An oxygen transfer agent comprising a metal-boron oxide is provided. The average oxidation state of the metal in the metal-boron oxide is about 3+, and has 10% or less of a stoichiometric excess in moles of Mn with respect to the boron. The oxygen transfer agent may further comprise a magnesia-phosphate cement. The oxygen transfer agent is capable of oxidatively dehydrogenating a hydrocarbon feed at reaction conditions to produce a dehydrogenated hydrocarbon product and water. The oxidative dehydrogenation can take place under reaction conditions of less than 1000 ppm weight molecular oxygen, or in the presence of more than 1000 ppm weight of molecular oxygen. Also provided are methods of using the oxygen transfer agents, and an apparatus for effecting the oxidative dehydrogenation of the hydrocarbon feed.

An anode active material for lithium ion batteries includes one or more unaggregated silicon particles having a mass-based chlorine content of from 5 to 200 ppm and a volume-weighted particle size distribution having diameter percentiles d.sub.50 of from 0.5 μm to 10.0 μm.

An anode active material for lithium ion batteries includes one or more unaggregated silicon particles having a mass-based chlorine content of from 5 to 200 ppm and a volume-weighted particle size distribution having diameter percentiles d.sub.50 of from 0.5 μm to 10.0 μm.

The present invention relates to a nitro compound hydrogenation reaction process and hydrogenation reaction apparatus, which can achieve the objects of the continuous reaction of the nitro compound and the long-period run of regeneration and activation. The nitro compound hydrogenation reaction process comprises a hydrogenation step, a regeneration step, an optional activation step and a recycling step. There exists at least one step of degassing the spent catalyst between the hydrogenation step and the regeneration step. According to circumstances, there exists at least one step of degassing the regenerated catalyst between the regeneration step and the activation step.

The present invention relates to a nitro compound hydrogenation reaction process and hydrogenation reaction apparatus, which can achieve the objects of the continuous reaction of the nitro compound and the long-period run of regeneration and activation. The nitro compound hydrogenation reaction process comprises a hydrogenation step, a regeneration step, an optional activation step and a recycling step. There exists at least one step of degassing the spent catalyst between the hydrogenation step and the regeneration step. According to circumstances, there exists at least one step of degassing the regenerated catalyst between the regeneration step and the activation step.

The present invention relates to a fluidized bed reactor. The fluidized bed reactor includes: a catalyst bed; a dust collector provided in an upper portion of the fluidized bed reactor collecting catalyst particles in a gas discharged toward the upper portion of the fluidized bed reactor; and a filter portion provided in a region between the dust collector and the catalyst bed, wherein the filter portion includes a filtering screen and a plurality of conical caps coupled to the filtering screen.

The present invention relates to a fluidized bed reactor. The fluidized bed reactor includes: a catalyst bed; a dust collector provided in an upper portion of the fluidized bed reactor collecting catalyst particles in a gas discharged toward the upper portion of the fluidized bed reactor; and a filter portion provided in a region between the dust collector and the catalyst bed, wherein the filter portion includes a filtering screen and a plurality of conical caps coupled to the filtering screen.

Apparatus and processes herein provide for converting hydrocarbon feeds to light olefins and other hydrocarbons. The processes and apparatus include, in some embodiments, feeding a hydrocarbon, a first catalyst and a second catalyst to a reactor, wherein the first catalyst has a smaller average particle size and is less dense than the second catalyst. A first portion of the second catalyst may be recovered as a bottoms product from the reactor, and a cracked hydrocarbon effluent, a second portion of the second catalyst, and the first catalyst may be recovered as an overhead product from the reactor. The second portion of the second catalyst may be separated from the overhead product, providing a first stream comprising the first catalyst and the hydrocarbon effluent and a second stream comprising the separated second catalyst, allowing return of the separated second catalyst in the second stream to the reactor.

Apparatus and processes herein provide for converting hydrocarbon feeds to light olefins and other hydrocarbons. The processes and apparatus include, in some embodiments, feeding a hydrocarbon, a first catalyst and a second catalyst to a reactor, wherein the first catalyst has a smaller average particle size and is less dense than the second catalyst. A first portion of the second catalyst may be recovered as a bottoms product from the reactor, and a cracked hydrocarbon effluent, a second portion of the second catalyst, and the first catalyst may be recovered as an overhead product from the reactor. The second portion of the second catalyst may be separated from the overhead product, providing a first stream comprising the first catalyst and the hydrocarbon effluent and a second stream comprising the separated second catalyst, allowing return of the separated second catalyst in the second stream to the reactor.

A device with annular spouted fluidized bed can be used for carrying out the majority of the technical processes carried out in fluidized bed devices. The reaction chamber of the device has, throughout at least a part of its height, a downwardly tapering funnel shape with step-structured inner surface. The shape of the reaction chamber, together with the tangential admission thereto of fluidized and other gases, makes it possible to create, in the reaction chamber, an adjustable toroidal fluidized bed, in which the rotation rate of the particles of the material undergoing treatment can be adjusted in both horizontal and vertical planes, and also makes it possible to control the dwell time of particles of different sizes in the reaction zone, the intensity with which materials are treated, and other process parameters.