Evonik Oxeno Gmbh

Evonik Degussa Gmbh

Georg Skillas

Dietrich Maschmeyer

Franz Nierlich

Markus Winterberg

Horst-Werner Zanthoff

Thomas Quandt

Wilfried Büschken

Stephan Houbrechts

Silvia Santiago Fernandez

Kurt-Alfred Gaudschun

Walter Luh

The present invention relates to a process for preparing a catalyst which, in a formal sense, comprises 0.1 to 20% by mass of alkali metal and/or alkaline earth metal oxide, 0.1 to 99% by mass of oxide and 0.1 to 99% by mass of silicon dioxide, which is characterized in that it aluminum comprises the steps of treating an aluminosilicate with an aqueous alkali metal and/or alkaline earth metal salt solution under acidic conditions and calcining the aluminosilicate treated with aqueous alkali metal and/or alkaline earth metal salt solution, and to a catalyst which is obtainable by this process and, in a formal sense, comprises alkali metal and/or alkaline earth metal oxide, aluminum oxide and silicon dioxide, which is characterized in that the catalyst, in a formal sense, has a content of alkali metal and/or alkaline earth metal oxides of 0.5 to 20% by mass, a content of aluminum oxide of 4 to 30% by mass and a content of silicon dioxide of 60 to 95% by mass, and to the use of this catalyst in a process for preparing isoolefins having 4 to 6 carbon atoms by catalytic gas phase cleavage of tertiary alcohols or alkyl tert-alkyl ethers.

Catalyst and process for preparing isoolefins

A catalyst, useful in the preparation of isoolefins and containing 0.1 to 20% by mass of an alkali metal oxide, an alkaline earth metal oxide and mixtures thereof; 0.1 to 99% by mass of aluminum oxide; and 0.1 to 99% by mass of silicon dioxide, is prepared by a) treating an aluminosilicate with an aqueous alkali metal salt solution, an alkaline earth metal salt solution and mixtures thereof, under acidic conditions, to obtain a treated aluminosilicate; and b) calcining the treated aluminosilicate, to obtain the catalyst.

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Georg Skillas