Johnson Matthey Inc.

Imperial Chemical Industries Limited

Institut Francais Du Pe'trole

Johnson Matthey Davy Technologies Limited

Edmund Hugh Stitt

William Maurice Sengelow

Mileta Babovic

Mark Robert Feaviour

Matthew John Cousins

Mikael Per Uno Carlsson

Samuel Arthur French

Alison Mary Wagland

David James Birdsall

Stephen David Pollington

Andrew Fish

Lucy Jane Challis

Michiel Nijemeisland

Frederick Ernest Hancock

Terence James Fitzpatrick

Samuel David Jackson

Arthur Gough

Frank King

Colin William Park

Elizabeth Margaret Holt

David G Shipley

Stephen Keith Turner

Jane Mercer

Daniel Lee Cairns

A method for preparing a sorbent composition includes the steps of:

Sorbent

A catalyst unit is described comprising a cylinder with a length C and a diameter D, wherein said unit has five holes arranged in a pentagonal pattern extending longitudinally therethrough, with five flutes running along the length of the unit, said flutes positioned equidistant adjacent holes of said pentagonal pattern. The catalyst may be used particularly in steam reforming reactors.

Shaped heterogeneous catalysts

A catalyst unit is described in the form of a cylinder having a length C and diameter D, which has one or more holes extending therethrough, wherein said cylinder has domed ends of lengths A and B, such that (A+B+C)/D is in the range 0.50 to 2.00, and (A+B)/C is in the range 0.40 to 5.00. The catalyst or catalyst unit preferably has one or more flutes miming along its length. The catalyst may be used particularly in steam reforming reactors.

A catalyst unit is described in the form of a cylinder having a length C and diameter D, which has two or more flutes running along its length, wherein said cylinder has domed ends of lengths A and B, such that (A+B+C)/D is in the range 0.50 to 2.00, and (A+B)/C is in the range 0.40 to 5.00. The catalyst may be used particularly in reactions where hydrogen is a reactant such as hydroprocessing, hydrogenation, water-gas shift reactions, methanation, hydrocarbon synthesis by the Fischer-Tropsch reaction, methanol synthesis and ammonia synthesis.

A process for the scrubbing of chlorine is scrubbed from a chlorine-containing gas using an aqueous feed liquor containing an excess of alkali to give an effluent liquor containing chloride and hypochlorite ions is disclosed. The effluent liquor is recycled as part or all of the aqueous feed liquor. For at least part of the time, at least part of the effluent liquor is passed through a fixed bed of a catalyst for the decomposition of hypochlorite ions whereby hypochlorite ions are decomposed to oxygen gas and chloride ions. The resultant catalyst-treated liquor is mixed with the remainder, if any, of the effluent liquor and recycled, optionally together with added fresh alkali solution, as the aqueous feed liquor. Part of the effluent liquor is optionally discharged as a purge stream before or after passage through catalyst bed. The process may be operated in a continuous mode or in a semi-continuous mode wherein a reservoir holding the liquor to be recycled is periodically discharged, preferably through the catalyst bed, and then recharged with fresh alkali solution. Alternatively two reservoirs may be employed with one supplying the aqueous feed liquor while the other is being discharged and replenished. In the latter case, the reservoir being discharged may have its liquor discharged through the catalyst bed.

Process for removing chlorine from gas stream

An exothermic oxidation process wherein a rotating bed containing a variable oxidation state material is cycled through a succession of stages including an oxidative regeneration stage including a step wherein an oxidising fluid is passed through the bed, and a reaction stage wherein feedstock is passed through the bed, whereby said feedstock is oxidised to give products stream with the concurrent reduction of the convertible material to its lower oxidation state. The process can further include a stage wherein cooling fluid is passed through the bed.

Exothermic process

Process for cracking and transhydrogenation of hydrocarbon feedstock

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