Basf Aktiengesellschaft

Klaus Herzog

Heinrich Aichinger

Karl-Heinz Boehning

Stefan Boeck

Rolf Hartmuth Fischer

Ulrich Hammon

Martin Fischer

Matthias Schwarzmann

Wolf D Mross

Hans-Peter Neumann

Guenter Herrmann

Herbert Vogel

Juergen Plueckhan

Lothar Karrer

Gert Buerger

Hermann Wistuba

Hans-Dieter Eichhorn

Ewald Gallei

Process for regenerating a silver catalyst deactivated by coking during the gas phase epoxidation of 1,3-butadiene by reacting the coked catalyst with a gas mixture containing at least 5% by volume of water vapor and up to 95% by volume of oxygen at temperatures of from 100 to 500 .degree. C.

Regeneration of catalyst used in the preparation of 3,4-epoxy-1-butene

Preparation of 3,4-epoxy-1-butene

A silver catalyst containing one or more alkali metals and also tungsten as promotors for the direct oxidation of ethylene with oxygen to form ethylene oxide, on a porous support substantially consisting of .alpha.-aluminum oxide and having a specific surface area (BET) of from 0.3 to 3 m.sup.2 /g, which contains tungsten in a concentration of from 60 to 330 ppmwt, based on the total catalyst, per m.sup.2 of surface area for each gram of supporting material.

Silver catalyst

A process for regenerating deactivated metal oxide catalysts comprising at least one of the elements antimony, iron, bismuth, molybdenum, vanadium, tungsten and/or uranium and a peptizable carrier, comprises the steps of:

Regeneration of metal oxide catalysts

A catalyst for decomposing dinitrogen monoxide which is pure or present in gas mixtures comprises metallic silver applied to an alumina carrier with a BET surface area of from 5 to 25 m.sup.2 /g.

Catalytic decomposition of dinitrogen monoxide which is pure or present

A process for the catalytic gas-phase oxidation of acrolein to acrylic acid in a fixed-bed reactor with contacting tubes, at elevated temperature on catalytically active oxides with a conversion of acrolein for a single pass of .gtoreq.95%, wherein the reaction temperature in the flow direction along the contacting tubes in a first reaction zone before the starting reaction gases containing the reactants enter the contacting tubes is from 260.degree. to 300.degree. C. until an acrolein conversion of from 20 to 40% is reached, and the reaction temperature is subsequently reduced by a total of from 5.degree. to 40.degree. C., abruptly or successively in steps or continuously along the contacting tubes until a methacrolein conversion of .gtoreq.95% has been reached, with the proviso that the reaction temperature in this secondary reaction zone is not lower than 240.degree. C.

Catalytic gas-phase oxidation of acrolein to acrylic acid

A process for the catalytic gas-phase oxidation of methacrolein to methacrylic acid in a fixed-bed reactor with contacting tubes, at elevated temperature on catalytically active oxides with a conversion of methacrolein for a single pass of from 40 to 95 mol%, wherein the reaction temperature in the flow direction along the contacting tubes in a first reaction zone from entry of the starting reaction gases containing the reactants into the contacting tubes is from 280 to 340.degree. C. until a methacrolein conversion of from 20 to 40% is reached, and the reaction temperature is subsequently reduced by a total of from 5.degree. to 40.degree. C., abruptly or successively in steps or continuously along the contacting tubes until a methacrolein conversion of from 45 to 95% has been reached, with the proviso that the reaction temperature in this second reaction zone is not lower than 260.degree. C.

Catalytic gas-phase oxidation of methacrolein to methacrylic acid

Supported silver catalysts which contain one or more alkali metals are prepared in a two-stage process by doping a basic catalyst which contains silver in metallic form and may also contain lithium with the heavy alkali metal sodium, potassium, rubidium and/or cesium using an impregnating solution which contains the heavy alkali metal and one or more nitrates of the general formula

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Klaus Herzog