PROCESSES FOR PRODUCING CARBOXYLIC ACIDS OR ALKYL ESTERS

    公开(公告)号:US20240286988A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-08-29

    申请号:US18568913

    申请日:2022-06-02

    Abstract: The present invention relates generally to gas phase processes for producing carboxylic acids or alkyl esters. In one embodiment, a gas phase process for producing a carboxylic acid or an alkyl ester comprises (a) providing a catalyst support comprising deposits of cobalt thiocyanate on at least a portion of the catalyst support; (b) heating the catalyst support to convert the cobalt thiocyanate on the support to cobalt sulfide to form a supported cobalt sulfide catalyst; and (c) reacting alkene gas, steam or an alkanol gas, and a carbon-containing gas in the presence of the supported cobalt sulfide catalyst in a reactor to form a product stream, wherein the carbon-containing gas comprises carbon monoxide or a mixture of carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide, wherein when steam is used as a reactant, the product stream comprises a carboxylic acid, and wherein when alkanol gas is used as a reactant, the product stream comprises an alkyl ester.

    COMPOSITION OF ALUMINIUM OXIDE AND CERIUM OXIDE WITH A PARTICULAR POROSITY PROFILE

    公开(公告)号:US20240253019A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-08-01

    申请号:US18564390

    申请日:2022-05-09

    Abstract: The present invention relates to a composition based on Al and Ce in the form of oxides (composition C1); or based on Al, Ce and La in the form of oxides (composition C2), with the following proportions: —the proportion of CeO2 is between 3.0 wt % and 35.0 wt %; —the proportion of La2O3 (for composition C2 only) is between 0.1 wt % and 6.0 wt %; —the remainder as Al2O3; exhibiting the following porosity profile: —a pore volume in the range of pores with a size of between 5 nm and 100 nm which is between 0.35 and 1.00 mL/g; and—a pore volume in the range of pores with a size of between 100 nm and 1000 nm which is less than or equal to 0.15 mL/g, these pore volumes being determined by means of the mercury porosimetry technique; and the following properties: —a mean size of the crystallites after calcination in air at 1100° C. for 5 hours (denoted D1100° C.-5 h) which is lower than 45.0 nm, preferably lower than 40.0 nm; —a mean size of the crystallites after calcination in air at 900° C. for 2 hours (denoted D900° C.-2 h) which is lower than 25.0 nm, preferably lower than 20.0 nm, even more preferably lower than 15.0 nm; and—an increase ΔD of the mean size of the crystallites lower than 30.0 nm, preferably lower than 25.0 nm, ΔD being calculated with the following formula: ΔD=D1100ºC-2h-D900C-5h; the mean size of the crystallites being obtained by XRD from the diffraction peak [111] of the cubic phase corresponding to cerium oxide, generally present at 2Φ between 28.0 and 30.0.

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