Nkk Corporation

Jfe Holdings, Inc.

Chiyoda Corporation

Vista Chemical Company

Masami Ono

Tsutomu Shikada

Masatsugu Mizuguchi

Yotaro Ohno

Takashi Ogawa

Kaoru Fujimoto

Hiroaki Taniguchi

Keiji Tomura

Seiji Aoki

Yoshimi Shiroto

Takeshi Furukawa

Keiichi Okuyama

Yakudo Tachibana

Yoshio Fukui

Kazuhiko Tate

Jun Miki

Takuya Kadowaki

Norio Inoue

Nobuhiro Takei

Misunori Shimura

Hidetosi Morotomi

Tomonori Kato

Sadayoshi Iwabuchi

A catalyst for producing dimethyl ether which comprises alumina particles having an average size of 200 &#x3bc;m or less and a methanol synthesis catalyst layer formed around the alumina particles. The methanol synthesis catalyst is in an amount of 0.05 to 5 parts by weight to 1 part by weight of the alumina particles. Dimethyl ether is produced by the method of forming a slurry by introducing the catalyst into a solvent and introducing a mixed gas comprising carbon monoxide and hydrogen into the slurry.

Catalyst for producing dimethyl ether, method for producing catalyst and method for producing dimethyl ether

(a) A medium oil wherein a main component is a hydrocarbon, and the number of paraffinic carbon atoms is 70% or more with respect to a total number of carbon atoms, (b) a medium oil wherein a main component is a polybutene, (c) a medium oil wherein a main component is a mixture of hydrocarbons of the formula (1):CH&#x2014;C(CH)&#x2014;[&#x2014;CH&#x2014;C(CH)&#x2014;]&#x2014;CH&#x2014;R &#x2003;&#x2003;(1)wherein R is &#x2014;CH(CH)or &#x2014;C(CH)&#x2550;CH, and n is 1 to 10, (d) a medium oil wherein a main component is a hydrocarbon prepared by a Fischer-Tropsch synthesis, or (e) a medium oil wherein a main component is a branched paraffinic hydrocarbon prepared by hydrogenolysis of a hydrocarbon prepared by a Fischer-Tropsch synthesis, and a process of producing dimethyl ether using the medium oil, are disclosed.

Medium oil for slurry-bed reaction process and process of producing dimethyl ether

A method for producing dimethyl ether comprising: (a) reacting a raw material gas containing carbon monoxide and hydrogen in the presence of a catalyst to produce a reaction gas including dimethyl ether, carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide and hydrogen; (b) separating the reaction gas from step (a) into carbon monoxide and hydrogen, and into dimethyl ether carbon dioxide; (c) recycling to step (a) the carbon monoxide and the hydrogen which were separated from the reaction gas in step (b); (d) removing the carbon dioxide from the dimethyl ether and the carbon dioxide from step (b) to obtain the dimethyl ether; and the (e) recycling the dimethyl ether from step (d) to step (b).

Method for producing dimethyl ether

An apparatus for producing dimethyl ether comprising: a slurry-bed reactor filled with a dimethyl ether synthesis catalyst and a medium oil therefor; a condenser for condensing a gasified medium oil discharged from the reactor; an adsorber for removing a catalyst-deactivation ingredient from the medium oil condensed in the condenser; and recycle means for recycling the medium oil to the slurry-bed reactor.

Apparatus for producing dimethyl ether

This invention provides a catalyst for producing hydrogen gas from a mixed gas comprising dimethyl ether and water vapor or carbon dioxide gas, which comprises copper, iron, cobalt, palladium, iridium, platinum, rhodium, or nickel as an active component, and a method of producing synthesis gas or hydrogen gas in a high yield at a low temperature. By using the catalyst, a fuel cell, electricity generation, reduction of iron ore and the like can be carried out.

Catalyst for manufacturing hydrogen or synthesis gas and manufacturing method of hydrogen or synthesis gas

A method for producing dimethyl ether by forming a slurry by introducing a catalyst into a solvent and introducing a mixed gas comprising carbon monoxide and hydrogen into the slurry. The catalyst comprises alumina particles having an average size of 200 .mu.m or less and a methanol synthesis catalyst layer formed around each of the alumina particles. The methanol synthesis catalyst has a weight ratio of 0.05 to 5 to a weight of the alumina particles. The catalyst is produced by forming a layer comprising a methanol synthesis catalyst around each of the alumina particles.

Method and apparatus for producing dimethyl ether

According to the method of the invention, it is possible to separate and selectively remove alkyltetralins coexisting in a small amount in a LAB mixture which is an intermediate raw material for surfactants for detergents, the method conveniently being carried out in a continuous manner using a solid adsorbent.

Method of removing alkyltetralins from an alkylbenzene mixture

A process for the preparation of naphthalene mono or polycarboxylic acids, such as 2,6-naphthalene dicarboxylic acid, is disclosed which includes oxidizing a naphthalene compound such as 2,6-diisopropylnaphthalene in a specific solvent with molecular oxygen in the presence of a catalyst containing a heavy metal compound and a bromine compound. The solvent is an aliphatic monocarboxylic acid and may further contain benzene and/or water. By controlling the ratio of the amount of catalyst metal to the feed rate of the raw material naphthalene compound, the yield of desired product can be controlled.

Process for the preparation of naphthalene carboxylic acids

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