摘要:
A process for purifying technical grade 1,1-bis(chlorophenyl)-2,2,2-trichloroethanol for reducing its content of DDT related impurities, based on dissolving technical grade dicofol in a mixture of water and a first compound selected from the group formed by ethylene glycol monomethyl ether, acetonitrile, hydroxyacetone or dimethyl sulfoxide, to obtain a solution which is extracted with n-decane, separating the resulting phases. The dicofol extracted with the n-decane is recovered by reextraction of the n-decane phase with mixtures of said first compound and water and the purified dicofol is recovered from the polar phase.
摘要:
A process for the purification of propanediol-1,3, especially when produced by hydration of acrolein with water, including extracting the diol with cyclohexane. Preferably, from 2 to 10 parts by weight of cyclohexane per part by weight of diol is used. The purification is usually carried out below 60.degree. C.
摘要:
Cyclohexanol is removed from aqueous solutions containing it and aromatic sulfonic acids by extraction with one or more cyclohexyl ethers liquid under extraction conditions and having the formula ##STR1## where R is alkyl of from 1 to 16 catbon atoms, cycloalkyl of from 5 to 8 carbon atoms, aralkyl of from 7 to 10 carbon atoms or phenyl, which may additionally have substituents which are inert under reaction conditions.
摘要:
A method and apparatus for removing water from a liquid mixture of water and ethanol contacts it with liquid carbon dioxide so that the ethanol is preferentially transferred into solution, dries the solution using an adsorbent, and then recovers dry ethanol by distilling off the carbon dioxide. This process is particularly energy efficient especially when it includes a fermentation process to generate the ethanol and uses the carbon dioxide generated during the fermentation as the source of liquid carbon dioxide. In this case the method and apparatus provide an additional product of dry carbon dioxide.
摘要:
The process of extracting butyric acid and normal butanol from microbial fermentation broth, comprising contacting an aqueous solution of a microbial fermentation broth with vinyl bromide to extract any butyric acid and normal butanol which is present from the fermentation broth into the vinyl bromide. The vinyl bromide is thereafter separated from the aqueous fermentation broth and then evaporated, leaving the butyric acid and/or normal butanol in substantially pure, isolated form.
摘要:
A process is presented for extracting polar organic compounds, in particular lower aliphatic alcohols, out of their aqueous solutions, which is based on the use of fluids which contain a significant amount of polyoxaalkanols, polyoxaalkanediols and/or polyoxaalkanepolyols. These compounds, by virtue of their high molar masses, their low solubility in water and their good affinity for polar organic compounds, are particularly suitable for use as extractants.
摘要:
A process is disclosed for the production of aliphatic alcohol by the direct hydration of an olefinic hydrocarbon. The process is directed to the production of isopropyl alcohol. The process includes the recovery of the alcohol from a water-rich hydration zone effluent stream by countercurrent liquid-liquid extraction against a paraffinic solvent. The solvent is derived from paraffins originally admixed with the olefin-containing feed stream, and the raffinate stream comprises water which is recycled in the process. Expensive product fractionation is eliminated in the production of a fuel grade isopropyl alcohol.
摘要:
Alcohol/water mixtures, such as those produced by fermentation of biomass material, are separated by extraction of alcohol with a solvent, comprising a higher aliphatic alcohol in major amount and an aliphatic hydrocarbon in minor amount, especially suited to such extraction and to subsequent removal. The solvent alcohol desirably has a branched chain, or the hydrocarbon an unsaturated bond, or both. Conventional distillation steps to concentrate alcohol and eliminate water are rendered unnecessary at a considerable reduction in heat energy requirement (usually met with fossil fuel). Optional addition of gasoline between the solvent extraction and solvent recovery steps not only aids the latter separation but produces alcohol already denatured for fuel use.
摘要:
A process for producing isopropyl alcohol and isopropyl tert-butyl ether from a mixture of light hydrocarbons containing propane and butane, comprises:(a) separating from the mixture of light hydrocarbons a propane fraction and a butane fraction containing at least n-butane;(b) isomerizing at least a portion of the n-butane in the butane fraction from step (a) whereby a hydrocarbon mixture containing at least n-butane and isobutane is formed;(c) catalytically dehydrogenating the isobutane in the hydrocarbon mixture from step (b) whereby a hydrocarbon mixture containing at least isobutene is produced;(d) catalytically dehydrogenating the propane in the propane fraction from step (a) whereby a hydrocarbon mixture containing at least propene is produced;(e) reacting the propene in the hydrocarbon mixture from step (d) with water, whereby a mixture containing hydrocarbons and isopropyl alcohol is formed;(f) reacting the isopropyl alcohol from step (e) with at least part of the isobutene in the hydrocarbon mixture from step (c) whereby a mixture containing hydrocarbons and isopropyl tert-butyl ether is formed;(g) recycling the hydrocarbons in the hydrocarbon mixture from step (e) to step (d), respectively;(h) recycling the hydrocarbons in the hydrocarbon mixture from step (f) to step (c); and(i) recovering at least the isopropyl tert-butyl ether.