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US 10,478,809 B2Granted
Catalyst system and process for the production of glycols
AssigneeShell Oil Company
InventorsReinhard Geyer, Henri Preising, Dionysius Jacobus Maria De Vlieger, Smita Edulji, Evert Van Der Heide, Jean Paul Andre Marie Joseph Ghislain Lange
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Abstract
The invention provides a catalyst system comprising: a) one or more Group 1 metal phosphotungstate-containing species; and b) one or more catalytic species suitable for hydrogenation; and a process for the preparation of monoethylene glycol from starting material comprising one or more saccharides, by contacting said starting material with hydrogen in a reactor in the presence of a solvent and said catalyst system.
Claims12
A catalyst system comprising:
- a) one or more sodium phosphotungstate-containing species;
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- b) one or more catalytic species suitable for hydrogenation.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.