Kellogg, Brown Root phenol

With over 40 years of continuous technological development, the Kellogg Brown Root (KBR) phenol process features low cumene and energy consumptions, coupled with unsurpassed safety and environmental systems. 

Kellogg Brown Root/ Dow Chemical Bisphenol-A Phenol, acetone High quality product with low capital and operating costs 1 1996... 

Kellogg Brown Root/ Hercules/BP Phenol Cumene Low energy requirements, capital costs, emissions and effluents high quality products 39 1997... 

Phenol - Kellogg Brown Root LLC Phenol - Lummus Technology... 

With AMS hydrogenation, 1.31 tons of cumene will produce 1 ton of phenol and 0.616 tons of acetone. This high-yield process produces very high-quality phenol and acetone products with very little heavy and light-end byproducts. With over 40 years of continuous technological development, the Kellogg Brown Root (KBR) phenol process features low cumene and energy consumptions, coupled with unsurpassed safety and environmental systems. 

Kellogg Brown Root LLC Phenol Cumene Oxidization of cumene with air at high efficiency (-i-95%) produces cumene hydroperoxide (CHP) which is concentrated and cleaved under high-yield conditions (-i-99%) to phenol and acetone in the presence of an acid catalyst 25 NA... 

Phenol is an important chemical intermediate of industrial interest, used as substrate to produce phenolic resins, pharmaceuticals, plastics and agrochemicals. Its market demand exceeds 7 million tons a year and, actually, more than 90% of its global manufacture is realized by the three-step Cumene process, also called the Kellogg, Brown Root (KBR) phenol process. 

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