Method for producing alkanolamines

US7119231B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• BASF SE

Inventors

• Matthias Frauenkron · Freinsheim, DE
• Ulrich Müller · Neustadt, DE
• Wolfgang Harder · Weinheim, DE
• Jörg Unger · Haßloch, DE
• Johann-Peter Melder · Schifferstadt, DE
• Anton Meier · Birkenheide, DE
• Walter Himmel

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 7, 2001
• Grant date: Oct 10, 2006
• Expiry date: Sep 2, 2021

Classification

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

Abstract

At least one alkanolamine is prepared by reacting ammonia with alkylene oxide in a reaction space in the presence of a catalyst to give monoalkanolamine or dialkanolamine or trialkanolamine or a mixture of two or three of these compounds, the distribution of the various alkanolamines within the product spectrum being controlled by means of the temperature in the reaction space, by a process in which the temperature is established by regulating the temperature profile in the reaction space.