Basf Se Corporation

Dirk Groβschmidt

Thomas Heidemann

Maximilian Vicari

Goetz-Peter Schindler

Peter Pfab

Lucia Königsmann

Dieter Stützer

Frank Kleine Jäger

Stefan Hannemann

Jürgen Michel

A process is proposed for preparing acetylene by the Sachsse-Bartholom&#xe9; process by combustion of a natural gas/oxygen mixture in one or more burners to obtain a cracking gas which is cooled in two or more stages in burner columns, each burner having one or more burner columns assigned thereto, and said cracking gas being quenched with pyrolysis oil in the first cooling stage, to obtain a low boiler fraction comprising benzene, toluene and xylene from the one or more burner columns, which is cooled with direct cooling water and separated in a phase separator into an aqueous phase and an organic phase which comprises benzene, toluene and xylene and is fully or partly introduced to the top of the one or more burner columns as a return stream, wherein the organic phase comprising benzene, toluene and xylene from the phase separator, prior to full or partial recycling to the top of the one or more burner columns, is supplied to a selective hydrogenation over a catalyst which comprises at least one platinum group metal on an inorganic metal oxide as support, comprising 0.05 to 5% by weight of platinum group metal, based on the total weight of the catalyst, and wherein the selective hydrogenation is performed at a pressure in the range from 10 to 70 bar gauge and a temperature in the range from 0 to 100&#xb0; C.

Process for preparing acetylene by the Sachsse-Bartholom&#xe9; process

The invention relates to a method of production of catalyst particles, comprising platinum and tin and also at least one further element, selected from lanthanum and cesium, on zirconium dioxide as support, comprising the steps: preparation of one or more solutions containing precursor compounds of Pt, Sn and at least one further element of La or Cs and also ZrO, converting the solution(s) to an aerosol, bringing the aerosol into a directly or indirectly heated pyrolysis zone, carrying out pyrolysis, and separation of the particles formed from the pyrolysis gas. Suitable precursor compounds comprise zirconium(IV) acetylacetonate, lanthanum(II) acetylacetonate and cesium acetate, hexamethyldisiloxane, tin 2-ethylhexanoate, platinum acetylacetonate, zirconium(IV) propylate in n-propanol and lanthanum(II) acetylacetonate. The invention also relates to the catalyst particles obtainable using the method according to the invention, and to the use thereof as dehydrogenation catalysts.

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Mannheim, Germany

Dirk Groβschmidt