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Hte Aktiengesellschaft the High Throughput Experimentation Company

Hte Aktiengesellschaft

Wolfram Stichert

Stephan Andreas Schunk

Dirk Demuth

Armin Brenner

Wolfgang Strehlau

Jens Klein

Hartmut Hibst

John Michael Newsam

Andreas Sundermann

Joachim Wulff-Doring

Sebastian Storck

Klaus Unger

Alfred Haas

Ferdi Schuth

Frank Guellich

Ferdi Schueth

Mario Hermann

Armin Lange De Oliveira

A process and apparatus for testing material libraries, in particular catalysts, by means of coupled use of at least two analytical methods, preferably IR thermography and mass spectrometry. Owing to the selected arrangement, the disadvantages of the two previously known individual methods are compensated for: the subsequent selectivity determination for selected sections by means of mass spectrometry invalidates the argument against IR thermography, of only being able to determine activities; the rapid integrated determination of potentially 'good' materials via IR thermography prevents an excessive loss of time by needing to test all materials of a library successively with the mass spectrometer. The reactor design permits, firstly, the integral recording of the entire reactor through a window which is transparent for the corresponding method and, secondly, permits the simultaneous, automated application of a second analytical method (for example mass spectrometry) to selected materials of a material library, which have been rated as active by the optical method. In the case described, the optical method provides information on the material activity for a set problem, and the second analytical method determines the selectivity of the materials.

Process and apparatus for the combinatorial production and testing of catalyst material libraries by using at least two analytical methods

The present invention relates to an arrangement, in particular for the parallel testing of a plurality of building blocks of a material library for performance characteristics, in which the arrangement has a block containing at least one reaction module and at least two heating/cooling modules.

Arrangement for the parallel testing of materials

The present invention relates to a sieve device for screening at least two solid substances preferably different from each other comprising at least one sieve module (), comprising at least two sieve devices (), comprising at least one fitting () with a bottom with sieve (), closing the respective fitting ().

Sieve device for screening solid material

The invention relates to a novel structured catalyst bed which optionally comprises at least one part bed comprising at least one catalytically active mixture of oxides of the main group metals and transition metals and additionally comprises at least one catalytically active part bed comprising at least silver, at least one alkali metal and a porous support material and finally and necessarily at least one catalytically active part bed comprising at least one alkali metal phosphate and at least one sheet silicate.

Structured catalyst bed

The invention relates to a method for the automated production and iterative automated optimization of a substance library and/or at least one reaction parameter relating to a performance characteristic comprising at least two substances comprising the steps of: a) defining at least one production parameter and at least one test parameter; b) automated preparation of a substance library by producing at least two substances on the basis of the at least one production parameter; c) automated testing of the at least two substances of the substance library with respect to at least one performance characteristic on the basis of the at least one test parameter; d) evaluating the test using electronic data analysis; e) varying the at least one production parameter and/or the at least one test parameter for optimizing the performance characteristics, and single or repeated repetition of steps b) to e) or c) to e); characterized in that the steps b) to e) are carried out in an integrated automated process.

Computer-aided optimization of substance libraries

Process for the detection of a product in the discharge of a catalytic material of a plurality of catalytic materials

Zirconium dioxide which is monoclinic to at least 80% by weight and has a BET surface area of at least 100 m.sup.2 /g is prepared by admixing aqueous zirconium salt solutions with ammonia, drying and calcining the precipitation product, aging the precipitation product, prior to drying, in aqueous phase at from 0 to 300.degree. C. and carrying out the calcination at from 200 to 600.degree. C.

Monoclinic zirconium dioxide having a large surface area

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