Fixed-bed catalyst structure obtained using honeycomb elements

US4859642A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• BASF SE

Inventors

• Wolfgang Hoelderich · Bischofswerda, DE
• Michael Kroener · Mannheim, DE
• Peter Kroetzsch · Ketsch, DE
• Werner Biffar · Bischofswerda, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 18, 1986
• Grant date: Aug 22, 1989
• Expiry date: Jun 18, 2006

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B01J35/57
• WIPO field: Chemical engineering
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

A novel fixed-bed catalyst structure obtained using honeycomb elements, for highly exothermic and endothermic chemical reactions, wherein the required heat exchange, both in the liquid phase and in the gas phase, is forcibly effected in the fixed catalyst bed by means of static mixing elements made of inert ceramic and/or metallic material or completely of catalyst material, between the individual honeycomb elements.