The present invention provides a method for producing an oxide catalyst containing antimony, comprising a step (A) of obtaining the oxide catalyst using antimony particles containing a diantimony trioxide as a source of the antimony, wherein an abundance of a pentavalent antimony in a surface layer of the antimony particle to be measured in XPS analysis is less than 70 atom %, and the antimony particle has an average particle size of 1.2 μm or less.

The present invention provides a method for producing an oxide catalyst containing antimony, comprising a step (A) of obtaining the oxide catalyst using antimony particles containing a diantimony trioxide as a source of the antimony, wherein an abundance of a pentavalent antimony in a surface layer of the antimony particle to be measured in XPS analysis is less than 70 atom %, and the antimony particle has an average particle size of 1.2 μm or less.

A method of producing 1,3-butadiene including feeding oxygen and a feedstock gas containing n-butene into a reactor from the lower section of the reactor provided with a metal atom-containing catalyst, so that a product gas containing 1,3-butadiene is obtained through oxidative dehydrogenation of n-butene; cooling the product gas containing the 1,3-butadiene; and separating the 1,3-butadiene from the cooled product gas through selective absorption into an absorption solvent.

A method of producing 1,3-butadiene including feeding oxygen and a feedstock gas containing n-butene into a reactor from the lower section of the reactor provided with a metal atom-containing catalyst, so that a product gas containing 1,3-butadiene is obtained through oxidative dehydrogenation of n-butene; cooling the product gas containing the 1,3-butadiene; and separating the 1,3-butadiene from the cooled product gas through selective absorption into an absorption solvent.

An object of the present invention is to provide a catalyst ensuring that when a gas-phase catalytic oxidation reaction of a material substance is conducted using a catalyst to produce a target substance, the pressure loss and coking are suppressed and the target substance can be produced in high yield. The present invention is related to a ring-shaped catalyst having a straight body part and a hollow body part, which is used when a gas-phase catalytic oxidation reaction of a material substance is conducted to produce a target substance, wherein a length of the straight body part is shorter than a length of the hollow body part and at least at one end part, a region from an end part of the straight body part to an end part of the hollow body part is concavely curved.

An object of the present invention is to provide a catalyst ensuring that when a gas-phase catalytic oxidation reaction of a material substance is conducted using a catalyst to produce a target substance, the pressure loss and coking are suppressed and the target substance can be produced in high yield. The present invention is related to a ring-shaped catalyst having a straight body part and a hollow body part, which is used when a gas-phase catalytic oxidation reaction of a material substance is conducted to produce a target substance, wherein a length of the straight body part is shorter than a length of the hollow body part and at least at one end part, a region from an end part of the straight body part to an end part of the hollow body part is concavely curved.

The present invention relates to a catalyst composition comprising a support, catalytically active species comprising a vanadium species, an antimony species and a tungsten species, and optionally, at least one further species selected from the group consisting of silicon species, aluminum species, zirconium species, titanium species, and cerium species; a catalytic article comprising the same, a method for preparing the catalytic article, and use of the catalyst composition or the catalytic article for selective catalytic reduction of nitrogen oxides in exhaust gases.

The present invention relates to a catalyst composition comprising a support, catalytically active species comprising a vanadium species, an antimony species and a tungsten species, and optionally, at least one further species selected from the group consisting of silicon species, aluminum species, zirconium species, titanium species, and cerium species; a catalytic article comprising the same, a method for preparing the catalytic article, and use of the catalyst composition or the catalytic article for selective catalytic reduction of nitrogen oxides in exhaust gases.

A process for producing a catalytically active multielement oxide comprising the elements Mo, W, V and Cu, wherein at least one source of the elemental constituents W of the multielement oxide is used to produce an aqueous solution, the resultant aqueous solution is admixed with sources of the elemental constituents Mo and V of the multielement oxide, drying of the resultant aqueous solution produces a powder P, the resultant powder P is optionally used to produce geometric shaped precursor bodies, and the powder P is or the geometric shaped precursor bodies are subjected to thermal treatment to form the catalytically active composition, wherein the aqueous solution used for drying comprises from 1.6% to 5.0% by weight of W and from 7.2% to 26.0% by weight of Mo, based in each case on the total amount of aqueous solution.

A process for producing a catalytically active multielement oxide comprising the elements Mo, W, V and Cu, wherein at least one source of the elemental constituents W of the multielement oxide is used to produce an aqueous solution, the resultant aqueous solution is admixed with sources of the elemental constituents Mo and V of the multielement oxide, drying of the resultant aqueous solution produces a powder P, the resultant powder P is optionally used to produce geometric shaped precursor bodies, and the powder P is or the geometric shaped precursor bodies are subjected to thermal treatment to form the catalytically active composition, wherein the aqueous solution used for drying comprises from 1.6% to 5.0% by weight of W and from 7.2% to 26.0% by weight of Mo, based in each case on the total amount of aqueous solution.