A molecular sieve adsorbent composition is provided that includes an inorganic molecular sieve having a surface and a native adsorption property. Carbon having a mean domain size of between 1 and 10 nm is deposited on the surface or admixed into contact with the surface in an amount to reduce the resistivity and within 10% of the native adsorption property. A method for producing an inorganic molecular sieve adsorbent composition includes the application of carbon having mean domain sizes of between 1 and 10 nanometers to a surface of the inorganic molecular sieve adsorbent composition at a temperature that does not exceed 400? C. and under a controlled gaseous environment to produce a carbon containing inorganic molecular sieve adsorbent composition. The carbon containing inorganic molecular sieve adsorbent composition is removed from the controlled gaseous environment to obtain the inorganic molecular sieve adsorbent composition with the decreased resistivity.

Provided are compositions, articles, systems and methods that comprise or use a catalyst composition comprising a zeolite having an LTA structure with iron, manganese or a combination thereof as an extra-framework metal. The zeolite can have a mole ratio of silica-to-alumina (SAR) of about 15 to about 70 and can contain about 0.5 to about 10 weight percent, based on the total weight of the zeolite, of extra-framework iron, manganese or a combination thereof.

A catalyst according to an example embodiment includes an LTA zeolite having copper ions, wherein the weight ratio of copper to aluminum is from about 0.14 to about 0.58, and the weight ratio of silicon to aluminum of the LTA zeolite exceeds 1.

The present disclosure provides catalyst compositions for NO.sub.x conversion and wall-flow filter substrates comprising such catalyst compositions. Certain catalyst compositions include a zeolite with sufficient Cu exchanged into cation sites thereof to give a Cu/Al ratio of 0.1 to 0.5 and a CuO loading of 1 to 15 wt. %; and a copper trapping component (e.g., alumina) including a plurality of particles having a D.sub.90 particle size of about 0.5 to 20 microns in a concentration of about 1 to 20 wt. %. The zeolite and copper trapping component can be in the same washcoat layer or can be in different washcoat layers (such that the copper trapping component serves as a pre-coating on the wall-flow filter substrate).

Provided are a novel synthesis technique for producing a metal promoted aluminosilicate zeolite have a small pore framework and methods of using the same.

A method for producing a metal nanoparticle complex according to the present invention is a method for producing a metal nanoparticle complex in which metal nanoparticles are supported in pores of a porous body, said method comprising at least: an adsorption step of allowing an organic metal complex to adsorb in pores of a porous body; and a decomposition/reduction step of heating the porous body, which has had the organic metal complex adsorbed in the pores thereof, under a reductive atmosphere to decompose an organic compound in the organic metal complex adsorbed in the pores of the porous body and also reduce a metal cation in the organic metal complex, thereby causing metal nanoparticles to be supported in the pores of the porous body.

A method is disclosed for the preparation of a metal exchanged microporous materials, e.g. metal exchanged silicoaluminophosphates or metal exchanged zeolites, or mixtures of metal exchanged microporous materials, comprising the steps of providing a dry mixture of a) one or more microporous materials that exhibit ion exchange capacity and b) one or more metal compounds; heating the mixture in a gaseous atmosphere containing ammonia and one or more oxides of nitrogen to a temperature and for a time sufficient to initiate and perform a solid state ion exchange of ions of the metal compound and ions of the microporous material; and obtaining the metal-exchanged microporous material.

This exhaust gas purifying catalyst is provided with a substrate and a catalyst layer formed on a surface of the substrate. The catalyst layer contains zeolite particles that support a metal, and a rare earth element-containing compound that contains a rare earth element. The rare earth element-containing compound is added in such an amount that the molar ratio of the rare earth element relative to Si contained in the zeolite is 0.001 to 0.014 in terms of oxides.

Method for the preparation of a metal-exchanged zeolites or mixtures of metal-exchanged zeolites, such as Cu-SSZ-13, Cu-ZSM-S, Cu-beta, or Fe-beta, comprising the steps of providing a dry mixture of a) one or more microporous zeotype materials that exhibit ion exchange capacity and b) one or more metal compounds; heating the mixture in a gaseous atmosphere containing ammonia to a temperature lower than 300 C. for a time sufficient to initiate and perform a solid state ion exchange of ions of the metal compound and ions of the zeolite material; and obtaining the metal-exchanged zeolitematerial.

The dehydration membrane reactor for methanol production from CO.sub.2 hydrogenation includes one or more porous supports, a dehydration membrane on the one or more porous supports, and a catalyst layer on the dehydration membrane. The one or more porous supports include hollow ceramic fibers and the dehydration membrane includes NaA zeolite. The reactor is made by dip-coating the porous supports in a zeolite crystal seed solution and drying the coated porous support. The coated porous support is dried at about 80 C. and then heated to a temperature above about 200 C. The NaA zeolite membrane is then grown on the seeded support, and a catalyst layer is applied to the zeolite membrane. A feedstream including carbon dioxide and hydrogen is fed to the catalyst layer, where a product stream including methanol and water is evolved. The water is then removed from the product stream through the dehydration membrane to produce a high-purity methanol product.