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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:
Mar. 19, 1991
Filed:
Oct. 12, 1989
Applicant:
Inventors:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C07C / ; C07C / ; C07C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
568885 ; 252373 ; 422187 ; 4236481 ;
Abstract
In a process for manufacturing fatty alcohols comprising hydrogenating the corresponding fatty acid methyl esters, the hydrogen used for the hydrogenation reaction is regenerated from impure methanol as a by-product of the reaction. The impure methanol recovered from the hydrogenation reactor is conducted to a steam reformer reactor, from whence the regenerated hydrogen is recycled back to the hydrogenation reactor.