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US 12,370,533 · App. 17/556,102 · Granted Jul 29, 2025

CO to CO

Inventor: Guido William Aru (Conifer, CO)
Assignee: COCHISE TECHNOLOGY, LLC
B01J23/8926B01J8/1827B01J8/26B01J21/04B01J21/08B01J21/12B01J23/42B01J23/44B01J23/63B01J35/397B01J35/51B01J35/613B01J35/615B01J35/633B01J37/0221B01J37/0236B01J37/088C01B32/50C10G11/04
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Patent No.
US 12,370,533
App. No.
17/556,102
Granted
Jul 29, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

The invention is directed to a CO to CO 2 combustion promoter comprising one or more porous particles having a diameter of less than 1 mm and comprising: a) one or more of silica, alumina, zeolite, silica sol, alumina sol, pseudo-boehmite alumina, and/or a clay-based matrix; and b) one or more Group VIII noble metals distributed in the porous particle such that the concentration of the one or more Group VIII noble metals increases towards the outer surface of the porous particle relative to the center of the porous particle.

Claims (39)

1. A CO to CO 2 combustion promoter comprising:

a porous particle having a diameter of less than 1 mm and comprising:

a) one or more of silica, alumina, zeolite, silica sol, alumina sol, pseudo-boehmite alumina, and/or a clay-based matrix; and

b) one or more Group VIII noble metals distributed in the porous particle such that the concentration of the one or more Group VIII noble metals increases towards the outer surface of the porous particle relative to the center of the porous particle.

2. The CO to CO 2 combustion promoter according to claim 1 , wherein the concentration of the one or more Group VIII noble metals is zero at the center of the porous particle.

3. The CO to CO 2 combustion promoter according to claim 1 , wherein the concentration of the one or more Group VIII noble metals increases at a constant rate.

4. The CO to CO 2 combustion promoter according to claim 1 , wherein the concentration of the one or more Group VIII noble metals increases at an inconstant rate.

5. The CO to CO 2 combustion promoter according to claim 1 , wherein the porous particle has a surface area (BET) of between 50 and 300 m 2 /g in the absence of the one or more Group VIII noble metals.

6. The CO to CO 2 combustion promoter according to claim 1 , wherein the porous particle has a pore volume of between 0.05 and 0.50 mL/g as measured by the water pore volume in the absence of the one or more Group VIII noble metals.

7. The CO to CO 2 combustion promoter according to claim 1 , wherein the porous particle is a gamma-alumina particle.

8. The CO to CO 2 combustion promoter according to claim 1 , wherein the porous particle is a theta-alumina particle.

9. The CO to CO 2 combustion promoter according to claim 1 , wherein the porous particle is a spray-dried silica particle.

10. The CO to CO 2 combustion promoter according to claim 1 , wherein the porous particle is an equilibrium or spent catalyst as obtained from a fluidized catalytic cracking (FCC) process.

11. The CO to CO 2 combustion promoter according to claim 1 , wherein the zeolite is faujasite, Type Y zeolite, and/or ZSM-5.

12. The CO to CO 2 combustion promoter according to claim 1 , wherein the zeolite is ZSM-5.

13. The CO to CO 2 combustion promoter according to claim 1 , wherein the one or more Group VIII noble metals comprises one or more of platinum, palladium, iridium, ruthenium, and rhodium.

14. The CO to CO 2 combustion promoter according to claim 1 , wherein the one or more Group VIII noble metals comprises platinum.

15. The CO to CO 2 combustion promoter according to claim 1 , wherein the one or more

Group VIII noble metals comprises palladium.

16. The CO to CO 2 combustion promoter according to claim 1 , wherein the one or more

Group VIII noble metals comprises platinum and palladium.

17. The CO to CO 2 combustion promoter according to claim 1 , wherein the porous particle further comprises at least one of cerium oxide and copper oxide.

18. The CO to CO 2 combustion promoter according to claim 17 , wherein the at least one of cerium oxide and copper oxide is distributed in the porous particle such that the concentration of the at least one of cerium oxide and copper oxide increases towards the outer surface of the porous particle relative to the center of the porous particle.

19. A CO to CO 2 combustion promoter comprising a first plurality of porous particles, wherein each porous particle of the first plurality of porous particles is a porous particle of claim 1 .

20. The CO to CO 2 combustion promoter according to claim 19 , wherein the first plurality of porous particles comprises alumina.

21. The CO to CO 2 combustion promoter according to claim 19 , wherein the first plurality of porous particles comprises silica.

22. The CO to CO 2 combustion promoter according to claim 19 , wherein the first plurality of

porous particles comprises silica and alumina.

23. The CO to CO 2 combustion promoter according to claim 19 , wherein the first plurality of porous particles comprise silica; and

the CO to CO 2 combustion promoter further comprises a second plurality of porous particles, each of the second plurality of porous particles having a diameter of less than 1 mm and comprising:

a) alumina; and

b) one or more Group VIII noble metals distributed in the porous particle such that the concentration of the one or more Group VIII noble metals increases towards the outer surface of the porous particle relative to the center of the porous particle.

24. The CO to CO 2 combustion promoter according to claim 19 , wherein the first plurality of porous particles collectively have an average (D50) size of between 60 and 90 microns as measured by laser diffraction.

25. The CO to CO 2 combustion promoter according to claim 19 , wherein an attrition index as measured according to ASTM D-5757 of the CO to CO 2 combustion promoter for a sieve fraction of porous particles of between 40 and 105 microns is between 5 and 25.

26. A composition, inventory, or mixture comprising at least:

the CO to CO 2 combustion promoter of claim 19 ; and

a second plurality of particles comprising FCC catalyst particles.

27. A method of fluid catalytic cracking, the method comprising contacting a CO to CO 2 combustion promoter of claim 1 with CO in a fluidized bed of a FCC unit, wherein the CO to CO 2 combustion promoter and the CO are in contact in the fluidized bed.

28. A method of CO to CO 2 combustion, the method comprising contacting a CO to CO 2 combustion promoter of claim 1 with CO in a fluidized bed.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 9, 2024
From: ARU, GUIDO
To: COCHISE TECHNOLOGY, LLC
Reel/Frame 066368/0432 →
Priority Claims (1)
NL 2020819 · Apr 24, 2018 · national
Continuity (4)
Division 17176222 · Feb 16, 2021
Continuation 17043031
Provisional Application 62651295 · Apr 2, 2018
Related Publication 20220111365A1 · Apr 14, 2022
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