Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
422222000 | Unitary (i.e., nonparticulate) contact bed, (e.g., monolithic catalyst bed, etc.) | 26 |
20080213142 | MEMBRANE REACTOR FOR SHIFT REACTION - There is disclosed a membrane reactor | 09-04-2008 |
20080260607 | Treatment of Gold-Ceria Catalysts with Oxygen to Improve Stability Thereof in the Water-Gas Shift and Selective Co Oxidation Reactions - A method for improving the performance of catalysts by the addition of small amounts of oxygen to feed stock streams. Examples are shown for the improved operation of gold-ceria catalysts in the water-gas shift (WGS) and PROX reactions. The catalytic material is made by depositing catalytic metals, such as gold or platinum, on substrate materials, such as doped or undoped ceria. The deposited metal, which comprises both crystalline and non-crystalline structures, is treated, for example with aqueous basic NaCN solution, to remove at least some of the crystalline metallic component. The remaining noncystalline metallic component associated with the substrate exhibits catalytic activity that is substantially similar to the catalyst as prepared. The use of the catalyst is contemplated in efficient, cost-effective reactions, such as removal of carbon monoxide from fuel gases, for example by performing the water gas shift reaction and/or the PROX reaction. | 10-23-2008 |
20090004076 | Catalytic Oxidative Dehydrogenation and Microchannel Reactors for Catalytic Oxidative Dehydrogenation - The invention provides methods of oxidative dehydrogenation (ODH). Conducting ODH in microchannels has unexpectedly been found to yield superior performance when compared to the same reactions at the same conditions in larger reactors. ODH methods employing a Mo—V—Mg—O catalyst is also described. Microchannel apparatus for conducting ODH is also disclosed. | 01-01-2009 |
20090169445 | Devices and Methods For Honeycomb Continuous Flow Reactors - Disclosed is a reactor for reacting fluids such as fluids in continuous flow, the reactor including a multicellular extruded body having cells extending in parallel in a direction from a first end of the body to a second end, the body having a first plurality of cells open at both ends of the body and a second plurality of said cells closed at one or both ends of the body, the second plurality being contiguous cells and cooperating to define at least in part a fluidic passage extending at least partly through the body. The fluidic passage desirably has a serpentine path back and forth along cells of the second plurality of cells, and the passage connects laterally from cell to cell, within cells of the second plurality, at or near the ends of the body. | 07-02-2009 |
20090185964 | Microchannel Reactor Module for Hydrogen Release - There is disclosed a microchannel reactor module for the immediate catalytic release of hydrogen from hydrogenated organic molecules along with the recovery of hydrogen gas and the recovery of dehydrogenated organic molecules as a liquid. More specifically, the disclosure provides a polyimide-based microchannel plate that is particularly useful for a process of immediate catalytic release of hydrogen from a hydrogenated organic molecule or formulation of molecules. | 07-23-2009 |
20090246103 | HONEYCOMB STRUCTURE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A honeycomb structure includes at least one honeycomb unit having one end face and another end face opposite to the one end face along a longitudinal direction of the at least one honeycomb unit. The at least one honeycomb unit includes an inorganic binder, inorganic particles, cell walls extending along the longitudinal direction from one end face to the another end face to define plural cells, and third material provided on the cell walls. The inorganic particles include first and second materials. The first material includes NOx adsorption material. The second material includes ammonia adsorption material. | 10-01-2009 |
20100021358 | CONTINUOUS REACTOR SYSTEM FOR ANOXIC PURIFICATION - A continuous process and related system for producing high purity silica are disclosed. The process and system utilize a unique high temperature rotary reactor which excludes oxygen. The use of one or more anoxic gases is described, that upon administration into the system promote the exclusion of oxygen. | 01-28-2010 |
20100092353 | HYDROGEN SEPARATION MEMBRANE AND PERMSELECTIVE MEMBRANE REACTOR - A hydrogen separation membrane comprising a palladium alloy that includes at least palladium, an added metal A, and an added metal B, the added metal A and the added metal B being two different metals other than palladium, each of the added metal A and the added metal B forming a complete solid solution with palladium, and the added metal A and the added metal B having a triple point in an equilibrium diagram and not forming an intermetallic compound. The hydrogen separation membrane exhibits excellent hydrogen permeability and durability. | 04-15-2010 |
20100215555 | PROCESS FOR PRODUCING NANOSTRUCTURE COMPOSITE-COVERED STRUCTURE, NANOSTRUCTURE COMPOSITE-COVERED STRUCTURE, AND REACTOR USING NANOSTRUCTURE COMPOSITE-COVERED STRUCTURE - The present invention provides a structure in which the surface of a solid substrate of any shape is covered with metal oxide, in particular, a nanostructure composite in which polyethyleneimine, which is an organic substance, and metal oxide, which is an inorganic substance, are combined in nano-meter scale, spreads at the entire surface of a substrate, and the nanostructure composite forms a nano-boundary of complex shapes so as to thoroughly cover the entire surface of the substrate; a structure in which metal ions, metal nano-particles, organic pigment molecules are contained in the nanostructure composite; a process for producing these structures which can produce these structures with ease and efficiently; and an application method for the structures as an immobilized catalyst type reactor. | 08-26-2010 |
20100247406 | HONEYCOMB STRUCTURE - A honeycomb structure includes aluminum titanate and cell walls. The cell walls extend along a longitudinal direction of the honeycomb structure to form a plurality of cells between the cell walls. A porosity of the honeycomb structure is from about 40% to about 60%. In a binary image of substrate portions and pore portions of each of the cell walls, an area ratio (%) of the pore portions to a whole area in a rectangularly-divided image is in a range from (the porosity−about 25%) to (the porosity+about 25%). The binary image is converted from a microscopic image of a cross section of each of the cell walls in parallel with the longitudinal direction. The rectangularly-divided image is formed by dividing the binary image in a direction parallel to a thickness direction of each of the cell walls at a predetermined width. | 09-30-2010 |
20110211999 | REACTOR WITH JET IMPINGMENT HEAT TRANSFER - A catalytic reactor containing a core structure near the reactor axis and a casing structure near the reactor wall, the two structures differing from each other to promote catalysis and heat transfer, respectively. The casing contains a multiplicity of first devices for directing fluid centrifugally impinge a reactor wall and second devices for permitting fluid to flow away from a reactor wall as the fluid flows from the inlet to the outlet of the reactor. | 09-01-2011 |
20110268624 | COATING A MONOLITH SUBSTRATE WITH CATALYST COMPONENT - A method of coating a honeycomb monolith substrate comprising a plurality of channels with a liquid comprising a catalyst component comprises the steps of: (i) holding a honeycomb monolith substrate substantially vertically; (ii) introducing a pre-determined volume of the liquid into the substrate via open ends of the channels at a lower end of the substrate; (iii) sealingly retaining the introduced liquid within the substrate; (iv) inverting the substrate containing the retained liquid; and (v) applying a vacuum to open ends of the channels of the substrate at the inverted, lower end of the substrate to draw the liquid along the channels of the substrate. | 11-03-2011 |
20120148457 | Zoned Monolithic Reactor and Associated Methods - A reactor formed within a honeycomb monolith is disclosed, the monolith having a plurality of parallel cells and comprising one or more process fluid paths lying within closed cells of the monolith and extending laterally from cell to cell, the monolith having porous walls that are coated with a non-porous coating in at least a first zone along the one or more process fluid paths and that remain porous in at least a second zone along the one or more process fluid paths, the porous walls in the second zone adapted to allow permeate in a respective process fluid path to pass through the porous walls. A method of forming a reactor in a honeycomb monolith is also disclosed, including providing a porous honeycomb monolith having cells extending in a common direction divided by cell walls, forming a process fluid path within closed cells of the monolith extending laterally from cell to cell, coating the cell walls of the monolith within at least a first zone along the process fluid path within the monolith with a non-porous coating, and allowing the at least some cell walls of the monolith within a second zone along the process fluid path to remain porous. | 06-14-2012 |
20120321530 | Heat Transfer In SMR Tubes - An improved reactor tube which includes a reactor tube, wherein the reactor tube is at least partially filled with at least one porous media catalyst, and at least one shape memory alloy element located within the reactor tube, wherein; at a first temperature, the shape memory alloy element has a first configuration, at a second temperature, the shape memory alloy element has a second configuration is provided. | 12-20-2012 |
20140112836 | SEPARATION MEMBRANE, HYDROGEN SEPARATION MEMBRANE INCLUDING SEPARATION MEMBRANE, AND DEVICE INCLUDING HYDROGEN SEPARATION MEMBRANE - A separation membrane including: an alloy including a Group 5 element, Fe, and Al, wherein the alloy includes a body-centered cubic lattice structure. | 04-24-2014 |
20140127093 | HYDROGEN ION TRANSPORT MEMBRANE, MEMBRANE FOR GENERATING HYDROGEN, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME - The present application relates to a hydrogen ion transport membrane, which is formed by using a porous thin film having a plurality of holes which are regularly aligned, a membrane for generating hydrogen, and a method for manufacturing the hydrogen ion transport membrane and the membrane for generating hydrogen. | 05-08-2014 |
20140147345 | FISCHER TROPSCH REACTOR - There is herein described a Fischer-Tropsch reactor. More particularly, there is described a Fischer-Tropsch reactor that incorporates forced flow through a small pore, thick layer, monolith supported catalyst and high levels of heat transfer that is able to operate with high levels of catalyst effectiveness. The catalyst bed ( | 05-29-2014 |
20140186232 | COATING A MONOLITH SUBSTRATE WITH CATALYST COMPONENT - A method of coating a honeycomb monolith substrate comprising a plurality of channels with a liquid comprising a catalyst component comprises the steps of: (i) holding a honeycomb monolith substrate substantially vertically; (ii) introducing a pre-determined volume of the liquid into the substrate via open ends of the channels at a lower end of the substrate; (iii) sealingly retaining the introduced liquid within the substrate; (iv) inverting the substrate containing the retained liquid; and (v) applying a vacuum to open ends of the channels of the substrate at the inverted, lower end of the substrate to draw the liquid along the channels of the substrate. | 07-03-2014 |
20140348719 | PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOUND STABILIZING FILTER COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF MAKING AND USING SAME - In one aspect, the invention relates to filter apparatuses useful as sampling media and stabilizing pharmaceutical compounds, methods of making same, compositions useful for stabilizing pharmaceutical compounds, and methods of isolating pharmaceutical compounds from an air stream using the apparatuses and compositions. This abstract is intended to be used as a scanning tool for purposes of searching in the particular art and is not intended to be limiting of the present invention. | 11-27-2014 |
20140377143 | FILTER ELEMENT FOR DISC DRIVE ENCLOSURE - A recirculation filter element for a disc drive enclosure. The filter element has a body having a surface area to volume ratio of at least 100/m and a self-assembled monolayer. The self-assembled monolayer may adsorb volatile contaminants from the enclosure or may have a chemical affinity to particulates, to accumulate and sequester particles on the body. | 12-25-2014 |
20150056109 | SOLAR FUEL GENERATOR - The disclosure provides conductive membranes for water splitting and solar fuel generation. The membranes comprise an embedded semiconductive/photoactive material and an oxygen or hydrogen evolution catalyst. Also provided are chassis and cassettes containing the membranes for use in fuel generation. | 02-26-2015 |
20160001221 | COMPOSITE OXYGEN TRANSPORT MEMBRANE - A method is described of producing a composite oxygen ion membrane and a composite oxygen ion membrane in which a porous fuel oxidation layer and a dense separation layer and optionally, a porous surface exchange layer are formed on a porous support from mixtures of (Ln | 01-07-2016 |
20160008766 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING ACID GAS SEPARATION COMPOSITE MEMBRANE, AND ACID GAS SEPARATION MEMBRANE MODULE | 01-14-2016 |
20160136580 | ACIDIC GAS SEPARATION LAMINATE AND ACIDIC GAS SEPARATION MODULE PROVIDED WITH LAMINATE - An acidic gas separation laminate including: a porous support formed by laminating a porous film and an auxiliary support film; an acidic gas separation facilitated transport film; a permeating gas channel member; a sealing unit which is formed by impregnating the porous film, the auxiliary support film, and the gas channel member with an adhesive in the lamination direction thereof along the peripheral edge at a width of 5 mm or greater such that the permeation rate becomes 60% or greater; and a stress buffer unit which is adjacent to the sealing unit, has a permeation rate of the adhesive of less than 60% at least in the porous film, and is formed by impregnating at least the gas channel member with the adhesive. | 05-19-2016 |
20160136581 | SPIRAL-TYPE ACIDIC GAS SEPARATION MODULE - There is provided a high-quality spiral-type acidic gas separation module which is obtained by winding a laminate including an acidic gas separation layer that has a facilitated transport film and which has no defects in the facilitated transport film, in which the average value of the fiber diameter of a supply gas channel member is in a range of 100 μm to 900 μm, and the area ratio of concave portions inscribed in a hemisphere having a diameter greater than or equal to three-quarters of the fiber diameter of the supply gas channel member is 50% or less with respect to a surface of an auxiliary support film of a porous support that is on the side opposite to the facilitated transport film. | 05-19-2016 |
20160158693 | SPIRAL-SHAPED MODULE FOR ACIDIC-GAS SEPARATION - In a spiral-shaped acidic-gas separation module which is obtained by winding a laminate including an acidic gas separation layer that includes a facilitated transport film, a permeating gas channel member which becomes a channel of acidic gas having permeated through the facilitated transport film is formed using a metal net having a wire diameter of 0.4 mm or less. In this manner, a spiral-shaped module for acidic-gas separation which prevents damage to the facilitated transport film and exhibits a predetermined performance for a long period of time is provided. | 06-09-2016 |