A catalyst for halogen production for oxidizing a hydrogen halide with oxygen to produce a halogen, the catalyst for halogen production including 4% or less by volume of water with respect to a pore volume of the catalyst for halogen production while the catalyst is encapsulated in a package, and the package encapsulating therein the catalyst for halogen production for oxidizing a hydrogen halide with oxygen to produce a halogen, wherein the catalyst for halogen production includes 4% or less by volume of water with respect to a pore volume of the catalyst for halogen production.

As a hydrocarbon production system that synthesizes hydrocarbons using water and carbon dioxide as raw materials, a hydrocarbon production system capable of producing hydrocarbons by securing hydrogen and carbon monoxide required for hydrocarbon synthesis is provided. In a hydrocarbon production system that produces hydrocarbons from at least water and carbon dioxide, the hydrocarbon production system includes at least an electrolytic reaction unit, a reverse water-gas shift reaction unit, and a hydrocarbon synthesis reaction unit.

A nitrogen oxide storage material comprising: Mg.sub.1-yAl.sub.2O.sub.4-y, wherein y is a number satisfying 0≤y≤0.2, a noble metal, an oxide of a metal other than the noble metal, and a barium compound, the noble metal, the oxide, and the barium compound being loaded on Mg.sub.1-yAl.sub.2O.sub.4-y. The metal oxide comprises at least one metal oxide selected from zirconium oxide, praseodymium oxide, niobium oxide, and iron oxide.

The present invention relates to a particulate filter which comprises a wall-flow filter of length L and two different catalytically active coatings Y and Z, wherein the wall-flow filter comprises channels E and A that extend in parallel between a first and a second end of the wall-flow filter and are separated by porous walls which form the surfaces O.sub.E and O.sub.A, respectively, and wherein the channels E are closed at the second end and the channels A are closed at the first end, and wherein the coatings Y and Z have the same oxygen storage components and the same carrier materials for noble metals. The invention is characterized in that the coating Y is located in the channels E on the surfaces O.sub.E and the coating Z is located in the channels A on the surfaces O.sub.A.

The present specification discloses a membrane reactor comprising a reaction region; a permeate region; and a composite membrane disposed at a boundary of the reaction region and the permeate region, wherein the reaction region comprises a bed filled with a catalyst for dehydrogenation reaction, wherein the composite membrane comprises a support layer including a metal with a body-centered-cubic (BCC) crystal structure, and a catalyst layer including a palladium (Pd) or a palladium alloy formed onto the support layer, wherein ammonia (NH.sub.3) is supplied to the reaction region, the ammonia is converted into hydrogen (H.sub.2) by the dehydrogenation reaction in the presence of the catalyst for dehydrogenation reaction, and the hydrogen permeates the composite membrane and is emitted from the membrane reactor through the permeate region.

Provided is an exhaust gas purification device that ensures an improved purification performance and a suppressed pressure loss. An exhaust gas purification device of the present disclosure includes a honeycomb substrate and an inflow cell side catalyst layer. disposed on a surface on the inflow cell side in an inflow side region of the partition wall. When a gas permeability coefficient of an inflow side partition wall portion including the inflow side region of the partition wall and the inflow cell side catalyst layer is Ka and a gas permeability coefficient of an outflow side partition wall portion including an outflow side region at least from the predetermined position to an outflow side end of the partition wall is Kb, a ratio Ka/Kb of the gas permeability coefficients is within a range of 0.4 or more and 0.8 or less.

A hydrocarbon reforming catalyst used for forming a synthetic gas containing hydrogen and carbon monoxide from a hydrocarbon-based gas, the hydrocarbon reforming catalyst containing a complex oxide having a perovskite structure, wherein the complex oxide has a crystal phase containing SrZrO.sub.3 as a primary component and contains Ru.

A process can be used to produce N-vinyl compounds by homogeneous catalysis. In the process, acetylene is reacted with a cyclic compound having at least one nitrogen as a ring member, hearing a substitutable hydrogen residue (cyclic compound C), in a liquid phase in the presence of a ruthenium complex containing at least one phosphine as a ligand (RuCat).

An ammonia synthesis catalyst, includes a composite oxide carrier in which at least one additive metal element selected from the group consisting of titanium (Ti), zirconium (Zr), hafnium (Hf), aluminum (Al), gallium (Ga), indium (In), silicon (Si), germanium (Ge), and tin (Sn) is solid-solutionized in a composite oxide containing cerium (Ce) and a lanthanide other than Ce and having a composition represented by the following formula:

Ce.sub.xA.sub.1−x−yB.sub.yO.sub.d

(in the formula, A represents a lanthanide other than Ce, B represents the additive metal element, x represents a molar fraction of Ce, y represents a molar fraction of the additive metal element, 1−x−y represents a molar fraction of a lanthanide other than Ce, x and y satisfy 0.1≤x≤0.9, 0.01≤y≤0.3, and 0.11≤x+y≤0.91, d represents a molar ratio of oxygen atoms, and 1.5≤d≤2 is satisfied); and ruthenium (Ru) supported on the composite oxide carrier.

Provided is a process in which a cyclobutanediol compound having a high cis:trans ratio can be stably obtained. The cyclobutanediol compound having a cis:trans ratio of 1.5:1 to 5000:1 is produced by using at least one compound selected from a group consisting of a cyclobutanedione compound, a cyclobutane ketol compound, and a cyclobutanediol compound as a raw material, and performing a catalytic hydrogenation reaction and an isomerization reaction in the cyclobutanediol compound in a solid phase state in the presence of a metal catalyst without adding a solvent.