A catalytic cracking gasoline prehydrogenation method is provided. Thiol etherification and double bond isomerization reactions are carried out on catalytic cracking gasoline through a prehydrogenation reactor. The reaction conditions are as follows: the reaction temperature is between 80° C. and 160° C., the reaction pressure is between 1 MPa and 5 MPa, the liquid-volume hourly space velocity is from 1 to 10 h.sup.−1, and the hydrogen-oil volume ratio is (3-8):1; a prehydrogenation catalyst comprises a carrier and active ingredients, the carrier contains an aluminium oxide composite carrier with a macroporous structure and one or more of ZSM-5, ZSM-11, ZSM-12, ZSM-35, mordenite, amorphous form aluminum silicon, SAPO-11, MCM-22, a Y molecular sieve and a beta molecular sieve, the surface of the carrier is loaded with one or more of the active ingredients cobalt, molybdenum, nickel and tungsten; based on oxides, the content of the active ingredients is between 0.1% and 15.5%.

The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of catalyst(s), comprising the cokneading of boehmite with an active phase comprising a salt of heteropolyanion of Keggin and/or lacunary Keggin and/or substituted lacunary Keggin and/or Anderson and/or Strandberg type, and their mixtures, exhibiting, in its structure, molybdenum and cobalt and/or nickel. The present invention also relates to a process for the hydrotreating and/or hydroconversion of a heavy hydrocarbon feedstock in the presence of catalyst(s) prepared according to said process.

Methods for making a supported chromium catalyst are disclosed, and can comprise contacting a silica-coated alumina containing at least 30 wt. % silica with a chromium-containing compound in a liquid, drying, and calcining in an oxidizing atmosphere at a peak temperature of at least 650° C. to form the supported chromium catalyst. The supported chromium catalyst can contain from 0.01 to 20 wt. % chromium, and typically can have a pore volume from 0.5 to 2 mL/g and a BET surface area from 275 to 550 m.sup.2/g. The supported chromium catalyst subsequently can be used to polymerize olefins to produce, for example, ethylene-based homopolymers and copolymers having high molecular weights and broad molecular weight distributions.

A catalyst system comprising a combination of: 1) an activator; 2) one or more metallocene catalyst compounds; 3) a support comprising an organosilica material, which is a mesoporous organosilica material. The organosilica material is a polymer of at least one monomer of Formula [Z.sup.1OZ.sup.2 SiCh.sub.2].sub.3(i), where Z.sup.1 represents a hydrogen atom, a C1-C4 alkyl group, or a bond to a silic-on atom of another monomer and Z.sup.2 represents a hydroxyl group, a C.sub.1-C.sub.4alkoxy group, a C.sub.1-C.sub.6 salkyl group, or an oxygen atom bonded to a silicon atom of another monomer. This invention further relates to processes to polymerize olefins comprising contacting one or more olefins with the above catalyst system.

The invention relates to a composition containing an oxide supported oxidative coupling of methane catalyst having an excellent balance of catalytic activity and selectivity while retaining desired levels mechanical stability suitable for commercial reactor application. Particularly, the inventive catalyst is an oxide supported catalyst with the oxide catalyst support having a spherical diameter of less than 2 mm and a surface area of less than less than 9.5 m.sup.2/g while retaining a water sorption volume of at least 0.2 cc/g. The invention further provides a method for preparing such a composition containing an oxide supported catalyst, using a combination of thermal treatment of the oxide catalyst support, active component impregnation and followed up by calcination. Additionally, the invention also describes a process for producing C.sub.2+ hydrocarbons, using such a catalyst composition.

The present invention pertains to a catalyst for use in the selective catalytic reduction (SCR) of nitrogen oxides comprising a monolithic substrate and a coating A, which comprises an oxidic metal carrier comprising an oxide of titanium and a catalytic metal oxide which comprises an oxide of vanadium wherein the mass ratio vanadium/titanium is 0.07 to 0.26.

A method of preparing a catalyst comprising a) contacting a non-aqueous solvent, a carboxylic acid, and a chromium-containing compound to form an acidic mixture; b) contacting a titanium-containing compound with the acidic mixture to form a titanium treatment solution; c) contacting a pre-formed silica-support comprising from about 0.1 wt. % to about 20 wt. % water with the titanium treatment solution to form a pre-catalyst; and d) thermally treating the pre-catalyst to form the catalyst. A method of preparing a catalyst comprising a) contacting a non-aqueous solvent and a carboxylic acid to form an acidic mixture; b) contacting a titanium-containing compound with the acidic mixture to form a titanium treatment solution; c) contacting a pre-formed chrominated silica-support comprising from about 0.1 wt. % to about 20 wt. % water with the titanium treatment solution to form a pre-catalyst; and d) thermally treating the pre-catalyst to form the catalyst.

Methods for making a supported chromium catalyst are disclosed, and can comprise contacting a silica-coated alumina containing at least 30 wt. % silica with a chromium-containing compound in a liquid, drying, and calcining in an oxidizing atmosphere at a peak temperature of at least 650° C. to form the supported chromium catalyst. The supported chromium catalyst can contain from 0.01 to 20 wt. % chromium, and typically can have a pore volume from 0.5 to 2 mL/g and a BET surface area from 275 to 550 m.sup.2/g. The supported chromium catalyst subsequently can be used to polymerize olefins to produce, for example, ethylene-based homopolymers and copolymers having high molecular weights and broad molecular weight distributions.

A photovoltaic module comprising: (a) a photovoltaic laminate including: two or more electrically conducting dements extending through the photovoltaic laminate so that power is moved from one photovoltaic module towards another photovoltaic module or towards an inverter; and (b) one or more connectors connected to each of the two or more electrically conducting elements by a connection joint, each of the one or more connectors include: two or more opposing terminals that each are connected to and extend from one of the two or more electrically conducing elements; wherein a dielectric space is located between the two or more opposing terminals and the dielectric space blocks material used to form a connection joint from passing from a first terminal to a second terminal, the material from the connection joint cools before the material passes from one terminal to a second terminal, the material fails to travel from the first terminal to the second terminal, or a combination thereof.

Disclosed are a catalyst for synergistic control of oxynitride and mercury and a method for preparing the same. The catalyst includes the following components by mass percentage: a carrier: TiO2 72%-98.6%, active components: V2O5 0.1%-5%, WO3 1%-10%, Cr2O3 0.1%-5% and Nb2O5 0.1%-5%, and a co-catalyst of 0.1%-3%. The present invention can be used for reducing the oxynitrides in a flue gas, meanwhile oxidizing zero-valent mercury into bivalent mercury and then controlling the reactions, has relatively high denitration performance and also has high mercury oxidation performance; compared with current commercial SCR catalysts, the mercury oxidation rate of the catalyst is improved to a great extent, which can adapt to the requirements for mercury removal in China's coal-fired power plants, the conversion rate of SO2/SO3 is relatively low, and the catalyst has a better anti-poisoning ability, and is a new catalyst with a low cost and high performance.