Zsm Type Patents (Class 502/77)
  • Patent number: 7700816
    Abstract: An oxygenate conversion catalyst useful in the conversion of oxygenates such as methanol to olefinic products may be improved by the use of a catalyst combination based on a molecular sieve in combination with a co-catalyst comprising a mixed metal oxide composition which has oxidation/reduction functionality under the conditions of the conversion. This metal oxide co-catalyst component will comprise a mixed oxide of one or more, preferably at least two, transition metals, usually of Series 4, 5 or 6 of the Periodic Table, with the metals of Series 4 being preferred, as an essential component of the mixed oxide composition. The preferred transition metals are those of Groups 5, especially titanium and vanadium, Group 6, especially chromium or molybdenum, Group 7, especially manganese and Group 8, especially cobalt or nickel. Other metal oxides may also be present.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2010
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc.
    Inventors: Teng Xu, Tan-Jen Chen, Neeraj Sangar, John Di Yi Ou
  • Patent number: 7691767
    Abstract: Provided are a catalyst which inhibits light paraffins form being produced in catalytic cracking of heavy hydrocarbons and which effectively produces olefins and a process in which the above catalyst is used to produce olefins from heavy hydrocarbons at a high yield. The catalyst is a catalytic cracking catalyst for catalytically cracking a hydrocarbon raw material, comprising (A) pentasil type zeolite modified with a rare earth element and zirconium and (B) faujasite type zeolite, and the process is a production process for olefin and a fuel oil, comprising bringing a heavy oil containing 50 mass % or more of a hydrocarbon fraction having a boiling point of 180° C. or higher into contact with the catalyst described above to crack it.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2010
    Assignees: Research Association of Refinery Integration for Group-Operation, Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenichi Wakui, Kinsho Furusawa, Akio Suwa, Toshio Itoh, Hisao Nagashima
  • Patent number: 7691768
    Abstract: A process for the preparation and modification of additives, with a zeolite base and a high silica alumina ratio (SAR) like the ZSM-5, to increase the yield of propene and LPG in low severity FCC operations, that seeks to maximize the production of medium-distillates with low aromaticity and to minimize molecular cracking in the LCO range. The additives involved guarantee an increase in light olefin yields without altering the yield or the quality of the LCO produced. The innovative process includes surprising actions from rare earths (RE) on the active sites of zeolite, that at once partially block their pores and, in this way, make molecular cracking in the medium-distillate range difficult, which preferably occur at low reaction temperatures and keeps the remaining sites quite active.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2010
    Assignee: Petroleo Basileiro S.A. - Petrobras
    Inventors: Lam Yiu Lau, Raquel Bastiani, Claudia Maria de Lacerda Alvarenga Baptista
  • Patent number: 7687423
    Abstract: The subject invention comprises a novel UZM-14 catalytic material comprising globular aggregates of crystallites having a MOR framework type with a mean crystallite length parallel to the direction of 12-ring channels of about 60 nm or less and a mesopore volume of at least about 0.10 cc/gram. Catalysts formed from the novel material are particularly effective for the transalkylation of aromatics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2010
    Assignee: UOP LLC
    Inventors: Jaime G. Moscoso, Edwin P. Boldingh, Michael G. Gatter, Susan C. Koster
  • Publication number: 20100075834
    Abstract: The present invention provides a process for the preparation of metal-doped zeolites comprising the steps of i) provision of a dry mixture of a) a zeolite, b) a compound of a catalytically active metal, ii) intimate grinding of the mixture, iii) heating of the mixture in a reactor, iv) cooling to room temperature and obtaining the metal-doped zeolite, wherein the internal pressure in the reactor during the heating is kept in a pressure range from 0 to ?200 millibar. The invention further relates to the use of a metal-doped zeolite prepared by means of the process according to the invention for the conversion of NOx and N2O into harmless products.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2007
    Publication date: March 25, 2010
    Inventors: Soovi Hurgobin, Arno Tissler, Ashveer Raghunandan, Attila Jambor, Rainer Rakoczy, Roderik Althoff
  • Patent number: 7678182
    Abstract: A material for filtering NO2 and nitric acid vapors from air over a wide range of humidities and temperatures including a porous hydrophobic substrate and an amine is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2010
    Assignee: Guild Associates, Inc.
    Inventors: William B. Feaver, Joseph A. Rossin
  • Patent number: 7678954
    Abstract: In a process for producing a hydrocarbon composition, a feed comprising at least one C3 to C8 olefin and an olefinic recycle stream rich in C9? hydrocarbons is contacted with a crystalline molecular sieve catalyst having an average crystal size no greater than 0.05 micron and an alpha value between about 100 and about 600 in at least one reaction zone under olefin oligomerization conditions including an inlet temperature between about 150° C. and about 350° C., a pressure of at least 2,860 kPa and a recycle to feed weight ratio of about 0.1 to about 3.0. The contacting produces an oligomerization effluent stream, which is separated into at least a hydrocarbon product stream rich in C9+ hydrocarbons and the olefinic recycle stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2010
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Chemical Patents, Inc.
    Inventors: Keith H. Kuechler, Stephen Harold Brown, Helge Jaensch, Georges M. Mathys, Shifang Luo, Jane C. Cheng
  • Patent number: 7670983
    Abstract: Fischer-Tropsch hydrocarbon synthesis using a noncobalt catalyst is used to produce waxy fuel and lubricant oil hydrocarbons from synthesis gas derived from natural gas. The waxy hydrocarbons are hydrodewaxed, with reduced conversion to lower boiling hydrocarbons, by contacting the waxy hydrocarbons, in the presence of hydrogen, with an unsulfided hydrodewaxing catalyst that has been reduced and then treated by contacting it with a stream containing one or more oxygenates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2010
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company
    Inventors: Adeana Richelle Bishop, William Berlin Genetti, Jack Wayne Johnson, Loren Leon Ansell, Nancy Marie Page
  • Patent number: 7662737
    Abstract: Disclosed is a bound phosphorus-modified zeolite catalyst. Zeolite is treated with a phosphorus compound to form the phosphorus-treated zeolite. Binder material is treated with a mineral acid prior to being bound with the phosphorus-modified zeolite. The binder material includes inorganic oxide materials, such as alumina, clay, aluminum phosphate and silica-alumina, in particular, a binder of alumina or clay or their combinations. The mineral acid includes hydrochloric acid, nitric acid, phosphoric acid or sulfuric acid. The phosphorus-treated zeolite is combined with the acid-treated inorganic oxide binder material to form a zeolite-binder mixture. Water is added to form an extrudable paste which maybe shaped and is heated to a temperature of about 400° C. or higher to form a bound phosphorus-modified zeolite catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2010
    Assignee: Saudi Basic Industries Corporation
    Inventors: Ashim Kumar Ghosh, Pamela Harvey, Neeta Kulkarni
  • Patent number: 7662273
    Abstract: A process for producing lube oil basestocks wherein a wax containing lube oil boiling range feedstream is converted into a basestock suitable for use in motor oil applications by contacting it with a hydrodewaxing catalyst containing a medium pore molecular sieve having deposited thereon an active metal oxide and at least one hydrogenation metal selected from the Group VIII and Group VIB metals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2010
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company
    Inventors: William J. Murphy, Stuart L. Soled, Ian A. Cody, David W. Larkin, Terry E. Helton, Gary B. McVicker
  • Patent number: 7655593
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a cobalt catalyst is described, which comprises the steps of forming an aqueous solution of a cobalt amine complex, oxidising said solution such that the concentration of Co(III) in the oxidised solution is greater than the concentration of Co(III) in the un-oxidized solution, and then decomposing the cobalt amine complex by heating the solution to a temperature between 80 and 110° C. for sufficient time to allow an insoluble cobalt compound to precipitate out of the solution. A catalyst intermediate is also described which comprises a cobalt compound, comprising a Co(II)/Co(III) hydrotalcite phase and a CO3O4 cobalt spine) phase, wherein the ratio of cobalt hydrotalcite phase: cobalt spine) phase is less than 0.6:1, said cobalt hydrotalcite phase and said cobalt spine) phase being measured by X-ray diffractometry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2010
    Assignee: Johnson Matthey PLC
    Inventors: Cornelis Martinus Lok, Jill Turner
  • Publication number: 20100016647
    Abstract: A catalyst for producing aromatic compounds from lower hydrocarbons while improving activity life stability of methane conversion rate; benzene formation rate; naphthalene formation rate; and total formation rate of benzene, toluene and xylene is formed by loading molybdenum and copper on metallo-silicate serving as a substrate and then calcining the metallo-silicate. When the catalyst is reacted with a reaction gas containing lower hydrocarbons and carbonic acid gas, aromatic compounds are produced. In order to obtain the catalyst, it is preferable that molybdenum and copper are loaded on zeolite formed of metallo-silicate after the zeolite is treated with a silane compound larger than a pore of the zeolite in diameter and having an amino group and a straight-chain hydrocarbon group, the amino group being able to selectively react with the zeolite at a Bronsted acid point of the zeolite. It is preferable that a loaded amount of molybdenum is within a range of from 2 to 12 wt.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2008
    Publication date: January 21, 2010
    Applicant: MEIDENSHA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinichi Yamada, Tomohiro Yamada, Yuji Ogawa, Hirokazu Akiyama, Takuya Hatagishi
  • Patent number: 7641787
    Abstract: Compositions for reduction of NOx generated during a catalytic cracking process, preferably, a fluid catalytic cracking process, are disclosed. The compositions comprise a fluid catalytic cracking catalyst composition, preferably containing a Y-type zeolite, and a particulate NOx composition containing particles of a zeolite having a pore size ranging from about 3 to about 7.2 Angstroms and a SiO2 to Al2O3 molar ratio of less than about 500. Preferably, the NOx reduction composition contains NOx reduction zeolite particles bound with an inorganic binder. In the alternative, the NOx reduction zeolite particles are incorporated into the cracking catalyst as an integral component of the catalyst. Compositions in accordance with the invention are very effective for the reduction of NOx emissions released from the regenerator of a fluid catalytic cracking unit operating under FCC process conditions without a substantial change in conversion or yield of cracked products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2010
    Assignee: W.R. Grace & Co.-Conn.
    Inventors: George Yaluris, Michael Scott Ziebarth, Xinjin Zhao
  • Publication number: 20090325786
    Abstract: A hydrocarbon conversion catalyst, which comprises, based on the total weight of the catalyst, 1-60 wt % of a zeolite mixture, 5-99 wt % of a thermotolerant inorganic oxide and 0-70 wt % of clay, wherein said zeolite mixture comprises, based on the total weight of said zeolite mixture, 1-75 wt % of a zeolite beta modified with phosphorus and a transition metal M, 25-99 wt % of a zeolite having a MFI structure and 0-74 wt % of a large pore zeolite, wherein the anhydrous chemical formula of the zeolite beta modified with phosphorus and the transition metal M is represented in the mass percent of the oxides as (0-0.3)Na2O.(0.5-10)Al2O3.(1.3-10)P2O5.(0.7-15)MxOy.(64-97)SiO2, in which the transition metal M is one or more selected from the group consisting of Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Mn, Zn and Sn; x represents the atom number of the transition metal M, and y represents a number needed for satisfying the oxidation state of the transition metal M.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2006
    Publication date: December 31, 2009
    Applicant: CHINA PETROLEUM & CHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yujian Liu, Huiping Tian, Xingtian Shu, Jun Long, Yibin Luo, Chaogang Xie, Zhenyu Chen, Liuzhou Zhao, Yuxia Zhu, Youbao Lu
  • Patent number: 7638453
    Abstract: A catalyst composition containing a medium pore molecular sieve having deposited thereon an active metal oxide and at least one hydrogenation metal selected from the Group VIII and Group VIB metals for use in hydrodewaxing lube oil boiling range feedstreams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2009
    Assignee: ExxonMobile Research and Engineering Company
    Inventors: William J. Murphy, Stuart L. Soled, Ian A. Cody, David W. Larkin, Terry E. Helton, Gary B. McVicker
  • Patent number: 7632771
    Abstract: A method is provided for making pure-silica-zeolite films useful as low-k material, specifically, more hydrophobic, homogeneous and with absence of cracks. The method utilizes a UV cure; preferably the UV cure is performed at temperatures at higher than the deposition temperature. The UV-assisted cure removes the organic template promoting organic functionalization and silanol condensation, making the silica-zeolite films more hydrophobic. Moreover, the zeolite material is also mechanically stronger and crack-free. The method can be used to prepare pure-silica-zeolite films more suitable as low-k materials in semiconductor processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2009
    Assignees: IMEC, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KUL)
    Inventors: Francesca Iacopi, Salvador Eslava Fernandez, Christine Kirschhock, Johan Martens
  • Publication number: 20090293720
    Abstract: A method device and material for performing adsorption wherein a fluid mixture is passed through a channel in a structured adsorbent bed having a solid adsorbent comprised of adsorbent particles having a general diameter less than 100 um, loaded in a porous support matrix defining at least one straight flow channel. The adsorbent bed is configured to allow passage of a fluid through said channel and diffusion of a target material into said adsorbent under a pressure gradient driving force. The targeted molecular species in the fluid mixture diffuses across the porous support retaining layer, contacts the adsorbent, and adsorbs on the adsorbent, while the remaining species in the fluid mixture flows out of the channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2008
    Publication date: December 3, 2009
    Inventor: Wei Liu
  • Patent number: 7626067
    Abstract: The present invention is a process for cleaning and using byproduct water from an oxygenate to olefin process to satisfy the water requirement of the oxygenate to olefin process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2009
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc.
    Inventors: Cor F. Van Egmond, Zhong Yi Ding, James H. Beech, Jr., Michael P. Nicoletti
  • Publication number: 20090291826
    Abstract: A honeycomb structure includes at least one honeycomb unit. The at least one honeycomb unit includes zeolite, inorganic binder, and cell walls extending from a first end face to a second end face along a longitudinal direction of the at least one honeycomb unit to define cells. The at least one honeycomb unit includes a cross-sectional surface orthogonal to the longitudinal direction having a substantially square shape. An aperture ratio of the at least one honeycomb unit is in a range from about 50% to about 65%. A formula 12.5V+50<Lc/wc<12.5V+200 is satisfied, where V (liter) denotes the volume of the honeycomb structure and the wc (cm) and Lc (cm) denote a cell width and a total length of the cells, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2009
    Publication date: November 26, 2009
    Applicant: IBIDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazushige Ohno, Masafumi Kunieda, Takahiko Ido
  • Publication number: 20090291824
    Abstract: A honeycomb structure includes a honeycomb structure includes a honeycomb unit. The honeycomb unit has thermal conductivity equal to or greater than about 0.15 W/m/K but less than or equal to about 0.60 W/m/K and has Young's modulus equal to or greater than about 1.5 MPa but less than or equal to about 7.0 Mpa. The honeycomb unit includes zeolite, an inorganic binder, and partition walls. The partition walls extend along a longitudinal direction of the honeycomb unit to define plural through holes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2009
    Publication date: November 26, 2009
    Applicant: IBIDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazushige OHNO, Masafumi Kunieda, Takahiko Ido
  • Publication number: 20090291825
    Abstract: A honeycomb structure includes a honeycomb unit containing zeolite and an inorganic binder and having cell walls extending from one end to another end along a longitudinal direction of the honeycomb unit to define cells. An amount of zeolite contained per apparent unit volume of the honeycomb unit is approximately 230 g/L or more. A thickness X mm of the cell walls is in a range from approximately 0.15 mm to approximately 0.35 mm. A mathematical formula 40X+20?Y?40X+30 is satisfied when a porosity of the cell walls is defined as Y %.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2009
    Publication date: November 26, 2009
    Applicant: IBIDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazushige Ohno, Masafumi Kunieda, Takahiko Ido
  • Publication number: 20090291829
    Abstract: A honeycomb structure includes at least one honeycomb unit. The at least one honeycomb unit has a longitudinal direction and cell walls extending from one end face to another end face along the longitudinal direction to define cells. The at least one honeycomb unit includes an inorganic binder, and zeolite ion-exchanged with plural kinds of metal ions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2009
    Publication date: November 26, 2009
    Applicant: IBIDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazushige OHNO, Takahiko IDO
  • Publication number: 20090291827
    Abstract: A honeycomb structure includes at least one honeycomb unit and a coat layer provided at a peripheral surface of the honeycomb structure. The honeycomb unit includes zeolite, an inorganic binder, and cell walls extending from a first end face to a second end face of the honeycomb unit along a longitudinal direction of the honeycomb unit to define cells. A ratio ?c/?h is equal to or larger than about 0.75 and equal to or smaller than about 1.25. Ec/Eh is equal to or larger than about 0.75 and equal to or smaller than about 1.25. The ?c and ?h are coefficients of thermal expansion of the coat layer and the honeycomb unit, respectively, in a radial direction of the honeycomb structure. The Ec and Eh are Young's moduli of the coat layer and the honeycomb unit, respectively, in the radial direction of the honeycomb structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2009
    Publication date: November 26, 2009
    Applicant: IBIDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazushige Ohno, Masafumi Kunieda, Takahiko Ido
  • Publication number: 20090291034
    Abstract: A honeycomb structure includes at least one honeycomb unit including zeolite, an inorganic binder, and cell walls. The cell walls extend from a first end face to a second end face to define cells along a longitudinal direction of the at least one honeycomb unit. Each of the cell walls includes a center part in the longitudinal direction and a first end part adjacent to the first end face. The first end part has a thickness larger than a thickness of the center part, and/or the first end part has a porosity smaller than a porosity of the center part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2009
    Publication date: November 26, 2009
    Applicant: IBIDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazushige OHNO, Masafumi Kunieda, Takahiko Ido
  • Publication number: 20090291830
    Abstract: A honeycomb structure includes a center area, an outer peripheral area, and at least one honeycomb unit having a longitudinal direction. The center area has a smaller similarity shape in relation to a peripheral shape of the honeycomb structure in a cross section perpendicular to the longitudinal direction. The smaller similarity shape is defined by including a center of the honeycomb structure and substantially a half of a length from the center to the peripheral shape of the honeycomb structure. The outer peripheral area is located outside the smaller similarity shape. An aperture ratio of the honeycomb structure is from approximately 50% to approximately 65% in the cross section of the honeycomb structure. The aperture ratio includes a first aperture ratio in the outer peripheral area and a second aperture ratio in the center area. The first aperture ratio is larger than the second aperture ratio.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2009
    Publication date: November 26, 2009
    Applicant: IBIDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazushige OHNO, Masafumi Kunieda, Takahiko Ido
  • Publication number: 20090291836
    Abstract: A honeycomb structure includes at least one honeycomb unit which includes walls. The walls have a thickness of from about 0.10 mm to about 0.50 mm and extend along a longitudinal direction of the honeycomb structure to define through-holes. The honeycomb structure has a center area inside a boundary line passing through positions located at substantially a half of a length from a center of the honeycomb structure to a periphery of the honeycomb structure in a cross section perpendicular to the longitudinal direction. The honeycomb structure has a peripheral area outside the boundary line. A thickness of the walls located in the peripheral area is larger than a thickness of the walls located in the center area. A first opening ratio in the center area in the cross section is larger than a second opening ratio in the peripheral area in the cross section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2009
    Publication date: November 26, 2009
    Applicant: IBIDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazushige OHNO, Masafumi Kunieda, Takahiko Ido
  • Publication number: 20090291828
    Abstract: A honeycomb structure includes a plurality of honeycomb units and an adhesive layer. Each of the plurality of honeycomb units has a longitudinal direction and includes zeolite, an inorganic binder, a first end face, a second end face, and a cell wall. The second end face is located opposite to the first end face in the longitudinal direction. The cell wall extends from the first end face to the second end face along the longitudinal direction to define cells. The adhesive layer includes zeolite and is provided between the plurality of honeycomb units to connect the plurality of honeycomb units. A ratio of a coefficient of thermal expansion of the adhesive layer to a coefficient of thermal expansion of each of the plurality of honeycomb units is in a range from approximately 0.8 to approximately 1.2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2009
    Publication date: November 26, 2009
    Applicant: IBIDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazushige OHNO, Masafumi KUNIEDA, Takahiko IDO
  • Publication number: 20090291840
    Abstract: A honeycomb structure includes at least one honeycomb unit having a longitudinal direction and including cell walls extending along the longitudinal direction from one end face to another end face to define cells. The at least one honeycomb unit includes inorganic particles, inorganic binder, and inorganic fibers. The inorganic fibers include a bio-soluble inorganic compound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2009
    Publication date: November 26, 2009
    Applicant: IBIDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazushige OHNO, Masafumi KUNIEDA, Takahiko IDO
  • Publication number: 20090291841
    Abstract: A honeycomb structure includes at least one honeycomb unit and a peripheral wall at a peripheral surface connecting one end face and another end face of the honeycomb structure. The honeycomb unit includes inorganic particles, an inorganic binder, and cell walls extending along a longitudinal direction of the at least one honeycomb unit to define cells. The at least one honeycomb unit has a b-axis compression strength of about 1.0 MPa or less. A thickness T of the peripheral wall of the honeycomb structure is larger than 0.42V-0.25 (mm), where V is a volume of the honeycomb structure and in a range from about 1.0 liters to about 10 liters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2009
    Publication date: November 26, 2009
    Applicant: IBIDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazushige OHNO, Masafumi KUNIEDA, Takahiko IDO
  • Patent number: 7622413
    Abstract: A multifunctional additive for maximizing yield of light olefins and LPG, with a tolerance to contaminant metals. Maximization of the referenced properties is accomplished through the use of a zeolite treated with a phosphorus source, calcined and impregnated with a rare earth salt. The process for preparation of the referenced catalyst includes the following steps: preparation of a precursor containing a zeolite that is selective of olefins with a source of phosphorus; placement of a source of phosphorus in this precursor through calcination; deposition of rare earth salts on the surface of the additive for maximizing the yield of light olefins and LPG that forms; and drying the multifunctional additive formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2009
    Assignee: Petroleo Brasileiro S.A. - Petrobras
    Inventors: Lam Yiu Lau, Eliane Bernad Castro Mattos, Joao Eduardo Cerutti Karam, Ricardo Drolhe Montaury Pimenta, Rodolfo Eugênio Roncolatto
  • Publication number: 20090263297
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a catalytic composition comprising a first catalyst composition portion that comprises a zeolite; and a second catalyst composition portion that comprises a catalytic metal disposed upon a porous inorganic substrate; the first catalyst composition portion and the second catalyst composition portion being in an intimate mixture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2009
    Publication date: October 22, 2009
    Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Dan Hancu, Donald Wayne Whisenhunt, JR., Benjamin Hale Winkler, Benjamin Rue Wood, Hrishikesh Keshavan
  • Patent number: 7601330
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for producing a binder-free ZSM-5 zeolite in small crystal size. The invention is primarily used for solving the problems in the practical application, e.g., the zeolite powder is difficult to be recovered and easily inactivates and aggregates, and the addition of the binder in the shaping process will result in the reduction of effective surface areas and introduce the diffusional limitation. Said problems are better solved in the present invention by using diatomite or silica aerogel as the main starting material, adding a seed crystal orienting agent, a silica sol and sodium silicate for kneading and shaping, and then converting to integrative ZSM-5 in small crystal size by vapor-solid phase crystallization with organic amine and water vapor. Said process can be used in the industrial preparation of ZSM-5 molecular sieve catalyst in small crystal size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2009
    Assignees: China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation, Shanghai Research Institute of Petroleum Technology SINOPEC
    Inventors: Deju Wang, Zhongneng Liu, Jiang Zhao, Xinghua Jiang
  • Patent number: 7585489
    Abstract: A process is disclosed for enhancing the production of light olefins using a catalyst with small pores. The catalyst comprises a molecular sieve having 10 membered rings with channels of limited length. The molecular sieve has a high silica to alumina ratio and has pores sized to limit production of aromatics in the cracking process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2009
    Assignee: UOP LLC
    Inventors: Hayim Abrevaya, Suheil F. Abdo, R. Lyle Patton
  • Patent number: 7585804
    Abstract: A catalyst composition suitable for reacting hydrocarbons such as in fluidized catalytic cracking (FCC) comprises an attrition-resistant particulate having at least 30% of an intermediate pore zeolite, kaolin, a phosphorous compound, and a high density unreactive component. An example of an unreactive component is alpha-alumina. The catalyst can also contain a reactive alumina of high surface area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2009
    Assignee: BASF Catalysts LLC
    Inventors: Gary M. Smith, Barry K. Speronello
  • Patent number: 7582203
    Abstract: Described is a hydrocarbon cracking process for converting a heavy hydrocarbon feedstock selectively to middle distillate and lower olefins by catalytically cracking a heavy hydrocarbon feedstock within a riser reactor zone by contacting the heavy hydrocarbon feedstock with both a middle distillate selective cracking catalyst in combination with a shape selective zeolite additive under suitable catalytic cracking reaction conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2009
    Assignee: Shell Oil Company
    Inventors: Weijian Mo, Georghios Agamemnonons Hadjigeorge, Frank Hsian Hok Khouw
  • Publication number: 20090216058
    Abstract: A process for producing a catalyst additive for an FCC catalytic cracking process, the process comprising the steps of providing an MFI or MEL aluminosilicate having a silicon/aluminium atomic ratio of from 10 to 250; de-aluminating the MFI or MEL aluminosilicate by extracting from 20 to 40 wt % of the alumina therefrom; combining the de-aluminated MFI or MEL aluminosilicate with a binder; and calcining the combination of the de-aluminated MFI or MEL aluminosilicate and the binder at elevated temperature to produce the catalyst additive.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2006
    Publication date: August 27, 2009
    Applicant: Total Petrochemicals Research Feluy
    Inventors: Jean-Pierre Dath, Walter Vermeiren, Andre Noiret
  • Patent number: 7576026
    Abstract: A method of treating a ZSM-5-type zeolite catalyst is carried out by treating a ZSM-5 zeolite catalyst having a silica/alumina mole ratio of at least about 200 with a phosphorus compound. The phosphorus-treated ZSM-5 zeolite catalyst is calcined and steamed. Steaming of the catalyst is carried out at a temperature of less than about 300° C. The phosphorus-treated ZSM-5 zeolite catalyst has less than 0.05% by weight of the catalyst of any other element other than phosphorus provided from any treatment of the ZSM-5 zeolite with a compound containing said other element. The catalyst may be used in aromatic alkylation by contacting the catalyst with feed of an aromatic hydrocarbon and an alkylating agent within a reactor under reactor conditions suitable for aromatic alkylation. Water cofeed may be introduced water into the reactor during the aromatic alkylation reaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2009
    Assignee: Saudi Basic Industries Corporation
    Inventors: Ashim Kumar Ghosh, Neeta Kulkarni, Pamela Harvey, Roncalli J. Twomey
  • Publication number: 20090186754
    Abstract: Catalysts for dewaxing of hydrocarbon feeds, particularly feeds with elevated sulfur and nitrogen levels, are provided. The dewaxing catalysts include a zeolite with a low silica to alumina ratio combined with a low surface binder, or alternatively the formulated catalyst has a high ratio of zeolite surface area to external surface area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2008
    Publication date: July 23, 2009
    Inventors: Christine Elia, Mohan Kalyanaraman, Lei Zhang, Madhav Acharya, Michael A. Daage, Darden Sinclair, Jocelyn A. Kowalski, Jose G. Santiesteban, Ajit B. Dandekar
  • Patent number: 7563744
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a catalyst for the purification of exhaust gases from an internal combustion engine, which comprises a catalytically active coating on an inert ceramic or metal honeycomb body, said coating comprising at least one platinum group metal selected from the group consisting of platinum, palladium, rhodium and iridium on a fine, oxidic support material. As an oxidic support material, the catalyst comprises a low-porosity material on the basis of silicon dioxide that comprises aggregates of essentially spherical primary particles having an average particle diameter of between 7 and 60 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2009
    Assignee: Umicore AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Harald Klein, Ulrich Neuhausen, Egbert Lox, Jürgen Gieshoff, Thomas Kreuzer
  • Publication number: 20090176643
    Abstract: Catalysts for dewaxing of hydrocarbon feeds, particularly feeds with elevated sulfur and nitrogen levels, are provided. The dewaxing catalysts include a zeolite with a low silica to alumina ratio combined with a low surface binder, or alternatively the formulated catalyst has a high ratio of zeolite surface area to external surface area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2008
    Publication date: July 9, 2009
    Inventors: Christine N. Elia, Mohan Kalyanaraman, Michel A. Daage, Stephen H. Brown, Lei Zhang, Robert A. Crane, Valery Sokolovskii, David M. Lowe, Jun Han, Nicholas Ohler, Daniel M. Giaquinta, Anthony F. Volpe, JR.
  • Patent number: 7553791
    Abstract: A catalyst composition, a process for producing the composition and a process for the conversion of a feedstock containing C9+ aromatic hydrocarbons to produce a resulting product containing lighter aromatic products and less than about 0.5 wt % of ethylbenzene based on the weight of C8 aromatics fraction of the resulting product. The C9+ aromatic hydrocarbons are converted under the transalkylation reaction conditions to a reaction product containing xylene. The catalyst composition comprises (i) an acidity component having an alpha value of at least 300; and (ii) a hydrogenation component having hydrogenation activity of at least 300. The composition can be produced by to incorporating at least one hydrogenation component into an acidity component having an alpha value of at least 300.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2009
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy Edward McMinn, David Anthony Stachelczyk
  • Patent number: 7550405
    Abstract: A catalytic material includes microporous zeolites supported on a mesoporous inorganic oxide support. The microporous zeolite can include zeolite Beta, zeolite Y (including “ultra stable Y”—USY), mordenite, Zeolite L, ZSM-5, ZSM-11, ZSM-12, ZSM-20, Theta-1, ZSM-23, ZSM-34, ZSM-35, ZSM-48, SSZ-32, PSH-3, MCM-22, MCM-49, MCM-56, ITQ-1, ITQ-2, ITQ-4, ITQ-21, SAPO-5, SAPO-11, SAPO-37, Breck-6, ALPO4-5, etc. The mesoporous inorganic oxide can be e.g., silica or silicate. The catalytic material can be further modified by introducing some metals e.g. aluminum, titanium, molybdenum, nickel, cobalt, iron, tungsten, palladium and platinum. It can be used as catalysts for acylation, alkylation, dimerization, oligomerization, polymerization, hydrogenation, dehydrogenation, aromatization, isomerization, hydrotreating, catalytic cracking and hydrocracking reactions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2009
    Assignee: Lummus Technology Inc.
    Inventors: Zhiping Shan, Peter Wilhelm Gerhard Waller, Bowden George Maingay, Philip J. Angevine, Jacobus Cornelis Jansen, Chuen Y. Yeh, Thomas Maschmeyer, Frits M. Dautzenberg, Leonardo Marchese, Heloise de Oliveira Pastore
  • Patent number: 7547653
    Abstract: A catalyst composition suitable for reacting hydrocarbons such as in fluidized catalytic cracking (FCC) comprises an attrition-resistant particulate having at least 30% of an intermediate pore zeolite, kaolin, a phosphorous compound, and a high density unreactive component. An example of an unreactive component is alpha-alumina. The catalyst can also contain a reactive alumina of high surface area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2009
    Assignee: BASF Catalysts LLC
    Inventors: Gary M. Smith, Barry K. Speronello
  • Publication number: 20090143221
    Abstract: Zeolite-based honeycomb bodies and methods of manufacturing same. Zeolite-based honeycomb bodies especially suited for engine exhaust treatment applications include a primary phase comprising a zeolite having a SiO2 to Al2O3 molar ratio in the range from 5 to 300. The zeolite-based composites are porous with an open porosity of at least 25% and a median pore diameter of at least 1 micron. The zeolite-based honeycomb bodies can be manufactured by an extrusion method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2008
    Publication date: June 4, 2009
    Inventors: Steven Bolaji Ogunwumi, Patrick David Tepesch, Raja Rao Wusirika
  • Patent number: 7534738
    Abstract: An emission control catalyst that exhibits improved CO and HC reduction performance includes a supported platinum-based catalyst, and a supported palladium-gold catalyst. The two catalysts are coated onto different layers, zones, or monoliths of the substrate for the emission control catalyst such that the platinum-based catalyst encounters the exhaust stream before the palladium-gold catalyst. Zeolite may be added to the emission control catalyst as a hydrocarbon absorbing component to boost the oxidation activity of the palladium-gold catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2009
    Assignee: Nanostellar, Inc.
    Inventors: Kyle L. Fujdala, Timothy J. Truex
  • Patent number: 7531706
    Abstract: A process for producing olefin by catalytic cracking of hydrocarbon material characterized in employing zeolite of penta-sil type comprising rare earth elements and at least one of manganese or zirconium as a catalyst. It enables to produce light olefin such as ethylene, propylene, and so on with selectively high yield and with long term stability, by catalytic cracking of gaseous or liquid hydrocarbon as ingredients under lower temperature than the conventional method and suppressing by-product such as aromatic hydrocarbon or heavy substances.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2009
    Assignee: Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenichi Wakui, Yoshihiro Nakamura, Mitsuaki Hayashi
  • Patent number: 7524788
    Abstract: Process for preparing alkylated aromatic compounds which comprises reacting an aromatic compound with a ketone and hydrogen in the presence of a catalytic composition comprising a solid acid material and copper. A preferred aspect is to use a catalytic composition also containing one or more elements selected from elements of groups IIIA, IVA, IIIB, IVB, VB, VIB, VIIB, group VIII limited to Fe, Ru and Os, and of the series of lanthanides. A particularly preferred aspect is to use a catalytic composition containing one or more elements selected from elements of groups IIIA and VIB.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2009
    Assignee: Polimeri Europa S.p.A.
    Inventors: Gianni Girotti, Franco Rivetti, Stefano Ramello
  • Publication number: 20090099006
    Abstract: The present, invention relates to a process for the production of additives for catalysts for fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) based on zeolite that is selective for light olefins, with the aim of increasing the yields, in FCC units, of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) and light olefins, of high added value, among others propene and isobutene. This invention provides a method of preparation of catalytic compositions, starting from zeolite modified with phosphate and alkaline-earth metal, that leads to the production of an additive with better performance than the additives, of similar compositions, obtained by other methods of the prior art. The process can be regarded as a development in relation to other processes, as it promotes interaction between the zeolite that is selective for light olefins and its activator, reagent “X”. For this, a separate stage is used during the sequence of stages in the preparation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2008
    Publication date: April 16, 2009
    Inventors: Marlon Brando BEZERRA DE ALMEIDA, Alexandre de Figueiredo COSTA, Lam Yiu LAU, Eliane Bernadete Castro MATTOS, Sergio Augusto Santos RODRIGUES
  • Patent number: 7517826
    Abstract: A multi-layer emission control catalyst exhibits improved CO and HC reduction performance. The bottom layer includes a supported catalyst comprising platinum and palladium particles or palladium and gold particles. The middle layer includes zeolites. The top layer includes a supported catalyst comprising platinum and palladium particles. The use of zeolite mixture in the middle layer further improves CO and HC reduction performance in comparison with using zeolite of a single type. The use of a supported catalyst comprising palladium and gold particles in the bottom layer further improves CO and HC reduction performance in comparison with using a supported catalyst comprising platinum and palladium particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2009
    Assignee: Nanostellar, Inc.
    Inventors: Kyle L. Fujdala, Timothy J. Truex
  • Patent number: 7507685
    Abstract: A zeolite catalyst is prepared by treating a zeolite with a phosphorus compound to form a phosphorus-treated zeolite. The phosphorus-treated zeolite is heated to a temperature of about 300° C. or higher and combined with an inorganic oxide binder material to form a zeolite-binder mixture. The zeolite-binder mixture is heated to a temperature of about 400° C. or higher to form a bound zeolite catalyst. The bound zeolite may exhibit at least two 31P MAS NMR peaks with maxima at from about 0 to about ?55 ppm, with at least one peak having a maximum at from about ?40 to about ?50 ppm. Zeolites containing 10-oxygen ring pores that have been prepared in such a way may be used in aromatic alkylation by contacting the bound zeolite catalyst with an aromatic alkylation feed of an aromatic compound and an alkylating agent under reaction conditions suitable for aromatic alkylation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2009
    Assignee: Saudi Basic Industries Corporation
    Inventors: Ashim Kumar Ghosh, Neeta Kulkarni, Pamela Harvey