Manufacture of an ethylene oxide catalyst

US4278562A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• BASF SE

Inventors

• Wolf D. Mross · Bischofswerda, DE
• Eckart Titzenthaler · Ludwigshafen, DE
• Juergen Koopmann · Neustadt, DE
• Matthias Schwarzmann · Schifferstadt, DE
• Volker Vogt

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 13, 1978
• Grant date: Jul 14, 1981
• Expiry date: Nov 13, 1998

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S502/514
• WIPO field: Organic fine chemistry
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

A catalyst for the manufacture of ethylene oxide, giving improved yield and having a long life, based on an alkali metal-modified silver catalyst on an oxide carrier is obtained by providing the silver-containing catalyst, in the reduced state, with the alkali metal by applying an alcoholic alkali metal salt solution which also contains an organic oxygen compound or nitrogen compound which forms complexes with silver ions.