A PROCESS FOR PRODUCING AT LEAST ONE ALCOHOL SELECTED FROM ISOPROPYL ALCOHOL AND TERTIARY ALCOHOLS HAVING 4 OR 5 CARBON ATOMS IN THE MOLECULE

摘要

Isopropanol and tertiary alcohols having 4 to 5 carbon atoms are prepared by reaction of an olefin-containing hydrocarbon stream with water in the presence of a strongly acidic solid catalyst by feeding in the hydrocarbon stream at one end and the process water at the other end of a reactor chain composed of a plurality of reactors connected one after the other and both process streams flowing through the reactor chain in counter-current as a cascade, but through the individual reactors in parallel current.