A catalyst including cobalt, a carrier including silica, and a selective promoter including zirconium. The cobalt and the selective promoter are disposed on the surface of the carrier, and the outer surfaces of the active component cobalt and the selective promoter zirconium are coated with a shell layer including a mesoporous material. A method for preparing the catalyst, including: 1) soaking the carrier including silica into an aqueous solution including a zirconium salt, aging, drying, and calcining a resulting mixture to yield a zirconium-loaded carrier including silica; 2) soaking the zirconium-loaded carrier including silica into an aqueous solution including a cobalt salt, aging, drying, calcining a resulting mixture to yield a primary cobalt-based catalyst; 3) preparing a precursor solution of a mesoporous material; and 4) soaking the primary cobalt-based catalyst into the precursor solution of the mesoporous material; and crystalizing, washing, drying, and calcining a resulting mixture.

The present invention relates to a method for preparing 1,3-cyclohexanedicarboxylic acid capable of exhibiting excellent activity, of enhancing the reaction efficiency and economic efficiency by using a catalyst having improved durability under the reaction conditions of high temperature and strong acid, of achieving excellent conversion rates by allowing most of reactants to participate in the reaction, and of obtaining products having high purity while minimizing by-products within a shorter period of time. The method for preparing 1,3-cyclohexanedicarboxylic acid may include: reducing isophthalic acid in the presence of a metal catalyst fixed to a silica support and containing a palladium (Pd) compound and a copper (Cu) compound in a weight ratio of 1:0.1 to 0.5.

A titanium oxide film by continuous titanium oxide, includes a metallic compound that has a metal atom and a hydrocarbon group and is bonded to a surface of the film, in which absorption occurs at wavelengths of 450 nm and 750 nm.

A process for hydrogenating a hydrogenatable organic compound in a reactor including a fixed catalyst bed. The fixed catalyst bed includes monolithic shaped catalyst bodies having pores and/or channels. The catalyst bodies include at least one element selected from Ni, Fe, Co, Cu, Cr, Pt, Ag, Au, Pd, Mn, Re, Ru, Rh and Ir. The CO content in the gas phase within the reactor during hydrogenation is within a range from 0.1 to 10,000 ppm by volume. In any section in the normal plane to flow direction through the fixed catalyst bed, at least 90% of the pores and channels have an area of not more than 3 mm.sup.2.

Provided is a method for manufacturing a catalyst with which it is possible to obtain a supported metal ammonia synthesis catalyst, in which there are restrictions in terms of producing method and producing facility, and particularly large restrictions for industrial-scale producing, in a more simple manner and so that the obtained catalyst has a high activity. This method for manufacturing an ammonia synthesis catalyst includes: a first step for preparing 12CaO.7Al.sub.2O.sub.3 having a specific surface area of 5 m.sup.2/g or above; a second step for supporting a ruthenium compound on the 12CaO.7Al.sub.2O.sub.3; and a third step for performing a reduction process on the 12CaO.7Al.sub.2O.sub.3 supporting the ruthenium compound, obtained in the second step. This invention is characterized in that the reduction process is performed until the average particle diameter of the ruthenium after the reduction process has increased by at least 15% in relation to the average particle diameter of the ruthenium before the reduction process.

An exhaust gas purification catalyst having an excellent exhaust partition ability while reducing the increase in pressure loss. Exhaust gas purification catalyst includes a substrate having a wall-flow structure with partition wall, upstream coating section formed in portions of partition wall facing entrance cell, from exhaust inlet-side end in the extending direction of partition wall, and downstream coating section formed in portions of partition wall facing exit cell, from exhaust outlet-side end in the extending direction, having a length shorter than the entire length L.sub.w of the partition wall. In downstream coating section, a catalytic metal is concentrated in the surface layer in contact with exit cell.

The present invention relates to a catalyst for coating a surface of a porous material and a method of treating the surface of the porous material. More particularly, when the catalyst for coating a surface of a porous material and the method of treating the surface of the porous material of the present invention are used for butadiene synthesis reaction under high gas space velocity and high pressure conditions, heat generation may be easily controlled and differential pressure may be effectively alleviated, thereby providing improved reactant conversion rate and product selectivity.

A catalyst, including silica and iron. The silica is in the form of a mesoporous spherical particle. The iron is in the form of nanoparticles evenly distributed and encapsulated in the silica. The particle size of the silica is between 140 and 160 nm, and the silica includes pores between 2 and 9 nm in diameter.

A honeycomb structure prevents catalyst slurry from leaching out when applying a wash coat for making a catalyst supported, ensuring air permeability of the outer portion and in which there is no occurrence of cracking when used as a gasoline particulate filter. The honeycomb structure having: a honeycomb substrate composed of porous partition walls forming a plurality of cells and a porous outer portion; and a resin composition on the outer portion of the honeycomb substrate, wherein the outer portion and the partition walls of the honeycomb substrate are formed of the same material; a porosity of the honeycomb structure is 50% or more; and the resin composition is impregnated into pores of the whole outer portion; and the impregnation depth is equal to the outer portion thickness or a part of the resin composition is impregnated deeper than the outer portion and reaches the cell partition walls.

An improved methane oxidation catalyst including tin oxide-supported platinum exerts superior methane oxidation activity at lower temperatures. The methane oxidation catalyst for oxidizing methane in exhaust gas includes platinum supported on tin oxide, and satisfies formula (1): y0.27 x, where x is a platinum content (wt %) relative to tin oxide, and y is a ratio of a peak intensity of (111)-faceted platinum relative to a peak intensity of (111)-faceted tin oxide (Pt(111)/SnO.sub.2(111)), in a diffraction pattern (2=37 to 41) obtained by measurement with an X-ray diffractometer (XRD).