Shaped porous carbon products and processes for preparing these products are provided. The shaped porous carbon products can be used, for example, as catalyst supports and adsorbents. Catalyst compositions including these shaped porous carbon products, processes of preparing the catalyst compositions, and various processes of using the shaped porous carbon products and catalyst compositions are also provided.

A process for the synthesis of linear paraffinic hydrocarbons from a feed of carbon monoxide and dihydrogen in the presence of a catalyst of a mesoporous oxide matrix and a content by weight of the element cobalt of 0.5% to 60%, wherein the catalyst is prepared by a) mixing, in an aqueous or hydro-organic solvent, a molecular precursor containing cobalt and a molecular precursor of the mesoporous oxide matrix containing element X of silicon, aluminium, titanium, zirconium and or cerium; b) aerosol spray drying the mixture to form spherical liquid droplets; c) drying to obtain solid particles at a temperature of 10 C. to 300 C.; d) activation by a reduction treatment to form nanoparticles of cobalt with an oxidation state of 0.

Disclosed in the present invention are a preparation method for an olefin epoxidation catalyst and applications thereof. The method comprises: loading an auxiliary metal salt onto a silica gel carrier, and carrying out a drying treatment to the silica gel carrier; loading a titanium salt (preferably TiCl.sub.4) onto the silica gel carrier by a chemical vapor deposition method; calcining to obtain a silica gel on which the auxiliary metal oxide and Ti species are loaded; obtaining an catalyst precursor (Ti-MeOSiO.sub.2 composite oxide) by water vapor washing; loading alkyl silicate (preferably tetraethyl orthosilicate) onto the surface of the catalyst precursor by a chemical vapor deposition method and calcining the catalyst precursor to obtain a Ti-MeOSiO.sub.2 composite oxide with the surface coated with a SiO.sub.2 layer; and carrying out a silylanization treatment to obtain the catalyst. The catalyst can be applied to a chemical process of propylene epoxidation to prepare propylene oxide, and has an average selectivity to PO up to 96.7%, the method of the present invention and the applications thereof have industrial application prospects.

The invention discloses a method for catalytically hydrogenating oxalates. In the method, an oxalate and hydrogen gas are contacted with a nanotube assembled hollow sphere catalyst, to produce a product comprising glycolate or glycol. The predominant chemical components of the catalyst include copper and silica, in which the copper is in an amount of 5 to 60% by weight of the catalyst, and the silica is in an amount of 40-95% by weight of the catalyst. The catalyst has a specific surface area of 450-500 m.sup.2/g, an average pore volume of 0.5-1 cm.sup.3/g, and an average pore diameter of 5-6 nm. The catalyst is in a structure of assembling nanotubes on hollow spheres, wherein the hollow spheres have a diameter of 50-450 nm, and a wall thickness of 10-20 nm, and the nanotubes, vertically arranged on the surfaces of the hollow spheres, have a diameter of 3-5 nm, and a length of 40-300 nm. Even in the case of a low H.sub.2/DMO feeding ratio, the method of the invention still can exhibit an excellent activity of hydrogenating oxalates and an excellent selectivity to ethylene glycol, and reduce circulation quantity of hydrogen gas, thereby to save power costs and apparatus costs, and it can flexibility adjust the selectivity of ethylene glycol and glycolate. Thus, the method has high industry prospects and application values.

The present invention relates to a molding comprising a zeolitic material, phosphorous, one or more metals M of groups 3, 6, 10 to 14 of the periodic system of the elements, and a binder material. The molding is useful as a catalyst, in particular for preparing aromatic compounds from methanol with selectivity toward p-xylene.

The invention relates to a mixed oxide material comprising the elements molybdenum, vanadium, niobium and tellurium, which, when using the Cu-K radiation, has diffraction reflections h, i, k and l in the XRD spectrum, said diffraction reflexes having their apex points at the diffraction angles (2.Math.) 26.20.5 (h), 27.00.5 (i), 7.80.5 (k) and 28.00.5 (l), characterized in that the mixed oxide material has a pore volume of >0.1 cm.sup.3/g. The mixed oxide material according to the invention is produced by a method comprising the steps of: a) producing a mixture of starting compounds containing molybdenum, vanadium, niobium and tellurium dioxide as a tellurium-containing starting compound as well as oxalic acid and a further oxoligand selected from the group consisting of dicarboxylic acids and diols, b) hydrothermally treating the mixture of starting compounds at a temperature of 100 to 300 C., c) separating and drying the mixed oxide material which is contained in the suspension resulting from step b).

The invention relates to CuAlMn shaped catalyst bodies in extruded form, and to a process for their preparation. The shaped catalyst body is suitable for the hydrogenation of organic compounds containing a carbonyl function, in particular for the hydrogenation of aldehydes, ketones and carboxylic acids and/or their esters. In particular, the shaped catalyst body is suitable for the hydrogenation of fatty acids or their esters, such as fatty acid methyl esters, to form the corresponding alcohols and dicarboxylic acid anhydrides, such as maleic anhydride, or esters of di-acids and di-alcohols, such as butane diol.

A Cu catalyst based on a metal organic framework as well as a preparation method and a use thereof is provided. The Cu catalyst based on a metal organic framework comprises composite particles with catalytic activity sites composed of copper in different oxidization states and a porous carbonized layer with a supporting effect. The method for preparing the catalyst includes the following steps: 1) preparing a metal organic framework Cu-MOF; and 2) carbonizing the metal organic framework Cu-MOF. The Cu catalyst can be used in aqueous phase catalysis to catalytically decompose organic pollutants in water.

A porous body is provided with enhanced fluid transport properties that is capable of performing or facilitating separations, or performing reactions and/or providing areas for such separations or reactions to take place. The porous body includes at least 80 percent alpha alumina and has a pore volume from 0.3 mL/g to 1.2 mL/g and a surface area from 0.3 m.sup.2/g to 3.0 m.sup.2/g. The porous body further includes a pore architecture that provides at least one of a tortuosity of 7.0 or less, a constriction of 4.0 or less and a permeability of 30 mdarcys or greater. The porous body can be used in a wide variety of applications such as, for example, as a filter, as a membrane or as a catalyst carrier.

Embodiments of processes and multiple-stage catalyst systems for producing propylene comprising introducing a hydrocarbon stream comprising 2-butene to an isomerization catalyst zone to isomerize the 2-butene to 1-butene, passing the 2-butene and 1-butene to a metathesis catalyst zone to cross-metathesize the 2-butene and 1-butene into a metathesis product stream comprising propylene and C.sub.4-C.sub.6 olefins, and cracking the metathesis product stream in a catalyst cracking zone to produce propylene. The isomerization catalyst zone comprises a silica-alumina catalyst with a ratio by weight of alumina to silica from 1:99 to 20:80. The metathesis catalyst comprises a mesoporous silica catalyst support impregnated with metal oxide. The catalyst cracking zone comprises a mordenite framework inverted (MFI) structured silica catalyst.