Rhodia Operations

Corn Products Development, Inc.

Brunob Ii Bv

Thomas English

Olivier Larcher

Francis Francis

James J Kasica

Christopher Lane

Andrew D Polli

Kamlesh Shah

Tushar Shah

Simon Ifrah

Naotaka Ohtake

Manish B Shah

Fabien Ocampo

Qiang Zhao

Barry W L Southward

Athanassios Souvaliotis

Simon Infrah

Rui Miguel Jorge Coelho Marques

Andrew Polli

Barry WL Southward

The present teachings are directed to inorganic oxide materials that include AlO, CeO, and at least one of MgO and PrO. The present teachings are also directed to catalysts having at least one noble metal supported on these inorganic oxide materials, as well as methods for treating exhaust gases from internal combustion engines using such catalysts.

Inorganic oxide material

The present invention is directed to a high surface area, high pore volume porous alumina, comprising: aluminum oxide, optionally, silicon oxide and aluminosilicates, and optionally one or more dopants, said alumina having a specific surface area of from about 100 to about 500 square meters per gram and a total pore volume after calcination at 900&#xb0; C. for 2 hours of greater than or equal to 1.2 cubic centimeters per gram, wherein less than or equal to 15% of the total pore volume is contributed by pores having a diameter of less than 10 nm.

Alumina catalyst support

A porous inorganic composite oxide containing oxides of aluminum and of cerium and/or zirconium, and, optionally, oxides of one or more dopants selected from transition metals, rare earths, and mixtures thereof, and having a specific surface area, in m/g, after calcining at 1100&#xb0; C. for 5 hours, of &#x2267;0.8235[Al]+11.157 and a total pore volume, in cm/g, after calcining at 900&#xb0; C. for 2 hours, of &#x2267;0.0097[Al]+0.0647, wherein [Al] is the amount of oxides of aluminum, expressed as pbw AlOper 100 pbw of the composite oxide; a catalyst containing one or more noble metals dispersed on the porous inorganic composite oxide; and a method for making the porous inorganic composite oxide.

Porous inorganic composite oxide

This invention is directed to a process for making a thermally inhibited polysaccharide by dehydrating a polysaccharide to substantially anhydrous or anhydrous conditions and thermally inhibiting the substantially anhydrous or anhydrous polysaccharide at a temperature of 100&#xb0; C. or greater for a time sufficient to inhibit the polysaccharide in an oxygen enriched concentration of at least 6.5 moles/m.

Thermally inhibited polysaccharides and process of preparing

The present invention is concerned with an apparatus and method for continuous fluidization which comprises at least two cells connected by an aperture permitting the solid material to be introduced into the next downstream cell by fluidized horizontal flow, an isolated freeboard within each cell, at least two filter sticks contained within the isolated freeboard of each cell, and at least one blow back valve contained within each filter stick. The apparatus allows processing of materials that are typically difficult to fluidize by maintaining a substantially constant pressure difference between each isolated freeboard.

Continuous fluid bed reactor

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