Toa Nenryo Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Setsuo Kamiyama

Katsumi Kaneko

Hiroshi Furukawa

Yoshiharu Okumura

Yukio Nagashima

Takuji Itoh

Kouji Shiozawa

Eiichiroh Nishikawa

Shozo Wada

Tsugio Maeshima

Eiichiro Nishikawa

Toshihiro Hosokawa

An improved process for producing an alcohol by hydrating an olefin wherein the improvement comprises hydrating an olefin in the presence of a hydrogen-type catalyst having a silica/alumina molar ratio of 20 to 500 and a solvent using either:

Process for hydration of olefins

An improved process for producing an alcohol by hydrating an olefin, wherein the improvement comprises hydrating an olefin in the presence of hydrogen-type mordenite or hydrogen-type zeolite Y as a catalyst each having a silica/alumina molar ratio of 20 to 500.

A method of preparing a catalyst for the diacyloxylation of conjugated dienes such as butadiene by reaction with a carboxylic acid such as acetic acid and oxygen, which comprises separately and successively impregnating a carrier, for example carbon, with a solution of a Group VIII noble metal in a mixture of a mineral acid and an organic solvent, then with a solution of a Group IVA, VA or VIA element or compound thereof in an organic solvent.

Method of preparing a catalyst for synthesizing unsaturated esters

This invention relates to a process for the production of alkylbenzenes, which comprises reacting benzene with at least one aromatic hydrocarbon substituted by alkyl groups and containing 9 or more carbon atoms, in the presence of an acid leached hydrogen form mordenite catalyst having a silica (SiO.sub.2)/alumina (Al.sub.2 O.sub.3) molar ratio of 15 to 21 and a sodium content of 0.05 weight % or less as Na.sub.2 O.

Process for the production of alkylbenzenes

The invention relates to a process for the production of an unsaturated glycol diester by the reaction of a conjugated diene compound, a carboxylic acid and molecular oxygen in the presence of a solid catalyst. For example, 1,4-diacetoxy-2-butene is prepared at high conversion and high selectivity by reacting butadiene, molecular oxygen and acetic acid in the presence of a solid catalyst containing palladium, tellurium and at least one element selected from the group consisting of tin, germanium and lead. The product is an intermediate for the preparation of 1,4-butanediol.

Process for the production of unsaturated esters

A method of stabilizing a catalyst for the conversion of aromatic hydrocarbons in the presence of hydrogen such as the isomerization of C.sub.8 aromatic hydrocarbons to increase the content of p-xylene, is carried out by contacting a catalyst in advance of start-up with hydrocarbons in the liquid phase at a temperature preferably of about 50.degree. to about 250.degree. C. and preferably at elevated pressure up to about 50 Kg/cm.sup.2 in the absence of hydrogen; the catalyst being prepared by the acid leaching of a hydrogen form mordenite to produce a mordenite having a silica to alumina molar ratio of about 15 to 21. Preferably, the hydrocarbons used for the contacting have the composition of the feed to be converted.

Pretreating process for the stabilization of a catalyst for the

A C.sub.8 aromatic hydrocarbon mixture which typically may consist essentially of xylenes and ethylbenzene, the latter being present in an amount of not more than 40 weight percent, is converted to a product containing an increased proportion of p-xylene by bringing it into contact with an acid leached hydrogen form mordenite having a silica to alumina mole ratio of 15-21 at a temperature in the range of 180.degree. to 250.degree. C. under a pressure of atmospheric to 200 Kg/cm.sup.2. Hydrogen may be present in the system in a mole ratio of hydrogen to C.sub.8 aromatic hydrocarbon mixture of 0-10. The reaction may be conducted in the vapor phase or in the liquid phase.

Process for the conversion of C.sub.8 aromatic hydrocarbons

Nitrogen oxides are removed from gaseous mixtures comprising the same by contacting with a catalyst comprising a base metal component carried on a natural or synthetic zeolite in the presence of ammonia. The alkali metal content of the zeolite is carefully controlled through ion exchange with an alkaline earth metal compound.

Catalyst for reduction of nitrogen oxides and process for preparing same

Nitrogen oxides are removed from gas mixtures containing nitrogen oxides and oxygen by adding a reducing agent that is a C.sub.2 to C.sub.6 olefin or an aromatic hydrocarbon such as benzene or toluene, preferably butene-1, and contacting the mixture at 200.degree. to 450.degree. C with a catalyst comprising iridium or a compound thereof supported on a refractory carrier, preferably alumina.

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Setsuo Kamiyama