Patents by Inventor Ekkehard Schwab
Ekkehard Schwab 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).
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Patent number: 8044244Abstract: A process for preparing aromatic amines by catalytic hydrogenation of the corresponding nitro compound in a fluidized-bed reactor, in which a gaseous reaction mixture comprising the nitro compound and hydrogen flows from the bottom upward through a heterogeneous particulate catalyst forming a fluidized bed, wherein the fluidized bed is provided with internals which divide the fluidized bed into a plurality of cells arranged horizontally in the fluidized-bed reactor and a plurality of cells arranged vertically in the fluidized-bed reactor, with the cells having cell walls which are permeable to gas and have openings which ensure an exchange number of the heterogeneous, particulate catalyst in the vertical direction in the range from 1 to 100 liters/hour per liter of reactor volume, is proposed.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2007Date of Patent: October 25, 2011Assignee: BASF SEInventors: Lothar Seidemann, Lucia Koenigsmann, Christian Schneider, Ekkehard Schwab, Dieter Stuetzer, Celine Liekens
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Patent number: 8034978Abstract: Process for preparing an amine by reacting an aldehyde and/or ketone with hydrogen and a nitrogen compound selected from the group consisting of primary and secondary amines in the presence of a heterogeneous catalyst, wherein the reaction is carried out using a suspended catalyst as heterogeneous catalyst and is carried out in the semibatch mode in which the nitrogen compound as one reactant is placed in the reaction vessel and the aldehyde and/or the ketone as the other reactant is added during the course of the reaction and the aldehyde and/or the ketone is added in portions or continuously to the reaction mixture during the course of the reaction as a function of the achieved conversion of the nitrogen compound until a conversion of the nitrogen compound of at least 95% results, and all or part of the catalyst remains in the reaction vessel after the reaction batch and is reused for the next reaction batch.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2007Date of Patent: October 11, 2011Assignee: BASF SEInventors: Jan Eberhardt, Harald Meiβner, Bram Willem Hoffer, Johann-Peter Melder, Ekkehard Schwab
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Patent number: 8017808Abstract: A process for preparing an amine by reacting an aldehyde and/or ketone with hydrogen and a nitrogen compound selected from the group of primary and secondary amines in the presence of a heterogeneous catalyst, wherein the catalyst is a coated catalyst which comprises at least one metal of group VIII of the Periodic Table of the Elements as a hydrogenating metal and additionally a promoter on an oxidic support, at least 80% of the metal of group VIII of the Periodic Table of the Elements being present in a layer between the surface of the catalyst and a penetration depth which is not more than 80% of the radius of the catalyst, calculated from the surface of the catalyst.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2007Date of Patent: September 13, 2011Assignee: BASF SEInventors: Jan Eberhardt, Bram Willem Hoffer, Frank Haese, Johann-Peter Melder, Bernd Stein, Michael Stang, Thomas Hill, Ekkehard Schwab
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Publication number: 20110200507Abstract: A process for removing sulfur compounds from a hydrocarbonaceous gas mixture, which comprises contacting the hydrocarbonaceous gas mixture with an adsorber material comprising copper oxide on magnesium silicate as support material.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2009Publication date: August 18, 2011Applicant: BASF SEInventors: Jochen Steiner, Alexander Schäfer, Annebart Engbert Wentink, Ekkehard Schwab, Helmut Boos, Patrick Amrhein
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Publication number: 20110195347Abstract: The invention relates to a process for producing a catalyst, where the catalyst comprises a catalytically active material and a carbon-comprising support, in which the carbon-comprising support is impregnated with a metal salt solution in a first step, the carbon-comprising support impregnated with the metal salt solution is subsequently heated to a temperature of at least 1500° C. in an inert atmosphere to form a metal carbide layer and the catalytically active material is finally applied to the carbon-comprising support provided with the metal carbide layer. The invention further provides a catalyst which has been produced by the process and comprises a carbon-comprising support and a catalytically active material, with the carbon-comprising support having a metal carbide layer and the catalytically active material having been applied to the carbon-comprising support provided with the metal carbide layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2011Publication date: August 11, 2011Applicant: BASF SEInventors: Claudia Querner, Ekkehard Schwab, Bastian Ewald
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Publication number: 20110162484Abstract: Integrated process, in which pure carbonyl iron powder (CIP) is prepared by decomposition of pure iron pentacarbonyl (IPC) in a plant A, carbon monoxide (CO) liberated in the decomposition of the IPC is used in plant A for the preparation of further CIP from iron or is fed to an associated plant B for the preparation of synthesis gas or is fed to an associated plant C for the preparation of hydrocarbons from synthesis gas, and the CIP prepared in plant A is used as catalyst or catalyst component in an associated plant C for the preparation of hydrocarbons from synthesis gas from plant B.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 2, 2009Publication date: July 7, 2011Inventors: Jochen Steiner, Ekkehard Schwab, Andreas Keller, Otto Watzenberger, Ulrich Grässle, Manfred Julius
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Publication number: 20110118365Abstract: Process for preparing olefins, which comprises the following steps: a) preparation of a synthesis gas comprising carbon monoxide and hydrogen, b) introduction of carbon dioxide recirculated from step d) into the synthesis gas during or after the preparation of synthesis gas as per step a), c) conversion of the synthesis gas having a hydrogen to carbon monoxide ratio of ?1.2:1 which is obtained in step b) into olefins in the presence of a Fischer-Tropsch catalyst, d) removal of the carbon dioxide comprised in the reaction product from step c), where the ratio of hydrogen to carbon monoxide in step c) is set via step b).Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2010Publication date: May 19, 2011Applicant: BASF SEInventors: JOCHEN STEINER, Kerem Bay, Ekkehard Schwab, Alexander Weck
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Publication number: 20110118110Abstract: The invention relates to a catalyst comprising an alloy of at least two different metals of which at least one metal is a metal of transition group VIII. The alloy is present in at least two phases having different degrees of alloying. The invention further relates to a process for producing the catalyst and a use of the catalyst.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 1, 2008Publication date: May 19, 2011Applicant: BASF SEInventors: Stefan Kotrel, Gerhard Cox, Ekkehard Schwab, Alexander Panchenko
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Publication number: 20110112205Abstract: Iron- and manganese-comprising heterogeneous catalyst and process for producing it, which comprises the following steps: I. thermal decomposition of gaseous iron pentacarbonyl to give carbonyl iron powder having spherical primary particles, II. treatment of carbonyl iron powder obtained in step I with hydrogen, resulting in the metallic spherical primary particles at least partly agglomerating, III. surface oxidation of the iron particles from step II (i.e. agglomerates=secondary particles, and also any primary particles still present) to form iron oxide, IV. contacting of the particles from step III with an aqueous solution of a manganese compound, V. drying in the presence of oxygen and subsequent calcination in the absence of oxygen, resulting firstly in oxygen-comprising manganese compounds on the particles and finally reaction of these with the iron oxide to form a mixed oxide of the formula MnxFe3-xO4, where 0<x?2.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 5, 2010Publication date: May 12, 2011Applicant: BASF SEInventors: JOCHEN STEINER, Kerem Bay, Vera Werner, Jürgen Amann, Stefan Bunzel, Claudia Moßbacher, Joachim Müller, Ekkehard Schwab, Markus Weber
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Publication number: 20110112203Abstract: Iron- and copper-comprising heterogeneous catalyst and process for producing it, which comprises the following steps: I. thermal decomposition of gaseous iron pentacarbonyl to give carbonyl iron powder having spherical primary particles, II. treatment of carbonyl iron powder obtained in step I with hydrogen, resulting in the metallic spherical primary particles at least partly agglomerating, III. surface oxidation of the iron particles from step II (agglomerates=secondary particles, and also any primary particles still present) to form iron oxide, IV. contacting of the particles from step III with an aqueous solution of a copper compound, V. drying in the presence of oxygen and subsequent calcination in the absence of oxygen, resulting firstly in oxygen-comprising copper compounds on the particles and finally reaction of these with the iron oxide to form a mixed oxide of the formula CuxFe3-xO4, where 0<x?1.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 4, 2010Publication date: May 12, 2011Applicant: BASF SEInventors: JOCHEN STEINER, Kerem Bay, Vera Werner, Jürgen Amann, Stefan Bunzel, Claudia Moßbacher, Joachim Müller, Ekkehard Schwab, Markus Weber
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Publication number: 20110112204Abstract: Iron—comprising heterogeneous catalyst and a process for producing it, which comprises the following steps: I. thermal decomposition of gaseous iron pentacarbonyl to give carbonyl iron powder having spherical primary particles, II. treatment of carbonyl iron powder obtained in step I with hydrogen, resulting in the metallic spherical primary particles at least partially agglomerating, III. contacting of the agglomerates (=secondary particles) with iron pentacarbonyl, IV. thermal decomposition of the iron pentacarbonyl applied in step III to give at least predominantly pore- and void-free secondary particles. Process for preparing olefins by reaction of carbon monoxide with hydrogen in the presence of a catalyst, with the abovementioned iron-comprising heterogeneous catalyst being used as catalyst.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 4, 2010Publication date: May 12, 2011Applicant: BASF SEInventors: JOCHEN STEINER, Kerem Bay, Ralf Böhling, Ekkehard Schwab
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Patent number: 7919655Abstract: Processes comprising: (i) providing a reactant selected from the group consisting of primary alcohols, secondary alcohols, aldehydes, ketones and mixtures thereof; and (ii) reacting the reactant with hydrogen and a nitrogen compound selected from the group consisting of ammonia, primary amines, secondary amines and mixtures thereof, in the presence of a catalyst comprising a zirconium dioxide- and nickel-containing catalytically active composition, to form an amine; wherein the catalytically active composition, prior to reduction with hydrogen, comprises oxygen compounds of zirconium, copper, and nickel, and one or more oxygen compounds of one or more metals selected from the group consisting of Sb, Pb, Bi, and In.Type: GrantFiled: July 4, 2007Date of Patent: April 5, 2011Assignee: BASF SEInventors: Petr Kubanek, Bram Willem Hoffer, Ekkehard Schwab, Johann-Peter Melder, Holger Evers, Till Gerlach
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Publication number: 20110054167Abstract: Processes for preparing an amine, which processes comprise: reacting a reactant selected from the group consisting of primary alcohols, secondary alcohols, aldehydes, ketones, and mixtures thereof, with hydrogen and a nitrogen compound selected from the group consisting of ammonia, primary amines, secondary amines and mixtures thereof, in the presence of a zirconium dioxide-, copper- and nickel-containing catalyst; wherein the catalyst comprises a catalytically active composition which comprises, before reduction with hydrogen, oxygen compounds of zirconium, copper, nickel and tin, and 0.5 to 8.0% by weight of an oxygen compound of cobalt, calculated as CoO, and wherein the catalytically active composition does not comprise any ruthenium.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2008Publication date: March 3, 2011Inventors: Petr Kubanek, Wolfgang Mägerlein, Ekkehard Schwab, Johann-Peter Melder, Manfred Julius
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Publication number: 20100311988Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of cis-2-(2-methylprop-1-enyl)-4-methyltetrahydropyran comprising the catalytic hydrogenation of 2-(2-methylprop-1-enyl)-4-methylenetetrahydropyran in the presence of hydrogen and a heterogeneous catalyst comprising ruthenium on a support and subsequently bringing the compounds obtained in this way into contact with a strongly acidic cation exchanger.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2008Publication date: December 9, 2010Applicant: BASF SEInventors: Lucia Koenigsmann, Juergen Schubert, Andreas Walch, Guenther Gottwald, Martin Kamasz, Ekkehard Schwab, Klaus-Peter Pfaff, Michael Slany
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Patent number: 7838702Abstract: A process for aminating hydrocarbons with ammonia, wherein the N2 content in the mixture at the reactor exit is less than 0.1% by volume based on the total volume of the mixture at the reactor exit.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2007Date of Patent: November 23, 2010Assignee: BASF SEInventors: Frederik Van Laar, Ekkehard Schwab, Joachim-Thierry Anders, Sven Crone, Karl Hoelemann, Wolfgang Mackenroth, Petr Kubanek
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Publication number: 20100274055Abstract: Processes for preparing an amine, which processes comprise: reacting a reactant selected from the group consisting of primary alcohols, secondary alcohols, aldehydes, ketones, and mixtures thereof, with hydrogen and a nitrogen compound selected from the group consisting of ammonia, primary amines, secondary amines and mixtures thereof, in the presence of a zirconium dioxide- and nickel-containing catalyst; wherein the catalyst comprises a catalytically active composition which comprises, before reduction with hydrogen, oxygen compounds of zirconium, nickel, and iron, and 0.2 to 5.5% by weight of at least one oxygen compound of tin, lead, bismuth, molybdenum, antimony or phosphorus, calculated as SnO, PbO, Bi2O3, MoO3, Sb2O3 and H3PO4 respectively; and wherein the catalytically active composition of the catalyst does not comprise any copper.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2008Publication date: October 28, 2010Applicant: BASF SEInventors: Petr Kubanek, Wolfgang Mägerlein, Ekkehard Schwab, Johann-Peter Melder, Manfred Julius
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Publication number: 20100274008Abstract: Processes for preparing an amine, the processes comprising: reacting a reactant selected from the group consisting of primary alcohols, secondary alcohols, aldehydes, ketones, and mixtures thereof, with hydrogen and a nitrogen compound selected from the group consisting of ammonia, primary amines, secondary amines and mixtures thereof, in the presence of a zirconium dioxide-, copper- and nickel-containing catalyst; wherein the catalyst comprises a catalytically active composition which comprises, before reduction with hydrogen, oxygen compounds of zirconium, copper, and nickel, and 1.0 to 5.0% by weight of an oxygen compound of cobalt, calculated as CoO, and 0.2 to 5.0% by weight of a polyoxometalate.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2008Publication date: October 28, 2010Applicant: BASF SEInventors: Petr Kubanek, Wolfgang Mägerlein, Ekkehard Schwab, Johann-Peter Melder, Manfred Julius
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Publication number: 20100274010Abstract: Processes for preparing an amine, which processes comprise: reacting a reactant selected from the group consisting of primary alcohols, secondary alcohols, aldehydes, ketones, and mixtures thereof, with hydrogen and a nitrogen compound selected from the group consisting of ammonia, primary amines, secondary amines and mixtures thereof, in the presence of a zirconium dioxide-, copper- and nickel-containing catalyst; wherein the catalyst comprises a catalytically active composition which comprises, before reduction with hydrogen, oxygen compounds of zirconium, copper, and nickel, and 0.2 to 40% by weight of an oxygen compound of cobalt, calculated as CoO, 0.1 to 5% by weight of an oxygen compound of iron, calculated as Fe2O3, and 0.1 to 5% by weight of at least one oxygen compound of lead, tin, bismuth or antimony, calculated as PbO, SnO, Bi2O3 and Sb2O3 respectively.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2008Publication date: October 28, 2010Applicant: BASF SEInventors: Petr Kubanek, Wolfgang Mägerlein, Ekkehard Schwab, Johann-Peter Melder, Manfred Julius
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Publication number: 20100274011Abstract: Processes for preparing an amine, the processes comprising: reacting a reactant selected from the group consisting of primary alcohols, secondary alcohols, aldehydes, ketones, and mixtures thereof, with hydrogen and a nitrogen compound selected from the group consisting of ammonia, primary amines, secondary amines and mixtures thereof, in the presence of a zirconium dioxide-, copper- and nickel-containing catalyst; wherein the catalyst comprises a catalytically active composition which comprises, before reduction with hydrogen, oxygen compounds of zirconium, copper, and nickel, 1.5 to 4.5% by weight of an oxygen compound of cobalt, calculated as CoO, and 0.2 to 5.0% by weight of at least one oxygen compound of niobium, sulfur, phosphorus, gallium, boron, lead or antimony, calculated in each case as Nb2O5, H2SO4, H3PO4, Ga2O3, B2O3, PbO and Sb2O3 respectively, and wherein the catalytically active composition does not comprise any molybdenum.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2008Publication date: October 28, 2010Applicant: BASF SEInventors: Petr Kubanek, Wolfgang Mägerlein, Ekkehard Schwab, Johann-Peter Melder, Manfred Julius
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Publication number: 20100274009Abstract: Processes for preparing an amine, the processes comprising: reacting a reactant selected from the group consisting of primary alcohols, secondary alcohols, aldehydes, ketones, and mixtures thereof, with hydrogen and a nitrogen compound selected from the group consisting of ammonia, primary amines, secondary amines and mixtures thereof, in the presence of a zirconium dioxide-, copper- and nickel-containing catalyst; wherein the catalyst comprises a catalytically active composition which comprises, before reduction with hydrogen, oxygen compounds of zirconium, copper, nickel, no oxygen compounds of cobalt, and 0.2 to 5.0% by weight of at least one oxygen compound of phosphorus or gallium, calculated as H3PO4 and Ga2O3 respectively.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2008Publication date: October 28, 2010Applicant: BASF SEInventors: Petr Kubanek, Wolfgang Mägerlein, Ekkehard Schwab, Johann-Peter Melder, Manfred Julius