Process for the continuous production of lower aliphatic alcohols

US4340769A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Deutsche Texaco Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

• Gunter Brandes · Seevetal, DE
• Wilhelm Neier · Rheinberg, DE
• Johannes Wollner · Neukirchen-Vluyn, DE
• Werner Webers · Dinslaken, DE
• Walter F. deVleesschauwer · Evergem, BE

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 25, 1978
• Grant date: Jul 20, 1982
• Expiry date: Sep 25, 1998

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B01J2231/32
• WIPO field: Chemical engineering
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

A method is provided for the continuous production of saturated aliphatic alcohols having from 2 to 5 carbon atoms by hydrating the corresponding aliphatic olefin in the presence of a sulfonated styrene-divinylbenzene copolymer catalyst having a specific surface area measured in the dry state employing the BET method of: PA1 (a) less than 1 m.sup.2 /g if the water-wet resin is dried, and PA1 (b) greater than 1 m.sup.2 /g if the water is displaced from the water-wet resin by a slightly polar or a nonpolar organic solvent and the so dewatered resin is dried.