Reactor system, an absorbent and a process for reacting a feed
AssigneeShell Oil Company
InventorMarek Matusz
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Abstract
The present invention provides a reactor system comprising: —one or more purification zones comprising an absorbent which comprises silver, an alkali or alkaline earth metal, and a support material having a surface area of more than 20 m2/g, and —a reaction zone comprising a catalyst, which reaction zone is positioned downstream from the one or more purification zones; an absorbent; a process for reacting a feed comprising one or more feed components; and a process for preparing a 1,2-diol, a 1,2-diol ether, a 1,2-carbonate, or an alkanolamine.
Claims20
A process for reacting a feed comprising a hydrocarbon, which process comprises:
- contacting the feed with an absorbent comprising silver, an alkali or alkaline earth metal, and a support material having a surface area of more than 20 m2/g positioned within a purification zone of a reactor system to reduce the quantity of one or more impurities in the feed;
- and
- subsequently contacting the feed with a catalyst positioned downstream from the purification zone to yield a reaction product.
A process for reacting a feed comprising an olefin, oxygen and an impurity, which process comprises:
- contacting the feed with an absorbent comprising silver, an alkali or alkaline earth metal, and a support material having a surface area of more than 20 m2/g positioned within a purification zone of a reactor system to reduce the quantity of the impurity in the feed;
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- subsequently contacting the feed with an epoxidation catalyst positioned downstream from the purification zone to yield an olefin oxide.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.