The present invention relates to a catalyst which comprises a vanadium oxide, a chromium oxide, a molybdenum oxide and a boron oxide supported on a silica carrier. This catalyst is suitable for use in the production of aromatic nitriles from alkyl-substituted aromatic compound by the catalytic reaction of a gas mixture containing an alkyl-substituted aromatic compound, ammonia and oxygen or a gas containing molecular oxygen over a catalyst. The present invention further relates to a process for producing the aromatic nitriles using said catalyst.

Catalyst and process for producing aromatic nitriles

Supported catalysts comprising a support having a mean diameter of ≦78 μm, a vanadium oxide, an antimony oxide, one or more alkali metal or alkaline earth metal oxides, and one or more oxides of tungsten, molybdenum, titanium, iron, cobalt, nickel, manganese, potassium, copper or mixtures thereof; processes for preparing said catalysts; and processes for preparing an aromatic or heteroaromatic nitrile in the presence of such a supported catalyst.

Novel supported catalyst for ammoxidation

A catalyst that is especially useful in the production of aromatic nitriles by a fluidized bed process comprises highly attrition-resistant microspherical particles of vanadia and an inert support and is prepared by spray drying an aqueous slurry of finely divided particles of vanadia and the support.

Spray dried vanadia catalyst and method of preparing it

Aromatic nitriles can be produced at a high conversion and at a high selectivity by filling cylindrical wire netting into a fluidized bed reactor when the aromatic nitriles are produced by subjecting a mixture of an aromatic hydrocarbon, ammonia and molecular oxygen to fluid catalytic reaction in the presence of a fluid catalyst.

Process of production of aromatic nitriles

Aromatic nitriles are produced in good yield from a gas mixture comprising alkyl-substituted aromatic compound, ammonia and molecular oxygen by ammoxidation by passing the gas mixture over a catalyst comprising vanadium oxide, chromium oxide, boron oxide and phosphorus oxide, deposited on a silica carrier, in an atomic ratio of V : Cr : B : P of 1 : 0.5 - 2.0 : 0.1 - 1.2 : 0.01 - 0.3 and a catalyst concentration of 20 to 80 % by weight at a reaction temperature of 300° to 500°C for a contact time of 0.5 to 30 seconds.

Process for producing aromatic nitriles

FLUIDIZED BED CATALYST HAVING AN ATOMIC RATIO OF V:CR:B OF 1:0.5-2.0:0.1-1.2, A TOTAL AMOUNT OF THEIR OXIDES CARRIED ON THE CATALYST BEING 20 TO 80% BY WEIGHT, BASED ON THE WEIGHT OF THE CATALYST AND CLOSED BULK DENSITY OF 0.85 TO 1.20 G./ML. IS PREPARED BY SPRAY-DRYING A SILICA SOL SLURRY CONTAINING A VANADIUM COMPOUND, A CHROMIUM COMPOUND AND A BORON COMPOUND ESPECIALLY PREPARED BY USING A DISSOLUTION AGENT FOR THE BORON COMPOUND, FOR EXAMPLE, A CIS-POLYHYDRIC ALCOHOL HAVING HYDROXYL GROUPS AT AN A- OR B-POSITION MUTUALLY OR AN A-HYDROXYCARBOXYLIC ACID, AT AN OUTLET TEMPERATURE OF A SPRAY-DRIER OF 85* TO 160*C. THE CATALYST IS USEFUL FOR THE PRODUCTION OF AROMATIC NITRILES BY FLUIDIZED BED METHOD.

T Okawa

Papers

Process for preparing fluidized bed catalyst for production of aromatic nitriles