Process for aldehyde manufacture
AssigneeJohnson Matthey Public Limited Company
InventorJohan Björn Mattias Holmberg
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Abstract
The process of the invention is a process for the production of an aldehyde from the corresponding alcohol comprising the steps of feeding to a reactor a feed stream comprising said alcohol and an oxygen-containing gas; reacting said alcohol in the gas phase with said oxygen-containing gas in said reactor in the presence of a catalyst comprising oxides of iron and molybdenum, wherein the process further comprises the step of adding water to said feed stream. The process is particularly useful for the production of formaldehyde by the oxidation of methanol.
Claims11
A process for the production of an aldehyde from the corresponding alcohol, comprising:
- feeding to a reactor a feed stream comprising said alcohol and an oxygen-containing gas;
- reacting said alcohol in the gas phase with said oxygen-containing gas in said reactor in the presence of a catalyst comprising oxides of iron and molybdenum,
- wherein said catalyst comprises an alkali metal or an alkaline earth metal in addition to said oxides of iron and molybdenum;
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- adding water to said feed stream.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.