Abstract:
A method of increasing the selective desulfurization of naphtha feed streams that includes: combining a naphtha feed stream with a hydrogen containing gas to form a combined feed stream and reacting the combined feed stream over a monolithic honeycomb catalyst bed containing hydrodesulfurization catalyst components to give a desulfurized naphtha. In conducting such an illustrative embodiment, the percent desulfurization of the naphtha is preferably greater than about 50% and the percent olefin hydrogenation of the naphtha is preferably less than about 50%. The monolithic honeycomb catalyst bed of one alternative and illustrative embodiment preferably has a channel density of about 25 to 1600 cells per square inch; a channel size from about 0.1 to 10 mm; and a channel wall thickness of about 0.01 to about 2.0 mm. The illustrative method should be carried out such that the octane number (R+M/2) of the naphtha feed stream is reduced by no more than 3.0 at 95% desulfurization and preferably no more than 1.5. The hydrodesulfurization catalyst components include a powdered refractory oxide and transition metal catalyst compounds. Alternatively the hydrodesulfurization catalyst components may be impregnated into the monolithic honeycomb catalyst bed itself. Preferable hydrodesulfurization catalyst components include a Group VIII metal containing compound and a Group VIB metal containing compound. Alternatively the hydrodesulfurization catalyst components may further include a phosphorous promoter.
Abstract:
Mesoporous carbon and method of making involves forming a mixture of a high carbon-yielding carbon precursor that when carbonized yields greater than about 40% carbon on a cured basis, and an additive that can be catalyst metal and/or low carbon-yielding carbon precursor that when carbonized yields no greater than about 40% by weight carbon on a cured basis. When a catalyst metal is used, the amount of catalyst metal after the subsequent carbonization step is no greater than about 1 wt. % based on the carbon. The mixture is cured, and the carbon precursors are carbonized and activated to produce mesoporous activated carbon.
Abstract:
A diesel particulate filter comprising a plugged, wall-flow honeycomb filter body composed of cordierite and having a plurality of parallel end-plugged cell channels traversing the body from a frontal inlet end to an outlet end thereof, wherein the filter exhibits a CTE (25-800˚C) of less than 13x10 /˚C, a bulk filter density of less than 0.60 g/cm , a median pore diameter, d50, of less than 25 micrometers, a porosity and pore size distribution that satisfy the relationship Pm (%porosity/100)]} + 0.0366183(d90) - 0.00040119(d90) + 0.468815(100/%porosity) + 0.0297715(d50) + 1.61639(d50-d10)/d50, wherein d10, and d90 are pore diameters at 10% and 90% of the pore size distribution on a volumetric basis, and d10
Abstract:
Cordierite ceramic articles with high volume percent porosities of at least 64% but less than 80% have controlled median pore sizes and mean coefficients of thermal expansion that impart substantially improved modulus of rupture strengths (MOR) and thermal shock resistance (TSR) to the ceramic articles.
Abstract:
A catalyst support for use in technologies (i.e., SCR and NOx adsorbers) which address the reduction of NOx from exhaust emissions of diesel and GDI engines. The catalyst support has a honeycomb body composed of a porous ceramic material, and a plurality of parallel cell channels traversing the body from a frontal inlet end to an outlet end thereof. The porous ceramic material is defined by a total porosity greater than 45 vol. %, and a network of interconnected pores with a narrow pore size distribution of pores having a median pore size greater than 5 micrometers but less than 20 micrometers. The catalyst support is capable of attaining higher catalyst loadings without a pressure drop penalty.
Abstract:
Porous, non-microcracked cordierite ceramic bodies having high strength, high strain tolerance, and high thermal shock resistance are produced from cordierite powder batch mixtures of controlled powder particle size fired according to a schedule that prevents objectionable cordierite grain growth, maintaining a small cordierite crystalline domain size in order to minimize or prevent microcracking in the product.
Abstract:
Ceramic structures such as catalyst supports or combustion exhaust filters that incorporate combinations of high temperature phase change materials, and methods for determining the thermal history of such ceramic structures, by disposing the phase change materials on or within the structures and subsequently detecting the presence or absence of phase changes in the materials after exposure to high temperatures.