Process for the manufacture of ethylene from ethyl esters
US4620050A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Sep 3, 1985 |
| Grant date | Oct 28, 1986 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Sep 3, 2005 |
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- Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
- CPC primaryY02P20/52
- WIPO fieldOrganic fine chemistry
- WIPO sectorChemistry
Abstract
Process for the manufacture of high purity ethylene by the decomposition in the gaseous phase of certain aliphatic carboxylic acid esters, at a temperature between about 150.degree. and 300.degree. C. in the presence of a zeolite having a pore diameter above about 0.6 nm as the catalyst.
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