Synthesis of a moVNbTe catalyst from low-cost metal oxides

US11014075B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Clariant Produkte Gmbh · DE

Inventors

• Gerhard Mestl · Munich, DE
• Klaus Wanninger · Kolbermoor, DE
• Daniel Melzer · Munich, DE
• Maria Cruz Sanchez-Sanchez · Munich, DE
• Julia Tseglakova · Wetter (Ruhr), DE
• Johannes A. Lercher · Ottobrunn, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 26, 2018
• Grant date: May 25, 2021
• Expiry date: Jan 26, 2038

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02P20/52
• WIPO field: Chemical engineering
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

A novel catalyst and process for producing a mixed oxide material containing molybdenum, vanadium, tellurium and niobium is disclosed. The material can be used as a catalyst for the oxidative dehydrogenation of ethane to ethene or the oxidation of propane to acrylic acid.