Supported catalyst, process for its production as well as its use in the oxychlorination of ethylene

US5986152A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Degussa-Huels AG · DE

Inventors

• Herbert Muller · Bischofswerda, DE
• Stefan Bosing · Mainz, DE
• Ludwig Schmidhammer · Haiming, DE
• Albin Frank · Burghausen, DE
• Klaus Haselwarter · Burghausen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 24, 1998
• Grant date: Nov 16, 1999
• Expiry date: Nov 24, 2018

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B01J35/638
• WIPO field: Chemical engineering
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

A supported catalyst includes: a) 0.5-15 wt. % of one or more Cu-II compounds, the quantitative amounts referring to copper metal; b) 0.1-8 wt. % of one or more alkali metal compounds, the quantitative amounts referring to alkali metal; c) 0.1-10 wt. % of an oxide mixture including; c1) 80-95 mole % of oxides of cerite rare earths with atomic Nos. 57 to 62, except promethium, and c2) 5-20 mole % of zirconium dioxide, where c1) and c2) must together total 100 mole % and the quantitative amount of c) refers to the oxides of the mixture, and d) the remainder up to 100 wt. % being .gamma. and/or .alpha.-aluminum oxide as support material, wherein e) the support material d) has a total pore volume in the range from 0.65 to 1.2 cm.sup.3 /g, and wherein f) the supported catalyst is present in the form of cylindrical hollow bodies having at least one passage channel, the ratio of height h to external diameter d.sup.e being less than 1.5 for diameters d.sub.e of up to 6 mm, and the ratio h/d.sub.e being less than 0.6 for diameter d.sub.e greater than 6 mm. A process for producing the supported catalyst is also described.