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Reppe process

Reppe process

[′rep·ə ‚prä·səs]
(chemical engineering)
A family of high-pressure, catalytic acetylene-reaction processes yielding (depending upon what the acetylene reacts with) butadiene, allyl alcohol, acrylonitrile, vinyl ethers and derivatives, acrylic acid esters, cyclooctatraene, and resins.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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For 70 years, BASF has been manufacturing 13D0 at its Ludwigshafen, Germany, Verbund site by means of the Reppe process. This acetylene-based process, which is named after its inventor Walter Reppe, a chemist with BASF, features higher efficiency than any other process.
BASF to increase global capacities for butanediol and PolyTHF
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