Conversion of carbon monoxide

Patent · Tue Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1980

OSTI ID:5328543

Chester, A W

A metal combustion promoter is introduced to the circulating inventory of catalyst in a catalytic cracking unit as a mixture of particles rich in metal with particles free of metal such that the net concentration of metal in the mixture is about 1 to 10 ppM. According to a preferred embodiment the particles rich in metal contain about 50 ppM of platinum, iridium, osmium, palladium, rhodium, ruthenium or rhenium. When such mixtures are supplied to the circulating inventory, it is found that specific activity of the metal is enhanced in the sense that activity of the mixture for oxidation of carbon monoxide is higher than that of catalyst in which an equal amount of metal is evenly distributed among all the particles.

• Assignee: Mobil Oil Corp.
• Patent Number(s): US 4181600
• OSTI ID: 5328543
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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02 PETROLEUM
020400* -- Petroleum-- Processing
CARBON COMPOUNDS
CARBON MONOXIDE
CARBON OXIDES
CATALYSTS
CATALYTIC CRACKING
CATALYTIC EFFECTS
CHALCOGENIDES
CHEMICAL REACTIONS
CRACKING
DECOMPOSITION
ELEMENTS
ENERGY SOURCES
FOSSIL FUELS
FUELS
IRIDIUM
METALS
OSMIUM
OXIDATION
OXIDES
OXYGEN COMPOUNDS
PALLADIUM
PETROLEUM
PETROLEUM FRACTIONS
PLATINUM
PLATINUM METALS
PYROLYSIS
REFRACTORY METALS
RHENIUM
RHODIUM
RUTHENIUM
THERMOCHEMICAL PROCESSES
TRANSITION ELEMENTS