Abstract:
The invention relates to an improved method for purifying an organic solvent for the purpose of absorbing a maleic acid anhydride from a gaseous mixture. The inventive method is characterized by removing the maleic acid anhydride from the solvent, removing a partial flow from the solvent flow, and distilling said partial flow and returning it to the solvent flow. A low-boiling fraction and a high-boiling fraction are removed from the fraction that substantially consists of purified solvent and the fraction that substantially consists of purified solvent is returned to the solvent flow.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a method for the recovery of maleic anhydride by distillation from a solution of maleic anhydride in a high-boiling absorbent. The solution is obtained by the gas phase oxidation of a hydrocarbon and by at least the partial absorption of the oxidation products in the absorbent.For the method, i) the solution is introduced laterally into an inlet column with a reinforcing part above the inlet site and an output part below the inlet site; ii) an upper combining column communicating with the upper end of the reinforcing part and a lower combining column communicating with the lower end of the output part are provided; iii) a take-off column, communicating with the upper combining column and the lower combining column, is provided; iv) maleic anhydride is drawn off as a side take-off from the take-off column, and compounds, boiling lower than maleic anhydride, are taken off at the head of the upper combining column, and the higher boiling absorbent is taken off in the sump of the lower combining column. The maleic anhydride, obtained as a side take-off, has a low acrylic acid and acetic acid content.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a liquid cooling device in an internal combustion engine (11) and to a process for manufacturing same. The device according to the invention comprises a cooling circuit (13) having at least one cooling duct (23, 24, 41) for a liquid coolant, the duct being in thermal contact with at least one component (12a, 12b, 31) of the internal combustion engine (11). A wall of the cooling duct (23, 24, 41) that comes into contact with the coolant comprises in at least one partial zone a microstructured surface with a certain porosity and roughness. According to the invention, this device is produced by forming a cooling circuit for a liquid coolant, the circuit comprising cooling ducts that can be brought at least in part into thermal contact with the internal combustion engine, and by generating a microstructured surface on at least part of the walls of the cooling ducts that come into contact with the liquid coolant.
Abstract:
Method for synthesis of olefins from synthesis gas in the presence of at least one Fischer-Tropsch catalyst in a reaction column, wherein the synthesis gas is introduced into the reaction column below a zone A of the reaction column and the olefins formed are taken off below the inlet for the synthesis gas.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a method for the distillative processing of a methanol/water mixture, wherein a methanol/water mixture is added to a distillation column (1), a vapor stream substantially comprising methanol is removed at the head of the distillation column (1), and a bottom stream substantially comprising water is withdrawn at the base of the distillation column (1), at least part of the vapor stream substantially comprising methanol is condensed and the condensed vapor stream is added as heating vapor to an evaporator (11), in which at least part of the methanol/water mixture to be separated is vaporized. The invention further relates to a method for producing alkali methylates in a reaction column (31), wherein methanol and alkaline lye are added to the reaction column (31). At the lower end of the reaction column (31), alkali methylate dissolved in methanol is withdrawn, and a methanol/water mixture is withdrawn at the upper end of the reaction column (31) and the methanol/water mixture is processed by way of the method for distillative processing.
Abstract:
The invention relates to devices and to a method for continuous distillative separation of a mixture containing one or more alkanolamine(s), wherein the separation is carried out in one or more dividing wall column(s) and wherein the alkanolamine or alkanolamines are withdrawn as a side extraction stream or side extraction streams (side fraction(s)).
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a method for fractionating stereoisomeric compounds which have at least one alcohol group and/or amino group, by distillative separation in the presence of a chiral discriminator which takes the form of a metal complex having at least one ligand which is derived from a compound of the general formula (I).
Abstract:
The invention relates to a method for hydrogenating substituted or 5 unsubstituted mononuclear or multinuclear aromatics to form corresponding cycloaliphatics, especially benzole to form cyclohexane, by bringing the aromatic into contact with a gas containing hydrogen in the presence of a catalyst, using hydrogen containing residual gases.