Shaped catalysts

US6518220B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• BASF SE

Inventors

• Christian Walsdorff · Ludwigshafen, DE
• Otto Hofstadt · Altrip, DE
• Raimund Felder · Neustadt, DE
• Ruprecht Meissner · Bad Dürkheim, DE
• Klaus Harth · Altleiningen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 14, 2001
• Grant date: Feb 11, 2003
• Expiry date: Feb 14, 2021

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T428/1397
• WIPO field: Chemical engineering
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

Shaped catalysts for heterogeneously catalyzed reactions are in the form of hollow cylinders or annular tablets whose end faces are rounded both to the outer edge and to the edge of the central hole, i.e. have no right-angled edges.