Process for the manufacture of methanol in combination with steam reforming of light hydrocarbons
US4894394A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Oct 12, 1988 |
| Grant date | Jan 16, 1990 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Oct 12, 2008 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC C)Chemistry; Metallurgy
- CPC primaryC07C29/157
- WIPO fieldOrganic fine chemistry
- WIPO sectorChemistry
Abstract
Process for the manufacture of methanol by the reaction of a carbon monoxide and hydrogen mixture obtained by steam reforming of light hydrocarbons in the liquid phase in the presence of the catalyst system obtainable by combination of at least: PA0 (a) the salt containing a cation of a metal of group VIII of the Periodic Table of the Elements, PA0 (b) an alcoholate from an alkaline metal or alkaline earth metal, in a single pass through reactor, by conversion of the hydrogen-carbon monoxide gas mixture, which has been treated after steam treatment of natural gas by scrubbing carbon dioxide from the obtained gas mixture, and which has a hydrogen-carbon monoxide molar ratio in the range of from 2.8-4.5, and using the off-gas from the reaction after recovery of methanol as fuel to the reformer furnace.
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