Abstract:
A CATALYST FOR OXIDATION AND A METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME, IN WHICH SAID CATALYST CONSISTS ANY ONE OF: (A) ALKALI POLYALUMINATE, (B) A MIXTURE OF SAID ALKALI POLYALUMINATE AND ANOTHER REFRACTORY MATERIAL, (C) A MIXTURE OF SAID (A) AS CATALYST CARRIER OR PROMOTER AND OTHER CATALYTIC MATERIAL, OR (D) A MIXTURE OF SAID (B) AS CATALYST CARRIER OR PROMOTER AND OTHER CATALYTIC MATERIAL.
Abstract:
CARBON SUPPORTED PROMOTED NOBLE METAL CATALYSTS HAVING INCREASED ACTIVITY MAY BE PREPARED BY ADDING A BASIC COMPOUND TO A SLURRY OF A SOLUBLE NOBLE METAL COMPOUND, A SOLUBLE METALLIC PROMOTER AT A HIGH VALENCY STATE AAND PARTICULATE CARBON TO DEPOSIT A NOBLE METAL COMPOUND AND A HIGH VALENCY METALLIC PROMOTER ONTO THE PARTICULATE CARBON AND THEN CO-REDUCING THE NOBLE METAL COMPOUND TO A METALLIC FORM AND THE HIGH VALENCY METALLIC PROMOTER TO A LOW VALENCY METALLIC PROMOTER
Abstract:
Group V-B metal hydrides as hydrogenation catalysts. Especially adaptable for the selective hydrogenation of di-olefins to monoolefins--e.g., the hydrogenation of butadiene to 1- and 2butene.
Abstract:
A catalyst comprising manganese oxides and lead oxides is effective in oxidizing and purifying the exhaust gases containing carbon monoxide and is possessed of combustion facilitating effect, and further, a catalyst comprising said manganese oxides and lead oxides together with an oxide of alkali earth elements, transition elements, rare earth elements or such substance as silicon dioxide, aluminum oxide, or such metals as aluminum, copper and iron is extremely effective in oxidizing and purifying the exhaust gas containing carbon monoxide.
Abstract:
THE PRESENT INVENTION RELATES TO CATALYST COMPOSITIONS CONTAINING ANTIMONY TOGETHER WITH ONE OR MORE POLYVALENT METALS, THE ANTIMONY BEING INTRODUCED IN TWO STATES, INITIALLY AS A TETROXIDE AND THEN AS A TRIOXIDE, THE TWO TYPES BEING PRESENT IN SPECIFIC PROPORTIONS, THE TOTAL MIXTURE BEING SUBJECTED FINALLY TO A HEAT TREATMENT IN THE PRESENCE OF MOLECULAR OXYGEN.
Abstract:
A CATALYST STRUCTURE SUITABLE FOR CATALYZING THE DECOMPOSITION OF HYDRAZINE AND HYDRAZINE DERIVATIVES COMPRISES A CUSTOMARY CATALYST BODY WHICH IS IMPARTED WITH AN ACTIVATING COATING FOR INCREASING AND INDUCING THE CATALYST ACTIVITY. THE ACTIVATING COATING COMPRISES OXIDES OF COPPER AND COBALT AND AT LEAST ONE OF THE OXIDES OF THORIUM, CERIUM, OR CERIUM-RARE EARTH METALS. THE CATALYST BODY PROPER MAY BE MADE FROM COBALT-ALUMINUM OR NICKEL-ALUMINUM ALLOY FROM WHICH THE ALUMINUM HAS BEEN DISSOLVED BY ALKALINE DISSOLUTION. CHROMIUM-NICKEL STEEL MAY ALSO BE USED AS THE CATALYST BODY.
Abstract:
METHOD AND APPARTUS FOR DETERMINING NO2 IN A SAMPLE GAS STREAM CONTAINING INTERFERENTS UTILIZING A SCRUBBER AND AN ANALYTICAL INSTRUMENT WHICH IS SENSITIVE BOTH TO NO2 AND THE INTERFERENTS. THE SCRUBBER CONTAINS ARGENTIC OXIDE (AGO) WHICH EFFECTIVELY REMOVES BOTH POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE INTERENTS FROM THE SAMPLE GAS STREAM, BUT DOES NOT AFFECT THE NO2 CONTENT OF THE STREAM. THE INVENTION IS PARTICULARLY APPLICABLE TO THE MONITORING OF THE NO2 CONTENT OF POLLUTED AIR.
Abstract:
The oxides of nitrogen content of a gas stream can be reduced by contacting the gas stream with a catalyst consisting essentially of neodymium oxide and barium oxide on a suitable support at elevated temperatures. The catalysts are especially useful in reducing the nitric oxide content of the exhaust gas of internal combustion engines.
Abstract:
A propensity to form gummy mixtures with water is a troublesome characteristic of a technical grade of boehmite, said power comprising a total ignition loss of about 25 percent, a volatile alcohol content corresponding to less than 1 percent carbon, minor amounts of amorphous alumina and a major amount of alpha mono hydrate. A portion of the technical boehmite is mildly calcined at 400*-500* C. for at least 15 minutes to provide a dehydrated alumina powder, which then mixed with a significantly larger amount of the uncalcined technical grade of boehmite, can be mixed with water for providing a plastic mixture suitable for shaping into catalyst particles. The catalyst particles are calcined above about 600* C. for more than 1 hour in the presence of steam to form attrition resistant particles of gamma alumina having the pore size distribution desirable in certain types of catalysts.
Abstract:
A process for preparing a catalyst comprising a metallic catalytic agent on a particulate carrier is disclosed which provides improved uniformity of distribution and fineness of division with narrowness of particle size distribution of the metallic catalytic agent on the carrier. The particles of carrier are suspended by agitation in an aqueous solution of a salt of the metallic catalytic agent and of a source, on heating in aqueous solution, of hydroxyl ions. The suspension is heated in a sealed vessel above 100* C to precipitate the metal or the particles with uniformity of distribution and fineness of division with narrowness of particle size distribution. The metal is converted by conventional procedures to the appropriate active, oxidized or reduced, state. The process is particularly significant with carriers, such as alumina and silica, that in alkaline media are liable to undergo structural charges.