PROCESS FOR THE PRODUCTION OF ACETIC ACID
Application IN/PCT/2001/00207/MUM published 2007-01-19, filed 2001-02-23
A process for the production of acetic acid, which process comprises contacting ethane and/or ethylene with a molecular oxygen-containing gas in a fluid bed reactor in the presence of a microspheroidal fluidised particulate solid oxidation catalyst, wherein at least 90 % of said catalyst particles are less than 300 microns.
Applicant
1)BP CHEMICALS LIMITED
:BRITANNIC HOUSE, 1 FINSBURY CIRCUS, LONDON EC2M 7BA, U.K.
Inventor
1)JOHN COOK 2)BRIAN ELLIS 3)PHILIP HOWARD 4)MICHAEL DAVID JONES 5)SIMON JAMES KITCHEN
International Info
Classification: C07C 51/215, C07C 51/25, C07C 53/08
Publication Number: WO 00/14047 A1
Application Date: 1999-09-01
Priority Information
9819221.4 U.K. 1998-09-04