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Dow Technology Investments LLC

William H Henstock

Hwaili Soo

Jeffrey M Lewis

Albert C Liu

Liping L Zhang

Manuk Colakyan

Juliana G Serafin

Yujun Liu

Sagar Petkar

Liping Zhang

Albert Liu

A plant and process for producing alkylene oxides to control the production of silver chloride on a high efficiency silver catalyst is disclosed and described. The process involves reacting an alkylene and an organic chloride gas phase promoter with oxygen over the high efficiency silver catalyst. The sulfur concentration in the alkylene oxide reactor feed is controlled to reduce the production of silver chloride which acts as a catalyst poison.

Method of controlling the production of silver chloride on a silver catalyst in the production of alkylene oxides

A simplified method of operating an alkylene oxide production process that utilizes a high efficiency silver catalyst is shown and described. The method accounts for declining catalyst activity that occurs as the catalyst ages by making alternating changes to the reaction temperature and an overall chloriding effectiveness parameter.

Simplified method for producing alkylene oxides with a high efficiency catalyst as it ages

A process for catalytically converting a feedstock into a product which comprises: (a) contacting the feedstock with a fluidized mass of solid particles comprising crystalline microporous three dimensional solid catalyst in a reaction zone at conditions effective to convert the feedstock into the product; (b) contacting the particles in the reaction zone with a first purge medium to reduce the amount of at least one of the feedstock and the product in contact with the particles; and (c) contacting the particles in the reaction zone with regeneration medium at conditions effective to improve at least one catalytic property of the catalyst, provided that steps (a), (b) and (c) are repeated periodically.

Chemical conversion process

A process for converting a feedstock containing 1 to about 6 carbon atoms per molecule which includes (a) contacting the feedstock with a solid composition comprising a crystalline microporous three dimensional solid catalyst having pores and being capable of promoting the conversion, and matrix material at conditions effective to convert the feedstock, to produce at least one desired product, and to at least partially deactivate the solid composition; (b) contacting the deactivated solid composition with regeneration medium at conditions to at least partially regenerate the solid composition; and (c) repeating step (a), the improvement which comprises (d) contacting the regenerated solid composition prior to step (c) to condition the regenerated solid composition to have increased effectiveness in step (c).

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