Method for regenerating a hydrogenation catalyst
AssigneeBASF SE
InventorsThomas Hill, Mathias Haake, Harald Dialer
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Abstract
A process for regenerating a hydrogenation catalyst which has been used in a gas-phase hydrogenation, which comprises stripping at from 50 to 300° C. with a substance or a substance mixture which under the process conditions has no oxidizing action and is present in the gaseous state is described.
Claims21
A process for regenerating a hydrogenation catalyst comprising stripping at from 50 to 200° C. with a substance or a substance mixture which under the process conditions has no oxidizing action and is present in the gaseous state and wherein the hydrogenation catalyst is formed by an active composition, which has been applied to a nonporous, metallic support and which has been used in a gas-phase selective hydrogenation of acetylene in a C2 fraction or of propyne and/or propadiene in a C3 fraction.
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