Disclosed is a FER-type zeolite having at least silicon, aluminum, and oxygen as skeletal atoms, where a molar ratio between silicon atoms to aluminum atoms is 2-100:1. In addition, when .sup.29Si solid nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy is used to analyze the zeolite, a peak area in the chemical shift range of −90 ppm to −110 ppm accounts for 25% or more of a peak area in the chemical shift range of −90 ppm to −125 ppm. Also disclosed are a preparation method for and an application of the FER zeolite.

The present invention relates to a process for conveniently preparing a supported cobalt-containing Fischer-Tropsch synthesis catalyst having improved activity and selectivity for C.sub.5+ hydrocarbons. In one aspect, the present invention provides a process for preparing a supported cobalt-containing Fischer-Tropsch synthesis catalyst, said process comprising the steps of: (a) impregnating a support material with: i) a cobalt-containing compound and ii) acetic acid, or a manganese salt of acetic acid, in a single impregnation step to form an impregnated support material; and (b) drying and calcining the impregnated support material; wherein the support material impregnated in step (a) has not previously been modified with a source of metal other than cobalt; and wherein when the cobalt-containing compound is cobalt hydroxide, a manganese salt of acetic acid is not used in step (a) of the process.

The present invention relates to a catalyst for producing olefins from dehydrogenation of alkane having 2 to 5 carbon atoms and a method for producing olefins using said catalyst, wherein said catalyst comprises a hierarchical zeolite nanosheet having a silica to alumina (SiO.sub.2/AI.sub.2O.sub.3) ratio more than 120 and group X metal(s) in a range of 0.3 to 5% by weight. The catalyst according to the conversion of precursor to yields and high olefins selectivity.

Methods of producing an isomerization catalyst include preparing a catalyst precursor solution, hydrothermally treating the catalyst precursor solution to produce a magnesium oxide precipitant, and calcining the magnesium oxide precipitant to produce the isomerization catalyst. The catalyst precursor solution includes at least a magnesium precursor, a hydrolyzing agent, and polyethylene glycol. Methods of producing propene from a butene-containing feedstock with the isomerization catalyst and a metathesis catalyst are also disclosed.

The present invention relates to a preparation method for an olefin epoxidation catalyst, comprising: (1) preparing a titanium-silicon gel; (2) performing pore-enlarging treatment to the titanium-silicon gel by using organic amine or liquid ammonia, and drying, calcinating to obtain a titanium-silicon composite oxide; (3) optionally performing alcohol solution of organic alkali metal salt treatment; and (4) optionally performing gas-phase silanization treatment. The catalyst prepared by the method of the present invention has adjustable variability for pore size, so that the activity thereof for epoxidation reactions of the olefin molecules with different dynamic diameters is higher; the surface acidity of the catalyst can be reduced effectively through two-step modification to the catalyst, so that the catalyst has higher selectivity for epoxidation product.

In a method, device, catalyst and a method for producing a catalyst for the catalytic conversion of a substance mixture containing glycerol to propanol in a fixed-bed reactor, substrates of the catalyst have inorganic materials and/or metal oxides. The substrates have a pore diameter at the surface of between 10 and 25 angstroms, preferably between 12 and 20 angstroms, particularly preferably 15 angstroms.

The present invention provides a method of producing a honeycomb structured body having excellent mechanical strength. The present invention relates to a method of producing a honeycomb structured body including a honeycomb fired body in which multiple through-holes are arranged longitudinally in parallel with one another with a partition wall therebetween, the method including: a raw material mixing step of preparing a raw material paste containing ceria-zirconia composite oxide particles, alumina particles, an inorganic binder, and alumina fibers; a molding step of molding the raw material paste into a honeycomb molded body in which multiple through-holes are arranged longitudinally in parallel with one another with a partition wall therebetween; a drying step of drying the honeycomb molded body obtained in the molding step; and a firing step of firing the honeycomb molded body dried in the drying step into a honeycomb fired body, wherein the percentage of amorphous alumina fibers in the alumina fibers for use in the raw material mixing step is 50 to 100 wt %.

The present invention provides a method of producing a honeycomb structured body having excellent mechanical strength. The present invention relates to a method of producing a honeycomb structured body including a honeycomb fired body in which multiple through-holes are arranged longitudinally in parallel with one another with a partition wall therebetween, the method including: a raw material mixing step of preparing a raw material paste containing ceria-zirconia composite oxide particles, alumina particles, an inorganic binder, and inorganic fibers; a molding step of molding the raw material paste into a honeycomb molded body in which multiple through-holes are arranged longitudinally in parallel with one another with a partition wall therebetween; a drying step of drying the honeycomb molded body obtained in the molding step; and a firing step of firing the honeycomb molded body dried in the drying step into a honeycomb fired body, wherein the raw material mixing step includes pre-mixing of the inorganic binder and the inorganic fibers.

The present invention relates to a method for producing a support at least micrometric in size, photocatalytically active and at least in the visible range, containing nanocrystals each composed of from 80 to 100 mol % of TiO.sub.2 and from 0 to 20 mol % of at least one other metal or semi-metallic oxide, comprising the following steps, from an acidic aqueous reaction medium, at a heating temperature of between 20 and 60° C.: a step of adding the titanium oxide precursor, or a mixture of the titanium oxide precursor and the precursor of the other oxide, in the acidic aqueous reaction medium, and a condensation step on or inside the support, by spraying onto the support or immersing the support in the aqueous reaction medium, for a specific period of condensation, a heating step, the support allowing the nanocrystals to be crystallized, without using surfactant, in the aqueous reaction medium, a step of rinsing with water and a recovery step on the one hand of the support on which the crystallization took place, these nanocrystals being attached by covalent bonds to the support, and on the other hand of a residual solution.

A ceramic membrane for oxidative coupling of methane can include a perovskite oxide and catalyst material on a surface of the membrane.