The disclosure provides catalyst materials in the form of annular solids with high mechanical integrity useful for water gas shift reactions and methods for using such catalyst materials, for example, for converting carbon monoxide and steam to carbon dioxide and hydrogen.

Oxidative dehydrogenation is an alternative to the energy extensive steam cracking process presently used for the production of olefins from paraffins, but has not been implemented commercially partially due to the unstable nature of hydrocarbon/oxygen mixtures, and partially due to the cost involved in the construction of new facilities. An oxidative dehydrogenation chemical complex designed to reduce costs by including integration of an oxygen separation module that also addresses safety concerns and reduces emission of greenhouse gases is described.

A catalyst for oxidative dehydrogenation of butene and a method for producing the same are described. The method includes forming a first coprecipitate, forming a second coprecipitate, and mixing the first and second coprecipitates under conditions that product a catalyst having a favorable surface chemistry profile.

A ring-shaped catalyst may have a straight body part and a hollow body part, which is used when a gas-phase catalytic oxidation reaction of a material substance is conducted to produce a target substance, wherein a length of the straight body part is shorter than a length of the hollow body part and at least at one end part, a region from an end part of the straight body part to an end part of the hollow body part is concavely curved.

A catalyst containing molybdenum, bismuth, and iron, in which R1 represented by the following equation (1) is 0.45 or more and 5.00 or less is provided, and use of the catalyst achieves a high yield, in the case of the use in a gas phase oxidation reaction, particularly in the case of the use in producing an unsaturated aldehyde compound or an unsaturated carboxylic acid compound by a partial oxidation reaction,

[00001]$\begin{array}{cc}R1=\left(\mathrm{maximum}\mathrm{value}\mathrm{of}\mathrm{peak}\mathrm{at}886{\mathrm{cm}}^{-1}?5{\mathrm{cm}}^{-1}\right)?\left(\mathrm{maximum}\mathrm{value}\mathrm{of}\mathrm{peak}\mathrm{at}354{\mathrm{cm}}^{-1}?5{\mathrm{cm}}^{-1}\right)\mathrm{as}\mathrm{measured}\mathrm{by}\mathrm{Raman}\mathrm{spectroscopy}.& \left(1\right)\end{array}$

The present disclosure provides a metal compound. The metal compound is represented by a formula (I): Cu.sub.2A.sub.?B.sub.2-?O.sub.4-? (I). A contains at least one element selected from the groups 6 and 8 of the periodic table. B contains at least one element selected from the group 13 of the periodic table, 0<?<2, and 0<?<1.5. Polymer article containing the metal compound and method for preparing the polymer article as well as selective metallization of a surface of the polymer article are also provided. In addition, the present disclosure provides an ink composition and the selective metallization for a surface of the insulative substrate using the ink composition.

Oxidative dehydrogenation of light paraffins, such as ethane at moderate temperatures (<500 C.) to produce ethylene without the formation of side products such as acetic acid and/or other oxygenated hydrocarbons is achieved using tellurium-free, multimetallic catalysts possessing orthorhombic M1 phase and other crystalline structures that have an important role for obtaining high performance catalysts for the oxidative dehydrogenation of ethane to ethylene. Such catalysts are prepared using thermal and hydrothermal methods.

Disclosed herein are new mixed metal oxide catalysts suitable as heterogeneous catalysts for catalyzing the transesterification process of aromatic alcohols with a dialkyl carbonate to form aromatic carbonates. The heterogeneous catalyst comprises a combination of two, three, four, or more oxides of Mo, V, Nb, Ce, Cu, Sn, or an element selected from Group IA or Group IIA of the periodic table.

The present invention is concerned with oxygen storage materials. In particular an oxygen storage material (OSM) is proposed which comprises a certain mixed oxide as the oxygen storage component. The oxygen storage material can be used in conventional manner in three-way catalysts or NOx-storage catalysts for example.

The present invention relates to the use of molybdenum and vanadium mixed oxides, optionally iron doped, as catalysts for the oxidation of unsaturated alcohols, in particular allyl alcohol, and also to a process for the production of unsaturated carboxylic acids, in particular acrylic acid, in the gas phase, in the presence of such a catalyst.