CATALYSIS

Lewatit^® resins are used in a wide range of catalytic applications for the manufacture of fine- and bulk-chemicals. They exhibit very good stability under conditions involving high temperature ranges and solvent polarity fluctuations. This results in long lifetimes and excellent economy of use. Their scale of operation ranges from lab application to fixed bed reactors of several hundred cubic meters. When considering a catalyst for a reaction, consider using one from the Lewatit^® range.

PETROCHEMICALS DO BEST WITH LEWATIT®

Organic ethers like MTBE and TAME have assumed the function in fuels that formerly fell to lead. Lewatit® makes an important contribution towards preparing these additives for large-scale, inexpensive production. Thanks to special Lewatit® resins, complex and uneconomical production processes are now a thing of the past. Today, highly selective processes with excellent conversion rates ensure that the market is supplied with sufficient quantities of organic ethers - without delivery bottlenecks and at reasonable cost. This development has been accompanied from the very beginning by Lewatit® experts working in the field of catalysis and organic synthesis. With their knowledge of acid-catalytic reactions in the homogeneous phase, solutions were found to make full use of the benefits of heterogeneous chemical reaction engineering through the use of Lewatit® ion exchange resins.