A method is provided for generating a composite material with a support structure and a coating on the surface of the support structure, the coating comprising, as active component, crystals of a zeolite material or of a zeolite-like material, with intercrystalline mesopores and/or macropores being formed in the coating, characterized in that the method comprises the following steps: a) providing a suspension which comprises nanoscale starting crystals of a zeolite material or of a zeolite-like material, and also precursor compounds of the zeolite material or zeolite-like material, b) applying the suspension provided in step a) to the surface of the support structure, c) compacting the suspension applied in step b) by at least partially removing the solvent that forms the liquid phase of the suspension, to yield a coating which comprises the starting crystals and the precursor compounds, d) keeping the coating obtained in step c) on the surface of the support structure in a vapor-containing atmosphere at an elevated temperature, so that the precursor compounds present are converted into a zeolite material or a zeolite-like material and, together with the starting crystals, form the coating which comprises crystals of a zeolite material or of a zeolite-like material.

A small pore size synthetic zeolite having a degree of crystallinity of at least 80% and comprising at least 0.01 wt % based on the weight of the zeolite of at least one catalytic metal selected from the group consisting of Ru, Rh, Pd, Ag, Os, Ir, Pt, Au, Mo, W, Re, Co, Ni, Zn, Cr, Mn, Ce, Ga and combinations thereof, wherein at least 80% of the catalytic metal is encapsulated in the zeolite, wherein if the zeolite is an aluminosilicate it has a SiO.sub.2:Al.sub.2O.sub.3 molar ratio of greater than 6:1.

Provided is a method capable of easily producing a layered silicate in a short time. The problem may be solved by a method of producing a layered silicate, including the following steps (a) and (b): (a) providing a cage silicate that contains an anion component represented by formula (1) below and a cation component represented by formula (2) below with a ratio of the mole number of water to the mole number of the anion component in terms of SiO.sub.2, (H.sub.2O/SiO.sub.2), of 0.7 to 30; ##STR00001## (in formula (2), R represents an alkyl group having 2 to 9 carbon atoms) and (b) treating the cage silicate obtained in step (a) in an autoclave.

The invention relates to the preparation of novel bi- or tri metallic silicate micro-porous and/or meso-porous materials based on cerium, nickel, copper and/or zinc on a porous silicate framework matrix to use its molecular sieve effect to target preferentially the acidic organic molecules present in hydrocarbon feedstocks like crude oil, bitumen, VGO and the like. The chosen metals are selected based on their ability to activate steam and transfer oxygen for completing the oxidation of carboxylic compounds or decarboxylating them. These composite materials can be prepared under hydrothermal synthesis conditions in order to produce suitable porous solids where the metals are well dispersed and preferentially distributed inside the channels of the silicate framework where they can interact only with the molecules that can go inside the channels. According to the invention, the metallo-silicate materials are prepared under hydrothermal synthesis conditions Modification of the physical-chemical properties of the porous silicate materials can be accomplished by partial replacement of the silicon atoms by cerium, nickel, copper and/or zinc atoms in the material by isomorphous substitutions of these elements in a synthesis gel or by post-synthesis modifications like ion-exchange or impregnation/deposition. The materials can be used as prepared catalysts for the steam catalytic reduction of the total acid number (TAN) in acidic crude oil feedstocks and in the presence of steam and/or CO.sub.2 as oxidizing agent to complete decarboxylation and to keep the metal oxide active sites from reducing and deactivating as well as other partial upgrading reactions.

The invention therefore relates to a method for producing zeolite, zeolite-like or zeotype encapsulated metal nanoparticles, the method comprises the steps of: 1) Adding one or more metal precursors to a silica or alumina source; 2) Reducing the one or more metal precursors to form metal nanoparticles on the surface of the silica or alumina source; 3) Passing a gaseous hydrocarbon, alkyl alcohol or alkyl ether over the silica or alumina supported metal nanoparticles to form a carbon template coated zeolite, zeolite-like or zeotype precursor composition; 4a) Adding a structure directing agent to the carbon template coated zeolite, zeolite-like or zeotype precursor composition thereby creating a zeolite, zeolite-like or zeotype gel composition; 4b) Crystallising the zeolite, zeolite-like or zeotype gel composition by subjecting said composition to a hydrothermal treatment; 5) Removing the carbon template and structure directing agent and isolating the resulting zeolite, zeolite-like or zeotype encapsulated metal nanoparticles.

The invention relates to the preparation of novel bi- or tri-metallic silicate micro-porous and/or meso-porous materials based on cerium, nickel, copper and/or zinc on a porous silicate framework matrix to use its molecular sieve effect to target preferentially the acidic organic molecules present in hydrocarbon feedstocks like crude oil, bitumen, VGO and the like. The chosen metals are selected based on their ability to activate steam and transfer oxygen for completing the oxidation of carboxylic compounds or decarboxylating them. These composite materials can be prepared under hydrothermal synthesis conditions in order to produce suitable porous solids where the metals are well dispersed and preferentially distributed inside the channels of the silicate framework where they can interact only with the molecules that can go inside the channels. According to the invention, the metallo-silicate materials are prepared under hydrothermal synthesis conditions Modification of the physical-chemical properties of the porous silicate materials can be accomplished by partial replacement of the silicon atoms by cerium, nickel, copper and/or zinc atoms in the material by isomorphous substitutions of these elements in a synthesis gel or by post-synthesis modifications like ion-exchange or impregnation/deposition. The materials can be used as prepared catalysts for the steam catalytic reduction of the total acid number (TAN) in acidic crude oil feedstocks and in the presence of steam and/or CO.sub.2 as oxidizing agent to complete decarboxylation and to keep the metal oxide active sites from reducing and deactivating as well as other partial upgrading reactions.

The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of a zeolitic material comprising the steps of: (1) providing a mixture comprising one or more sources for YO.sub.2 and one or more alkenyltrialkylammonium cation R.sup.1R.sup.2R.sup.3R.sup.4N.sup.+-containing compounds as structure directing agent; and (2) crystallizing the mixture obtained in step (1) to obtain a zeolitic material;
wherein Y is a tetravalent element, and wherein R.sup.1, R.sup.2, and R.sup.3 independently from one another stand for alkyl; and R.sup.4 stands for alkenyl, as well as to zeolitic materials which may be obtained according to the inventive process and to their use.

The present invention provides a titanium-silicalite molecular sieve and a method for preparing the same. The method includes the steps of preparing a mixture of a titanium source, a silicon source, a metal source selected from IIA to IVA elements and a template agent; heating the mixture to form a gel mixture; heating the gel mixture in a water bath; and calcining the gel mixture after the gel mixture in the water bath to form the titanium-silicalite molecular sieve. The present invention further provides a method for preparing cyclohexanone oxime by using the titanium-silicalite molecular sieve as the catalyst which results in high conversion rate, high selectivity and high usage efficiency of hydrogen peroxide.

A mesosilicalite nanocarrier having a hierarchical silicalite characterized by a molar ratio of aluminum to silica in a range of 1:3000 to 1:1000. The hierarchical silicalite includes mesopores of a hexagonal structure, and micropores of silicalite structure with a microporous volume in the range of 0.05 cc/g to 0.1 cc/g. The nanocarrier has a mesophase content in the range of 30 wt % to 70 wt %, a microphase content in the range of 30 wt % to 70 wt %, and a mean pore diameter in the range of 1.5 nm to 5.5 nm. A method of preparing the stable mesosilicalite nanocarrier with hierarchical micro/mesopores to load an antioxidant or drug for targeted drug delivery is also described.

The present invention relates to a process for hydroxylation of a compound of formula (I) by reacting the compound of formula (I) with an oxidizing agent, in the presence of a titanium silicalite zeolite prepared by crystallization preceded by a maturing step. The present invention also relates to a titanium silicalite zeolite and to the process for preparing same.