Improvement of propylene yield via butene metathesis

Master Thesis

2008

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Harmse, Liesel
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Van Steen, Eric
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University of Cape Town

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Department of Chemical Engineering
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Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment
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Abstract
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (leaves [96]-100).

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Chemical Engineering

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Harmse, L. 2008. Improvement of propylene yield via butene metathesis. University of Cape Town.

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