Process for producing hydrogen peroxide using microchannel technology
AssigneeVelocys, Inc.
InventorsAnna Lee Tonkovich, Kai Tod Paul Jarosch, David John Hesse
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Abstract
This invention relates to a process for making hydrogen peroxide in a microchannel reactor. The process comprises flowing a process feed stream and a staged addition feed stream in a process microchannel in contact with each other to form a reactant mixture comprising O2 and H2, and contacting a catalyst with the reactant mixture in the process microchannel to convert the reactant mixture to a product comprising hydrogen peroxide; transferring heat from the process microchannel to a heat exchanger; and removing the product from the process microchannel.
Claims70
A process for making hydrogen peroxide, comprising:
- mixing a process feed stream comprising O2 or H2 with a staged addition feed stream O2 or H2 in a process microchannel to form a reactant mixture comprising O2 and H2, and contacting a catalyst with the reactant mixture in the process microchannel to convert the reactant mixture to a product comprising hydrogen peroxide;
- transferring heat from the process microchannel to a heat exchanger;
- and
- removing the product from the process microchannel.
A process for making hydrogen peroxide, comprising:
- mixing a process feed stream O2 or H2 with a staged addition feed stream O2 or H2 in a process microchannel to form a reactant mixture comprising O2 and H2, and contacting a catalyst with the reactant mixture in the process microchannel to convert the reactant mixture to a product comprising hydrogen peroxide;
- the process microchannel having an internal height or width in the range of about 0.2 to about 10 mm;
- the catalyst being contained within a reaction zone in the process microchannel;
- the staged addition feed stream and the process feed stream being mixed with each other in a mixing zone in the process microchannel upstream from the reaction zone;
- transferring heat from the process microchannel to an adjacent heat exchange microchannel;
- and
- removing the product from the process microchannel.
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