Hydrogenation process

• Main Authors: HILES; ANDREW G, TUCK; MICHAEL W. M
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 19.10.1993
• Edition: 5
• Subjects: ACYCLIC OR CARBOCYCLIC COMPOUNDS; APPARATUS THEREFOR; CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROCESSES, e.g. CATALYSIS OR COLLOIDCHEMISTRY; CHEMISTRY; GENERAL METHODS OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY; ORGANIC CHEMISTRY; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL; THEIR RELEVANT APPARATUS; TRANSPORTING

PCT No. PCT/GB90/01167 Sec. 371 Date Feb. 12, 1992 Sec. 102(e) Date Feb. 12, 1992 PCT Filed Jul. 27, 1990 PCT Pub. No. WO91/01961 PCT Pub. Date Feb. 21, 1991.In a hydrogenation process, an organic feedstock, such as an unsaturated organic compound containing at least one unsaturated linkage selected from >C=C<, >C=O, -C 3BOND C-, and -C 3BOND N, is contacted with hydrogen in a hydrogenation zone under vapor phase hydrogenation conditions in the presence of a heterogeneous hydrogenation catalyst characterized in that the hydrogenation zone includes first and second hydrogenation reactors connected in parallel, each containing a respective charge of the hydrogenation catalyst, that in a first phase of operations a vaporous mixture containing the organic feedstock and hydrogen is supplied to the first hydrogenation reactor only, that in a second phase of operation subsequent to the first phase the vaporous mixture is supplied to the second hydrogenation reactor only, and that in a third phase of operation subsequent to the second phase the vaporous mixture is supplied simultaneously both to the first hydrogenation reactor and to the second hydrogenation reactor.