NorPro Catalyst Carriers -- Typical Properties NorPro Catalyst Carriers

IMPORTANT NOTES
The products described in these tables represent only some of the extensive capabilities possessed by Saint-Gobain NorPro to make carriers with widely varying physical and chemical properties. Please contact Saint-Gobain NorPro directly, or via www.norpro.saint-gobain.com, if you do not see your precise requirement listed. We can help you!

SIZE AND SHAPE

Most materials are available in a variety of shapes, including spheres, UniSpheres (Saint-Gobain NorPros special mono-sized spheres), extrudates, pellets (cut extrudates), trilobes, rings and pentarings. Other shapes have been designed and manufactured for particular applications. Some products are not available as spheres.

NOMENCLATURE
All products are coded in the form SA 6173 or SA 55112. The second letter describes the material: S A alumina or alumina-silica S C silicon carbide S S silica or silica-alumina S T titania S Z zirconia The first digit refers to the surface area: SA 5*21 low surface area (< 10 m2/g) SA 3*145 intermediate surface area (10 100 m2/g) SA 6*76 high surface area (> 100 m2/g) The second digit refers to the shape: SA 6173 pellets or extrudates SA 52112 spheres SA 5397 spray dried materials SA 5551 rings SA 66147 pentarings SA 6973 trilobes; quadrilobes The last two or three digits are unique to the formulation: SA 6173 SA 55112 Samples sent will always be described, not only by the above coding, where relevant, but also by a unique sample number, e.g.: 2006781234. This number refers to the batch of material made and enables Saint-Gobain NorPro to trace the original formulation, who made the material, the manufacturing conditions, and all the analytical results.

PROPERTIES

The SURFACE AREA of many products may vary from the typical values shown in the tables. The degree of variation possible depends upon the material. Surface area values may vary with the instrument used for measurement. Details of Saint-Gobain NorPros Standard Test Methods are available upon request. PORE VOLUME values may vary with the instrument used for measurement. Pore Volume values reported in these tables are mercury (Hg) intrusion values. In suitable circumstances nitrogen (N2) values may be measured and reported. The WATER ABSORPTION is the amount of water picked up in open pores during a soaking period, expressed as a percentage of the dry sample weight. This value is obtained using the carefully standardized Saint-Gobain NorPro Standard Test Method. Bulk (Particle) Density, Apparent Porosity and Apparent Specific Gravity details are available upon request. PACKING DENSITY values are approximate and may vary with particle size and shape. Contact Saint-Gobain NorPro for details of their other products: MacroTrap guard bed media, Denstone ceramic bed supports, ceramic pentarings, process ceramics and proppants.

Saint-Gobain NorPro Worldwide Locations Saint-Gobain NorPro 3840 Fishcreek Road Stow, OH 44224-5400 USA Tel: +1 330 677 3552 Fax: +1 330 677 3609 Norpro.stow@saint-gobain.com Saint-Gobain NorPro GmbH Am Bahnhof D-56414, Steinefrenz Germany Tel: +49 6435 9657 25 Fax: +49 6435 9657 19 Norpro.steinefrenz@saint-gobain.com Saint-Gobain KK 3-7, Kojimachi Chiyoda-ku Tokyo, 102-0083 Japan Tel: +81 3 3263 0334 Fax: +81 3 3221 9976 Norpro.tokyo@saint-gobain.com

All properties quoted are representative of production at the time of printing of this leaflet. The properties of individual lots or samples may vary from these values. These properties are not to be construed as specifications and no warranty is implied or expressed to this effect.

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ALUMINA BASED CATALYST CARRIERS - TYPICAL PROPERTIES
PRODUCT CODE DESCRIPTION SURFACE AREA m2/gm Low Surface Area (< 10 m /g) - Alumina / Silica SA 5*05 SA 5*18 SA 5*23 SA 5*21 SA 5*52 SA 5*39 SA 5*180 SA 52112 Bimodal pore size distribution MacroTrap media Bauxite microspheres Highly macroporous Highly macroporous Bimodal pore size distribution 0.02 0.05 0.04 0.05 0.35 0.30 > 1.50 < 0.06 130 m 75 m 15 / 150 m 20 m 5 m 1.8 / 150 m 0.7 / 120 m 0.18 0.24 0.20 0.25 0.34 0.43 0.50 (1) < 0.01 27 20 18 23 32 45 > 40 60 68 77 73 61 50 46 125 960 1080 1240 1170 970 800 740 2000
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MEDIAN PORE DIAMETER TOTAL PORE VOLUME (Hg) cm3/g WATER ABSORPTION % PACKING DENSITY lb/ft3 kg/m3 / glassy silica / glassy silica / glassy silica / glassy silica / glassy silica / glassy silica / glassy silica bauxite 12% SiO2 13% SiO2 11% SiO2 12% SiO2 6% SiO2 12% SiO2 6% SiO2 15% SiO2; 5% Fe3O4 PHASE CHEMICAL PURITY

NOTES (1) Pore volume > 0.15 cm3/g for pores > 10 m Low Surface Area (< 10 m2/g) - High Purity Alumina SA 5*51 SA 5*61 SA 5*62 SA 5*02 SA 5*161 SA 5*131 SA 53197 SA 52124 Bimodal pore size distribution (formerly XA 25045) High alumina MacroTrap media Spray-dried (60 - 90 m) UniSpheres
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0.18 Bimodal pore size distribution Trimodal pore size distribution 0.25 0.75 1.0 4.50 > 0.9 8.00 5.00

3 m 3 m 1 / 10 / 250 m 1.2 m 0.1 / 11 m 1.1 / 40 m 75 nm 0.15 m

0.23 0.25 0.53 0.30 0.35 > 0.4 (1) 0.22 0.30

25 25 50 29 35 > 40

73 70 53 70 60 < 50 88 65

1170 1120 845 1120 960 < 800 1400 1040

0.3% SiO2 0.3% SiO2 0.1% SiO2 < 0.05% SiO2 1% SiO2 < 1% SiO2 < 0.03% SiO2 < 0.1% SiO2

NOTES (1) Pore volume > 0.15 cm /g for pores > 10 m Intermediate Surface Area (10 - 100 m2/g) SA 3*35 SA 3*32 SA 3*132 SA 31145 SA 3*77 NOTES SA 6*73 SA 6*75 SA 6*76 SA 6*78 SA 62125 SA 66147 SA 63158 UniSpheres Pentarings Spray-dried (60 - 90 m) Bimodal pore size distribution (1) Surface area 20 - to over 100 m2/g available 200 260 250 175 200 230 200 7 nm 10 nm 7 / 500 nm 13 nm 8.5 nm 8 nm 0.6 0.83 1.05 0.82 0.6 > 0.65 0.66 40 34 29 29 40 27 43 640 545 460 460 640 430 690 , < 0.05% Na2O < 0.05% Na2O < 0.05% Na2O < 0.05% Na2O < 0.05% Na2O < 0.05% Na2O < 0.1% SiO2; < 0.03% Na2O High Surface Area (> 100m2/g) - High Purity Alumina Macroporous Macroporous Theta alumina Theta alumina 12 30 55 75 100 (1) 1.2 m 1.2 m 25 / 550 nm 20 / 230 nm 10 nm 0.53 0.55 > 0.8 > 0.55 0.49 59 60 43 40 34 40 49 688 640 550 650 780 / Transition (,) / Transition (,) Mainly Mainly / Transition (,) 17.9% SiO2 17.9% SiO2 < 0.1% SiO2 < 0.3% SiO2; < 0.1% Na2O 0.1% SiO2

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OTHER CATALYST CARRIERS - TYPICAL PROPERTIES
PRODUCT CODE DESCRIPTION SURFACE AREA m2/gm Zirconia SZ 3*163 SZ 3*114 SZ 3*108 SZ 3*164 SZ 6*152 SZ 3*107 SZ 6*156 SZ 6*157 SZ 6*191 SZ 6*143 SZ 6*192 SZ 3*140 Titania Monoclinic zirconia (formerly XZ 16075) Modified SZ 31163 Modified SZ 31163 55 50 > 85 140 115 110 95 70 16 / 60 nm 10 / 40 nm 10 / 40 nm 10 / 40 nm 5 / 200 nm 8 / 60 nm MEDIAN PORE DIAMETER TOTAL PORE VOLUME (Hg) cm3/g > 0.27 0.30 0.30 0.30 0.30 WATER ABSORPTION % PACKING DENSITY lb/ft3 80 80 75 75 81 78 90 50 87 70 kg/m3 1280 1280 1200 1200 1300 1250 1450 815 1400 1100 1160

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PHASE CHEMICAL PURITY

Monoclinic Monoclinic Monoclinic Tetragonal Monoclinic Monoclinic Tetragonal Tetragonal Tetragonal Tetragonal

< 0.2% SiO2 < 0.2% SiO2 < 0.2% SiO2 < 0.2% SiO2 5% SiO2 (1) 10% La2O3 18% CeO2 4% SO3; 5% SiO2 18% WO3 8% Y2O3 3.3% SiO2

Monoclinic zirconia (formerly XZ 16052) Tetragonal Silica doped

0.29 0.30

Lanthana doped tetragonal Yttria doped tetragonal Ceria doped tetragonal Tungstated (2) Sulfated

120

3 / 150 nm

70

5 / 150 nm 4 / 150 nm 5 / 110 nm 40 nm

0.33 0.25 0.25

130 130 80

Zirconia / titania

11 / 16 / 121 nm

0.12 (N2) 0.46

94

1500

Mono / Tetrag

Tetragonal

NOTES (1) Other silica levels and dopants available ST 5*122 ST 3*119 NOTES ST 6*120 Rutile (1) Anatase 3 > 160 nm 28 nm 15 nm
2

40% anatase TiO2

Anatase (2)

150

40

> 0.15 0.30 0.38

95

70

1500 900

55

1200

> 95% Rutile Anatase Anatase

< 100 ppm S < 0.3% S < 0.3% S

Silica

(1) Higher surface areas are available with > 95% rutile content (2) Surface areas 40 - 150 m /g available HSA silica 160 11 nm 0.6 39 630 +99.5% SiO2 Mainly amorphous 25% Al2O3; 0.35% Na2O 13% SiO2 +99.5% SiO2

SS 6*138 SS 6*155 SC 5*32

SS 6*137

HSA silica

Silicon Carbide

Silica - alumina LSA silicon carbide

> 400 0.15 0.3

250

8 / 500 nm 22 m

12 nm

0.6

1.0

34 27

22

550

350

SC 5*167 NOTES

Enhanced porosity (formerly XC 69374) (1) Pore diameter may be adjusted 7 - 60 JR 323 Basic alumina (formerly CRR*RDA) Ceramic pentarings (bed topping) 10; 13; 19; 25mm diameter available

24 m

0.55

0.27

55

35

60

560

960

16% SiO2

Other Materials SA 6*169 SA 56111

0.02

250

0.11 m

1.0

115 <1

25 55

400 880

Modified alumina

4.5% CaO; 1% MgO; 0.5% SiO2 SiO2 / Al2O3; 2.4/1

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