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US 2012/0083631 A1Published application
Process for producing fatty alcohols by hydrogenation of fatty acid triglycerides on a copper-containing heterogeneous catalyst
AssigneeBASF SE
InventorsDaniela Mirk, Roman Prochazka, Jochem Henkelmann, Markus Hölzle, Daniela Herzberg
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a process for preparing fatty alcohols, in which a stream comprising at least one fatty acid triglyceride is provided and this stream is subjected to a hydrogenation in the presence of a heterogeneous copper catalyst.
Claims17
1-14. (canceled)
A process for preparing fatty alcohols comprising
- a) providing a stream comprising at least one fatty acid triglyceride,
- b) subjecting the stream comprising fatty acid triglyceride to a hydrogenation in the presence of a heterogeneous copper catalyst, the catalytically active component of the catalyst additionally comprising aluminum and at least one further metal selected from the group consisting of lanthanum, tungsten, molybdenum, titanium, zirconium and mixtures thereof,
- c) isolating at least one fatty alcohol-containing fraction from the hydrogenation product obtained in step b).
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.