Council of Scientific and Industrial Research

Bankupalli Satyavathi

Uday Triambakraj Bhalerao

Akash Narhar Patwari

Gurrala Sheelu

Trishool Namani

Nitin Wasantrao Fadnavis

Vasantha Madhuri Kallakunta

The present invention provides a porous vessel bioreactor apparatus for use in reaction with immobilized enzymes and/or microbial cells, said apparatus consisting of a vertically elongated reaction vessel having at least one liquid reactant inlet; at least one product outlet on the vessel; at least one porous vessel completely submerged in the reactant, said porous vessel having pore size ranging from 5 mm to 0.2 microns and a vertical length less than a level of the reactants to be maintained in the vessel, and immobilized bio-catalyst particles comprising the enzymes and/or microbial cells placed inside the porous vessel such that the liquid reactant is in contact with the bio-catalyst in both radial and axial directions.

Porous vessel bioreactor

The subject invention relates to a catalyst comprises 1-75% of iron oxide, 1-10% of titanium metal oxide and the balance being attapulgate useful for the preparation of alkylated aromatic amines.

Process for the preparation of a new catalyst useful for producing

The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of alkylated aromatic amines which comprises reacting an aromatic amine selected from aniline, toludine, xylidine, N-methyl aniline, N-ethyl aniline, m-ethyl aniline, p-ethyl aniline, o-ethyl aniline with a primary or secondary alcohol selected from ethanol, methanol, isopropyl alcohol in the presence of attalpulgite impregnated with combination of iron oxide and oxides selected from transition metals of the periodic table as a catalyst prepared by the method described and claimed in our co-pending U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/047,718 at atmospheric pressure and at a temperature in the range of 300-400.degree. C. and recovering the desired amine by conventional methods.

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