, silicon oxides, silicon hydroxides, and clay minerals. The first component has a molar ratio of Si/Al of 10 or more and 300 or less. Content of the second component relative to the first component is 0.3 mass % or more and less than 10 mass % as alkaline-earth metal. Content of the third component relative to the first component is 15 mass % or more and 200 mass % or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: JGC Corporation
    Inventors: Chizu Inaki, Hirofumi Ito, Kazunori Honda, Koji Oyama, Atsushi Okita
  • Patent number: 8673057
    Abstract: DDR nanocrystals of uniform size and structure were synthesized using hydrothermal secondary growth and then used to make DDR zeolite membranes and for any other use where uniform, small DDR zeolite crystals are beneficial.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: Georgia Tech Research Corporation
    Inventors: Zhengzhi Zhou, Sankar Nair
  • Patent number: 8664283
    Abstract: In one embodiment, the invention is to an ion exchange resin composition comprising a metal-functionalized exchange resin comprising from 3% to 94% metal-functionalized active sites; and a non-metal-functionalized exchange resin comprising non-metal-functionalized active sites.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: Celanese International Corporation
    Inventors: Greg Blanchard, Ronald D. Shaver, Brian W. Hokkanen, G. Paull Torrence
  • Publication number: 20140058181
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing phosphorus containing zeolite type catalysts based on crystalline aluminosilicates, the catalysts of this process and the use of these catalysts for the conversion of methanol to olefins.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2012
    Publication date: February 27, 2014
    Applicant: CLARIANT PRODUKTE (DEUTSCHLAND) GMBH
    Inventors: Manfred Frauenrath, Stefan Klingelhofer, Gotz Burgfels, Avelino Corma Canos, Joaquin Martinez Triguero, Elena Corresa Mateu
  • Publication number: 20140058180
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a new process for producing zeolite-containing catalysts, in which a modification with phosphorus-containing components is carried out, the catalyst obtainable thereby, and its use as catalyst in a process for producing lower olefins from oxygenates. The modification comprises removing weakly bound phosphorus-containing species by treatment with an aqueous solution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2012
    Publication date: February 27, 2014
    Applicant: CLARIANT PRODUKTE (DEUTSCHLAND) GmbH
    Inventors: Stefan Klingelhöfer, Manfred Frauenrath, Gotz Burgfels
  • Patent number: 8658553
    Abstract: A catalytic composition for transalkylation of aromatic hydrocarbons which contains a zeolite and an inorganic binder and has an extra-zeolitic porosity higher than or equal to 0.7 cc/g for a fraction of pores of which at least 30% have a diameter greater than 100 nanometers. A catalytic composition having a crushing strength not lower than 1.7 kg/mm and an apparent density not higher than 0.5 g/cc. A process for transalkylating polyalkylated aromatic hydrocarbons using a catalytic composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2014
    Assignee: Polimeri Europa S.p.A.
    Inventors: Elena Bencini, Gianni Girotti
  • Patent number: 8652437
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing an artificial zeolite. The method includes the steps of: heating a waste insulator to form a molten insulator; quenching and pulverizing the molten insulator; and heat treating the quenched and pulverized insulator in an alkaline aqueous solution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Prometron Technics Corp.
    Inventors: Teruo Henmi, Takayuki Nakamura, Toshiaki Ubukata, Hirokuni Matsuda, Shuji Tada
  • Publication number: 20140044625
    Abstract: A hydrocarbon trap is provided for reducing cold-start hydrocarbon emissions. The trap is formed by extruding from about 60 to 80% by weight zeolite and from about 20 to 40% by weight of a binder to form an extruded zeolite monolith. A three-way catalyst and an oxygen storage capacity material may also be included in the trap. The hydrocarbon trap contains from about 5.0 to 8.0 g/in.3 zeolite, which provides increased hydrocarbon retention. The hydrocarbon trap may be positioned in the exhaust gas passage of a vehicle such that hydrocarbons are adsorbed on the trap and stored until the monolith reaches a sufficient temperature for catalyst activation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2012
    Publication date: February 13, 2014
    Applicant: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Jason Aaron Lupescu, Hungwen Jen, Jeffrey Scott Hepburn
  • Patent number: 8642493
    Abstract: [Task] To improve activity of a lower hydrocarbon aromatization catalyst and the catalyst stability. [Solving Means] In a method for producing a lower hydrocarbon aromatization catalyst to produce an aromatic compound by a catalytic reaction using a lower hydrocarbon as a raw material, the catalyst includes a metallosilicate on which molybdenum is supported, a silane in 0.75 weight % or more relative to the metallosilicate component is supported, and the catalyst is prepared by conducting a compressive shaping without adding an inorganic binder that binds particles of the catalyst. As a result, the lower hydrocarbon aromatization catalyst maintains a sufficient shape-retaining property even by a compressive shaping in a binderless manner. Stability of the catalyst and activity of the catalyst improve by subjecting the lower hydrocarbon aromatization catalyst to a compressive shaping in a binderless manner. Its advantageous effect is conspicuous when the amount of addition in terms of silicon oxide is 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: Meidensha Corporation
    Inventor: Yuji Ogawa
  • Patent number: 8642499
    Abstract: A particulate catalytic cracking catalyst which comprises a zeolite having catalytic cracking ability under catalytic cracking conditions, added silica, precipitated alumina and, optionally clay. The catalytic cracking catalyst has a high matrix surface area and is useful in a catalytic cracking process, in particularly, a fluid catalytic cracking process, to improve bottoms conversion at a constant coke formation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: W. R. Grace & Co.-Conn.
    Inventors: Wu-Cheng Cheng, Kevin John Sutovich, Ruizhong Hu, Ranjit Kumar, Xinjin Zhao
  • Patent number: 8641993
    Abstract: A NOx absorber catalyst comprising an extruded solid body comprises either: (A) 10-95% by weight of at least one binder/matrix component; and 5-90% by weight of a zeolitic molecular sieve, a non-zeolitic molecular sieve or a mixture of any two or more thereof, which catalyst comprising at least one metal comprising (a) at least one precious metal; and (b) at least one alkali metal or at least one alkaline earth metal, wherein (a) and (b) are carried in one or more coating layer(s) on a surface of the extruded solid body; or (B) 10-95% by weight of at least one binder/matrix component; and 5-80% by weight optionally stabilized ceria, which catalyst comprising at least one metal comprising (a) at least one precious metal; and (b) at least one alkali metal or at least one alkaline earth metal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: Johnson Matthey Public Limited Co.
    Inventors: Ralf Dotzel, Rainer Leppelt, Elizabeth Hazel Mountstevens, Jörg Werner Münch, Paul Richard Phillips, Hubert Schedel, Daniel Swallow
  • Patent number: 8637419
    Abstract: Provided is a method for making a catalyst for hydroprocessing a carbonaceous feedstock under hyd reprocessing conditions. More particularly, the methods relate to inhibiting rapid decomposition of ammonium nitrate during calcination of the catalyst following metal impregnation, wherein ammonium nitrate is formed when a nitrate-containing composition and an ammonium-containing component is used in the deposition of metal onto the catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Chevron U.S.A. Inc.
    Inventor: Bi-Zeng Zhan
  • Patent number: 8636959
    Abstract: The present invention is an exhaust gas purification catalyst equipment, and a method of use thereof, formed by arranging a selective catalytic reduction type catalyst for purifying nitrogen oxides in exhaust gas exhausted from lean combustion engines using ammonia or urea as a reducing agent, it is provided with a selective catalytic reduction type catalyst, characterized in that said catalyst comprises a lower-layer catalyst layer (A) having an oxidative function for nitrogen monoxide (NO) in exhaust gas and an upper-layer catalyst layer (B) having an adsorbing function for ammonia on the surface of a monolithic structure type carrier (C), and that the lower-layer catalyst layer (A) comprises a noble metal component (i), an inorganic base material constituent (ii) and zeolite (iii), and the upper-layer catalyst layer (B) comprises substantially none of component (i) but the component (iii), in a flow path of exhaust gas, characterized in that a spraying means to supply an urea aqueous solution or an aqueous
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: N.E. Chemcat Corporation
    Inventors: Ryuji Ando, Takashi Hihara, Yasuharu Kanno, Makoto Nagata
  • Publication number: 20140018592
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a catalyst for the conversion of methanol to aromatics and the preparation of the same. The catalyst comprising 85 to 99 parts by weight of a ZSM-5 zeolite, 0.1 to 15 parts by weight of element M1, which is at least one selected from the group consisted of Ag, Zn and Ga, and 0 to 5 parts by weight of element M2, which is at least one selected from the group consisted of Mo, Cu, La, P, Ce and Co, wherein the total specific surface area of the catalyst ranges from 350 to 500 m2/g, and the micropore specific surface area ranges from 200 to 350 m2/g. The catalyst has high total specific surface area, micropore specific surface area and micropore volume. Good catalytic activity can be shown from the results of the reaction of aromatics preparation from methanol using the catalyst provided by the present invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2013
    Publication date: January 16, 2014
    Inventors: Xiqiang CHEN, Zheming Wang, Jinxian Xiao, Feng Xu
  • Patent number: 8629073
    Abstract: A catalyst is described which comprises at least one IZM-2 zeolite, at least one matrix and at least one metal selected from metals from groups VIII, VIB and VIIB, said zeolite having a chemical composition expressed as the anhydrous base in terms of moles of oxides by the following general formula: XO2:aY2O3:bM2/nO, in which X represents at least one tetravalent element, Y represents at least one trivalent element and M is at least one alkali metal and/or alkaline-earth metal with valency n, a and b respectively representing the number of moles of Y2O3 and M2/nO; and a is in the range 0.001 to 0.5 and b is in the range 0 to 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2014
    Assignee: IFP Energies Nouvelles
    Inventors: Emmanuelle Guillon, Nicolas Cadran, Sylvie Maury, Amandine Cabiac
  • Publication number: 20140011667
    Abstract: A silicon carbide porous body according to the present invention contains silicon carbide particles, metallic silicon, and an oxide phase, in which the silicon carbide particles are bonded together via at least one of the metallic silicon and the oxide phase. The primary component of the oxide phase is cordierite, and the open porosity is 10% to 40%. Preferably, the silicon carbide porous body contains 50% to 80% by weight of silicon carbide, 15% to 40% by weight of metallic silicon, and 1% to 25% by weight of cordierite. Preferably, the volume resistivity is 1 to 80 ?cm, and the thermal conductivity is 30 to 70 W/m·K.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2013
    Publication date: January 9, 2014
    Applicant: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Takahiro TOMITA, Kiyoshi MATSUSHIMA, Katsuhiro INOUE, Yoshimasa KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20140007493
    Abstract: The invention relates to catalyst compositions and components thereof for use in a catalytic process, and more particularly in a catalytic pyrolysis process or gasification of solid biomass material. In one aspect, a catalyst component is provided. The catalyst component includes a hybrid silica-alumina having a controlled Lewis acidity, and having a controlled porosity providing optimized accessibility for reactants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2013
    Publication date: January 9, 2014
    Applicant: KiOR, Inc.
    Inventors: Christine M. Henry, Stephen Schuylen, Jerry J. Springs, Dennis Stamires, Zongchao Zhang, Ling Zhou
  • Patent number: 8623508
    Abstract: Material with hierarchical and organized porosity in the microporosity and mesoporosity domains, consisting of at least two elementary spherical particles, each one of said particles comprising a matrix based on silicon oxide, mesostructured, having a mesopore diameter ranging between 1.5 and 30 nm and exhibiting microporous and crystallized walls of thickness ranging between 1 and 60 nm, said elementary spherical particles having a maximum diameter of 200 microns. The preparation of said material is also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Assignee: IFP
    Inventors: Alexandra Chaumonnot, Stephanie Pega, Clement Sanchez, Cedric Boissiere
  • Publication number: 20140005031
    Abstract: Inorganic material having at least two elementary spherical particles, each of said spherical metallic particles: a polyoxometallate with formula (XxMmOyHh)q?, where H is hydrogen, O is oxygen, X is phosphorus, silicon, boron, nickel or cobalt and M is one or more vanadium, niobium, tantalum, molybdenum, tungsten, iron, copper, zinc, cobalt and nickel, x is 0, 1, 2 or 4, m is 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 or 18, y is 17 to 72, h is 0 to 12 and q is 1 to 20.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2011
    Publication date: January 2, 2014
    Applicants: CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE, IFP ENERGIES NOUVELLES, UNIVERSITE PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE
    Inventors: Alexandra Chaumonnot, Clement Sanchez, Cedric Boissiere, Frederic Colbeau-Justin, Karin Marchand, Elodie Devers, Audrey Bonduelle, Denis Uzio, Antoine Daudin, Bertrand Guichard, Denis Uzio, Antoine Daudin
  • Publication number: 20140005457
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a catalyst for the conversion of oxygenates to olefins, wherein the catalyst comprises one or more zeolites of the MFI, MEL and/or MWW structure type and particles of one or more metal oxides, the one or more zeolites of the MFI, MEL and/or MWW structure type comprising one or more alkaline earth metals, and the particles of the one or more metal oxides comprising phosphorus, the phosphorus being present at least partly in oxidic form, and the one or more alkaline earth metals being selected from the group consisting of Mg, Ca, Sr, Ba and combinations of two or more thereof, to the preparation and use thereof, and to a process for converting oxygenates to olefins using the catalyst.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2013
    Publication date: January 2, 2014
    Inventors: Kirsten Spannhoff, Florina Corina Patcas, Kerem Bay, Manuela Gaab, Ekkehard Schwab, Michael Hesse
  • Publication number: 20140005455
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for converting oxygenates to olefins, comprising (1) providing a gas stream comprising one or more ethers; (2) contacting the gas stream provided in (1) with a catalyst, the catalyst comprising a support substrate and a layer applied to the substrate, the layer comprising one or more zeolites of the MFI, MEL and/or MWW structure type.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2013
    Publication date: January 2, 2014
    Inventors: Kirsten Spannhoff, Florina Corina Patcas, Ekkehard Schwab, Alexander Weck, Kerem Bay