Published January 1965
This report on propylene oxide and ethylene oxide is the first issued since the formal initiation of the Process Economics Program. Although the principal subject of the present report is propylene oxide, there is considerable process interrelation between propylene oxide and ethylene oxide produced by the chlorohydrin process. In addition, it is not impossible that propylene oxide could be produced by a process analogous to the silver-catalyzed oxidation of ethylene to ethylene oxide, Evaluations of both the chlorohydrin and the catalytic oxidation processes for the production of ethylene oxide have therefore been included in this study.
This report presents the industry status of ethylene oxide (EO) and propylene oxide (PO) manufacturing. In this report, we focus on the technoeconomic evaluation of commercial and selected noncommercial processes including ethylene oxide by Chlorohydrin process & Catalytic oxidation and propylene oxide by Chlorohydrin process & Vapor phase oxidation & Liquid phase peroxidation.
