Patents by Inventor Peter Polanek
Peter Polanek has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
-
Patent number: 8207327Abstract: The invention relates to a shell catalyst containing ruthenium as an active metal, alone or together with at least one other metal of the auxiliary group IB, VIIB or VIII of the periodical system of the elements (CAS version), and applied to a carrier containing silicon dioxide as a carrier material. The invention also relates to a method for producing said shell catalyst, and to a method for hydrogenating an organic compound containing hydrogenable groups, preferably for hydrogenating a carbocyclic aromatic group to form the corresponding carbocyclic aliphatic groups or for hydrogenating aldehydes to form the corresponding alcohols, using the inventive shell catalyst. The invention further relates to the use of the inventive shell catalyst for hydrogenating an organic compound containing hydrogenable groups, preferably for hydrogenating a carbocyclic aromatic group to form the corresponding carbocyclic aliphatic groups or for hydrogenating aldehydes to form the corresponding alcohols.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2006Date of Patent: June 26, 2012Assignee: BASF SEInventors: Frederik Van Laar, Michael Becker, Ekkehard Schwab, Jochem Henkelmann, Peter Polanek
-
Publication number: 20100152436Abstract: The invention relates to a shell catalyst containing ruthenium as an active metal, alone or together with at least one other metal of the auxiliary group IB, VIIB or VIII of the periodical system of the elements (CAS version), and applied to a carrier containing silicon dioxide as a carrier material. The invention also relates to a method for producing said shell catalyst, and to a method for hydrogenating an organic compound containing hydrogenable groups, preferably for hydrogenating a carbocyclic aromatic group to form the corresponding carbocyclic aliphatic groups or for hydrogenating aldehydes to form the corresponding alcohols, using the inventive shell catalyst. The invention further relates to the use of the inventive shell catalyst for hydrogenating an organic compound containing hydrogenable groups, preferably for hydrogenating a carbocyclic aromatic group to form the corresponding carbocyclic aliphatic groups or for hydrogenating aldehydes to form the corresponding alcohols.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 20, 2006Publication date: June 17, 2010Applicant: BASF AKTIENGESELLSCHAFTInventors: Frederik Van Laar, Michael Becker, Ekkehard Schwab, Jochem Henkelmann, Peter Polanek
-
Patent number: 6297415Abstract: A catalyst packing which can be produced by vapor deposition and/or sputtering of at least one substance active as catalyst and/or promotor onto woven or knitted fabrics or sheets as support material is used in a process for catalytic distillation in which a heterogeneously catalyzed reaction is combined with a simultaneous distillation or rectification over the catalyst packing.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 1999Date of Patent: October 2, 2001Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Franz Josef Bröcker, Klemens Flick, Cristina Freire Erdbrügger, Gerd Kaibel, Gerald Meyer, Hans-Joachim Müller, Peter Polanek, Ekkehard Schwab
-
Patent number: 6118034Abstract: In the process for the selective hydrogenation of dienes in diene-containing feed streams, a diene-containing feed stream is hydrogenated over a nickel-containing precipitated catalyst at from 40 to 100.degree. C., a pressure of from 3 to 20 bar and a WHSV (weight hourly space velocity) of from 1 to 10 kg/(l.times.h) in the presence of free hydrogen.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 1998Date of Patent: September 12, 2000Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Maximilian Vicari, Marc Walter, Ekkehard Schwab, Hans-Joachim Muller, Germain Kons, Stephan Dilling, Peter Polanek
-
Patent number: 5945571Abstract: Described is a method of producing 1,4-butanediol, the method calling for 2,3-dihydrofuran to be decomposed in a single stage over a hydrogenation catalyst in the presence of water and hydrogen at a temperature of 20 to 300.degree. C. and a pressure of 1 to 300 bar and in neutral or acid conditions.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 1996Date of Patent: August 31, 1999Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Rolf Pinkos, Rolf Fischer, Boris Breitscheidel, Peter Polanek
-
Patent number: 5849972Abstract: Straight-chain C.sub.2 -C.sub.6 -olefins are oligomerized to their dimers, trimers and tetramers by means of a fixed-bed catalyst, at superatmospheric pressure and at room temperature or elevated temperatures, by a process in which the catalyst used is one which contains, as active components, after deduction of the loss on ignition following heating at 900.degree. C., from 10 to 70% by weight of nickel oxide, calculated as NiO, from 5 to 30% by weight of titanium dioxide or zirconium dioxide, from 0 to 20% by weight of alumina, from 20 to 40% by weight of silica and from 0.01 to 1% by weight of an alkali metal oxide, with the proviso that the contents of the individual components in the catalyst sum to 100% by weight.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 1996Date of Patent: December 15, 1998Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Maximilian Vicari, Peter Polanek
-
Patent number: 5736484Abstract: A catalyst suitable for hydrogenating organic compounds, essentially containing from 65 to 80% of nickel, calculated as nickel oxide, from 10 to 25% of silicon, calculated as silicon dioxide, from 2 to 10% of zirconium, calculated as zirconium oxide, and from 0 to 10% of aluminum, calculated as aluminum oxide, with the proviso that the sum of the content of silicon dioxide and aluminum oxide is at least 15% (percentages in % by weight, based on the total weight of the catalyst), obtainable by addition of an acidic aqueous solution of nickel, zirconium and, if desired, aluminum salts to a basic aqueous solution or suspension of silicon compounds and if desired aluminum compounds, the pH of the mixture thus obtained being decreased to at least 6.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 1996Date of Patent: April 7, 1998Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Peter Polanek, Harald Schwahn, Matthias Irgang, Cristina Freire Erdbrugger
-
Patent number: 5696048Abstract: Cobalt catalysts whose catalytically active composition comprises from 55 to 98% by weight of cobalt, from 0.2 to 15% by weight of phosphorus, from 0.2 to 15% by weight of manganese and from 0.05 to 5% by weight of alkali metal, calculated as oxide, are prepared by calcining the catalyst composition, reducing it at final temperatures of from 200.degree. to 400.degree. C. in a stream of hydrogen and subsequently surface-oxidizing it by treatment in a stream of air at final temperatures of from 20.degree. to 60.degree. C. and can be used in a process for hydrogenating organic nitriles and/or imines.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 1996Date of Patent: December 9, 1997Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Boris Breitscheidel, Peter Polanek, Guido Voit, Tom Witzel, Gerd Linden, Michael Hesse
-
Patent number: 5663438Abstract: A process for the preparation of a phenyl amine which may be substituted by alkyl or cycloalkyl in which the corresponding cyolohexylamine is reduced at temperatures of 150.degree. to 300.degree. C. and pressures of 0.01 to 50 bar in the presence of a heterogeneous dehydrogenation catalyst consisting essentially of palladium or a palladium/platinum mixture supported on carrier consisting of the oxides of rare earth metals and and metals of Group IVb of the Periodic Table of Elements, with the proviso that the palladium/platinum mixture may also be supported on an alumina carrier. The cyclohexylamine reactant can be advantageously prepared by reacting the corresponding phenol with ammonia and hydrogen at 100.degree. to 250.degree. C. in the presence of the same heterogeneous catalyst as a preliminary step to provide a two stage process using the same catalyst in both stages.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 1995Date of Patent: September 2, 1997Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Ulrich Kohler, Frank-Friedrich Pape, Matthias Irgang, Joachim Wulff-Doring, Michael Hesse, Peter Polanek
-
Patent number: 5536691Abstract: Cobalt catalysts whose catalytically active material comprises from 55 to 98 wt % of cobalt, from 0.2 to 15 wt % of phosphorus, from 0.2 to 15 wt % of manganese, and from 0.2 to 15 wt % of alkali metal, calculated as oxide, in which the catalyst material is calcined in a first step at final temperatures of from 550.degree. to 750.degree. C. and in a second step at final temperatures of from 800.degree. to 1000.degree. C., and a process for the hydrogenation of organic nitriles and/or imines, in which the novel cobalt catalyst is used.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 1994Date of Patent: July 16, 1996Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Boris Breitscheidel, Peter Polanek, Matthias Irgang, Hermann Petersen, Gerd Linden, Guido Voit, Tom Witzel
-
Patent number: 5516851Abstract: Supported catalysts, obtainable bya) dissolving a catalytically active component or its intermediate in a solvent,b) adding an organic polymer which is capable of binding at least ten times its own weight of water to the solution thus obtained,c) then mixing the polymer with a catalyst carrier,d) molding the material thus obtained, drying and calcining, a process for their preparation and their use.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 1994Date of Patent: May 14, 1996Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Klemens Flick, Peter Polanek, Dietmar Posselt
-
Patent number: 5227553Abstract: A process for the selective hydrogenation of butadiene to butenes in the liquid phase or trickle phase in contact with a fixed-bed supported noble metal catalyst, wherein a high-butadiene C.sub.4 stream having a butadiene content of from 20 to 80% w/w, based on the weight of the C.sub.4 stream, is hydrogenated in a cascade of two reaction zones such that the hydrogenation product from the first reaction zone has a butadiene content of from 0.1 to 20% w/w and the hydrogenation product from the second reaction zone has a butadiene content of from 0.005 to 1% w/w, based in both cases on the weight of the C.sub.4 stream, provided that the butadiene content of the hydrogenation product from the second reaction zone is at least 5 times smaller than that of the hydrogenation product from the first reaction zone.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 1992Date of Patent: July 13, 1993Assignee: BAST AktiengesellschaftInventors: Peter Polanek, Dietmar Posselt, Peter Schreyer