A highly selective carbon monoxide adsorbent and a method of preparing the highly selective carbon monoxide adsorbent are provided. The highly selective carbon monoxide adsorbent includes a boehmite or pseudo-boehmite in which a copper compound is dispersed.

The present invention relates to a preparation method of an organic-inorganic nanoporous material-metal chloride hybrid moisture adsorption composition, and the moisture adsorption composition prepared by the preparation method. More specifically, an embodiment of the present invention provides a preparation method of the moisture adsorption composition, the preparation method comprising the steps of crystallizing an aluminum precursor and a dicarboxylic acid organic ligand to synthesize an organic-inorganic nanoporous material, heat-treating the organic-inorganic nanoporous material to remove unreacted organic materials, mixing the heat-treated organic-inorganic nanoporous material with a metal chloride solution to impregnate particles of the organic-inorganic nanoporous material with a metal chloride, drying the mixture in an oven, thereby removing a solvent from the mixture to obtain a dried product, crushing the dried product to obtain a powder, and vacuum drying the powder to remove residual moisture from the powder. The moisture adsorption composition according to an embodiment of the present invention can be applied to an air conditioner, an adsorption type refrigerator, a dehumidifier, and a cooling and heating device by having a maximum moisture adsorption amount (the amount of moisture adsorbed per unit weight of the adsorption composition) of 0.2 to 0.9 g/g in the driving pressure range (P/P.sub.0=0.1 to 0.3).

Provided are metal-organic frameworks made by the process of comprising the steps of reacting a first metal source that can generate a tetravalent metal cation in solution, a linear dicarboxylic acid, a second metal source that can generate a divalent cation in solution, and one or more monocarboxylic acid modulators in a solvent to provide a reaction solution. The reaction solution is heated to provide a metal-organic framework having between about 0 wt. % to 10 wt. % of divalent cation, surface area between about 1100 m.sup.2/g and 2700 m.sup.2/g, a porosity of between about 0.45 cc/g and 1.1 cc/g, and a relative intensity equal to or greater than 0.35 and a peak width ratio of less than 3.0.

Provided is a mercury adsorbent that can efficiently adsorb and remove mercury and/or a mercury compound contained in a liquid hydrocarbon and can suppress corrosive action even when used for a long time. The mercury adsorbent comprises an activated carbon including a mineral acid supported thereon, the activated carbon having a specific surface area of 1000 m.sup.2/g or larger and a volume of micropores of 80 cm.sup.3/g or larger, each of the micropores having a pore radius of 8 ? or smaller, and the mercury adsorbent has a moisture content of from 0.1 to 3 wt %.

The present invention relates to a capture agent for the treatment of gases, having an active phase that comprises a calcium silicate hydrate of (CaO).sub.x(SiO.sub.2).sub.y(H.sub.2O).sub.z type with a Ca/Si molar ratio between 1.55 and 1.72, preferably between 1.65 and 1,72 and an H.sub.2O/Ca molar ratio between 1 and 1.4, preferably between 1.1 and 1.3, z being between 0.3 and 0.8, the capture agent having a specific surface area greater than 120 m.sup.2/g, preferably greater than 150 m.sup.2/g and particularly preferably greater than 200 m.sup.2/g and a pore volume greater than 0.4 cm.sup.3/g, preferably greater than 0.6 cm.sup.3/g and particularly preferably greater than 0.8 cm.sup.3/g.

Disclosed is an improved process for recovering condensable components from a gas stream, in particular, hydrocarbons from a gas stream such as natural gas. The present process uses solid adsorbent media to remove said hydrocarbons wherein the adsorbent media is regenerated in a continuous fashion in a heated continuous counter-current regeneration system, wherein said heated regenerated adsorbent media is cooled prior to reuse.

Disclosed are systems and methods of rapidly cooling thermal loads by providing a burst mode cooling system for rapid cooling. The burst mode cooling system may include a complex compound sorber configured to rapidly absorb ammonia.

Copper sorbents which are resistant to the reduction by hydrogen are used as a guard bed for an acetylene conversion zone. The adsorbents include cuprous oxide, cupric oxide, copper metal, and a halide and are pre-reduced prior to be loaded into the guard bed. The sorbents can remove contaminants that would poison selective hydrogenation catalysts used for a selectively hydrogenating acetylenic compounds in an olefin stream. The sorbents may also selectively hydrogenate the acetylenic compounds.

The present invention provides processes for filtering undesired chemicals in streams of contaminated air for supply to confined areas. The processes provide (1) contacting air with a filter comprising by volume from about 5% to about 95% impregnated zirconium hydroxide, from about 5% to about 95% activated impregnated carbon, and optionally, up to about 50% ammonia removal material; and (2) supplying the contacted air to a confined area.

Carbide-derived carbons are provided that have high dynamic loading capacity for high vapor pressure gasses such as H.sub.2S, SO.sub.2, or NH.sub.3. The carbide-derived carbons can have a plurality of metal chloride or metallic nanoparticles entrapped therein. Carbide-derived carbons are provided by extracting a metal from a metal carbide by chlorination of the metal carbide to produce a porous carbon framework having residual metal chloride nanoparticles incorporated therein, and annealing the porous carbon framework with H.sub.2 to remove residual chloride by reducing the metal chloride nanoparticles to produce the metallic nanoparticles entrapped within the porous carbon framework. The metals can include Fe, Co, Mo, or a combination thereof. The carbide-derived carbons are provided with an ammonia dynamic loading capacity of 6.9 mmol g.sup.1 to 10 mmol g.sup.1 at a relative humidity of 0% RH to 75% RH.