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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 03, 1989
Filed:
May. 12, 1988
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Nippon Shokubai Kagaku Kogyo Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B01J / ; B01J / ; C07C / ; C07C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
502 51 ; 502 52 ; 568471 ; 568479 ;
Abstract
A method of reactivating a catalyst having reduced activity as a result of having been used in producing an unsaturated aldehyde as a main product by catalytic vapor-phase oxidation reaction of propylene, isobutylene or tertiary butanol, said catalyst being a catalytic oxide comprising molybdenum, bismuth and iron with a Mo:Fe atomic ratio of 12:at least 0.1. The method comprises heat-treating the used catalyst at a temperature of 300.degree. to 500.degree. C. in the presence of a flowing oxidizing gas containing at least 5% by volume of molecular oxygen and at least 0.1% by volume of steam.