Process for making ethylene oxide using microchannel process technology

US8524927B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Velocys, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Terry Mazanec · Solon, US
• Soumitra Desmukh · Dublin, US
• Laura J. Silva · Dublin, US
• Torsten Mäurer · Ludwigshafen, DE
• Radwan Abdallah · Ludwigshafen, DE
• Frank Rosowski · Mannheim, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 13, 2009
• Grant date: Sep 3, 2013
• Expiry date: Jul 12, 2031

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C07D301/08
• WIPO field: Organic fine chemistry
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

This invention relates to a process comprising reacting ethylene and oxygen or a source of oxygen in a process microchannel in the presence of a catalyst to form a product comprising ethylene oxide.