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US 2004/0002620 A1Published application
Method for producing aldehydes
AssigneeCognis Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG
InventorsAlbrecht Schwerin, Gerrit Pelzer, Lothar Friesenhagen, Bernhard Gutsche
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Abstract
A process for making aldehydes involving: (a) providing a fatty alcohol; (b) providing an oxidic copper/zinc catalyst; and (c) continuously dehydrogenating the fatty alcohol, in the presence of the oxidic copper/zinc catalyst, at a temperature of from about 200 to 280° C. and a pressure of from about 10 mbar to 1 bar.
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A process for the production of aldehydes, in which fatty alcohols are continuously dehydrogenated in the presence of oxidic copper/zinc catalysts at temperatures of 200 to 280° C. and under pressures in the range from 10 mbar to 1 bar.
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