Process for the selective hydrogenation of a hydrocarbon fraction with 2 or 3 carbon atoms per molecule
US4347392A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Jun 9, 1980 |
| Grant date | Aug 31, 1982 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jun 9, 2000 |
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- Technology area (CPC C)Chemistry; Metallurgy
- CPC primaryC07C2523/44
- WIPO fieldOrganic fine chemistry
- WIPO sectorChemistry
Abstract
A C.sub.2 or C.sub.3 hydrocarbon fraction comprising at least one mono-olefinic hydrocarbon and at least one acetylenic hydrocarbon, and optionally at least one diolefinic hydrocarbon, is hydrogenated selectively in contact with a palladium-on-alumina catalyst subjected to calcining at a relatively high temperature and whose palladium crystallites have an average size of at least 50 Angstroms.
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