摘要:
The invention relates to a process for preparing butadiene from n-butenes, comprising the steps of: A) providing an input gas stream a comprising n-butenes; B) feeding the input gas stream a comprising n-butenes and a gas containing at least oxygen 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, water vapor, 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 by contacting with a circulating cooling medium in at least one cooling zone, the cooling medium being at least partly recycled and having an aqueous phase and an organic phase comprising an organic solvent; Cb) compressing the cooled product gas stream b which may have been depleted of high-boiling secondary components in at least one compression stage, giving at least one aqueous condensate stream c1 and one gas stream c2 comprising butadiene, n-butenes, water vapor, oxygen and low-boiling hydrocarbons, with or without carbon oxides and with or without inert gases;D) removing uncondensable and low-boiling gas constituents comprising oxygen and low-boiling hydrocarbons, with or without carbon oxides and with or without inert gases, as gas stream d2 from the gas stream c2 by absorbing the C4 hydrocarbons comprising butadiene and n-butenes in an absorbent, 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; E) separating the C4 product stream d1 by extractive distillation with a butadiene- selective solvent into a stream e1 comprising butadiene and the selective solvent and a stream e2 comprising n-butenes; F) distilling the stream e1 comprising butadiene and the selective solvent into a stream f1 consisting essentially of the selective solvent and a stream f2 comprising butadiene; which comprises G) removing a portion of the aqueous phase of the cooling medium which circulates in step Ca) and has an aqueous phase and an organic phase as aqueous purge stream g; H) distillatively separating the aqueous purge stream g into a fraction h1 enriched in organic constituents and a fraction h2 depleted of organic constituents.
摘要:
The method according to the invention has the steps of A) providing a feed gas flow a which contains n-butene; B) feeding the n-butene-containing feed gas flow a and an oxygen-containing gas into a dehydrogenation reactor and oxidatively dehydrogenating n-butene into butadiene; C) cooling and compressing the product gas flow b in at least one cooling stage comprising a quench column and in a compression stage comprising a compressor, wherein the product gas flow b is brought into contact with at least one coolant being circulated; D) separating non-condensable and low-boiling gas components as gas flow d2 out of the gas flow c2 by absorbing the C 4 hydrocarbons in at least one absorption agent being circulated; E) separating the C 4 product flow d1 into a material flow e1, which contains butadiene and a selective solvent, and a material flow e2, which contains n-butene, by means of an extractive distillation using the solvent which is selective for butadiene; F) distilling the material flow e1, which contains butadiene and the selective solvent, into a material flow f1, which substantially consists of the selective solvent, and a butadiene-containing material flow f2. The invention is characterized in that the following measures (i) to (iii) are taken: (i) preventing the formation of explosive gas mixtures by monitoring the oxygen concentration in the oxygen-containing gas flows fed into the dehydrogenation zone and controlling the mass flows of oxygen-containing gas flows and hydrocarbon-containing gas flows such that no explosive gas mixtures can be formed; (ii) interrupting the supply of the oxygen-containing gas mixture into the dehydrogenation zone if a threshold for the oxygen concentration in the dehydrogenation gas mixture is exceeded; and (iii) carrying out steps A) to F) in equipment which is designed to be explosion-resistant, wherein liquid-conducting pipelines are designed to be explosion-resistant, and gas lines are designed to be detonation-resistant.
摘要:
The invention relates to a process for preparing butadiene from n-butenes, comprising the steps of: A) providing an input gas stream (a) comprising n-butenes, B) feeding the input gas stream (a) comprising n-butenes and a gas containing at least oxygen into at least one oxidative dehydrogenation zone and oxidatively dehydrogenating n-butenes to butadiene, wherein a product gas stream (b) comprising butadiene, unconverted n-butenes, water vapour, oxygen, low-boiling hydrocarbons and high-boiling secondary components, optionally carbon oxides and optionally inert gases is obtained; Ca) cooling the product gas stream (b) by bringing into contact with a cooling medium in at least one cooling zone, the cooling medium being at least partly recycled and having an aqueous phase and an organic phase ; Cb) compressing the cooled product gas stream (b) which may have been depleted of high-boiling secondary components in at least one compression stage, giving at least one aqueous condensate stream (c1) and one gas stream (c2) comprising butadiene, n-butenes, water vapour, oxygen and low-boiling hydrocarbons, optionally carbon oxides and optionally inert gases; D) removing uncondensable and low-boiling gas constituents comprising oxygen and low-boiling hydrocarbons, with or without carbon oxides and with or without inert gases, as gas stream (d2) from the gas stream (c2) by absorbing the C 4 hydrocarbons comprising butadiene and n-butenes in an absorbent, giving an absorbent stream laden with C 4 hydrocarbons and the gas stream (d2), and then desorbing the C 4 hydrocarbons from the laden absorbent stream, giving a C 4 product gas stream (d1), E) separating the C 4 product stream (d1) by extractive distillation with a butadiene-selective solvent into a stream (e1) comprising butadiene and the selective solvent and a stream (e2) comprising n-butenes; F) distilling the stream (e1) comprising butadiene and the selective solvent into a stream (f1) consisting essentially of the selective solvent and a stream (f2) comprising butadiene, charactersied in that step Cb) comprises at least two compression stages Cba) and at least two cooling stages Cbb), which are designed as quench columns, in the cooling stage, the cooling takes place by bringing into direct contact with the two phase cooling medium having an aqueous and an organic phase.
摘要:
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.