Process for the continuous production of lower aliphatic alcohols

US4831197A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Deutsche Texaco Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

• Friedrich Henn · Duisburg, DE
• Wilhelm Neier · Rheinberg, DE
• Gunter Strehlke · Moers, DE
• Werner Webers · Dinslaken, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 2, 1987
• Grant date: May 16, 1989
• Expiry date: Sep 2, 2007

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C07C29/04
• WIPO field: Organic fine chemistry
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

An improved process for the production of lower aliphatic alcohols by the catalytic hydration of a lower aliphatic olefin in the presence of a strongly acidic cation exchange resin catalyst in a fixed bed reactor and in which a cationic surfactant has been added to the process water is provided.