Plant and process for producing fatty alcohol

US10682621B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• L'Air Liquide, Societe Anonyme Pour l'Etude et l'Exploitation des Procedes Georges Claude · FR

Inventors

• Armin Brandner · Egelsbach, DE
• Manfred Hoffmann · Würzburg, DE
• Fredrik Pomrehn · Frankfurt am Main, DE
• Peter POTSCHACHER · Frankfurt am Main, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 14, 2016
• Grant date: Jun 16, 2020
• Expiry date: Oct 14, 2036

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02P20/582
• WIPO field: Chemical engineering
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

A plant and a process for carrying out the continuous production of fatty alcohol from fatty acid ester by catalytic trickle-bed hydrogenation, comprising shaft reactors each containing at least one catalyst fixed bed, which are connected with each other via pipe conduits such that they can be traversed by the educt/product mixture one after the other, in freely selectable order.