Ec Erdolchemie Gmbh

Bayer Aktiengesellschaft

Herbert Tschorn

Arnd Stuwe

Bernhard Schleppinghoff

Werner Struver

Rudolf Wagner

Hans-Volker Scheef

Horst Reinhardt

Hans-Jurgen Bister

Jorg-Uwe Michel

A catalytic agent for etherifying, hydrogenating and isomerizing crude C.sub.4 -C.sub.8 -- hydrocarbon mixtures having a sulfur content, comprising a macroporous or gel cation exchanger having SO.sub.3 H groups and being charged with a mixture of a metal selected from the group consisting of Pd, Ru, Rh and Pt with a metal selected from the group consisting of Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Ag and W.

Catalyst agent for etherifying, hydrogenating and isomerizing crude      .

High-octane, low-olefin motor fuels and motor fuel components having a content of alkyl tert.-alkyl ethers can be produced by reacting a crude hydrocarbon stream, which contains tertiary C.sub.5 -C.sub.8 -olefins in addition to saturated and olefinically, diolefinically and acetylenically unsaturated hydrocarbons in the same boiling range, simultaneously with one or more C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -alkanols in a quantity from 0.5 to 5 mol per mol of the tertiary olefin(s) and with excess hydrogen relative to the total unsaturation under a pressure from 12 to 80 bar and at a temperature from 60.degree. to 180.degree. C. on a catalyst known per se or a mixture of catalysts known per se, which effect(s) both the etherification and the olefin hydrogenation.

Process for producing high-octane, low-olefin motor fuels and motor fuel

Unsaturated hydrocarbons and mixtures in which the latter are present are treated with anion exchangers prior to hydrogenation and are then hydrogenated catalytically in a known manner. The treatment with anion exchangers is carried out at 0.degree.-120.degree. C. and at a space velocity of 0.1 to 10 l of hydrocarbons to be hydrogenated per l of exchanger, per hour. The process avoids other, energy-intensive pretreatments, for example distillation of the hydrocarbons to be hydrogenated, or washing, and can be carried out in simple equipment. A considerable prolongation of the catalyst operating time is achieved in the subsequent catalytic hydrogenation.

Process for the hydrogenation of hydrocarbons

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Dormagen, Germany

Herbert Tschorn