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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8173564 | Gasifier reactor internal coating A gasifier comprising an interior wall on which a layer is applied or an interior wall protected by an assembly of blocks, said layer or said blocks having at least one region of a sintered material containing: i) at least 25% by w... | 05/08/2012 |
| 7754633 | Chromia-alumina refractory A refractory composition comprising at least 50 weight percent chromic oxide (Cr2O3), as measured by chemical analysis. The composition includes fused chromia-containing grain, powdered chromic oxide and sintered chromia-containing grain. The f... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7151067 | Porcelain composition, composite material comprising catalyst and ceramic, film reactor, method for producing synthetic gas, apparatus for producing synthetic gas and method for activating catalyst A porous catalyst layer containing mixed conducting oxide having substantially a perovskite structure and containing a first element selected from Co and Fe, and a second element selected from In, Sn and Y arranged in the B site in the perovskite structure is contig... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7012037 | Chromia spray powders Particles particularly useful for thermal spraying a wear resistant coating on to a substrate comprise an essentially single phase crystalline structure comprising from 45 to 99% by weight of chromia and 55 to 1% by weight of alpha alumina. ... | 03/14/2006 |
| 6987077 | Fired spinel complex oxide and method for preparing the same A fired spinel complex oxide is produced by firing a mixture containing a slag by-produced in chromium refining, a reducer, and a silica-containing material, and is essentially composed of: 29 to 40 percent by weight of Fe2O3; 15 to 20 percent ... | 01/17/2006 |
| 6846763 | Refractory repair material batch A refractory repair batch material includes a refractory, in particular a basic resistor component in granule form and a binder system. The binder system contains at least one hard bitumen component in granule form, at least one ignitable metal powder and at least o... | 01/25/2005 |
| 6774076 | Chromia spray powders and a process for making the same Particles particularly useful for thermal spraying a wear resistant coating on to a substrate comprise an essentially single phase crystalline structure comprising from 45 to 100% by weight of chromia and from 0 to 55% by weight of alpha alumina. ... | 08/10/2004 |
| 6723674 | Multi-component ceramic compositions and method of manufacture thereof A microstructured or nanostructured multi-component ceramic comprises (a) a major ceramic phase comprising a ceramic oxide composite; (b) a ceramic oxide additive; and (c) a rare earth ceramic oxide additive, wherein the total of the additives (b) and (c) comprise f... | 04/20/2004 |
| 6548435 | Basic free-flowing casting material and preforms produced thereform The invention relates to free-flowing refractory castable material and castings produced therefrom. Refractory nonbasic and basic refractory castable materials have been known for a long time. The traditional refractory castable materials have thixotropic... | 04/15/2003 |
| 6475950 | Catalytic dehydrogenation processes and chromium catalysts for use therein A chromium catalyst is disclosed for use in dehydrogenation and dehydrocyclization processes.... | 11/05/2002 |
| 6372679 | Cr2O3-Al2O3 sintered body and processes for producing same This invention relates to processes for the production of a sintered body consisting of an intimate solid solution of Cr2 O3 and Al2 O3 by using inexpensive materials, as well as sintered bodies produced thereby... | 04/16/2002 |
| 6352951 | Refractory material based on chromium corundum, a chromium corundum brick and the use of said brick The invention concerns a refractory material based on chromium corundum, a chromium corundum brick made of said material as well as the use thereof.... | 03/05/2002 |
| 6316106 | Filler sand for a ladle tap hole valve A filler sand for a ladle tap hole valve contains 70 to 90 wt % of chromite sand and 10 to 30 wt % of silica sand and is blended externally with 0.05 to 5 wt % of carbon black calculated based on the total amount of the chromite sand and the silica sand; ... | 11/13/2001 |
| 6254657 | Molding method for powder particles Disclosed is a molding method for powder particles, which is excellent in molding performance, and which makes it possible to obtain a preliminary molded product excellent in strength by enhancing mutual bonding between particles in the preliminary molded... | 07/03/2001 |
| 6200248 | Roll for a paper or board machine A roll for use in the manufacture of paper and board, a press roll, in particular a center roll in a press, a backup roll for an extended-nip press roll, a hot press roll, or equivalent, which is in direct contact with a wet paper web, or a calender roll,... | 03/13/2001 |
| 6187157 | Multi-phase solid electrolyte ionic transport membrane and method for fabricating same A multi-phase solid electrolyte ion transport membrane comprising at least two phases wherein one of the phases comprises an oxygen ion single conductive material, or a mixed conductor. The other phase comprises an electronically-conductive metal or metal... | 02/13/2001 |
| 6136231 | Yttrium chromite chromia thermistors The present invention relates to rare earth elemental thermistors and compositions useful for making such thermistors. In particular, it relates to yttrium and chromium oxide based thermistor systems having at least two phases: YCrO3 and Cr | 10/24/2000 |
| 6093366 | Method of manufacturing ceramic sintered bodies The present invention provides a ceramic sintered body excellent in oxidation resistance under high temperatures and markedly superior to the conventional ceramic sintered body in the mechanical strength over a wide temperature range of between room tempe... | 07/25/2000 |
| 6066584 | Sintered Al2 O3 material, process for its production and use of the material The invention relates to the field of ceramics and concerns sintered Al.s2 O3 compositions produced from corundum powder and also methods for the use of the invented compositions as medical implants or tool material. To produce such materials,... | 05/23/2000 |
| 6060182 | Hard coating material, sliding member covered with hard coating material and manufacturing method thereof A hard film is covered on the outer circumferential surface of a piston ring by means of an arc ion plating. The hard film has a mixture of crystal structure of CrN and crystal structure of Mo2 N containing oxygen in a solid solution state, and... | 05/09/2000 |
| 6051514 | Sliding nozzle filler A filler for a sliding gate containing 70 to 90 wt % of chromite sand and 10 to 30 wt % of silica sand in which the particle size distribution of the chromite sand is substantially from 500 to 1,000 μm, which is not melted, sintered or penetrated by molt... | 04/18/2000 |
| 5830816 | Sintered molding Zirconium dioxide containing 2 to 40 vol. % of stabilizing oxides is embedded in the matrix material of a sintered molding consisting of an aluminum oxide/chromium oxide mixed crystal. The quantity of stabilizing oxides added is chosen so that the zirconi... | 11/03/1998 |
| 5811071 | Refractory oxides A precursor, in gel form, of an oxide having the formula (I), BaO.n(Al2x Cr2y O3), where 1ࣘnࣘ6.6, (x+y)=1, and 0ࣘyࣘ0.5, said oxide being derivable from the precursor gel by the application of heat, is prepared by m... | 09/22/1998 |
| 5749932 | Refractory electrodes for joule heating and methods of using same A certain group of electrically conductive refractory materials presently known for use in high temperature applications as throat constructions, melter sidewalls, forehearth, stacks, port sills, hot face lining for slagging coal gasifiers, slag runners, ... | 05/12/1998 |
| 5707911 | Infrared radiation generating ceramic compositions The disclosed invention is directed to novel ceramic compositions, and to stabilizer compositions for use with those ceramic compositions. The ceramic materials are formed of rare earth chromium oxides that include a novel combination of stabilizing compo... | 01/13/1998 |
| 5703000 | Semiconductive ceramic composition and semiconductive ceramic device using the same Provided is a semiconductive ceramic composition comprising a lanthanum cobalt oxide and having a negative resistance-temperature characteristic, which contains, as the side component, a chromium oxide in an amount of from about 0.005 to 30 mol % in terms... | 12/30/1997 |
| 5624542 | Enhancement of mechanical properties of ceramic membranes and solid electrolytes Enhancement of mechanical properties of ceramic membranes by introduction of a uniformly distributed high-temperature oxidation-resistant metal phase into the brittle ceramic phase to achieve mechanically strong ceramic/metal composites operable in an oxi... | 04/29/1997 |
| 5484750 | Transparent polycrystalline garnets Transparent, polycrystalline garnet bodies having desirable properties for use as laser material, luminescent x-ray scintillator materials and other uses are produced by mixing a chloride source solution of the desired cations with a basic ammonium soluti... | 01/16/1996 |
| 5482907 | Ceramic composite containing a spinel phase and an oxide phase and the preparation thereof A ceramic composite contains one spinel phase and one or more than one oxides phases. The composite is derived from the mixtures of two oxides, A2 O3 and BO, with different molar ratio, in which A and B are metallic ions of three and... | 01/09/1996 |
| 5470494 | Oxide type solid lubricant An oxide type solid lubricant is formed of a powder of a fired composite ceramic material resulting from heating a mixture of BaZrO3 and Cr2 O3 powders in which the Cr2 O3 content is up to 80% by weig... | 11/28/1995 |
| 5413871 | Thermal barrier coating system for titanium aluminides An article of manufacture has as its basic structure a piece of a titanium aluminide, such as gamma (TiAl) or alpha-2 (Ti3Al), desirably in the shape of an aircraft gas turbine component. A thermal barrier coating system overlies at least a portion of the... | 05/09/1995 |
| 5401698 | Ceramic welding powder mixture In ceramic welding processes, oxidizing gas and a mixture of refractory and fuel powders are projected against a surface and the fuel is burnt to generate sufficient heat that the refractory powder becomes at least partially melted or softened and a cohes... | 03/28/1995 |
| 5362692 | Free-flowing refractory casting slip The present invention pertains to a refractory casting slip consisting of a refractory matrix material and a finely divided reactive component, as well as a hydraulic binder and various additives, which can be discharged as a free-flowing mass upon additi... | 11/08/1994 |
| 5322827 | Burned refractories with low soluble chromium A burned chrome-containing refractory and method which provides a refractory having less than 5 ppm total soluble chromium. Such product is obtained by adding to the starting mix less than 10 wt. % (often less than 3 wt. %) zirconia, silica, zircon, or mo... | 06/21/1994 |
| 5306451 | Method for the production of refractory bricks A method for the production of refractory bricks, major components of which are a high proportion of chromium oxide and a small proportion of titanium oxide, makes provision for the chromium oxide and titanium oxide to be mixed, moulded and fired in a red... | 04/26/1994 |
| 5302564 | Sintered microcrystalline ceramic material Abrasive material with particularly high abrasive performance is obtained in that the ceramic material contains an additive of 0.01 to 15 percent by weight, preferably 0.1 to 3 percent by weight of a chromium compound.... | 04/12/1994 |
| 5298469 | Fluxed lanthanum chromite for low temperature air firing A lanthanum chromite ceramic powder consisting essentially of 1 mol of LaCr1-x Mx O3, where M is a divalent metal selected from the group of zinc, copper and mixtures thereof and x ranges from about 0.02 to 0.2, y mols of ... | 03/29/1994 |
| 5286686 | Air-sinterable lanthanum chromite and process for its preparation A sinter-reactive lanthanum chromite powder is prepared from the lanthanum chromite precursor LaCr1-x Mx O3 (Adsorbate). The powder is crystalline, has the formula LaCr1-x Mx O3, where M is ... | 02/15/1994 |
| 5284822 | Oxide superconductor and process for producing the same Disclosed are an oxide superconductor, and an optimum process for producing the same. The oxide superconductor comprises a base material phase including an oxide superconducting material, the oxide superconducting material including barium (Ba) at least a... | 02/08/1994 |
| 5259147 | Granular abrasive material A granular abrasive material is produced from a dispersion consisting of raw materials containing alumina, compounds containing silica and other additives. The dispersion is ground to a sinterable slip with a grain size of less than 1 micrometer. The slip... | 11/09/1993 |
