Improvement of propylene yield via butene metathesis

There is an increasing interest in finding ways to produce on-purpose propene, due to the significant predicted propene growth in the next few years without the concomitant growth in the ethene demand, One of the technologies available is 1-butene metathesis, which describes a one-step process where isomerisation of 1-butene to 2-butene followed by cross-metathesis taking place. Products of the cross metathesis are propene and 2-pentene. In addition ethene and 3-hexene are expected as products of 1-butene metathesis.

Grantor dc:publisher.institution

Department of Chemical Engineering

Year dc:date.issued

2008

Author dc:creator

• Harmse, Liesel

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Van Steen, Eric

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/11427/5323

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/5323