Disclosed is a permeation membrane and a method for producing a permeation membrane. The permeation membrane can be used in particular in the field of membrane-based material separations. The permeation membrane is composed of an inorganic semi-permeable substance in which an additional substance is incorporated in some locations such that existing intermediate spaces in the semi-permeable substance are at least partly filled by the additional substance and thus only the intermediate spaces are blocked for a permeating species.

The invention relates to a method of forming an aluminosilicate zeolite layer on an aluminium-containing metallic substrate composed of metallic aluminium or an aluminium alloy which is introduced into an alkalized aqueous reaction dispersion in which silicon and optionally aluminium are present as network-forming elements, where, irrespective of whether or not aluminium is present in the aqueous reaction dispersion, the molar ratio between the aluminium in the aqueous reaction dispersion and the sum total of the network-forming elements present in the aqueous reaction dispersion is below 0.5, where, when aluminium is not present in the aqueous reaction solution, the deficiency molar ratio is 0, and the alkalized aqueous reaction dispersion containing the aluminium-containing metallic substrate is heated and aluminium is removed from the aluminium-containing metallic substrate for the aluminosilicate zeolite formation process and the layer of an aluminosilicate zeolite is formed on the aluminium-containing metallic substrate by in situ crystallizative application. In the course of this, an aluminium complexing agent with anchoring oxygen atoms is incorporated into the alkalized aqueous reaction dispersion. The invention further relates to the advantageous use of the method product in sorption-based fields of application.

The present invention relates to new zeolitic adsorbent materials which are particularly specific and adapted for the non-cryogenic separation of gases, and more particularly for the separation of nitrogen by adsorption in gas streams such as air, and also for the purification of hydrogen by adsorption of carbon monoxide (CO) and/or nitrogen (N.sub.2), and also to the use thereof especially for the preparation of medical oxygen in oxygen concentrators for respiratory assistance.

A method for producing zeolite embedded polyolefin films for packaging polyurethane foams also embedded with zeolite.

A sorbent structure that includes a continuous body in the form of a flow-through substrate comprised of at least one cell defined by at least one porous wall. The continuous body comprises a sorbent material carbon substantially dispersed within the body. Further, the temperature of the sorbent structure can be controlled by conduction of an electrical current through the body.

Provided are: a deodorizer that has high VOC-adsorbing performance and can exhibit deodorizing properties even in a case in which the deodorizer is kneaded into resin, a deodorizing processed product produced by using the deodorizer, and a method for producing the deodorizer. The deodorizer of the present invention is characterized by including a zeolite represented by the following Formula [1], in which the zeolite is obtained by producing a zeolite and then heating the produced zeolite at a temperature of from 120 C. to 250 C.: xNa.sub.2O.Al.sub.2O.sub.3.ySiO.sub.2.zH.sub.2O [1]. In Formula [1], x represents a positive number of from 0.5 to 5.0, y represents a positive number of from 80 to 150, and z represents a positive number of from 1 to 20.

Disclosed are silica bound zeolite adsorbent particles which possess high volumetric gas adsorption capacity for the adsorption and/or desorption of gases. The adsorbent are highly effective as a gas source in volumetrically constrained applications. The silica-bound zeolite adsorbents possess a relatively high zeolite content simultaneously with a relatively low intra-particle pore volume as compared to the clay bound zeolite aggregates heretofore used as a gas source in volumetrically constrained environments, e.g. instant beverage carbonation processes, devices or systems.

The invention relates to a method for separating meta-xylene from C8 aromatic fractions, using a zeolitic adsorbent based on sodium-exchanged or sodium-and-lithium-exchanged agglomerated crystals of zeolite Y, with a large external surface area.

The invention relates to an adsorbent comprising a zeolite-based phase and a non-zeolite-based phase, said adsorbent having: an outer surface area of less than or equal to 30 m.sup.2.Math.g.sup.1, preferably less than or equal to 20 m.sup.2.Math.g.sup.1, a zeolite-based phase comprising at least one zeolite of FAU structure of X type, and a pore diameter distribution, determined by mercury intrusion according to standard ASTM D 4284-83 and expressed by the volume distribution dV/dlogDHg, in which DHg is the apparent pore diameter and V is the pore volume, the mode of which is between 100 nm and 250 nm, limits inclusive. The invention also relates to a process for preparing the said adsorbent and to the uses thereof, especially for separating xylene isomers.

A molecular sieve blend containing a zeolite, particularly a zeolite X or A, blended with a halloysite clay binder, wherein the binder contains at least 90% by weight halloysite clay, with a particle length less than about 1 m and processes for the production and use of this blend, particularly for adsorption of water from a feedstream and for the production of oxygen.