US 7,527,777 B2
Zeolite, process for producing the same, adsorbent comprising the zeolite, heat utilization system, adsorption heat pump, cold/heat storage system, and air-conditioning apparatus for humidity regulation
Hiromu Watanabe, Kanagawa (Japan); Takahiko Takewaki, Kanagawa (Japan); Masanori Yamazaki, Kanagawa (Japan); Hiroyuki Kakiuchi, Mie (Japan); Kouji Inagaki, Aichi (Japan); Atsushi Kosaka, Aichi (Japan); and Norikazu Hosokawa, Aichi (Japan)
Assigned to Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation, Tokyo (Japan)
Filed on Dec. 20, 2005, as Appl. No. 11/311,562.
Application 11/311562 is a continuation of application No. PCT/JP04/08930, filed on Jun. 18, 2004.
Claims priority of application No. 2003-176318 (JP), filed on Jun. 20, 2003; and application No. 2003-176319 (JP), filed on Jun. 20, 2003.
Prior Publication US 2006/0245994 A1, Nov. 02, 2006
Int. Cl. C01B 37/04 (2006.01); C01B 37/06 (2006.01); C01B 37/08 (2006.01); F25B 15/00 (2006.01); F28D 20/00 (2006.01); F28F 23/00 (2006.01); F28F 21/00 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 423—305  [423/306; 423/DIG. 30; 502/414; 62/271; 62/324.5; 62/476; 165/10; 165/186] 30 Claims
 
1. A zeolite which has a framework density of from 10 T/nm3 to 16 T/nm3 and a carbon content of from 1% by weight to 6% by weight and satisfies the following (1) or (2):
(1) the zeolite is an aluminophosphate which has a nitrogen content of from 0.5% by weight to 12% by weight and in which the aluminum may be partly replaced by Me;
(2) the zeolite is a silicoaluminophosphate in which the aluminum may be partly replaced by Me and which, when burned to a carbon content lower than 0.3% by weight, retains the framework structure possessed by the silicoaluminophosphate before the burning:
(provided that Me in (1) and (2) above is at least one element selected from the elements in Groups 2A, 7A, 8, 1B, and 2B of the periodic table).