Method of production of ethane by selective hydrogenolysis of alkane
US4166077A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Oct 11, 1977 |
| Grant date | Aug 28, 1979 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Oct 11, 1997 |
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- Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
- CPC primaryY10S585/905
- WIPO fieldOrganic fine chemistry
- WIPO sectorChemistry
Abstract
Ethane is produced from alkanes by introducing a mixture of hydrogen and alkanes into a reactor at a spatial velocity V and a total pressure P on a catalyst at the temperature T. The catalyst is constituted by at least one metal selected from iridium and rhodium incorporated in a support of inert refractory oxide in which SO.sub.4.sup.-- sulphate ions are not present.
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