Preparative process for supports
AssigneeAtlantic Richfield Company
InventorE. William Breder, Jr.
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Abstract
An improved process for the production of a contact agent comprising digesting a reducible oxide of at least one metal, the oxide of which forms a reduced metal oxide, and a support in the presence of a silicon component, drying the precipitate of the reducible oxide and calcining the precipitate to form the contact agent.
Claims5
In an improved method for converting a gas comprising methane to higher hydrocarbons which comprises contacting said gas with a contact agent, said contact agent comprising a component of at least one metal, the oxide of which is reduced and produces higher hydrocarbons and water when contacted with methane at selected temperatures within the range of about 500.degree. to about 1000.degree. C., the improvement which comprises employing said contact agent produced by the steps of:
- (a) combining hydroxylated magnesia and a component of silicon which forms silica and is readily suspendible in a continuous medium;
- (b) contacting said combined components with said component of at least one metal;
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- (c) calcining said contacted components to form said contact agent.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.