Carrying out exothermic reactions between a gas and a liquid

US4288640A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• BASF SE

Inventors

• Ludwig Schuster · Schifferstadt, DE
• Paul Raff · Ludwigshafen, DE
• Herwig Hoffmann · Bischofswerda, DE
• Rolf Schneider · Burgstetten, DE
• Erich Flickinger · Landau in der Pfalz, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 22, 1976
• Grant date: Sep 8, 1981
• Expiry date: Jul 22, 1996

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B01J2219/0011
• WIPO field: Organic fine chemistry
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

Process for carrying out exothermic reactions between a gas and a liquid in the presence of a solid catalyst by passing the gas and the liquid cocurrently through a packed reaction vessel, preferably of elongated shape, wherein the gas and liquid pass through the packed reaction vessel in transition flow.