IP Library Granted Patent US 9,981,256
Granted Patent B2
US 9,981,256 · App. 13/691,710 · Granted May 29, 2018

Stabilized microporous crystalline material, the method of making the same, and the use for selective catalytic reduction of NO

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Patent No.
US 9,981,256
App. No.
13/691,710
Granted
May 29, 2018
Kind
B2
Abstract

There is disclosed a microporous crystalline material having pore opening ranging from 3 to 5 Angstroms, where the material comprises a first metal chosen from alkali earth group, rare earth group, alkali group, or mixtures thereof, and a second metal chosen from iron, copper or mixtures thereof; and has a molar silica to alumina ratio (SAR) from 3 to 10. The microporous crystalline material disclosed herein may comprise a crystal structure having building units of double-6-rings (d6r) and pore opening of 8-rings as exemplified with framework types defined by the Structure Commission of the International Zeolite Association having structural codes of CHA, LEV, AEI, AFT, AFX, EAB, ERI, KFI, SAT, TSC, and SAV. There is also disclosed a method of selective catalytic reduction of nitrogen oxides in exhaust gas, comprising at least partially contacting the exhaust gases with an article comprising the disclosed microporous crystalline material.

Claims (43)

1. A microporous crystalline silicoaluminophosphate (SAPO) material, where said material has a pore opening of 8-rings with sizes ranging from 3 to 5 Angstroms and comprises a first metal comprising an alkali-earth metal or a rare-earth metal or an alkali metal or mixtures thereof, and a second metal comprising copper, where said alkali-earth or rare-earth metal or alkali metal comprises an amount of at least 0.2 weight percent of the total weight of said microporous crystalline SAPO material.

2. The microporous crystalline material of claim 1 , where said material comprises a crystal structure having building units of double-6-rings (d6r).

3. The microporous crystalline material of claim 2 , wherein said crystal structure comprises structural codes of CHA, LEV, AEI, AFT, AFX, EAB, ERI, KFI, SAT, TSC, and SAV.

4. The microporous crystalline material of claim 1 , where said material comprises SAPO-34 having a CHA structure.

5. The microporous crystalline material of claim 1 , where said material comprises SiO 2 in an amount ranging from 1 to 20 weight percent of the total weight of said material.

6. The microporous crystalline material of claim 1 , where the alkali-earth metal or rare-earth metal or alkali metal is selected from magnesium, calcium, strontium, barium, lanthanum, cerium, praseodymium, neodymium, mixed rare earth oxides, potassium, rubidium, cesium or mixtures thereof.

7. The microporous crystalline material of claim 1 , where said metals are introduced by liquid-phase or solid-phase ion exchange, impregnation or incorporated by direct synthesis or combinations thereof.

8. The microporous crystalline material of claim 1 , where said alkali-earth metal comprises calcium in an amount ranging from 0.2 to 5.0 weight percent of the total weight of said microporous crystalline SAPO material.

9. The microporous crystalline material of claim 1 , where said copper comprises an amount ranging from 0.5 to 10.0 weight percent of the total weight of said microporous crystalline SAPO material.

10. The microporous crystalline material of claim 1 , where said material comprises a mean crystal size ranging from 0.3 to 10 microns.

11. A method of selective catalytic reduction of nitrogen oxides in exhaust gas, said method comprising:

at least partially contacting said exhaust gases with an article comprising a microporous crystalline silicoaluminophosphate (SAPO) material having a pore opening of 8-rings with sizes ranging from 3 to 5 Angstroms and comprising a first metal comprising an alkali-earth metal or a rare-earth metal or an alkali metal or mixtures thereof, and a second metal comprising copper,

where said alkali-earth or rare-earth metal or alkali metal comprises an amount of at least 0.2 weight percent of the total weight of said microporous crystalline silicoaluminophosphate SAPO material.

12. The method of claim 11 , where said contacting step is performed in the presence of ammonia, urea, an ammonia generating compound, or a hydrocarbon compound.

13. The method of claim 11 , where said material comprises a crystal structure having building units of double-6-rings (d6r).

14. The method of claim 13 , wherein said crystal structure comprises structural codes of CHA, LEV, AEI, AFT, AFX, EAB, ERI, KFI, SAT, TSC, and SAV.

15. The method of claim 11 , where said material comprises SAPO-34 having a CHA structure.

16. The method of claim 11 , where said material comprises SiO 2 in an amount ranging from 1 to 20 weight percent of the total weight of said material.

17. The method of claim 11 , where the alkali-earth metal or rare-earth metal or alkali metal is selected from magnesium, calcium, strontium, barium, lanthanum, cerium, praseodymium, neodymium, mixed rare earth oxides, potassium, rubidium, cesium or mixtures thereof.

18. The method of claim 11 , where said metals are introduced by liquid-phase or solid-phase ion exchange, impregnation or incorporated by direct synthesis or combinations thereof.

19. The method of claim 11 , where said alkali-earth metal comprises calcium in an amount ranging from 0.2 to 5.0 weight percent of the total weight of said microporous crystalline SAPO material.

20. The method of claim 11 , where said copper comprises an amount ranging from 0.5 to 10.0 weight percent of the total weight of said microporous crystalline SAPO material.

21. The method of claim 11 , where said material comprises a mean crystal size ranging from 0.3 to 10 microns.

22. A method of making a microporous crystalline silicoaluminophosphate (SAPO) material having a pore opening of 8-rings with sizes ranging from 3 to 5 Angstroms and comprising an alkali-earth metal or a rare-earth metal or an alkali metal or mixtures thereof, and copper, said method comprising:

mixing sources of alumina, silica, phosphate, at least one organic structural directing agent and water to form a gel;

heating said gel in an autoclave at a temperature ranging from 140 to 220° C. to form a crystalline SAPO product;

calcining said product; and

introducing a first metal comprising an alkali-earth metal or a rare-earth metal or an alkali metal or mixtures thereof and a second metal comprising copper by liquid-phase or solid-phase ion exchange, impregnation or combinations thereof,

where said alkali-earth or rare-earth metal or alkali metal comprises an amount of at least 0.2 weight percent of the total weight of said microporous crystalline SAPO material.

23. The method of claim 22 , where said material comprises a crystal structure having building units of double-6-rings (d6r).

24. The method of claim 23 , wherein said crystal structure comprises structural codes of CHA, LEV, AEI, AFT, AFX, EAB, ERI, KFI, SAT, TSC, and SAV.

25. The method of claim 22 , where said material comprises SAPO-34 having a CHA structure.

26. The method of claim 22 , where said material comprises SiO 2 in an amount ranging from 1 to 20 weight percent of the total weight of said material.

27. The method of claim 22 , where the alkali-earth metal or rare-earth metal or alkali metal is selected from magnesium, calcium, strontium, barium, lanthanum, cerium, praseodymium, neodymium, mixed rare earth oxides, potassium, rubidium, cesium or mixtures thereof.

28. The method of claim 22 , where said alkali-earth metal comprises calcium in an amount ranging from 0.2 to 5.0 weight percent of the total weight of said microporous crystalline SAPO material.

29. The method of claim 22 , where said copper comprises an amount ranging from 0.5 to 10.0 weight percent of the total weight of said microporous crystalline SAPO material.

30. The method of claim 22 , where said material comprises a mean crystal size ranging from 0.3 to 10 microns.

31. A method of making a microporous crystalline silicoaluminophosphate (SAPO) material having a pore opening of 8-rings with sizes ranging from 3 to 5 Angstroms and comprising an alkali-earth metal or a rare-earth metal or an alkali metal or mixtures thereof, and copper, said method comprising:

mixing sources of alumina, silica, phosphate, at least one organic structural directing agent, an alkali-earth metal salt or rare-earth metal salt, and water to form a gel;

heating said gel in an autoclave at a temperature ranging from 140 to 220° C. to form a crystalline SAPO product;

calcining said product; and

introducing a second metal comprising copper by liquid-phase or solid-phase ion exchange, impregnation or by direct synthesis or combinations thereof,

where said alkali-earth or rare-earth metal or alkali metal comprises an amount of at least 0.2 weight percent of the total weight of said microporous crystalline SAPO material.

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