Abstract:
Catalysts containing preferably 30 weight percent or more platinum have surprisingly been discovered to possess superior stability and activity for catalyzing combustion reactions. The addition of rhenium improves catalyst performance in fuel lean conditions but has undesirable effects in fuel rich conditions. The invention provides integrated combustion microreactors, chemical systems utilizing these integrated combustion microreactors, methods of combustion, and methods of providing heat to endothermic reactions in integrated combustion microreactors. The invention also provides methods of combusting a fuel in a reactor that includes at least 3 zones each of which contains a solid catalyst. A method of making a thermally-stable alumina support from fumed alumina is also described.
Abstract:
This invention relates to efficiently regenerating catalyst particles by minimizing the formation of localized "hot spots" and "cold spots" in a regeneration zone. Specifically this invention relates to a method for controlling regenerator temperature in an oxygenates-to- olefins system, comprising the steps of : contacting an oxygenate feed in a reactor with a catalytically effective amount of molecular sieve-containing catalyst under conditions effective for converting said oxygenate to a product containing light olefins and forming a coked catalyst; contacting a portion of the coked catalyst in a regenerator, having a catalyst bed height (Hc), an inlet height (Hi), and an outlet height (Ho), with an oxygen-containing regeneration medium under conditions effective to at least partially regenerate the coked catalyst; and conducting a portion of the catalyst from the regenerator to a catalyst cooler to form a cooled catalyst portion, wherein Ho is preferably greater than Hi.
Abstract:
Methods for producing alcohols from CO or CO 2 and H 2 utilizing a palladium- zinc on alumina catalyst are described. Methods of synthesizing alcohols over various catalysts in microchannels are also described. Ethanol, higher alcohols, and other C 2+ oxygenates can produced utilizing Rh-Mn or a Fisher-Tropsch catalyst.
Abstract:
Catalysts containing preferably 30 weight percent or more platinum have surprisingly been discovered to possess superior stability and activity for catalyzing combustion reactions. The addition of rhenium improves catalyst performance in fuel lean conditions but has undesirable effects in fuel rich conditions. The invention provides integrated combustion microreactors (10), chemical systems utilizing these integrated combustion microreactors (10), methods of combustion, and methods of providing heat to endothermic reactions (20) in integrated combustion microreactors (10). The invention also provides methods of combusting a fuel in a reactor that includes at least 3 zones each of which contains a solid catalyst (14). A method of making a thermally-stable alumina support from fumed alumina is also described.
Abstract:
The present invention provides methods of conducting chemical reactions in a reaction channel that has an varying cross-sectional area such that a chemical reactant or reactants experience varying local contact time as the reactant(s) flow through the channel. The invention also provides reactors having reaction channels with varying cross-sectional areas. In a particularly preferred embodiment, the reaction channel section has a trapezoidal shape that becomes broader from the inlet toward the outlet.
Abstract:
Disclosed herein is a method of converting oxygenates to olefins comprising contacting an oxygenate stream with an acidic high silica chabazite catalyst in one or more oxygenate-to-olefins reactors; circulating greater than from 80 % of the catalyst to one or more catalyst regenerators to form regenerated catalyst; circulating the regenerated catalyst, preferably the same amount of regenerated catalyst, back to the oxygenate-to-olefins reactor to contact an oxygenate stream; and isolating a stream of olefins from the one or more oxygenate-to-olefins reactors.
Abstract:
Methods for producing alcohols from CO or CO 2 and H 2 utilizing a palladium- zinc on alumina catalyst are described. Methods of synthesizing alcohols over various catalysts in microchannels are also described. Ethanol, higher alcohols, and other C 2+ oxygenates can produced utilizing Rh-Mn or a Fisher-Tropsch catalyst.
Abstract translation:描述了使用氧化铝催化剂上的钯 - 锌从CO或CO 2 H 2和H 2 H生产醇的方法。 还描述了在微通道中在各种催化剂上合成醇的方法。 可以使用Rh-Mn或Fisher-Tropsch催化剂制备乙醇,高级醇和其它C 2 + N 2氧化物。
Abstract:
A method of preparing a silicoaluminophosphate molecular sieve which comprises the steps of combining a source of silica, a source of phosphorous, a source of alumina and water to form a primary mixture; adding a structure directing agent to said mixture and optional seeds to form a synthesis mixture. The synthesis mixture is synthesized by heating the mixture to a crystallization temperature to form the sieve. The molar ratio of the structure directing agent relative to the source of alumina may vary between 1.3 and 1.9 and the ratio of water to the source of alumina may vary between 20 to 34.