Method for producing acrolein and/or acrylic acid from propane

US6388129B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• BASF SE

Inventors

• Otto Machhammer · Mannheim, DE
• Andreas Tenten · Maikammer, DE
• Harald Jachow · Worms, DE
• Susanne Haupt · Offenbach, DE
• Heiko Arnold · Mannheim, DE
• Signe Unverricht · Mannheim, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 20, 2001
• Grant date: May 14, 2002
• Expiry date: Feb 20, 2021

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02P20/582
• WIPO field: Organic fine chemistry
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

In a process for the preparation of acrolein and/or acrylic acid from propane, the propane is subjected, in a first reaction stage, to a partial oxydehydrogenation with molecular oxygen under homogeneous and/or heterogeneous catalysis to give propene and the product gas mixture formed in the first reaction stage is then used for the preparation of acrolein and/or acrylic acid by gas-phase catalytic propene oxidation.