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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 31, 2020
Filed:
Jan. 17, 2018
Scientific Design Company Inc., Little Ferry, NJ (US);
Serguei Pak, Teaneck, NJ (US);
SCIENTIFIC DESIGN COMPANY INC., Little Ferry, NJ (US);
Abstract
A method for producing a catalyst effective in the oxidative conversion of ethylene to ethylene oxide, the method comprising: (i) impregnating a porous refractory carrier with a sub-catalytic level of silver ion in a range of 0.1 wt % to 1 wt % of silver by weight of the carrier and silver, and at least partially reducing said silver ion to elemental silver to produce a low-silver catalyst precursor having isolated silver atoms or silver nanoparticles on surfaces of said refractory carrier; and (ii) further impregnating the low-silver catalyst precursor with a catalytic amount of silver ion of at least 10 wt % total amount of silver and at least one promoting species by weight of the carrier and silver, and subjecting the further impregnated carrier to an elevated temperature of at least 200° C. to completely reduce silver ion to elemental silver in the carrier. The low-silver catalyst precursor produced in step (i) is also described in detail. Methods for using the catalyst produced in step (ii) for the oxidative conversion of ethylene to ethylene oxide are also described.