Process for the production of alcohols

US4579984A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Deutsche Texaco Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

• Wilhelm Neier · Rheinberg, DE
• Werner Webers · Dinslaken, DE
• Michael Dettmer · Glinde, DE
• Gunther Osterburg · Rheurdt, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 11, 1985
• Grant date: Apr 1, 1986
• Expiry date: Apr 11, 2005

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02P20/584
• WIPO field: Chemical engineering
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

A method is provided for the continuous production of isopropanol and secondary butyl alcohol by catalytically hydrating the corresponding aliphatic olefin in an elongated reaction vessel in which co-product by-product dialkyl ether is separated from the reaction product and recycled to the reaction mixture being introduced therein at a point between the olefin feed inlet and the product outlet about 5 to 30 percent of the distance before the product outlet.