Treatment of alcohols

Inventors: Thomas Mark Douglas, Andrew John Hogben, David John Law, John Glenn Sunley, Thomas Giles Parsons

• Assignee: Technip E&C Ltd

Process for treating an alcohol composition containing nitrogen-containing contaminants by contacting the alcohol composition with an adsorbent in an adsorption zone. The adsorbent is a transition metal-loaded solid porous material selected from aluminosilicates, silica-aluminas, silicates and aluminas, and the alcohol composition is contacted with the adsorbent either alone or in the presence of an inert carrier gas.

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