Method of conducting reactions in a trickel-type reactor
AssigneeDeutsche Texaco Aktiengesellschaft
InventorsGunter Brandes, Johannes Wollner, Wilhelm Neier, Werner Webers
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Abstract
Trickle-type fixed-bed catalytic reactions are improved, prior to starting or resuming an on-stream period, by purging air from the catalyst bed and reaction zone by downward flow of an inert gas therethrough, flooding the purged reaction zone by flowing a liquid upwardly through the catalyst bed to cover same, then removing the liquid and instituting the on-stream period by introducing gaseous and liquid reactants at the upper end of the catalyst bed to flow downwardly therethrough.
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In a process for carrying out a condensation-hydrogenation reaction between hydrogen and a ketone where in an on-stream period the reactants pass downwardly in contact with a fixed bed of particulate condensation-hydrogenation catalyst having an average particle size no greater than about 2 mm in a trickle-type reaction zone, the improvement which comprises prior to instituting the on-stream period removing air from said reaction zone by passing a gas devoid of free oxygen downwardly through said reaction zone and said catalyst bed, interrupting the flow of said gas and flooding the reaction zone by introducing a liquid to flow upwardly through said catalyst bed and cover same and then removing said liquid from said reaction zone and substantially simultaneously introducing hydrogen and said ketone into said reaction zone to flow downwardly through said catalyst bed under condensation-hydrogenation conditions, thereby instituting the on-stream period.
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