Abstract:
The present invention relates to a process for reacting an aromatic hydrocarbon containing aromatic sulphur compounds, or a mixture of aromatic hydrocarbons containing aromatic sulphur compounds, where appropriate in the presence of hydrogen, comprising a first step of removing aromatic sulphur compounds (step a) and a second step of hydrogenating an aromatic hydrocarbon or mixture of aromatic hydrocarbons in the presence of a supported ruthenium catalyst in the presence of hydrogen (step b).
Abstract:
The present application describes a process for regenerating a ruthenium catalyst for the hydrogenation of benzene, which comprises flushing the catalyst with inert gas in a regeneration step until the original or part of the original activity is attained.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a method for the continuous heterogeneously catalyzed partial dehydration of at least one hydrocarbon to be dehydrated in a reactor, said reactor being produced from a composite material. On its side contacting the reaction chamber, the reactor consists of a steel B having a specific elemental composition, which, on the side facing away from the reaction chamber, is plated either directly or via an intermediate copper, or nickel or copper and nickel layer onto a steel A having a specific elemental composition. The invention also relates to methods for partial oxidations of the dehydrated hydrocarbon and to the reactor as such. Steel A is a high-grade chromium-nickel steel having a low Si content (
Abstract:
Disclosed is a method for the heterogeneously catalyzed partial gas phase oxidation of propene into acrolein, according to which the initial reaction gas mixture is oxidized on a fixed catalyst bed that comprises at least two fixed catalyst bed zones and is accommodated in two successive temperature zones A, B, the transition of temperature zone A to temperature zone B not coinciding with a transition from one fixed catalyst bed zone to another.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a tube bundle reactor having a flat feed dome. Alternatively, the discharge dome can also be designed flat. The flat design reduces the reaction heat developing in the hood in reaction types that take place not only in the tube bundle (non-catalyzed reactions and reactions with homogenously distributed catalyst). Undesired reactions that already take place in the dome due to accumulated heat are thus heavily suppressed, whereby greater selectivity in temperature-sensitive reactions is achieved. Additionally, the temperature distribution within the domes can be precisely controlled. The tube bundle reactor comprises a tube bundle that has a feed end connected to a feed dome of the tube bundle reactor, wherein the feed dome is designed in a flat shape having a cross-sectional surface at the feed end and an inner volume, and the ratio of the inner volume to the cross-sectional surface is less than 0.35 m. The invention is furthermore implemented by a method for operating a tube bundle reactor, comprising: introducing a reactant mixture into a tube bundle and converting at least a portion of the reactant mixture into a product inside the tube bundle. The introduction step comprises: feeding the reactant mixture into an inner space of a feed dome of the tube bundle reactor and forwarding the reactant mixture into a feed end of the tube bundle in the form of a fluid flow. The fluid flow has a cross-sectional surface upon entering the feed end and the inner space of the feed dome through which the fluid flows has an inner volume; wherein the ratio of the inner volume to the cross-sectional surface is less than 0.35 m.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a method for the heterogeneously catalysed partial gas phase oxidation of propene to form acrylic acid. According to said method, the initial mixture of reaction gas containing propene is oxidised, in a first reaction step, on a fixed-bed catalyst bed (1) consisting of a plurality of fixed-bed catalyst bed zones and arranged in two successive temperature zones A and B. The acrolein-containing product gas mixture of the first reaction step is then oxidised, in a second reaction step, on a fixed-bed catalyst bed (2) consisting of a plurality of fixed-bed catalyst bed zones and arranged in two successive temperature zones C and D. The transition from one temperature zone to another temperature zone does not spatially coincide with a transition from a fixed-bed catalyst bed zone to another fixed-bed catalyst bed zone within a reaction step.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a method for the continuous heterogeneously catalyzed partial dehydration of at least one hydrocarbon to be dehydrated in a reactor, said reactor being produced from a composite material. On its side contacting the reaction chamber, the reactor consists of a steel B having a specific elemental composition, which, on the side facing away from the reaction chamber, is plated either directly or via an intermediate copper, or nickel or copper and nickel layer onto a steel A having a specific elemental composition. The invention also relates to methods for partial oxidations of the dehydrated hydrocarbon and to the reactor as such. Steel A is a high-grade chromium-nickel steel having a low Si content (