Process for the hydroformylation of sulfur-containing thermally cracked petroleum residue and novel products thereof

Patent · Tue Jul 09 04:00:00 EDT 1991

OSTI ID:5571848

Oswald, A A; Bhatia, R N; Mozeleski, E J; Glivicky, A P; Brueggeman, B G; Hooten, J R; Smith, C M; Hsu, C S

This patent describes a hydroformylation-hydrogenation process comprising reacting an olefinic cracked petroleum distillate feed, produced from petroleum residue by high temperature thermal cracking, and containing C{sub 5} to C{sub 35}-1-n-alkyl olefins as the major type of olefin components, and organic sulfur compounds in concentrations exceeding 0.1% sulfur. It comprises at first with carbon monoxide and hydrogen at temperatures between about 50 and 250{degrees} C and pressures in the range of 50 to 6000 psi; in the presence of a Group VIII transition metal carbonyl complex catalyst in effective amounts to produce aldehydes of a semilinear character having an average of less than one alkyl branch per molecule and 20% by weight or more linear isomers, then with molecular hydrogen at temperatures between 100 and 250{degrees} C and pressures between 200 psi and 5000 psi (13.6 and 340 atm) in the presence of a hydrogenation catalyst in effective amounts the catalyst being sulfur resistant cobalt, molybdenum, nickel, or tungsten or a sulfide thereof to produce the corresponding alcohols of a semilinear character having an average of less than one alkyl branch per molecule and 20% by weight or more linear isomers, then with molecular hydrogen at temperatures between 100 and 250{degrees} C and pressures between 200 psi and 5000 psi (13.6 and 340 atm) in the presence of a hydrogenation catalyst in effective amounts the catalyst being sulfur resistant cobalt, molybdenum, nickel, or tungsten or a sulfide thereof to produce the corresponding alcohols of a semilinear character having an average of less than one alkyl branch per molecule.

• Assignee: Exxon Research and Engineering Co., Florham Park, NJ (United States)
• Patent Number(s): A; US 5030774
• Application Number: PPN: US 7-461137
• OSTI ID: 5571848
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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02 PETROLEUM
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10 SYNTHETIC FUELS
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ALCOHOLS
ALDEHYDES
ALKENES
BY-PRODUCTS
CATALYSTS
CHEMICAL COMPOSITION
CHEMICAL REACTION KINETICS
CHEMICAL REACTIONS
CRACKING
DECOMPOSITION
DESULFURIZATION
ENERGY SOURCES
FOSSIL FUELS
FUELS
HYDROCARBONS
HYDROCRACKING
HYDROGENATION
HYDROXY COMPOUNDS
INDUSTRIAL PLANTS
KINETICS
ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
PETROLEUM
PETROLEUM FRACTIONS
PETROLEUM REFINERIES
PETROLEUM RESIDUES
PYROLYSIS
REACTION KINETICS
SULFUR CONTENT
SYNTHESIS
THERMAL CRACKING
THERMOCHEMICAL PROCESSES