Patent ID: 9080108
Filing Date: 2015-07-14
Classification: B01J,C07C,C10G,Y02P

Abstract:
1. A process comprising feeding at least one gaseous reactant, as a gaseous feed or as part of a gaseous feed which is at an inlet superficial gas velocity of at least 0.5 m/s but no more than 1.5 m/s, into a vessel holding an expanded slurry bed of solid catalyst particles suspended in a suspension liquid so that the gaseous reactant can bubble upwardly through the slurry bed, the slurry bed having a catalyst loading of less than 14% by volume but at least 2% by volume of degassed slurry; allowing said at least one gaseous reactant to react catalytically at a pressure above atmospheric pressure as the gaseous reactant bubbles upwardly through the slurry bed to produce at least one product; and withdrawing said at least one product and any unreacted gaseous reactant from the vessel.