Shaped porous carbon products

A process for the hydrogenolysis of glycerol comprising feeding a feed composition comprising glycerol to a reaction zone and reacting the glycerol with hydrogen in the presence of a catalyst composition of in the reaction zone to form a reaction product comprising propylene glycol and/or ethylene glycol, wherein the catalyst composition comprises a shaped porous carbon product as a catalyst support and a catalytically active component or precursor thereof, wherein the shaped porous carbon product comprises:

• (a) carbon black and
• (b) a carbonized binder comprising a carbonization product of a water soluble organic binder and wherein the shaped porous carbon product has a BET specific surface area from about 20 m2/g to about 500 m2/g, a mean pore diameter greater than about 5 nm, a specific pore volume greater than about 0.1 cm3/g, a carbon black content of at least about 35 wt. %, and a carbonized binder content from about 20 wt. % to about 50 wt. %, and
• wherein the shaped porous carbon product has a radial piece crush strength greater than about 4.4 N/mm (1 lb/mm) and/or a mechanical piece crush strength greater than about 22 N (5 lbs).

A process for the hydrogenolysis of glycerol comprising feeding a feed composition comprising glycerol to a reaction zone and reacting the glycerol with hydrogen in the presence of a catalyst composition in the reaction zone to form a reaction product comprising propylene glycol and/or ethylene glycol, wherein the catalyst composition comprises a catalytically active component comprising a metal selected from the group consisting of chromium, cobalt, nickel, copper, zinc, ruthenium, rhodium, palladium, silver, rhenium, osmium, iridium, platinum, gold, and any combination thereof and a catalyst support comprising a shaped porous carbon product comprising carbon black.

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