Shell Glycerol
Shell Glycerol : The Shell Development Company has developed three routes for making glycerol from propylene. The first begins by chlorinating propylene to make allyl chloride, which is converted to glycerol via epichlorhydrin. The second and third both involve acrolein as an intermediate, the second reacting it with 2-propanol and the third with 2-butanol. The second of these processes became known as the Shell Glycerol process. The successive reactions are: propylene + oxygen ? acrolein + water ? acrolein + 2-propanol ? allyl alcohol + acetone allyl alcohol + hydrogen peroxide ? glycerol. The third route was used at the Shell plant at Norco, LA, until it was closed in 1980
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