Wacker Chemie Ag

Marc Eckert

Willibald Dafinger

Peter Schultheiss

Guenther Rudolf

Friedrich Frank

Günther Rudolf

The invention relates to a method for removing oxygen from hydrocarbon-containing gas mixtures, characterized in that a hydrocarbon-containing gas mixture containing 50 vol % of one or more hydrocarbons, 2 to 10 vol % of oxygen, and possibly one or more gases from the group comprising nitrogen, noble gases, hydrogen, carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, and water is introduced into an isothermally operated reactor, in which the oxygen contained in the hydrocarbon-containing gas mixture is at least partially converted into carbon dioxide and water in the presence of one or more catalysts, wherein the specifications in vol % relate to the total volume of the hydrocarbon-containing gas mixture introduced into the reactor and add up to 100 vol % in total.

Removal of oxygen from hydrocarbon-containing gas mixtures

Oxygen is effectively removed from hydrocarbon-containing gas streams while minimizing danger of explosion by contacting the gas stream with a catalyst comprising shaped bentonite supports having an outer shell containing catalytic metals gold, and at least one of palladium platinum, rhodium, or iridium.

Process for removing oxygen from a gas mixture comprising hydrocarbon and oxygen

The invention provides a process for preparing vinyl acetate in a heterogeneously catalyzed, continuous gas phase process by reacting ethylene with acetic acid and oxygen and subsequently working up the product gas stream, with inhibition of the polymerization of vinyl acetate during the workup of the product gas mixture by addition of one or more N-oxyl compounds which contain at least one N-oxyl radical group &#x2014;N&#x2014;O. as inhibitors which comprises adding the N-oxyl compound as a 50 to 85% by weight strength aqueous solution.

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