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Hans-Dieter Holtmann

Martin Rothaemel

Peter König

Christopher Higman

Ulrich Koss

Friedrich-Wilhelm Moeller

Markus Hack

Peter Koenig

A process for producing propylene from methanol, wherein methanol vapor is reacted on a first catalyst to obtain a first vapor mixture containing dimethyl ether (DME), which is reacted on a form-selective zeolite catalyst disposed as bed in at least two series-connected shaft reactors to produce a product mixture containing propylene.

Method for producing propylene from methanol

A feed mixture containing C.sub.4 -olefins to C.sub.7 -olefins is evaporated and mixed with steam in a weight ratio of H.sub.2 O:hydrocarbons in the range from 0.5:1 to 3:1. The steam containing feed mixture with an inlet temperature in the range from 380.degree. to 500.degree. C. is introduced into a reactor, which contains a bed of granular, form-selective zeolite catalyst. The zeolite is of the pentasil type and has an atomic ratio of Si:Al of 10:1 to 200:1. From the bed a product mixture is withdrawn whose temperature is 20.degree. to 80.degree. lower than the inlet temperature, and whose total content of propylene and butene isomers is at least 60 wt-% of the olefinic constituents of the feed mixture.

Process of generating C.sub.3 - and C.sub.4 -olefins from a feed mixture

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Hans-Dieter Holtmann