Abstract:
A method of preparing spheroidal eta-alumina particles. An acidic alumina hydrosol is commingled with a gelling agent and dispersed as droplets in a hot oil suspending media to form firm, spherical, hydrogel particles. The particles are washed at a temperature of from about 25* to about 60* C., and at a pH of at least about 5.5, with an aqueous salt solution having a salt concentration substantially equivalent to that of the aqueous phase of the hydrogel particles. The salt concentration is reduced during the washing process until the wash-water is saltfree and the pH is adjusted to at least about 9. Spheroidal bayerite alumina particles are produced which, upon calcination, yield spheroidal eta-alumina particles.
Abstract:
There is disclosed the preparation of high purity, high surface area, porous beads of silicon oxide doped with small quantities of other oxides, which preparation comprises hydrolyzing a silicon alkoxide dissolved in a hydroxyl containing organic solvent with less than a stoichiometric amount of water so as to provide a partially hydrolyzed intermediate product. The resulting partially hydrolyzed intermediate product is then treated with additional water and an immiscible non-polar organic medium so as to form a discontinuous phase of liquid partially hydrolyzed intermediate product dispersed in a continuous phase of organic medium. As a source of dopant oxide, a selected water soluble salt is added to the process at any convenient step prior to the next process step of pH adjustment, e.g. before, during, or after the partially hydrolyzing; before, during, or after the organic medium treatment. The dispersed intermediate product is then treated with a base and a quantity of water sufficient to hydrolyze any residual alkoxy groups in the dispersed intermediate product. The resulting mixture is stirred until the dispersed intermediate is converted to firm, hard, solid, porous beads of silicon oxide doped with at least one other oxide. The beads are typically recovered by filtration and evaporation of non-solid residues or by like method.
Abstract:
LOW DENSITY CHROMIA-ALUMINA GEL SPHERES OF IMPROVED CRUSHING STRENGHT ARE PREPARED BY THE OIL-DROP METHOD UTILIZING A DROPPING MIXTURE COMPRISING A CHROMIA-ALUMINA SOL AND HEXAMETHYLENETERAMINE, SAID DROPPING MIXTURE HAVING A METALS/CHLORIDE WEIGHT RATIO OF FROM ABOUT 1:1 TO ABOUT 1.5:1, A HEXAMETHYLENETETRAMINE/CHLORIDE MOLE RATIO OF FROM ABOUT 1.1:4 TO ABOUT 1.65:4 AND A CHROMIUMALUMINUM METALS CONTENT OF FROM ABOUT 7 TO ABOUT 10 WEIGHT PERCENT. AFTER DROPPING, THE SPHERS ARE PRESSURE AGED AT A TEMPRATURE OF FROM ABOUT 240* TO ABOUT 500* F. FOR A PERIOD OF FROM ABOUT 1 TO ABOUT 5 HOURS, AND ARE THEN WASHED, DRIED AND CALCINED.
Abstract:
THE PREPARATION OF SPHERICAL PARTICLES OF OXIDES CHARACTERIZED BY HIGH MECHANICAL SOLIDITY IN WHICH AT LEAST TWO OXIDES ARE PRESENT IN A CONCENTRATION OF 2 MOLES PER LITER AND IN THE FORM OF A SOL OR PEPTIZED SUSPENSION, MIXED AND FLOCCULATED BY ADDITION THERETO OF A BASE TO RAISE THE PH OF THE MIXTURE, AFTER WHICH THE FLOCCULATED MIXTURE IS WORKED TO FORM A SUSPENSION OF SPHERICAL PARTICLES WHICH ARE WASHED, DRIED AND, IF DESIRED, CALCINED AT ELEVATED TEMPERATURES.
Abstract:
Shaped bodies of a molecular sieve zeolite having an improved mechanical hardness greater than 5 kp are produced by spraying an unstable silicic acid sol as the binder on to a zone of the rotating plate of a granulating device and concurrently applying the pulverized zeolite particles to another zone of the rotating plate, while avoiding the formation of a plastic mass, and the thus produced shaped bodies are dried and activated according to the disclosed process. The unstable silicic acid sol has a silicic acid content greater than 10 percent by weight and a BET surface greater than 150 m2/g.
Abstract:
A method of preparing amorphous alumina spheres. An acidic alumina hydrosol is commingled with a neutralizing or gelling agent and dispersed as droplets in a hot oil suspending media to form firm, spherical, hydrogel particles. The particles are transferred after forming to an aqueous salt solution with a pH of at least about 5.5, and with a salt concentration substantially equivalent to that of the aqueous phase of the hydrogel particles. The salt concentration of the aqueous solution is reduced gradually until the solution is salt-free. Amorphous alumina spheres are recovered upon drying.
Abstract:
DISTILLATION RESIDUUM-CONTAINING PETOLEUM HYDROCATBONS ARE HYDROGENATED STABLY BY USING A CATALYST COMPOSED OF A HYDROGENATINGLY ACTIVE METAL COMPOUND, SUCH AS NITRATES AND AMMONIUM SALTS OF COBALT-MOLYBDENUM, NICKEL-MOLYBDENUM, NICKEL-COBALT-MOLYBDENUM AND NICKEL-TUNGSTEN, SUPPORTED ON A CARRIER DERIVED FROM A GELLED DISPERSION MIXTURE COMPRISING A HYDROSOL OF BASIC ALUMINUM SULFATE OR A MIXED HYDROSOL OF BASIC ALUMINUM SULFATE AND SILICA AND PARTICLE OF A WATER-INSOLUBLE INCORGANIC SOLID, SUCH AS ALUMINUM HYDROXIDE, SILICA GEL, OR KAOLINITE, OR ITS HYDROGEL. THE EXCELLENT ACTIVITY OF THE CATALYST IS MAINTAINED FOR A PROLONGED PERIOD OF TIME.
Abstract:
Catalyst supports in bead form having a porosity of more than 60 percent formed by suspending finely divided silicate and/or silica fillers, carbonates, metal oxides and hydroxides compatible with a silica sol, in a silica sol so that the total weight of the solids is at least 50 percent by weight based on the silica content of the silica sol, dispersing the resulting mixture into drops of the required size, gelling the drops in a water-immiscible medium, separating the resulting granulate from the medium, subjecting the granulate to a heat treatment at 100* to 800* C, and subsequent acid treatment to remove a major portion of the cations, and washing the acid treated granulates.