A method for producing a hydrocarbon liquid fuel including hydrocracking a raw material oil in the presence of a hydrocracking catalyst, at a supplying pressure of hydrogen of from 0.1 to 1.0 MPa, a liquid space velocity of liquid volume of the raw material oil of from 0.05 to 10.0 hr.sup.1, and a flow rate of the hydrogen from 50 to 3,000 NL per 1 L of the raw material oil, wherein the hydrocracking catalyst is produced by a method including stirring a sulfur compound and a cracking catalyst in an aqueous medium to allow liquid-solid separation (step 1); stirring a solid product obtained in the step 1 and a metal component in an aqueous medium to allow liquid-solid separation (step 2); baking a solid product obtained in the step 2 (step 3); and reducing a solid product obtained in the step 3, or reducing a solid product obtained in the step 3, and then subjecting a reduced product to sulfurization treatment (step 4). According to the present invention, the hydrocracking of a raw material oil such as fats and oils and biomass retort oils, or a hydrocarbon or the like in petroleum oils, in a given composition can be accomplished by supplying a low-pressure hydrogen of a normal pressure or so.

The invention relates to a multitubular reactor for dehydrogenation of liquid phase alcohol dehydrogenation and a method of liquid phase alcohol dehydrogenation. Most of the alcohol dehydrogenation reaction is endothermic reaction, the reaction temperature is high and the equilibrium conversion rate is low.

An oxidation catalyst composition is provided, the composition including at least one platinum group metal impregnated onto a porous alumina material, wherein the porous alumina material comprises a copper-alumina spinel phase. At least a portion of the copper-alumina spinel phase can be proximal to, or in direct contact with, at least one platinum group metal crystallite, such as a crystallite having a size of about 1 nm or greater. The close proximity of the copper-alumina spinel phase to the platinum group metal crystallite is believed to provide synergistic enhancement of carbon monoxide oxidation. Methods of making and using the catalyst composition are also provided, as well as emission treatment systems comprising a catalyst article coated with the catalyst composition.

The present disclosure relates to a method and an apparatus for manufacturing a core-shell catalyst, and more particularly, to a method and an apparatus for manufacturing a core-shell catalyst, in which a particle in the form of a core-shell in which the metal nanoparticle is coated with platinum is manufactured by substituting copper and platinum through a method of manufacturing a metal nanoparticle by emitting a laser beam to a metal ingot, and providing a particular electric potential value, and as a result, it is possible to continuously produce nanoscale uniform core-shell catalysts in large quantities.

Zeolite catalysts and systems and methods for preparing and using zeolite catalysts having the CHA crystal structure are disclosed. The catalysts can be used to remove nitrogen oxides from a gaseous medium across a broad temperature range and exhibit hydrothermal stability at high-reaction temperatures. The zeolite catalysts include a zeolite carrier having a silica-to-alumina ratio from about 15:1 to about 256:1 and a copper to alumina ratio from about 0.25:1 to about 1:1.

Disclosed in the present disclosure are a method and system for producing hexafluoro-1,3-butadiene. It includes: under the action of a catalyst, chlorotrifluoroethylene reacting with hydrogen gas in a first reactor to obtain a mixture, the mixture entering a rectification apparatus, trifluoroethylene obtained by rectification entering a second reactor and reacting with bromine under light to obtain 1,2-dibromo-trifluoroethane; in a third reactor pre-loaded with the 1,2-dibromo-trifluoroethane, adding the 1,2-dibromo-trifluoroethane and solid alkali, and performing reaction to obtain bromotrifluoroethylene; and adding the bromotrifluoroethylene to a fourth reactor holding with zinc powder, an initiator and an organic solvent for reaction, so as to obtain a trifluoroethenyl zinc bromide solution, performing filtration, and then adding a coupling agent for a coupling reaction, so as to obtain hexafluoro-1,3-butadiene. The present disclosure has the advantages of high safety, good in catalytic stability and high in process selectivity, and can achieve continuous production.

The disclosed process relates to removal of benzene from a reformate stream and in turn providing gasoline and diesel products along with commodity chemicals (such as cyclohexylbenzene). The disclosed process further relates to the upgrading of heart-cut reformate benzene to higher value products.

Disclosed herein is a method useful in the process of contacting a first product that includes ethylene glycol, propylene glycol, and glycerol with the catalyst composition, thereby producing a second product that includes acrolein and acetaldehyde.

Disclosed are a chemochromic nanoparticle, a method for manufacturing the chemochromic nanoparticle, and a hydrogen sensor comprising the chemochromic nanoparticle. In particular, the chemochromic nanoparticle has a core-shell structure such that the chemochromic nanoparticle and comprises a core comprising a hydrated or non-hydrated transition metal oxide; and a shell comprising a transition metal catalyst.

A group of reductive 2D materials (R2D) with extended reactive vacancies and a method for making the R2D with extended reactive vacancies are provided, especially the example of the reductive boron nitride (RBN). To create defects such as vacancies, boron nitride (BN) powders are milled at cryogenic temperatures. Vacancies are produced by milling, and the vacancies can be used to reduce various metal nanostructures on RBN. Due to the thermal stability of the RBN and the enhanced catalytic performance of metal nanostructures, RBN-metals can be used for different catalysts, including electrochemical catalysts and high temperature catalysts.