Modified red mud catalyst compositions, methods for production, and methods for use, a composition including red mud material produced from an alumina extraction process from bauxite ore; nickel oxide, the nickel oxide present at between about 5 wt. % to about 40 wt. % of the modified red mud catalyst composition; and a Periodic Table Group VIB metal oxide, the Group VIB metal oxide present at between about 1 wt. % and about 30 wt. % of the modified red mud catalyst composition.

There is provided a membrane comprising: a porous support layer having a first surface and a second surface; a palladium (Pd)-based selective layer on a first surface of the support layer; and a zeolite protective layer on a second surface of the support layer, wherein the support layer is between the Pd-based selective layer and the zeolite protective layer. There is also provided a method of forming the same.

Chemical processors are configured to reduce mass, work in conjunction with solar concentrators, and/or house porous inserts in microchannel or mesochannel devices made by additive manufacturing. Methods of making chemical processors containing porous inserts by additive manufacturing are also disclosed.

The present invention describes a processes, systems, and catalysts for the utilization of carbon dioxide into high quality synthesis gas that can then be used to produce fuels (e.g., diesel fuel) and chemicals. In one aspect, the present invention provides a process for the conversion of a feed gas comprising carbon dioxide and hydrogen to a product gas comprising carbon monoxide and water.

A process for synthesis of urea from ammonia and carbon dioxide wherein: the urea synthesis is performed with a stripping process in a synthesis loop including at least a reactor (1), a stripper (2) and a condenser (3); the reactor effluent is treated in the stripper to remove unreacted ammonia and carbon dioxide; the urea solution (14) from the stripper is sent to a low-pressure recovery section (4); the stripper vapours are split into a first portion (151) directed to the reactor and a second portion (152) sent to the condenser; the condenser (3) is a shell-and-tube kettle condenser where condensation of stripper vapours is performed in the tube side (30); a carbamate-containing effluent (20) from the condenser is returned to the reactor.

The invention relates to a process for starting up a reactor for the continuous production process of polyether carbonate polyols by the addition of alkylene oxide and carbon dioxide in the presence of a DMC catalyst and/or a metal complex catalyst based on the metals cobalt and/or zinc to an H-functional starter substance, in which process: (α) a portion of the H-functional starter substance and/or a suspension medium which has no H-functional groups is mixed in a reactor with a DMC catalyst and/or a metal complex catalyst, the DMC catalyst and/or the metal complex catalyst having a concentration s in the mixture; and (γ), after step (α), the H-functional starter substance, alkylene oxide and DMC catalyst and/or a metal complex catalyst are continuously fed into the reactor during the addition process and the resulting reaction mixture is removed from the reactor, and a steady state is achieved.

A process for producing syngas from pre-treated recovery plastic polymers comprising:

a) gasifying said recovery pre-treated polymers according to the following reaction scheme R1:

[—CH.sub.2—]+H.sub.2O═CO+2H.sub.2;  R1:

b) hydrogenating said pre-treated polymers to higher hydrocarbons and methane by using hydrogen produced in R1, according to the following reaction scheme R3:

[—CH.sub.2—].sub.n+H.sub.2═C.sub.nH.sub.(2n+2)  R3:

wherein n is an integer of from 1 to 3, said reaction being optionally combined with oligomers and olefin formation reactions;
c) steam reforming of methane according to the following reaction scheme R4:

CH.sub.4+H.sub.2O═CO+3H.sub.2;  R4:

and optionally
d) reforming reaction of methane according to the following reaction scheme R5:

CH.sub.4+CO.sub.2=2CO+2H.sub.2;  R5:

said process being carried out in a plant (10), (20), (30), (40), (50) comprising a gasification section (11), (21), (31), (41), (51) and a reforming section (12), (22), (32), (42), (52) comprising a tube bundle (13), (23), (33), (43), (53) provided with a catalyst wherein,
i) said gasification (11), (21), (31) and reforming sections (12),(22), (32) are part of a sole reactive unit (10), (20), (30), or said gasification (41), (51) and reforming section (42), (52) are two physically distinct reactive units (40), (50),
ii) the gasification section (11), (21) or the reactive unit (41) provides respectively the energetical support to the reforming section (12), (22) or to the reforming reactive unit (42), thanks to the exothermic combustion reaction scheme R2:

[—CH.sub.2-]+1.5O.sub.2═CO.sub.2+H.sub.2O;  R2:

or in alternative: the reforming section (

A process for producing a highly conducting film of conductor-bonded graphene sheets that are highly oriented, comprising: (a) preparing a graphene dispersion or graphene oxide (GO) gel; (b) depositing the dispersion or gel onto a supporting solid substrate under a shear stress to form a wet layer; (c) drying the wet layer to form a dried layer having oriented graphene sheets or GO molecules with an inter-planar spacing d.sub.002 of 0.4 nm to 1.2 nm; (d) heat treating the dried layer at a temperature from 55° C. to 3,200° C. for a desired length of time to produce a porous graphitic film having pores and constituent graphene sheets or a 3D network of graphene pore walls having an inter-planar spacing d.sub.002 less than 0.4 nm; and (e) impregnating the porous graphitic film with a conductor material that bonds the constituent graphene sheets or graphene pore walls to form the conducting film.

Techniques for converting carbonate material to carbon monoxide include transferring heat and at least one feed stream that includes a carbonate material and at least one of hydrogen, oxygen, water, or a hydrocarbon, into an integrated calcination and syngas production system that includes a syngas generating calciner (SGC) reactor; calcining the carbonate material to produce a carbon dioxide product and a solid oxide product; initiating a syngas production reaction; producing, from the syngas production reaction, at least one syngas product that includes at least one of a carbon monoxide product, a water product or a hydrogen product; and transferring at least one of the solid oxide product or the at least one syngas product out of the SGC reactor.

An alkaline battery gasket includes a resin composition in which 50 to 95 parts by weight of a polyamide 610 resin (A) and 5 to 50 parts by weight of a polyethylene resin (B), based on 100 parts by weight of a total amount of the polyamide 610 resin (A) and the polyethylene resin (B), is blended, in which, in morphology of the resin composition observed by using transmission electron tomography, the polyamide 610 resin (A) forms a continuous phase, the polyethylene resin (B) forms a dispersed phase, and an average dispersion diameter of the dispersed phase is 1 nm or more and 1000 nm or less.