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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 07, 2005
Filed:
Jan. 16, 2001
Kostantinos Kourtakis, Media, PA (US);
Pratibha Laxman Gai, Wilmington, DE (US);
Kostantinos Kourtakis, Media, PA (US);
Pratibha Laxman Gai, Wilmington, DE (US);
E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, Wilmington, DE (US);
Abstract
The present invention concerns a method for enhancing the activity of vanadium phosphorus oxide (VPO) catalysts. Promoter reagents are grafted onto or reacted with the catalyst surface. An optional calcination and activation heating cycle transforms the catalyst precursor into a final active phase. A preferred VPO catalyst produced has a ratio of molybdenum to vanadium on the surface of the catalyst to molybdenum to vanadium in the overall bulk of the catalyst represented by the equation (Mo/V) Surface≧1.10 (Mo/V) overall bulk.