Continuous hydrogenation process

US6861042B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Degussa AG · DE

Inventors

• Peter Korl · Fürstenfeld, AT
• Bernhard Maurer · Reutlingen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 16, 2003
• Grant date: Mar 1, 2005
• Expiry date: Dec 16, 2023

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B01J2219/00162
• WIPO field: Chemical engineering
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

A continuous catalytic hydrogenation process, in which a reaction mixture containing the substance to be hydrogenated, the hydrogenation product, hydrogen and the hydrogenation catalyst suspended in the reaction mixture is recirculated in a reactor. Part of the hydrogenation product is removed from the reactor and the substance to be hydrogenated and hydrogen are fed into the reaction. In this process the substance to be hydrogenated and the hydrogen are mixed before entering the reactor. A venturi nozzle is particularly suitable as the mixing device.