Dehydration of alcohols
AssigneePhillips Petroleum Company
InventorsYulin Wu, Stanley J. Marwil
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Abstract
An alcohol which can be straight chain or branch-chain and can contain from 2 to about 20 carbon atoms per molecule is dehydrated in the presence of gamma-alumina, which may be base-treated, employing an inert carrier gas. 3-Methyl-1-butanol was dehydrated over gamma-alumina employing nitrogen as the carrier gas to obtain yields well in excess of 90 percent with correspondingly high selectivities. 3-Methyl-1-butene having a 97.7 weight percent purity was obtained with base-treated gamma-alumina.
Claims6
A process for the conversion of an alcohol to an olefin which comprises subjecting said alcohol under dehydration reaction conditions of temperature and pressure to the presence of gamma-alumina in the presence of an inert carrier gas.
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