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Fatty alcohols from methyl ester hydrogenolysis
HydrogenolysisOleochemicalsFatty alcohols
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High-pressure hydrogenolysis of a fatty acid methyl ester over a copper-chromite catalyst to the corresponding fatty alcohol plus methanol byproduct, the route used by natural-fatty-alcohol producers such as Oxiteno. Modeled with methyl palmitate as the ester feed (the C16 member of the coconut/palm-kernel-derived ester slate these plants actually run); a flash removes unreacted hydrogen for recycle and a column recovers methanol overhead from the crude fatty alcohol.
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