Published October 1967
This report concerns the technology and costs for the manufacture of styrene. The processes evaluated and compared are dehydrogenation, oxidative dehydrogenation, oxidation and dehydration, and the new hydroperoxide process.
Regardless which of the above processes is used, ethylbenzene is the raw material. Except for a very small fraction used as a solvent, ethylbenzene is used solely for making styrene. Therefore, we deem it desirable to include in this study an evaluation of various processes for the manufacture of ethylbenzene. We evaluate two alkylation methods and a new Japanese process that uses a different approach. In the hydroperoxide process, propylene oxide is produced as a co-product of styrene.
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