Chemistry of inorganic compounds inventions 07/07

20070172404 - Extractant for palladium and method for separation and recovery of palladium: in which R1 and R2 each represent a group selected from a chain hydrocarbon group having 1 to 18 carbon atoms which may be branched, an alicyclic hydrocarbon group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms, and an aromatic hydrocarbon group having 1 to 14 carbon atom, and R3 represents a... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070172405 - Composition and method for improved aluminum hydroxide production: An improved method and composition for producing aluminum hydroxide crystals from precipitation liquor, involves the addition of an emulsified crystal growth modifier comprising a C8-C10 fatty acid, precursors, salts or blends thereof. The emulsified crystal growth modifier also facilitates an upward shift in particle size distribution of aluminum hydroxide and... Agent: Nalco Company

20070172406 - Nanoscale, crystalline silicon powder: Aggregated, crystalline silicon powder with a BET surface of more than 50 m2/g. The powder is produced by continuously feeding at least one vaporous or gaseous silane and optionally at least one vaporous or gaseous doping substance and an inert gas into a reactor and mixing the components there, wherein... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070172407 - Method for producing hydroxylammonium salts: The invention relates to a method of producing hydroxylammonium salts by catalytic reaction of nitrogen monoxide with hydrogen in a diluted aqueous solution of mineral acid in the presence of platinum catalysts suspended on a support in multiple subsequent reaction stages. According to the invention, this reaction takes place in... Agent: Wood, Phillips, Katz, Clark & Mortimer

20070172408 - Amorphous carbon particles and composite material used thereof: The disclosed are amorphous carbon particles extracted from combustion ash of petroleum coke, each of which provides a non-circular section, and which have a weight depreciation rate after 60 minutes' standing at a maintaining temperature of 500° C. in the presence of air being in the range of less than... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20070172409 - Catalyst structure and method of manufacturing carbon nanotube using the same: A catalyst structure that allows a carbon nanotube having a desired shape and with larger length to be obtained in a stable manner and in high purity as well as a method of manufacturing a carbon nanotube using the same are provided. The present invention relates to a catalyst structure... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070172410 - Method of producing carbon nanostructure: A method of producing a carbon nanostructure is provided which can increase evenness of a shape and a purity of the carbon nanostructure and can reduce a production cost. In a method of producing a carbon nanostructure, a carbon crystal is grown by vapor phase epitaxy from a crystal growth... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070172411 - Method of removing residual solvent from fullerene: A fullerene in which a solvent remains is subjected to heat treatment at a temperature higher than the boiling point of the solvent by 150° C. or more under a reduced pressure of 50 Torr or lower to reduce the residual amount of the solvent, and in order to allow... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20070172412 - Thickened fluid composition comprising chlorine dioxide: This invention relates to a stable composition and method of making a thickened fluid composition comprising chlorine dioxide. The stable composition includes a mixture containing a chlorite, an acid source, and a thickener component. At least one of the chlorite, the acid source and the thickener component is in particulate... Agent: Basf Catalysts LLC

20070172413 - System and method for the production of alpha type gypsum using heat recovery: The present invention relates to a system and associated method for the production of gypsum in manufacturing plant. More specifically, the invention relates to the production of alpha-type gypsum in a gypsum board manufacturing plant. The system yields increased efficiencies by capturing heat given off during processing steps and using... Agent: Holland & Knight LLP Attn: Stefan V. Stein/IPDept.

20070172414 - Process for producing titanium dioxide: This disclosure relates to a process for producing titanium dioxide, comprising: a) providing a quantity of liquid titanium tetrahalide for reacting with an oxygen-containing gas; b) vaporizing a first portion of the liquid titanium tetrahalide and reacting the titanium tetrahalide vapor and the oxygen-containing gas, in a first stage of... Agent: E I Du Pont De Nemours And Company Legal Patent Records Center

20070172415 - Process for the production of zinc oxide powder: Zinc oxide powder is prepared by a process having the following steps a) generating of a zinc vapor-containing stream in a vaporization zone; b) oxidizing the zinc vapor by reaction with an oxygen-containing gas thereby forming zinc oxide powder in an oxidation zone; and c) cooling of the reaction mixture... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070172417 - Hydrogen generation catalysts and systems for hydrogen generation: Supported catalysts and methods are provided to promote hydrogen generation from the hydrolysis of boron hydrides. The supported catalysts contain a supported metal comprising at least one transition metal selected from the group consisting of cobalt, ruthenium, zinc, molybdenum, manganese, titanium, tin, cadmium, and iridium, in an amount of from... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070172416 - Reforming catalyst for hydrocarbon, method for producing hydrogen using such reforming catalyst, and fuel cell system: A hydrocarbon reforming catalyst which maintains carrier strength even after a long-term thermal history and which exhibits high catalytic activity is prepared by causing at least one noble metal component selected from among a ruthenium component, a platinum component, a rhodium component, a palladium component, and an iridium component to... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070172419 - Hydrogen production process with regenerant recycle: The present invention relates to a process for producing a hydrogen-containing gas. The process comprises introducing a regeneration gas into a hydrogen reaction vessel containing solid packing material thereby at least partially regenerating the solid packing material and forming an effluent gas from the regeneration gas. At least a portion... Agent: Air Products And Chemicals, Inc. Patent Department

20070172418 - Regeneration of complex metal oxides for the production of hydrogen: In a process for producing a hydrogen-containing gas, a hydrocarbon feed gas and steam are introduced into a reaction vessel containing a complex metal oxide and steam-hydrocarbon reforming catalyst thereby forming a combustible gas mixture comprising hydrogen. A regeneration gas comprising greater than 0.1 volume % oxygen up to and... Agent: Air Products And Chemicals, Inc. Patent Department

20070166214 - Reductive ammoniacal leaching of nickel and coblat bearing: A process for the recovery of nickel and/or cobalt from an impure nickel, cobalt or mixed nickel/cobalt material including the steps of: a) providing a nickel, cobalt or mixed nickel/cobalt material; and b) contacting the nickel, cobalt or mixed nickel/cobalt material with a feed ammoniacal ammonium carbonate solution and a... Agent: Stites & Harbison PLLC

20070166215 - Method for chemical reduction of an oxidized contamination material, or reducing oxidation of a contamination material and a conditioning system for doing the same: An amount of oxides in an apparatus having a chamber containing an amount of contamination material and an amount of the oxides, the oxides being oxides of the contamination material, is reduced. In the method, a hydrogen containing gas is provided in at least part of the chamber. A predetermined... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070166216 - Cerium salt, producing method thereof, cerium oxide and cerium based polishing slurry: A cerium salt wherein, when 20 g of the cerium salt is dissolved in a mixed liquid of 12.5 g of 6N nitric acid and 12.5 g of a 30% hydrogen peroxide aqueous solution, a concentration of an insoluble component present in the solution is 5 ppm or less by... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070166217 - Method for producing strong base phosphates: The inventive method for producing strong base phosphates consists in forming a pulp consisting of an aqueous phase which contains a water-soluble calcium phosphate and a solid impurity-containing phase, in separating said phases, transferring calcium ions to a liquid phase by a strong base ions associated with forming the aqueous... Agent: Dykema Gossett PLLC

20070166218 - Oxynitride powder and production method thereof: It is aimed at providing an oxynitride powder, which is suitable for usage as a phosphor, is free from coloration due to contamination of impurities, and mainly includes a fine α-sialon powder. An oxynitride powder is produced by applying a heat treatment in a reducing and nitriding atmosphere, to a... Agent: Kanesaka Berner And Partners LLP

20070166219 - Silicon monoxide vapor deposition material, and process, raw material and apparatus for producing the same: A high-purity silicon monoxide vapor deposition material which, in the formation of a film by vapor deposition, is effective in inhibiting splashing, and which has an average bulk density of 2.0 g/cml and a Vickers hardness of 500 or higher; a process for producing a high-purity silicon monoxide vapor deposition... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20070166220 - Oxidation catalyst: The present invention generally relates to catalyst systems and methods for oxidation of carbon monoxide. The invention involves catalyst compositions which may be advantageously altered by, for example, modification of the catalyst surface to enhance catalyst performance. Catalyst systems of the present invention may be capable of performing the oxidation... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070166221 - Nanocarbon fulerenes (ncf), method for producing ncf and use of ncf in the form of nanocarbons: Despite intensive research and numerous essays and reports, chemical and physical methods of producing fullerene structures of carbon modifications could heretofore only be carried out on a laboratory scale. The invention suggest a new family of nanomaterials, more specifically of carbon hybrids, namely nanostructured carbon fullerenes (NCF). Methods of production... Agent: William Collard Collard & Roe, P.C.

20070166222 - Aerosol gels: An improved process for the production of ultralow density, high specific surface area gel products is provided which comprises providing, in an enclosed chamber, a mixture made up of small particles of material suspended in gas; the particles are then caused to aggregate in the chamber to form ramified fractal... Agent: Hovey Williams LLP Suite 400

20070166223 - Carbon nanotube yarn and method for making the same: A carbon nanotube yarn includes a number of carbon nanotube yarn strings bound together, and each of the carbon nanotube yarn strings includes a number of carbon nanotube bundles that are joined end to end by van der Waals attractive force, and each of the carbon nanotube bundles includes a... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070166224 - Adsorbent composition, a device and a method for decontaminating water containing pesticides: This invention relates to novel adsorbent compositions for adsorbing pesticides like chlorpyrifos and malathion. This composition consists of nanoparticles of gold/silver supported on activated alumina or magnesia in powder or other forms. This invention includes a device and a method for decontaminating water contaminated with pesticides. This device consists of... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20070166225 - Method for producing products from source materials by leaching with functional electrolytic water: The present invention relates to methods for leaching products from source materials, especially combustion products from fuels including coal, bitumen, coke, oil, and other fuels that produce an ash such as flyash, bottom ash, etc. that have valuable components including minerals, precious and other metals, compounds, and the like using... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, LLP

20070166226 - Process for preparing mesoporous materials: A process for preparing a mesoporous material comprises the step of preparing a sol and treating the sol material under supercritical fluid conditions. The treatment under supercritical fluid conditions forms an ordered mesoporous material. The sol may be applied to a substrate to form a mesoporous film and subsequently treating... Agent: Jacobson Holman PLLC

20070160516 - Production of lithium compounds directly from lithium containing brines: Methods and apparatus for the production of low sodium lithium carbonate and lithium chloride from a brine concentrated to about 6.0 wt % lithium are disclosed. Methods and apparatus for direct recovery of technical grade lithium chloride from the concentrated brine are also disclosed.... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski, LLP

20070160517 - Catalyst, a method of using a catalyst, and an arrangement including a catalyst, for controlling no and/or co emissions from a combustion system without using external reagent: A catalyst, a method of and an arrangement for using a catalyst for controlling NO and/or CO emissions from a combustion system that combusts carbonaceous fuels, including introducing carbonaceous fuel and combustion air into a furnace of the combustion system for combusting the carbonaceous fuel in oxidizing conditions and producing... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070160518 - Exhaust inlet metallic foam trap coupled to a downstream monolithic precious metal catalyst: The present invention is directed to an improved apparatus and method of minimizing catalyst poisoning from exhaust gas streams containing inorganic deposits and particulate matter. More specifically, the present invention is directed to an upstream metallic foam trap and a downstream monolithic precious metal catalyst, wherein the trap physically blocks... Agent: Chief Patent Counsel Engelhard Corporation

20070160519 - Method of making active materials for use in secondary electrochemical cells: The present invention provides for the preparation of an “optimized” VPO4 phase or V—P—O/C precursor. The VPO4 precursor is an amorphous or nanocrystalline powder. The V—P—O/C precursor is amorphous in nature and contains finely divided and dispersed carbon. Throughout the specification it is understood that the VPO4 precursor and the... Agent: Valence Technology, Inc.

20070160520 - Calcined silica particle and manufacturing method of same: Provided is a calcined silica particle and a manufacturing method of the same, the calcined silica particle having a low hygroscopicity, and a narrow range of particle size distribution, and substantially even particle diameter, and containing little of large-diameter fused aggregation of the particulates of the calcined silica particle. A... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070160521 - Use of core/shell particles: The invention relates to the use of core/shell particles, the core of which essentially comprises a degradable polymer with an essentially mono-disperse size distribution and the shell of which forms a matrix, which can be pyrolysed to give a carbon matrix, for the production of shaped bodies with regularly-arranged cavities... Agent: Millen, White, Zelano & Branigan, P.C.

20070160522 - Method of preparing carbon nanotube from liquid phased-carbon source: This invention relates to a method to induce growth of carbon nanotubes using a liquid phased-hydrocarbon based material under a critical range of equilibrating between liquid and gas phases, thereby easily manipulating a required carbon source. This invention also relates to a method to facilitate easy generation of a carbon... Agent: Ronald R Santucci Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20070160523 - Process for the production of sulfur, starting from the hydrogen sulphide contained in the natural gas, or in the associated gas and possible disposal of the thus obtained sulfur: Process for the production of sulfur, obtained in pure form, and possibly easily disposable even at ambient tem-perature, starting from hydrogen sulphide contained in natural gas, which includes: a) oxidizing a portion of hydrogen sulphide to sulfur dioxide; b) dissolving in water the sulfur dioxide obtained in step (a); c)... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070160524 - Method of and apparatus for producing sub-critical water decomposition products: [Means to Solve the Problems] Material to be processed is grinded in advance into particles, which are mixed with water to prepare slurry. The slurry is sent to a compressing means (1) through a pipe and is compressed. Next, the compressed slurry is sent to a heating means 2 and... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20070160525 - Method for producing fine-grained particles: A method for producing complex metal oxide having nano-sized grains that includes the steps of forming a mixture containing at least one metal cation dissolved in a solution and particulate material containing at least one further metal in the form of metal(s) or metal compound(s) and treating the mixture to... Agent: Winston & Strawn LLP Patent Department

20070154372 - Exhaust gas treatment agent, exhaust gas treatment method and exhaust gas treatment device: The exhaust gas treatment agent of the present invention is an exhaust gas treatment agent provided with a particulate and porous structure, and composed of calcium hydroxide occupying at least a portion of the surface thereof, and calcium oxide occupying the remainder. The specific surface area if preferably 1 m2/g... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070154374 - Method for removing sulfur dioxide and other acid gases, mercury, and nitrogen oxides from a gas stream with the optional production of ammonia based fertilizers: Methods for scrubbing gas streams to remove acid gases including sulfur dioxide, mercury-containing substances, and/or nitrogen oxides from the gas stream. The gas stream is contacted with an ammonium-based sorbent effective for removing at least a portion of the acid gases. The partially cleaned gas stream is then contacted with... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, LLP

20070154373 - Methods for regenerating oxidants used for removing pollutants from a gas stream: Methods for regenerating oxidant solutions used for removing pollutants, such as sulfur oxides, nitrogen oxides, mercury compounds, carbon monoxide, and elemental mercury (Hg), from gas streams.... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, LLP

20070154375 - Metallic foam trap for poisons: aircraft ozone: The present invention is directed to an improved apparatus and method of minimizing catalyst poisoning by inorganic deposits from lube oil additives and particulate matter, especially in aircraft. More specifically, the present invention is directed to an air purification system comprising an upstream metallic foam trap and downstream converter, wherein... Agent: Chief Patent Counsel Engelhard Corporation

20070154376 - Purification of sulfuryl fluoride: Sulphuryl fluoride may comprise carbon dioxide. It has now been found that the carbon dioxide can be removed from the sulphuryl fluoride by means of molecular sieve.... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz, LLP

20070154377 - Process for the removal of combustible volatile contaminant materials from a process stream: The invention provides for the utilization of microchannel apparatus in a process for the removal of combustible volatile contaminant materials from a first process stream.... Agent: Shell Oil Company

20070154378 - Film containing a photo-catalyst apatite, its formation method, coating liquid, and electronic device having portion coated with photo-catalyst apatite-containing film: A film containing a photo-catalyst apatite contains an inorganic coating main material, and a powdered photo-catalyst apatite and powdered titanium oxide that disperse within the inorganic coating main material, in which the total content of the photo-catalyst apatite and the titanium oxide is 0.01-5 wt %.... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070154379 - Process for producing silica aerogel: Silica aerogels that are controlled in pore diameter and pore diameter distribution can be produced as follows: a surfactant is dissolved in an acidic aqueous solution; a silicon compound having a hydrolysable functional group and a hydrophobic functional group is added thereto, so that a hydrolysis reaction is carried out... Agent: Hamre, Schumann, Mueller & Larson, P.C.

20070154380 - Method for reducing exhaust carbon dioxide: A method for effectively absorbing and removing CO2 in an exhaust gas generated during an industrial process for reducing the amount of CO2 that is exhausted into the atmosphere. The exhaust gas containing CO2 is blown into an agglomerate of solid particles containing CaO and/or Ca(OH)2 so that the CO2... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070154381 - Carbon foam with improved graphitizability: A carbon foam material with improved graphitizability is formed by including a graphitization promoting additive into the carbon foam. The graphitization promoting additive greatly improves the graphitic structure of the carbon foam resulting in a carbon foam with much greater thermal and electrical conductivities. This inventive foam may be created... Agent: Waddey & Patterson, P.C.

20070154382 - Method: A method for the production of particulate carbon products in a reactor vessel wherein gas flow between a gas inlet port and a gas outlet port suspends a bed of catalyst-containing particulate material in the vessel and wherein the product is discharged from the vessel by falling from the bed.... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070154383 - Process for preparing an oxide based on zirconium and titanium, oxides obtained thereby, and use of said oxides as catalysts: The invention concerns a process for preparing an oxide based on zirconium and titanium in which a liquid medium containing a zirconium compound and a titanium compound is formed; said medium is then heated; the precipitate obtained from the end of the preceding step is recovered and optionally, said precipitate... Agent: Jean-louis Seugnet Intellectual Property Dept.

20070154384 - Titanium dioxide nanopowder manufacturing process: (a) reacting titanium tetrachloride and an oxygen containing gas in the vapor phase in a flame reactor, at a flame temperature of at least about 800° C., a pressure ranging from about −35 to about 172 kPa (about −5 to about 25 psig) in the presence of (i) water vapor... Agent: E I Du Pont De Nemours And Company Legal Patent Records Center

20070154385 - Method for manufacturing zinc oxide nanowires and device having the same: A method for manufacturing ZnO nanowires with a small diameter and increased length and a device comprising the same. The manufacturing method includes: forming a ZnO seed layer containing a hydroxyl group on a substrate; and growing ZnO nanowires on the ZnO seed layer containing the hydroxyl group. Preferably, the... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070154386 - Method for manufacturing alpha alumina powders and applications thereof: A method for fabricating an α-Al2O3 powder with a size distribution substantially ranging from 30 nm to 100 nm, wherein the method comprises the following steps: First, at least one transition phase Al2O3 crystallite is provided, and then a coating process is conducted on the Al2O3 crystallite coating an aluminum... Agent: Raymond R. Moser Jr., Esq. MoserIPLaw Group

20070154389 - Boron-containing molecular sieve cha: A boron-containing molecular sieve having the CHA crystal structure and comprising (1) silicon oxide and (2) boron oxide or a combination of boron oxide and aluminum oxide, iron oxide, titanium oxide, gallium oxide and mixtures thereof is prepared using a quaternary ammonium cation derived from 1-adamantamine, 3-quinuclidinol or 2-exo-aminonorbornane as... Agent: Chevron Texaco Corporation

20070154387 - Perturbed synthesis of materials: The present invention is a method that perturbs the initial crystallization of a material from a less desired phase into a more desired phase. More specifically, the present invention is a method to form a different crystallization of a zeolite, mesoporous material, SAPO4, AlPO4 or porous inorganic oxide after the... Agent: Exxonmobil Research And Engineering Company

20070154388 - Process for preparing a nanosized zeolitic material: A process for preparing a zeolitic material, comprising (i) preparing a mixture comprising the at least one silicon containing precursor compound from which the zeolitic framework is formed, at least one pore forming agent, and at least one polymer which has an essentially spheroidal geometry in the mixture; (ii) crystallizing... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.