Ethylene oxide production
CA 1093053 A · Owner: Texaco Development Corporation · Inventors: Cavitt, Stanley B.
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An improved method is disclosed for the vapor phase epoxidation of ethylene to ethylene oxide which includes intimately contacting an ethylene-containing feed stream with an epoxidizing amount of molecular oxygen epoxidizing agent in the presence of a catalytically effective amount of a novel supported, activated silver catalyst and an effective amount of at least one inhibitor which retards combustion of ethylene to carbon dioxide at a temperature of from about 200°C to about 300°C. The novel silver catalyst is best described in terms of its method of preparation. The catalyst is prepared by impregnating certain inorganic porous substrates with a specific silver carboxylate/amine complex …
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- Granted January 6, 1981. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended January 6, 1998.
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