Process for the preparation of cumene
- Houston, TX
Cumene is produced in a catalyst bed under 0.25 to 50 atmospheres of pressure and at temperatures in the range of 50.degree. C. to 500.degree. C., using as the catalyst a mole sieve characterized as acidic by feeding propylene to the catalyst bed while benzene is conveniently added through the reflux to result in a molar excess present in the reactor to that required to react with propylene, thereby reacting substantially all of the propylene and recovering benzene as the principal overhead and cumene and diisopropyl benzene in the bottoms. The bottoms are fractionated, the cumene recovered and the bottoms are contacted with benzene in the liquid phase in a fixed bed straight pass reactor under conditions to transalkylate the benzene thereby converting most of the diisopropyl benzene to cumene which is again separated and recovered.
- Research Organization:
- CR & L/NEOCHEM JOINT VENTURE
- DOE Contract Number:
- FC07-80CS40454
- Assignee:
- Chemical Research & Licensing Company (Houston, TX)
- Patent Number(s):
- US 5055627
- OSTI ID:
- 868015
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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