Patent ID: 7989664
Filing Date: 2011-08-02
Classification: B01J,C01B,C07C,Y02P

Abstract:
1. A method of generating ketones or alcohols, the method comprising the steps of: a. contacting a first catalytic material comprising one or more Group VIII metals with a first portion of an aqueous feedstock solution comprising water and at least one water-soluble oxygenated hydrocarbon having two or more carbon atoms under conditions sufficient to produce hydrogen; and b. reacting the hydrogen with a second portion of the aqueous feedstock solution over a second catalytic material, the second catalytic material different than the first catalytic material and comprising iron, ruthenium, copper, rhenium, cobalt, nickel, an alloy of at least two of the foregoing, or mixtures of at least two of the foregoing, under conditions sufficient to produce one or more ketones selected from the group consisting of acetone, propanone, butanone, pentanone, and hexanone, or one or more alcohols selected from the group consisting of methanol, ethanol, iso-propyl alcohol, propanol, butanol, pentanol, and hexanol.