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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 12, 1983
Filed:
Jul. 24, 1981
Cristobal Bonifaz, Chadds Ford, PA (US);
E. I. Du Pont de Nemours & Co., Wilmington, DE (US);
Abstract
Process of preparing light monoolefins by: (a) activating a hydrogen-exchanged aluminosilicate catalyst having a silica to alumina ratio of less than 12 and, optionally, containing added metal cations, by treating with steam at a temperature of at least 400.degree. C., preferably 450.degree. to 520.degree. C.; (b) contacting the steam-activated catalyst in a reaction zone, at a temperature of about 350.degree. to about 600.degree. C., preferably 450.degree. to 520.degree. C., with a gas stream consisting essentially of dimethyl ether or a mixture of methanol and dimethyl ether, as reactant, and sufficient water such that the mole ratio of water to ether in the reaction zone is at least 0.3; at a pressure of about 0.2 to about 30 atmospheres (about 20 to about 3000 kPa), preferably atmospheric pressure (100 kPa), and at a weight hourly space velocity (WHSV) of greater than about 0.5 h.sup.-1, preferably 1 to 150 h.sup.-1, to convert at least 85 wt % of the reactant to hydrocarbons comprising at least 50 wt % ethylene and propylene, said 85% conversion being achieved before the contacting has exceeded 1 g of reactant per g of catalyst, preferably before exceeding 0.3 g of reactant per g of catalyst, more preferably before exceeding 0.1 g of reactant per g of catalyst until the catalyst is spent; and (c) regenerating the spent catalyst with a mixture comprising steam and oxygen at a temperature of at least 400.degree. C., preferably 450.degree. to 520.degree. C.