Disclosed is a method for co-producing 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene and trans-1,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene, comprising the following steps: preheating a mixture of 1,1,1,2,2-pentachloropropane and 1,1,1,3,3-pentachloropropane together with anhydrous hydrogen fluoride and simultaneously introducing into a first reactor to react in the presence of a catalyst La.sub.2O.sub.3—Cr.sub.2O.sub.3 to obtain a first reactor product; directly introducing the first reactor product into a second reactor without separation, and carrying out a catalytic fluorination reaction in the presence of a catalyst Ga.sub.2O.sub.3—Y.sub.2O.sub.3—Cr.sub.2O.sub.3 to obtain a second reactor product; and separating the second reactor product to obtain the products of 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene and trans-1,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene. The invention has such advantages that the process is simple and less equipment investment is required; used catalysts have good activity, high selectivity and long total life; and the ratio of the two products can be flexibly adjusted according to market demands.

A bimetallic catalyst for the production of 1,3-butadiene from n-butane, methods of making, uses thereof are described. The catalyst can include a supported catalytic bimetallic material on a silica support that includes an iron metal or oxide thereof dispersed throughout a silica-alkaline earth metal oxide support or in the core of the silica alkaline earth metal oxide framework.

The invention relates to a catalyst composition suitable for the dehydrogenation of paraffins having 2-8 carbon atoms comprising zinc oxide and titanium dioxide, optionally further comprising oxides of cerium (Ce), dysprosium (Dy), erbium (Er), europium (Eu), gadolinium (Gd), lanthanum (La), neodymium (Nd), praseodymium (Pr), samarium (Sm), terbium (Tb), ytterbium (Yb), yttrium (Y), tungsten (W) and Zirconium (Zr) or mixtures thereof, wherein said catalyst composition is substantially free of chromium and platinum. The catalysts possess unique combinations of activity, selectivity, and stability. Methods for preparing improved dehydrogenation catalysts and a process for dehydrogenating paraffins having 2-8 carbon atoms, comprising contacting the mixed metal oxide catalyst with paraffins are also described. The catalyst may also be disposed on a porous support in an attrition-resistant form and used in a fluidized bed reactor.

A water purification member includes a porous body; and photocatalyst particles loaded on the porous body and including titanium-based compound particles that have, via an oxygen atom, a surface-bonded metallic compound having a metal atom and a hydrocarbon group, that exhibit absorption at a wavelength of 500 nm in a visible absorption spectrum, and that have an absorption peak in a range of 2700 cm.sup.−1 to 3000 cm.sup.−1 in an infrared absorption spectrum.

Disclosed is a method for co-producing 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene and trans-1,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene, comprising the following steps: preheating a mixture of 1,1,1,2,2-pentachloropropane and 1,1,1,3,3-pentachloropropane together with anhydrous hydrogen fluoride and simultaneously introducing into a first reactor to react in the presence of a catalyst La.sub.2O.sub.3—Cr.sub.2O.sub.3 to obtain a first reactor product; directly introducing the first reactor product into a second reactor without separation, and carrying out a catalytic fluorination reaction in the presence of a catalyst Ga.sub.2O.sub.3—Y.sub.2O.sub.3—Cr.sub.2O.sub.3 to obtain a second reactor product; and separating the second reactor product to obtain the products of 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene and trans-1,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene. The invention has such advantages that the process is simple and less equipment investment is required; used catalysts have good activity, high selectivity and long total life; and the ratio of the two products can be flexibly adjusted according to market demands.

A novel catalyst and process for producing a mixed oxide material containing molybdenum, vanadium, tellurium and niobium is disclosed. The material can be used as a catalyst for the oxidative dehydrogenation of ethane to ethene or the oxidation of propane to acrylic acid.

Disclosed herein are a calcium salts-supported metal catalyst, a method for preparing the same, and a method for the hydrodeoxygenation reaction of oxygenates using the same. The catalyst, in which a metal catalyst is supported on a carrier of a calcium salt, for example, calcium carbonate, has the effect of increasing the efficiency of hydrodeoxygenation reaction of oxygenates.

Methods of producing an isomerization catalyst include preparing a catalyst precursor solution, hydrothermally treating the catalyst precursor solution to produce a magnesium oxide precipitant, and calcining the magnesium oxide precipitant to produce the isomerization catalyst. The catalyst precursor solution includes at least a magnesium precursor, a hydrolyzing agent, and cetrimonium bromide. Methods of producing 1-butene from a 2-butene-containing feedstock with the isomerization catalyst are also disclosed.

Proposed is a catalyst complex having high activity for carbon dioxide conversion reaction that converts carbon dioxide to useful compounds through reaction of carbon dioxide and hydrocarbon containing at least one hydroxyl group, and a carbon dioxide conversion process using the same, wherein the catalyst complex includes, as an active metal in the catalyst complex, at least one of noble metals and at least one of transition metals other than noble metals, thereby having high activity for the carbon dioxide conversion reaction.

The present invention relates to a preparation method for an olefin epoxidation catalyst, comprising: (1) preparing a titanium-silicon gel; (2) performing pore-enlarging treatment to the titanium-silicon gel by using organic amine or liquid ammonia, and drying, calcinating to obtain a titanium-silicon composite oxide; (3) optionally performing alcohol solution of organic alkali metal salt treatment; and (4) optionally performing gas-phase silanization treatment. The catalyst prepared by the method of the present invention has adjustable variability for pore size, so that the activity thereof for epoxidation reactions of the olefin molecules with different dynamic diameters is higher; the surface acidity of the catalyst can be reduced effectively through two-step modification to the catalyst, so that the catalyst has higher selectivity for epoxidation product.