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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 20, 2005
Filed:
May. 29, 2002
James Andrew Banister, Durham, GB;
George Edwin Harrison, Essex, GB;
James Andrew Banister, Durham, GB;
George Edwin Harrison, Essex, GB;
Davy Process Technology Limited, London, GB;
Abstract
The present invention relates to a continuous hydroformylation process for the production of an aldehyde by hydroformylation of an olefin which comprises: providing a hydroformylation zone containing a charge of a liquid reaction medium having dissolved therein a rhodium hydroformylation catalyst comprising rhodium in combination with carbon monoxide and a ligand; supplying the olefin to the hydroformylation zone; maintaining temperature and pressure conditions in the hydroformylation zone conducive to hydroformylation of the olefin; recovering from the liquid hydroformylation medium a hydroformylation product comprising aldehyde; recovering from the hydroformylation zone a stream comprising the rhodium catalyst; contacting at least a portion of the stream with a solid acidic absorbent under process conditions which allow at least some of the rhodium to become bound to the absorbent; subjecting the rhodium bound to the absorbent, under process conditions which allow desorption of the metal, to a fluid stripping medium comprising hydrogen and solvent; recovering the rhodium hydride catalyst; and recycling the rhodium hydride catalyst to the hydroformylation zone.