Johnson Matthey Public Limited Company

Michael Thomas Nicholson

Norman Macleod

Simone Roloff-standring

Monica Garcia

Norman MacLeod

Youxin Cui

Pauline Elizabeth Glen

Kaamila Un Din

Simone Roloff-Standring

A method for preparing a copper-containing catalyst is described comprising the steps of: (a) combining an acidic copper-containing solution with a first basic precipitant solution in a first precipitation step to form a first precipitate, (b) combining an acidic aluminium-containing solution, further comprising one or more metal compounds selected from copper compounds, zinc compounds and promoter compounds, with a second basic precipitant solution in a second precipitation step to form a second precipitate, (c) contacting the first and second precipitates together in a further mixing step to form a catalyst precursor, and (d) washing, drying and calcining the catalyst precursor to form the copper-containing catalyst, wherein a silica precursor is included in the first precipitation step, the second precipitation step or the precipitate mixing step, to provide a catalyst with a silica content, expressed as S1O2, in the range of 0.1 to 5.0 wt %.

Method for making copper-containing catalysts

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Billingham, United Kingdom

Michael Thomas Nicholson