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A One-Step Conversion of Benzene to Phenol with a Palladium Membrane

Published:2002-01-04 Issue:5552 Volume:295 Page:105-107
ISSN:0036-8075
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language:en
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Author:

Niwa Shu-ichi¹,Eswaramoorthy Muthusamy¹,Nair Jalajakumari¹,Raj Anuj¹,Itoh Naotsugu¹,Shoji Hiroshi²,Namba Takemi³,Mizukami Fujio¹

Affiliation:

1. Institute for Materials and Chemical Process, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba Central 5, 1-1-1, Higashi, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305–8565, Japan.

2. Research Center, Maruzen Petrochemical, 3 Goi, Minami-kaigan, Ichihara, Chiba 290–8503, Japan.

3. Tsukuba Technical Laboratory, NOK Corporation, 25 Wadai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 300–4247, Japan.

Abstract

Existing phenol production processes tend to be energy-consuming and produce unwanted by-products. We report an efficient process using a shell-and-tube reactor, in which a gaseous mixture of benzene and oxygen is fed into a porous alumina tube coated with a palladium thin layer and hydrogen is fed into the shell. Hydrogen dissociated on the palladium layer surface permeates onto the back and reacts with oxygen to give active oxygen species, which attack benzene to produce phenol. This one-step process attained phenol formation selectivities of 80 to 97% at benzene conversions of 2 to 16% below 250°C (phenol yield: 1.5 kilograms per kilogram of catalyst per hour at 150°C).

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Subject

Multidisciplinary

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