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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 24, 2001
Filed:
Feb. 09, 2000
Sumitomo Chemical Company, Limited, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A process for producing &egr;-caprolactam is provided which comprises the steps of subjecting cyclohexanone oxime to a gaseous phase Beckmann rearrangement reaction in a fluidized bed system using a solid catalyst and re-generating the catalyst, wherein said process comprises a step of treating the catalyst with an oxygen-containing gas at an elevated temperature in a re-generation step so that the nitrogen content of the catalyst falls within a range of 10 ppm to 2,500 ppm on its way to the reaction step from the re-generating step. According to the present invention, &egr;-caprolactam is produced with a high conversion or a high selectivity without interrupting the rearrangement reaction or the re-generation step.