Article: New Solid Catalyst for Alkylbenzene Synthesis.

Fushun Petrochemical Corporation and Dalian Institute of Chemistry and Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have jointly developed a new solid catalyst for alkylbenzene synthesis. Large domestic producers of straight-chain alkylbenzene synthetic detergent raw materials all use the alkylation process from UOP of the United States with hydrofluoric acid as catalyst. Hydrofluoric acid is strongly corrosive and can easily damage equipment and pipelines. There are also other problems such as difficulties in recovery and ...

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