To provide a method for the hydrogenation of olefins exhibiting excellent effect to reduce the pressure difference of the reactor by passing an olefin-containing liquid and a hydrogen-containing gas through a packed bed of a solid hydrogenation catalyst.
Olefins are hydrogenated by passing an olefin-containing liquid and a hydrogen-containing gas through a packed bed of a solid hydrogenation catalyst, wherein the content of catalyst powder having a diameter of ≤1 mm in the catalyst bed is ≤5 wt.% and the flow rate of the liquid-gas mixture passing through the bed is ≥3 cm/sec in terms of superficial gas velocity. Examples of the solid hydrogenation catalyst are metal oxides containing one or more components selected from CuO, Cr
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Toru Nakayama
Masayuki Enomoto