Abstract:
Carbon monoxide is removed from material streams by adsorption to an adsorption composition containing oxides of copper, zinc and zirconium, the copper-containing fraction of which has a degree of reduction, expressed as weight ratio of metallic copper to the sum of metallic copper and copper oxides, calculated as CuO, of at least 45%, and at most 75%.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a process for recovering components from a low boiler mixture which is obtained in the distillation of hydrogenation effluents from the preparation of polymethylols, by multistage distillation of the low boiler mixture comprising a tertiary amine, water, methanol, polymethylol of the formula (I) methylolalkanal of the formula (II) alcohol of the formula (III) and an alkanal with a methylene group in the α position to the carbonyl group, and in which each R is independently a further methylol group or an alkyl group having 1 to 22 carbon atoms or an aryl or aralkyl group having 6 to 22 carbon atoms, a first distillation stage involving separating the low boiler mixture into a higher-boiling, predominantly water-rich fraction and into a lower-boiling aqueous organic fraction comprising the tertiary amine, and the second distillation stage involving separating the aqueous organic fraction from the first distillation stage into a predominantly amine-containing fraction and a further amine-depleted fraction, wherein the tertiary amine is trimethylamine or triethylamine, and the bottom temperature in the second distillation stage is 110° C. and more.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a process for preparing polymethylol compounds of the formula (I) in which R is in each case independently a further methylol group or an alkyl group having from 1 to 22 carbon atoms or an aryl or aralkyl group having from 6 to 22 carbon atoms, by condensing aldehydes having from 2 to 24 carbon atoms in an aldol reaction with formaldehyde using tertiary amines as a catalyst to give alkanals of the formula (II) in which R is in each case independently as defined above, and the subsequent hydrogenation thereof. What is special and inventive about this process is that the aldol reaction is carried out with an aqueous formaldehyde solution having a formic acid content of
Abstract:
The invention relates to a method for producing optionally alkyl-substituted 1,4-butanediol by means of two-stage catalytic hydration in the gas phase, comprising the following steps: a) a gas stream of C4-dicarboxylic acid or a derivative thereof is fed into a first reactor and the gas phase is catalytically hydrated so as to obtain a product mainly containing optionally alkyl-substituted y-butyrolactone; b) the obtained product stream is fed into a second reactor and the gas phase is catalytically hydrated so as to obtain optionally alkyl-substituted 1,4-butanediol; c) the desired product is separated from intermediate products, by-products, and an optionally unreacted starting material. A catalyst comprising = 95 percent by weight of CuO and = 5 percent by weight of an oxidic carrier is used in each hydration stage. The product mixture obtained in the first hydration step is introduced into the second hydration stage without further cleaning said product mixture.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a process for preparing polymethylol compounds of the formula (I) in which R is in each case independently a further methylol group or an alkyl group having from 1 to 22 carbon atoms or an aryl or aralkyl group having from 6 to 22 carbon atoms, by condensing aldehydes having from 2 to 24 carbon atoms in an aldol reaction with formaldehyde using tertiary amines as a catalyst to give alkanals of the formula (II) in which R is in each case independently as defined above, and the subsequent hydrogenation thereof. What is special and inventive about this process is that the aldol reaction is carried out with an aqueous formaldehyde solution having a formic acid content of