Abstract:
The present invention relates to a catalyst system for oxidation of o-xylene and/or naphthalene to phthalic anhydride (PA), comprising a plurality of catalyst zones arranged in succession in the reaction tube, which has been produced using antimony trioxide consisting predominantly of the senarmontite modification of which all primary crystallites have a size of less than 200 nm. The present invention further relates to a process for gas phase oxidation, in which a gas stream comprising at least one hydrocarbon and molecular oxygen is passed through a catalyst system which comprises a plurality of catalyst zones arranged in succession in the reaction tube and which has been produced using an antimony trioxide consisting predominantly of the senarmontite modification with a median primary crystallite size of less than 200 nm.
Abstract:
A process for preparing butadiene from n-butenes, comprising the steps of: A) providing an input gas stream a1 comprising n-butenes; B) feeding the input gas stream a1 comprising n-butenes, an oxygenous gas and an oxygenous cycle gas stream a2 into at least one oxidative dehydrogenation zone and oxidatively dehydrogenating n-butenes to butadiene, giving a product gas stream b comprising butadiene, unconverted n-butenes, steam, oxygen, low-boiling hydrocarbons and high-boiling secondary components, with or without carbon oxides and with or without inert gases; Ca) cooling the product gas stream b and optionally at least partly removing high-boiling secondary components and steam, giving a product gas stream b'; Cb) compressing and cooling the product gas stream b' in at least one compression and cooling stage, giving at least one aqueous condensate stream c1 and one gas stream c2 comprising butadiene, n-butenes, steam, oxygen and low-boiling hydrocarbons, with or without carbon oxides and with or without inert gases; Da) absorbing the C4 hydrocarbons comprising butadiene and n-butenes in an aromatic hydrocarbon solvent as an absorbent and removing uncondensable and low-boiling gas constituents comprising oxygen, low-boiling hydrocarbons, any carbon oxides, aromatic hydrocarbon solvent and any inert gases as gas stream d2 from the gas stream c2, giving an absorbent stream laden with C4 hydrocarbons and the gas stream d2, and then desorbing the C4 hydrocarbons from the laden absorbent stream, giving a C4 product gas stream d1; Db) at least partly recycling the gas stream d2 as cycle gas stream a2 into the oxidative dehydrogenation zone, wherein the content of aromatic hydrocarbon solvent in the cycle gas stream a2 is limited to less than 1% by volume.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a method for the oxidative dehydrogenation of n-butenes to form butadiene, said method comprising two or more production steps (i) and at least one regeneration step (ii). In said method: (i) in a production step a starting gas mixture containing n-butene is mixed with a gas containing oxygen and the mixed gas is brought into contact with a multi-metal-oxide catalyst containing at least molybdenum and another metal in a fixed-bed reactor, at a temperature of between 220 and 490 °C. A product gas mixture at least containing butadiene, oxygen and steam is thus obtained at the outlet of the fixed-bed reactor; (ii) in a regeneration step, to regenerate the multi-metal oxide catalyst, a regeneration gas mixture containing oxygen is passed over the catalyst fixed bed at a temperature between 200 and 450 °C and the carbon deposited on the catalyst is burnt off. A regeneration step (ii) is carried out between two production steps (i), the oxygen content of the product gas mixture at the outlet of the fixed-bed reactor is at least 5 vol. % and the duration of a production step (i) is less than 1,000 h.
Abstract:
The invention relates to methods for continuously producing chlorine by reacting hydrogen chloride with oxygen in the presence of a heterogeneous catalyst. To this end, the reaction of hydrogen chloride is limited to a level ranging from 15 to 90 % with a single pass through the reactor.
Abstract:
A process for the continuous production of either acrolein or acrylic acid as the target product from propene comprising a catalyzed gas phase partial oxidation of propene to yield a product gas containing the target product, transferring the target product in a separating zone from the product gas into the liquid phase and conducting out of the separating zone a stream of residual gas the major portion of which is returned into the partial oxidation and the remaining portion of said stream is purged from the process as off-gas from which synthesis gas can be produced or which can be added to synthesis gas produced otherwise.