Production of higher alcohols
AssigneeGreenyug, LLC
InventorsSagar B. Gadewar, Brian Christopher Vicente, Peter K. Stoimenov, Vivek Julka
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Abstract
A reactive distillation method comprises introducing a feed stream to a reactive distillation column, contacting the feed stream with one or more catalysts in the reactive distillation column during a distillation, and removing one or more higher alcohols during the distillation from the reactive distillation column as a bottoms stream. The feed stream comprises one or more alpha hydrogen alcohols, and the feed stream reacts in the presence of the one or more catalysts to produce a reaction product comprising the one or more higher alcohols.
Claims41
A reactive distillation method comprising:
- introducing a feed stream to a reactive distillation column, wherein the feed stream comprises one or more alpha hydrogen alcohols;
- contacting the feed stream with one or more catalysts in the reactive distillation column during a distillation, wherein the feed stream reacts in contact with the one or more catalysts to produce a reaction product comprising one or more higher alcohols, wherein the one or more higher alcohols are alcohols having a higher molecular weight than the corresponding one or more alpha hydrogen alcohols in the feed stream, and wherein the one or more higher alcohols comprise a C4-C13 alcohol;
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- removing the one or more higher alcohols during the distillation from the reactive distillation column as a bottoms stream.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.