Disclosed is an olefin production method including: pretreating a catalyst by providing reduction gas to an alumina type catalyst to produce olefin from the hydrocarbon including not less than 90 wt % of LPG (Stage 1); producing the olefin by providing the catalyst pretreated at Stage 1 into Riser of Fast Fluidization Regime to dehydrogenate the hydrocarbon (Stage 2); separating the mixture of the produced propylene and the catalyst used at Stage 2, and regenerating the separated catalyst (Stage 3); and recycling the catalyst regenerated at Stage 3 to the process of Stage 1 (Stage 4).

A composition comprising a ternary intermetallic compound X.sub.2YZ, wherein X, Y, and Z are different from one another; X being selected from the group consisting of Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, and Pd; Y being selected from the group consisting of Cr, Co, and Ni; and Z being selected from the group consisting of Al, Si, Ga, Ge, In, Sn, Zn, and Sb; wherein the ternary intermetallic compound is supported on a porous oxidic support material. The composition may be prepared by providing a liquid mixture of sources of X, Y, and Z, and the porous oxidic support material, removing the liquid and heating the resulting mixture in a reducing atmosphere. The composition is useful as catalyst.

A composition comprising a ternary intermetallic compound X.sub.2YZ, wherein X, Y, and Z are different from one another; X being selected from the group consisting of Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, and Pd; Y being selected from the group consisting of Cr, Co, and Ni; and Z being selected from the group consisting of Al, Si, Ga, Ge, In, Sn, Zn, and Sb; wherein the ternary intermetallic compound is supported on a porous oxidic support material. The composition may be prepared by providing a liquid mixture of sources of X, Y, and Z, and the porous oxidic support material, removing the liquid and heating the resulting mixture in a reducing atmosphere. The composition is useful as catalyst.

A catalyst material includes molybdenum (Mo): vanadium (V). the molar ratio of Mo:V being between 1:0.12 and 1:0.49; tellurium (Te), the molar ratio of Mo:Te being between 1:0.01 and 1:0.30; niobium (Nb), the molar ratio of Mo:Nb being between 1:0.01 and 1:0.30; and beryllium (Be), the molar ratio of Mo:Be being from 1:1 to 1:50.

The integrated process comprises a step a) of dehydrogenating propane providing a stream S1 comprising propane and propene; a step b) of separating stream S1 in at least one rectification column, providing an overhead product stream S2 comprising more than 99% by weight propene, a side stream S3 comprising from 90 to 98% by weight propene and a bottoms product stream S4 enriched in propane; a step c) of reacting propene with hydrogen peroxide in the presence of an epoxidation catalyst using propene in molar excess; and a step d) of separating non-reacted propene and propene oxide from the reaction mixture of step c) providing a propene oxide product and a stream S5 comprising propene and propane; wherein stream S3 is passed to step c), stream S5 is recycled to step b) and stream S4 is recycled to step a).

A method for producing a target compound, includes distributing feed mixture at a temperature in a first temperature range to a plurality of parallel reaction tubes of a shell-and-tube reactor. The method further includes subjecting the feed mixture in first tube sections of the reaction tubes to heating to a temperature in a second temperature range, and in second tube sections of the reaction tubes arranged downstream of the first tube sections to oxidative catalytic conversion using one or more catalysts arranged in the second tube sections. The heating is performed, at least in part, using a catalyst arranged in the first tube sections and having a light-off temperature in the first temperature range.

The present disclosure discloses a supported polymetallic oxide tandem catalyst, preparation method and application thereof, a surface of the support is supported with an oxide of metal A and then with metal vanadate nano-particles; and the oxide of metal A serves as a direct dehydrogenation catalytic site, and the metal vanadate nano-particles serve as a selective hydrogen combustion site. In the application of the tandem catalyst, dehydrogenation site and selective hydrogen combustion site are coupled at the nano-scale, and this coupling mechanism shifts the reaction equilibrium to the alkenes through the selective combustion of byproduct hydrogen, which effectively surpasses the thermodynamic limit; and meanwhile, the combustion of hydrogen releases chemical energy, and provides heat energy through direct heating, enabling the self-heating operation of the reaction. The present disclosure has the outstanding advantages of high single-pass conversion rate of light alkanes and high selectivity towards target product alkenes.

A carbonaceous material, based on the total weight of the carbonaceous material, contains 1-99 wt % of a carbon element, 0.2-60 wt % of a magnesium element, 0.5-60 wt % of an oxygen element and 0.1-40 wt % of a chlorine element. The process for preparing the carbonaceous materia1 include (1) Mixing a solid carbon source, a precursor and water to produce a mixture; wherein said precursor contains a magnesium source and a chlorine source; (2) Drying the resulting mixture obtained in Step (1) to produce a dried mixture; and (3) Calcining the dried mixture obtained in Step (2). The carbonaceous material can be used in catalytic oxidation of hydrocarbons.

A method for manufacturing alpha-methylstyrene includes dehydrogenating cumene in a reactor under a catalyst to manufacture alpha-methylstyrene, wherein one or more of nitrogen (N.sub.2) and carbon dioxide (CO.sub.2) are added during the dehydrogenation reaction of cumene, and wherein the catalyst comprises a carrier, and a metal nitride-based catalyst component supported on the carrier.

A heterogeneous catalyst composition may include a metal catalyst supported on a porous mixed metal oxide support. A process for catalytic oxidative dehydrogenation of hydrocarbons may include contacting, in a reactor system, a hydrocarbon-containing feedstock with the heterogeneous catalyst composition to generate olefinic compounds. A process for preparing a heterogeneous catalyst composition may include combining a porous mixed metal oxide support with at least one metal catalyst precursor to form a catalyst precursor mixture, wherein the at least one metal catalyst precursor comprises at least one metal compound selected from the group consisting of transition metal compounds, rare-earth metal compounds, or a mixture thereof, and heating the catalyst precursor mixture to a temperature of about 390 C. to about 750 C. to form a heterogeneous catalyst composition.