Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Integrated process for making propene and propene oxide from propane
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Application No.: US16302099Application Date: 2017-05-11
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Publication No.: US10597374B2Publication Date: 2020-03-24
- Inventor: Holger Wiederhold , David Bolz , Georg Friedrich Thiele
- Applicant: EVONIK DEGUSSA GMBH , thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions AG
- Applicant Address: DE Essen DE Essen
- Assignee: Evonik Operations GmbH,thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions AG
- Current Assignee: Evonik Operations GmbH,thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions AG
- Current Assignee Address: DE Essen DE Essen
- Agency: Law Office of: Michael A. Sanzo, LLC
- Priority: EP16169840 20160517
- International Application: PCT/EP2017/061355 WO 20170511
- International Announcement: WO2017/198546 WO 20171123
- Main IPC: C07D301/12
- IPC: C07D301/12 ; C07C5/32

Abstract:
The integrated process comprises a step a) of dehydrogenating propane providing a stream S1 comprising propane and propene; a step b) of separating stream S1 in at least one rectification column, providing an overhead product stream S2 comprising more than 99% by weight propene, a side stream S3 comprising from 90 to 98% by weight propene and a bottoms product stream S4 enriched in propane; a step c) of reacting propene with hydrogen peroxide in the presence of an epoxidation catalyst using propene in molar excess; and a step d) of separating non-reacted propene and propene oxide from the reaction mixture of step c) providing a propene oxide product and a stream S5 comprising propene and propane; wherein stream S3 is passed to step c), stream S5 is recycled to step b) and stream S4 is recycled to step a).
Public/Granted literature
- US20190276419A1 INTEGRATED PROCESS FOR MAKING PROPENE AND PROPENE OXIDE FROM PROPANE Public/Granted day:2019-09-12
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