Abstract:
A method of manufacturing ethylbenzene in high yield by catalytic aromatization of the C8-cycloolefins obtained in the dimerization of unsaturated C4-hydrocarbons is described. Byproducts attributable to cracking, isomerization and decomposition of the raw material into its starting materials are virtually not detectable in the reaction product. The aromatization product can therefore be converted to styrene without prior distillation or purification.
Abstract:
THE PRODUCTION OF STYRENE BY DEHYDROGENATION OF ETHYLBENZENE WITH OXYGEN OR A GAS CONTAINING MOLECULAR OXYGEN IN THE PRESENCE OF IODINE, ISOLATION OF THE CRUDE STYRENE AND DISTILLATION OF THE CRUDE STYRENE WITH THE RECOVERY OF PURE STYRENE, WHEREIN THE CRUDE STYRENE IS IN PART CATALYTICALLY HYDROGENATED. STYRENE IS AN IMPORTANT MONOMER.
Abstract:
A gas mixture (obtained by thermal cracking of hydrocarbons followed by quenching of the cracked gas and freed from carbon dioxide and water) is separated into a gas mixture containing hydrogen, carbon monoxide and methane and another gas mixture containing ethylene, acetylene and higher hydrocarbons by (a) cooling the gas mixture which is at superatmospheric pressure in at least one condensation stage to a temperature which is above the solidification temperature of acetylene mixed with the other condensed constituents, (b) separating the condensate thus obtained and subdividing it in a rectifying column into a first mixture containing C2 hydrocarbons and a second mixture containing C3 and higher hydrocarbons, and (c) freeing the residual gas remaining from (a) from residual acetylene and ethylene in a scrubber by treatment with some of the mixture consisting of C3 and higher hydrocarbons from (b).