Abstract:
A BISMUTH MOLYBDATE- OR BISMUTH PHOSPHOMOLYBDATEON-TITANIA CATALYST IS MADE BY MIXING A TITANIA SOL WITH COMPOUNDS TO GIVE AN AQUEOUS SLURRY WHICH PRODUCES, AFTER DRYING AND CALCINING, BISMUTH OXIDE, MOLYBDENUM OXIDE AND OPTIONALLY SILICON OXIDE AND PHOSPHORUS OXIDE, IN THE DESIRED PROPORTIONS. A PREFERRED METHOD OF PREPARING THE CATALYST IS TO ADD, PRIOR TO DRYING, AMMONIUM CARBONATE, OR AQUEOUS AMMONIA, TO THE SLURRY UNTIL THE PH IS IN THE RANGE OF 5-7.5. SUBSEQUENTLY THE CATALYST IS DRIED AND CALCINED AT TEMPERATURES ABOVE 600* BUT BELOW 700*C. THE RESULTING CATALYST HAS THE FORMULA:
BIAPBMO12(TI1-XSIX)COD
WHERE A IS EQUAL TO OR GREATER THAN 4, B IS 0 TO 2, C IS 6 TO 80, D IS 1.5A+2.5B+36+2C AND X IS 0 TO 0.5. THE CATALYST PRODUCED IS USEFUL IN VARIOUS OXIDATION REACTIONS, E.G. METHANOL TO FORMALDEHYDE.
Abstract:
Nickel-containing foraminous material is formed by leaching about 2-100 percent by weight of the aluminum from an alloy consisting essentially of about 25-47 percent by weight of nickel and about 53-75 percent by weight of aluminum, at least about 65 percent by weight of the nickel in the alloy being present as intermetallic NiAl3 compound. This foraminous material is useful as an activated catalyst for the hydrogenation of organic compounds and as an anode in fuel cells.
Abstract:
A two-step process for the vapor phase conversion of methanol with oxygen to formaldehyde uses a conventional silver catalyst in the first step and an improved bismuth molybdate on silica catalyst in the second at temperatures between 450* and 600* C. The improved catalyst is made by mixing compounds to produce bismuth oxide, molybdenum oxide and, optionally, phosphorus oxide, in an aqueous slurry in the desired proportions, adding the slurry to an aqueous silica sol and then adding to the slurry ammonium carbonate or ammonium bicarbonate until the pH is in the range of 5 to 7.5, subsequently drying and calcining at 400* to 550* C. to produce the desired catalyst.