摘要:
A method for controlling the filling status of particulate solids in a solids container is provided using an apparatus comprising an empty/full indication device comprising a conduit structure, having a vertically opened upper end and a vertically opened lower end, wherein the vertically opened upper end is in open communication with the upper end portion of the solids container at the location of a predetermined full level and the vertically opened lower is in open communication with the lower end portion of the solids container at the location of a predetermined empty level. The conduit structure has a configuration such that when the level of the particulate solids being fed into the solids container reaches the predetermined full level, the particulate solids flow into the vertically opened upper end of the conduit structure by gravity through to the vertically opened lower end of the conduit structure; and, as the level of particulate solids being dispersed out of the solids container drops below the predetermined empty level, substantially of the particulate material within the conduit structure flows, by gravity, into the lower end portion of the solids container.
摘要:
Phenol is extracted with a chlorinated aromatic extractant, such as p-dichlorobenzene, from an aqueous mixture containing phenol and N-methylpyrrolidone. In an embodiment of this invention the purified N-methylpyrrolidone is recycled for use in a poly(phenylene sulfide) polymerization process.
摘要:
A polymerization process wherein a slurry of polymer and diluent is passed from the polymerization zone to a flash zone, then polymer solids having residual diluent carried thereon are passed to a purge zone wherein a heated noncombustible gas is used to remove additional amounts of diluent, and then the vapor purge zone is condensed and cooled to produce a vapor stream comprising said noncombustible gas and a liquid stream comprising diluent.
摘要:
A method for dehydrating pre-polymerization mixtures in the preparation of poly(arylene sulfide) in which a reaction mixture of a sulfur source and an organic amide are contacted at a first pressure within a range of about 20 psig to about 60 psig and an initial temperature in a range of about 300.degree. F. to 400.degree. F. to form a complex of the reactants with the mixture subsequently subjected to a decrease in pressure while elevating the temperature to a second temperature at which, at the chosen pressure, essentially all water is removed from the mixture. Other compounds including bases, alkali metal carboxylates, alkali metal carbonates, lithium halides, and lithium borate can be present in the reaction mixture. Preferably the sulfur source is sodium sulfide and the organic amide is N-methylpyrrolidone.
摘要:
A method and apparatus are provided in a pipeloop reactor system for recovery of soluble catalyst components from polymer slurry effluent into the pipe-loop reactor. The polymer slurry is collected in a wash column attached to the upper run of the loop reactor; the slurry is allowed to settle through a countercurrent flow of wash liquid, the liquid used for wash, being one in which catalyst components are soluble; the washed slurry is collected in a settling leg attached to the wash column; and wash liquid containing catalyst components is overflowed into the reactor loop. In peferred embodiments of the invention the wash liquid is subjected to auto-refrigeration before being admitted into the wash column. In another preferred embodiment unreacted monomer feed is recovered from the polymer slurry, purified, and recycled as wash liquid. In still another embodiment of the invention the flow of polymer from the reactor loop into the wash column is mechanically restricted.
摘要:
Dimethyl formamide when used as an absorption solvent to remove acetylenes from olefin-containing gas streams acts as well as a promoter for the oxidative conversion of H.sub.2 S, COS and/or CS.sub.2, also contained in the feed stream, to elemental sulfur. Thus both acetylenes and sulfur compounds are efficiently removed from such olefin-containing gas streams as coke oven gas. Further, the loss of dimethyl formamide entrained and vaporized by the deacetylenized gas stream leaving the dimethyl formamide absorber is substantially reduced or effectively eliminated by the injection of a stream of liquid selected from the group consisting of paraffinic hydrocarbons having 4-8 carbon atoms per molecule containing at least one tertiary carbon atom per molecule and aromatic hydrocarbons having 6-10 carbon atoms per molecule above the point of injection of the dimethyl formamide solvent stream to the absorption column. This liquid stream injection is particularly advantageous when the stream is also a reactant in a downstream alkylation process.
摘要:
The effluent of a disproportionation reactor comprising alkali metal salts of aromatic polycarboxylic acids and a dispersant is flash evaporated so as to separate the effluent into a vapor phase comprising the vaporized dispersant and a solid phase comprising the alkali metal salts of the aromatic polycarboxylic acids.
摘要:
In one embodiment, a process is provided for treating virgin poly(arylene sulfide) resins, wherein a heated polymer slurry, comprising a virgin poly(arylene sulfide) resin and water is contacted by an acidic treating solution comprising at least an acidic component, wherein the amount of the acidic component in the acidic treating solution is less than the amount necessary to result in at least a partial curing of the virgin poly(arylene sulfide) resin. In a second embodiment, the process is provided for treating a virgin poly(arylene sulfide) resin, wherein the virgin poly(arylene sulfide) resin is slurried with an aqueous acidic treating solution comprising an acidic component and an aqueous component and the concentration of the acidic component in the aqueous acidic treating solution is less than the amount necessary to result in at least a partial curing of the virgin poly(arylene sulfide) resin. The polymer slurry is then heated to an elevated temperature, below the melting point of the virgin resin, while in the substantial absence of a gaseous oxidizing atmosphere.
摘要:
Improved process for the separation of a hydrocarbon-containing feedstream comprising monomer, comonomer and diluent into separate product streams which comprises subjecting the feedstream to two-stage distillation provided with a common accumulation zone wherein the condensate from the accumulation zone serves as the source of feed for the second distillation and reflux for the first distillation. In a specific embodiment, a feed comprising ethylene, 1-hexene, and isobutane is separated into separate streams of 1-hexene, ethylene and isobutane, and isobutane for recycle to polymerization.
摘要:
A method for removing carbonaceous impurity from zinc oxide by contacting a water slurry of contaminated zinc oxide with oxygen in a reactor at reaction conditions sufficient to produce oxide products of the carbon contaminants and passing the reactor effluent through a filter to collect solid zinc oxide while passing the oxides of carbon through the filter. In a preferred embodiment, contaminated zinc oxide separated from the reaction product in the preparation of terephthalic acid from benzoic acid using zinc benzoate catalyst is subjected to treatment for removal of carbonaceous contaminants before being recycled to reaction with molten benzoic acid to produce zinc benzoate catalyst used in the reaction.