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| 20080200685 | Method for Preforming Oxidation Catalysts - Processes comprising providing a catalyst precursor, and heating the catalyst precursor to a temperature of at least 350° C. in an atmosphere comprising air, wherein air is fed into the atmosphere at a rate of 0.05 to 4.0 standard m | 08-21-2008 |
| 20080214863 | PROCESS FOR PREPARING A CATALYST CONSISTING OF A SUPPORT BODY AND A CATALYTICALLY ACTIVE COMPOSITION APPLIED ON THE SURFACE OF THE SUPPORT BODY - A process for preparing a coated catalyst in which a finely divided mixture of a multielement oxide comprising the elements Mo and V and a molybdenum oxide or a molybdenum oxide former is applied to the surface of a support body as an active composition. | 09-04-2008 |
| 20080227992 | Catalyst and Methods for Producing Maleic Anhydride - Catalysts comprising a catalytically active composition, the catalytically active composition comprising vanadium, phosphorus, iron and oxygen, wherein the catalytically active composition has an iron:vanadium atomic ratio of 0.005 to <0.05, and wherein iron in the catalytically active composition is derived from an iron starting material comprising Fe(III) phosphate; and processes for making such catalysts as well as uses therefor to prepare maleic anhydride are described. | 09-18-2008 |
| 20080312450 | Method for Start-Up of Oxidation Catalysts - Methods comprising: providing an oxidation catalyst bed; and starting up the oxidation catalyst at a temperature of 360° C. to 400° C. with an amount of air of 1.0 to 3.5 standard m | 12-18-2008 |
| 20090118531 | NOVEL SUPPORTED CATALYST FOR AMMOXIDATION - Supported catalysts comprising a support having a mean diameter of ≦78 μm, a vanadium oxide, an antimony oxide, one or more alkali metal or alkaline earth metal oxides, and one or more oxides of tungsten, molybdenum, titanium, iron, cobalt, nickel, manganese, potassium, copper or mixtures thereof; processes for preparing said catalysts; and processes for preparing an aromatic or heteroaromatic nitrile in the presence of such a supported catalyst. | 05-07-2009 |
| 20090156835 | PREPARATION OF PHTHALIC ANHYDRIDE BY GAS PHASE OXIDATION OF O-XYLENE IN A MAIN REACTOR AND POSTREACTOR - A process is described for preparing phthalic anhydride by catalytic gas phase oxidation of o-xylene, in which a gaseous mixture of o-xylene and an oxygenous gas is converted in a main reactor to a gaseous intermediate reaction product which comprises unconverted o-xylene, phthalic anhydride underoxidation products and phthalic anhydride, the heat of reaction which arises in the main reactor being removed at least partly by indirect cooling with a heat carrier medium, and the intermediate reaction product being introduced into a postreactor. The concentration of unconverted o-xylene in the intermediate reaction product is at least 1% by weight, and the sum of the concentrations of phthalic anhydride underoxidation products in the intermediate reaction product is at least 0.5% by weight. The process allows an increase in the overall yield of phthalic anhydride without or without significant deterioration in the product quality. | 06-18-2009 |
| 20090198073 | PREPARATION OF PHTHALIC ANHYDRIDE BY GAS PHASE OXIDATION OF O-XYLENE - A process is described for preparing phthalic anhydride by catalytic gas phase oxidation of o-xylene. In, in a main reactor, a gaseous mixture of o-xylene and an oxygenous gas is passed through at least two reaction zones whose temperature can be controlled independently, and converted to a gaseous intermediate reaction product which comprises unconverted o-xylene, phthalic anhydride underoxidation products and phthalic anhydride, and the intermediate reaction product is introduced into a postreactor, wherein the temperature of the reaction zones in the main reactor is regulated in such a way that the concentration of unconverted o-xylene in the intermediate reaction product is at least 0.5% by weight. The process allows an increase in the overall yield of phthalic anhydride without or without significant deterioration in the product quality. | 08-06-2009 |
| 20090270640 | METHOD FOR PRODUCTION OF ETHYLENE OXIDE IN A MICROCHANNEL REACTOR - Processes for preparing ethylene oxide, the process comprising: (a) providing a catalyst-comprising microchannel reactor; (b) feeding (i) an ethylene-comprising stream and (ii) a stream comprising oxygen, an oxygen source or both, into the microchannel reactor; and (c) continuously feeding one or more components selected from the group consisting of alkyl halides, nitrogen-comprising compounds, and mixtures thereof into the microchannel reactor in a concentration of from 0.3 to 50 ppm by volume, each based on the total volume flow of all streams introduced into the reactor. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090286999 | CATALYST SYSTEM FOR PREPARING CARBOXYLIC ACIDS AND/OR CARBOXYLIC ANHYDRIDES - The present invention relates to a catalyst system for preparing carboxylic acids and/or carboxylic anhydrides which has at least three catalyst layers arranged one on top of the other in the reaction tube, with the proviso that the most inactive catalyst layer is preceded in the upstream direction by a more active catalyst layer. The invention further relates to a process for gas phase oxidation in which a gaseous stream which comprises one hydrocarbon and molecular oxygen is passed through a plurality of catalyst layers, the least active catalyst layer being upstream of a more active catalyst layer. | 11-19-2009 |
| 20090291845 | CONVERSION OF A PRECATALYST TO A CATALYTICALLY ACTIVE SILVER-VANADIUM OXIDE BRONZE - A process is described for converting a precatalyst which comprises an inert support, an organic carbon source and a multimetal oxide comprising silver and vanadium to a gas phase oxidation catalyst which comprises the inert support and a catalytically active silver vanadium oxide bronze, by treating the precatalyst thermally at a temperature of at least 350° C. in a gas atmosphere which comprises less than 10% by volume of oxygen, wherein, before the thermal treatment, the amount of the carbon source in the precatalyst is adjusted to a value below a critical amount The carbon content is reduced by burning-off at a temperature of from 80 to 200° C. in an oxygenous atmosphere with decomposition of a portion of the carbon source. The catalysts obtained serve for the gas phase partial oxidation of aromatic hydrocarbons to aldehydes, carboxylic acids and/or carboxylic anhydrides. | 11-26-2009 |
| 20090318712 | CATALYST SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING CARBOXYLIC ACIDS AND/OR CARBOXYLIC ACID ANHYDRIDES - Catalyst systems for preparing carboxylic acids and/or anhydrides, the catalyst system comprising a reaction zone and a layered catalyst, the reaction zone comprises a gas inlet region and a gas outlet region, the layered catalyst comprises an active composition and one or more middle layers, one or more first layers disposed on a side of the one or more middle layers toward the gas inlet region, and one or more second layers on a side of the one or more middle layers toward the gas outlet region, wherein the active composition content of one or more of the middle catalyst layers, based on total mass of the layered catalyst, is lower than the active composition content of the one or more first catalyst layers and is lower than one or more second catalyst layers; and processes for gas phase oxidation employing a layered catalyst of the present invention. | 12-24-2009 |
| 20100029955 | CATALYST SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GAS PHASE OXIDATION USING AN UPSTREAM LAYER - The present invention relates to a process for gas-phase oxidation, in which a gaseous stream comprising an aromatic hydrocarbon and molecular oxygen is passed through two or more catalyst zones. Furthermore, the present invention relates to a catalyst system for gas-phase reaction using a preliminary zone. | 02-04-2010 |
| 20100069659 | PROCESS FOR PRODUCING GEOMETRIC SHAPED CATALYST BODIES - A process for producing geometric shaped catalyst bodies K whose active material is a multielement oxide of stoichiometry | 03-18-2010 |
| 20100069660 | PROCESS FOR PRODUCING GEOMETRIC SHAPED CATALYST BODIES - A process for producing geometric shaped catalyst bodies K whose active material is a multielement oxide of stoichiometry | 03-18-2010 |
| 20100210857 | Three-Layered or Four-Layered Catalyst Systems for Producing Phthalic Anhydride - Catalyst systems for preparing phthalic anhydride by means of gas-phase oxidation of o-xylene and/or naphthalene, and a process for preparing phthalic anhydride using the catalyst systems | 08-19-2010 |
| 20110028740 | METHOD FOR STARTING A GAS PHASE OXIDATION REACTOR THAT CONTAINS A CATALYTICALLY ACTIVE SILVER-VANADIUM OXIDE BRONZE - What is described is a method for starting a gas phase oxidation reactor that contains a bed of a first catalyst whose active material comprises a catalytically active silver-vanadium oxide bronze, and at least one bed of a second catalyst whose catalytically active material comprises vanadium pentoxide and titanium dioxide, and whose temperature is controllable by means of a heat transfer medium. In the operating state, a gas stream which comprises a loading c | 02-03-2011 |
| 20110034707 | METHOD FOR STARTING A GAS-PHASE OXIDATION REACTOR - What is described is a process for starting up a gas phase oxidation reactor for oxidation of o-xylene to phthalic anhydride, said reactor comprising at least one catalyst layer and being temperature-controllable by means of a heat carrier medium, wherein a) the catalyst layer is interrupted by a moderator layer which is less catalytically active than the catalyst layer or is catalytically inactive, b) a gas stream is passed through the reactor with an initial loading of o-xylene and at an initial temperature of the heat transfer medium, c) the loading of the gas stream is increased to a target loading and, in parallel, the temperature of the heat transfer medium is lowered to an operating temperature. The introduction of the moderator layer allows the loading to be increased more rapidly and the startup time to be shortened. | 02-10-2011 |
| 20110118487 | PROCESS FOR MAKING ETHYLENE OXIDE - This invention relates to a process, comprising reacting ethylene and oxygen or a source of oxygen in the presence of a catalyst in a reactor to form a product comprising ethylene oxide, wherein the catalyst contains silver or silver compound and a support and the catalyst is in the form of particulate solids having a mean particle diameter from 1 to 1000 μm and wherein the molar ratio of oxygen to ethylene is from 1:4 to 10:1. | 05-19-2011 |
| 20110124885 | MULTILAYER CATALYST HAVING VANADIUM ANTIMONATE IN AT LEAST ONE CATALYST LAYER FOR PREPARING CARBOXYLIC ACIDS AND/OR CARBOXYLIC ANHYDRIDES AND PROCESS FOR PREPARING PHTHALIC ANHYDRIDE HAVING A LOW HOT SPOT TEMPERATURE - The present invention relates to a catalyst system for preparing carboxylic acids and/or carboxylic anhydrides, which system comprises a plurality of superposed catalyst layers arranged in a reaction tube, where vanadium antimonate is introduced into the active material in at least one of the catalyst layers. The present invention further relates to a process for gas-phase oxidation, in which a gaseous stream comprising at least one hydrocarbon and molecular oxygen is passed through a plurality of catalyst layers and the maximum hot spot temperature is below 425° C. | 05-26-2011 |
| 20110144387 | PROCESS FOR PREPARING C1-C4-OXYGENATES BY PARTIAL OXIDATION OF HYDROCARBONS - A process for preparing C | 06-16-2011 |
| 20110230668 | CATALYST FOR GAS PHASE OXIDATIONS BASED ON LOW-SULFUR AND LOW-CALCIUM TITANIUM DIOXIDE - A catalyst for gas phase oxidations comprises an inert support and a catalytically active material which comprises vanadium oxide and titanium dioxide and has been applied thereto. The titanium dioxide has a content of sulfur compounds, calculated as S, of less than 1000 ppm and a content of calcium compounds, calculated as Ca, of less than 150 ppm. The catalyst has a relatively high activity and/or selectivity and thus enables relatively high yields of the desired target product, for example phthalic anhydride. Also described is a process for preparing phthalic anhydride, wherein a gas stream which comprises molecular oxygen and o-xylene, naphthalene or mixtures thereof is contacted with the catalyst. | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110250124 | CATALYST FOR THE OXIDATION OF SO2 TO SO3 - The invention relates to a catalyst for the oxidation of SO | 10-13-2011 |
| 20110251052 | CATALYST FOR THE OXIDATION OF SO2 TO SO3 - The invention relates to a catalyst for the oxidation of SO | 10-13-2011 |
| 20110251405 | PROCESS FOR CONTROLLING A GAS PHASE OXIDATION REACTOR FOR PREPARATION OF PHTHALIC ANHYDRIDE - In a process for controlling a gas phase oxidation reactor for preparation of phthalic anhydride, by passing a gas stream which comprises an aromatic hydrocarbon and molecular oxygen through a multitude of reaction tubes arranged in the gas phase oxidation reactor, each of which comprises a bed of at least one catalyst and the temperature of which can be controlled by means of a heat transfer medium, at least one control parameter is measured and correcting interventions for control of the control parameter are determined, the at least one control parameter comprising the phthalic anhydride yield and the correcting parameter used being the temperature of the heat carrier medium. Over at least 90% of the lifetime of the catalyst, the change in the correcting parameter is limited to a maximum of 0.5 K within a period of 30 days. In this way, the cumulated phthalic anhydride yield over the lifetime of the catalyst is maximized. | 10-13-2011 |
| 20110257413 | CATALYST AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING MALEIC ANHYDRIDE - The invention relates to a catalyst molded body for preparing maleic anhydride by gas-phase oxidation of a hydrocarbon having at least four carbon atoms using a catalytically active composition contains vanadium, phosphorus and oxygen, where the shaped catalyst body has an essentially cylindrical body having a longitudinal axis, wherein the cylindrical body has at least two parallel internal holes which are essentially parallel to the cylinder axis of the body and go right through the body. The catalyst molded body has a large outer surface area, a lower pressure loss and sufficient mechanical stability. | 10-20-2011 |
| 20110257414 | CATALYST MOLDED BODIES AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING MALEIC ACID ANHYDRIDE - The catalytically active mass of a catalyst molded body comprises a multi-element oxide containing vanadium and phosphorus. The specific pore volume PV (in ml/g) of the catalyst molded body, the bulk density p of the catalyst molded body (in kg/l), the geometric surface area A | 10-20-2011 |
| 20110275856 | EGGSHELL CATALYST CONSISTING OF A HOLLOW CYLINDRICAL SUPPORT BODY AND A CATALYTICALLY ACTIVE OXIDE MATERIAL APPLIED TO THE OUTER SURFACE OF THE SUPPORT BODY - An eggshell catalyst consisting of a hollow cylindrical support body of length 2 to 10 mm, external diameter 4 to 10 mm and wall thickness 1 to 4 mm, and an eggshell, applied to the outer surface of the support body, of catalytically active oxide material of the general formula I, | 11-10-2011 |
| 20120004425 | MULTILAYER CATALYST FOR PREPARING PHTHALIC ANHYDRIDE AND PROCESS FOR PREPARING PHTHALIC ANHYDRIDE - The present invention relates to a multilayer catalyst for preparing phthalic anhydride which has a plurality of catalyst layers arranged in succession in the reaction tube, with the individual catalyst layers having alkali metal contents which decrease in the flow direction. The present invention further relates to a process for the oxidation of naphthalene or o-xylene/naphthalene mixtures over such a multilayer catalyst and the use of such multilayer catalysts for the oxidation of naphthalene or o-xylene/naphthalene mixtures to phthalic anhydride. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120029214 | CATALYST FOR THE OXIDATION OF O-XYLENE AND/OR NAPHTHALENE TO PHTHALIC ANHYDRIDE - The present invention relates to a catalyst for the oxidation of o-xylene and/or naphthalene to phthalic anhydride, which has a plurality of catalyst zones which are arranged in series in the reaction tube and have been produced using an antimony trioxide which comprises a significant proportion of valentinite. The present invention further relates to a process for gas-phase oxidation, in which a gas stream comprising at least one hydrocarbon and molecular oxygen is passed through a catalyst produced using an antimony trioxide which comprises a significant proportion of valentinite. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120071671 | CATALYST AND METHOD FOR PARTIALLY OXIDIZING HYDROCARBONS - The invention relates to a catalyst for partially oxidizing hydrocarbons in the gas phase, containing a multi-metal oxide of the general formula (I), AgaMObVcMdOe.f H2O (I), wherein M stands for at least one element selected from among Li, Na, K, Rb, Cs, Be, Mg, Ca, Sr, Ba, B, Al, Ga, In, Si, Sn, Pb, P, Sb, Bi, Y, Ti, Zr, Hf, V, Nb, Ta, Cr, W, Mn, Re, Fe, Ru, Os, Co, Rh, Ir, Ni, Pd, Pt, Cu, Au, Zn, Cd, La, Ce, Pr, Nd, Sm, Eu, Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho, Er, Tm, Yb, Lu, and U, a has a value of 0.5 to 1.5, b has a value of 0.5 to 1.5, c has a value of 0.5 to 1.5, a+b+c has the value 3, d has a value of less than 1, e means a number that is determined by the valence and frequency of the elements other than oxygen in the formula (I), f has a value of 0 to 20, which multi-metal oxide exists in a crystal structure, the X-ray powder diffractogram of which is characterized by diffraction reflections at a minimum of 5 lattice distances selected from among d=4.53, 3.38, 3.32, 3.23, 2.88, 2.57, 2.39, 2.26, 1.83, 1.77 AA (+−0.04 AA). | 03-22-2012 |
| 20120077998 | USE OF STRUCTURED CATALYST BEDS FOR PREPARING ETHYLENE OXIDE - The present invention relates to a process for preparing ethylene oxide by reaction of ethylene with oxygen in the presence of at least one silver-comprising catalyst, wherein the reaction takes place in a reactor which has a catalyst packed bed having at least two zones (i) and (ii) and the silver content of the catalyst in zone (i) is lower than the silver content of the catalyst in zone (ii). The catalyst packed bed preferably has a further zone (a) with which the reaction mixture comes into contact before the zones (i) and (ii). According to the invention, the silver content of the catalyst in the zone (a) is higher than the silver content of the catalyst in zone (i). | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120095267 | PROCESS FOR LONG-TERM OPERATION OF A HETEROGENEOUSLY CATALYZED PARTIAL GAS PHASE OXIDATION OF PROPENE TO ACROLEIN - A process for long-term operation of a heterogeneously catalyzed partial gas phase oxidation of propene to acrolein, in which the propene present in the reaction gas input mixture is partially oxidized as this gas mixture passes through the fixed catalyst bed which is accommodated in two spatially successive temperature zones A, B, and, in long-term operation, as a measure to counteract the reduction in the quality of the fixed catalyst bed, the temperature of at least one of the two temperature zones is increased such that the difference T | 04-19-2012 |
| 20120149919 | MALEIC ANHYDRIDE SYNTHESIS CATALYST PRECURSOR AND PROCESS FOR ITS PREPARATION - A process for preparing a vanadium, phosphorus, and oxygen comprising catalyst precursor for preparing maleic anhydride by heterogeneously catalyzed gas-phase oxidation of a hydrocarbon having at least four carbon atoms, which comprises
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| 20120296108 | PROCESS FOR PRODUCING GEOMETRIC SHAPED CATALYST BODIES - A process for producing geometric shaped catalyst bodies K whose active material is a multielement oxide of stoichiometry | 11-22-2012 |
| 20130023699 | MO-, BI- AND FE-COMPRISING MULTIMETAL OXIDE COMPOSITIONS - Mo-, Bi- and Fe-comprising multimetal oxide compositions of the general stoichiometry I, | 01-24-2013 |
| 20130039821 | CATALYST SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GAS PHASE OXIDATION USING AN UPSTREAM LAYER - The present invention relates to a process for gas-phase oxidation, in which a gaseous stream comprising an aromatic hydrocarbon and molecular oxygen is passed through two or more catalyst zones. Furthermore, the present invention relates to a catalyst system for gas-phase reaction using a preliminary zone. | 02-14-2013 |
| 20130189842 | CHEMICAL MECHANICAL POLISHING (CMP) COMPOSITION COMPRISING A SPECIFIC HETEROPOLYACID - A chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) composition comprising a specific heteropolyacid Abstract A chemical-mechanical polishing (CMP) composition comprising: (A) inorganic particles, organic particles, or a mixture thereof, (B) a heteropolyacid of the formula HaXbPsMOyVzOc wherein X=any cation other than H 80 and a>0 (formula I) or a salt thereof, and, (C) an aqueous medium. | 07-25-2013 |
| 20140039213 | PROCESS FOR PRODUCING GEOMETRIC SHAPED CATALYST BODIES - A process for producing geometric shaped catalyst bodies K whose active material is a multielement oxide of stoichiometry | 02-06-2014 |
| 20140213801 | MULTILAYER CATALYST HAVING VANADIUM ANTIMONATE IN AT LEAST ONE CATALYST LAYER FOR PREPARING CARBOXYLIC ACIDS AND/OR CARBOXYLIC ANHYDRIDES AND PROCESS FOR PREPARING PHTHALIC ANHYDRIDE HAVING A LOW HOT SPOT TEMPERATURE - The present invention relates to a catalyst system for preparing carboxylic acids and/or carboxylic anhydrides, which system comprises a plurality of superposed catalyst layers arranged in a reaction tube, where vanadium antimonate is introduced into the active material in at least one of the catalyst layers. The present invention further relates to a process for gas-phase oxidation, in which a gaseous stream comprising at least one hydrocarbon and molecular oxygen is passed through a plurality of catalyst layers and the maximum hot spot temperature is below 425° C. | 07-31-2014 |
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