摘要:
Processes for decreasing fumaric acid deposits in preparing maleic anhydride by heterogeneously catalyzed oxidation of a hydrocarbon with molecular oxygen. Maleic anhydride is absorbed from the crude mixture in an absorbent in an absorption column and desorbed in a desorption column, the entirety or portion of absorbent depleted in maleic anhydride, for controlled precipitation of fumaric acid, being cooled and/or concentrated by evaporating a portion of absorbent such that the difference between the concentration of fumaric acid in the recycle stream at the outlet of the desorption column under existing conditions and the equilibrium concentration of fumaric acid according to the solubility curve after cooling and/or evaporation of a portion of absorbent is ≧250 ppm by weight, and the fumaric acid precipitated as a solid is removed completely or partly from the absorbent recycling system and the fumaric acid-depleted absorbent is recycled completely or partly to the absorption column.
摘要:
Process for preparing maleic anhydride by heterogeneously catalyzed gas-phase oxidation of hydrocarbons having at least four carbon atoms by means of oxygen-containing gases at from 350 to 500° C. in the presence of a volatile phosphorus compound over a vanadium-, phosphorus- and oxygen-containing catalyst in a shell-and-tube reactor unit having at least one reaction zone cooled by means of a heat transfer medium, in which the temperature and/or the amount of the heat transfer medium flowing into the first (relative to the feed direction) reaction zone are set so that the mean temperature of the heat transfer medium in the first reaction zone TSB(1st zone), which is calculated as the mean of the inflow temperature and the outflow temperature of the heat transfer medium, is in accordance with the formulae (I) and (II) TSB(1st zone)≦TR(1st zone)−TSafety(1st zone) (I) TSB, Ymax(1st zone)−TA(1st zone)≦TSB(1st zone)≦TSB, Ymax(1st zone)+TB(1st zone), (II) where TR(1st zone) is the runaway temperature of the first reaction zone; TSafety(1st zone) is the safety temperature of the first reaction zone and has a value of 1° C.; TSB, Ymax(1st zone) is the mean temperature of the heat transfer medium in the first reaction zone at which the maximum maleic anhydride yield is achieved in the range TSB(1st zone)≦TR(1st zone); TA(1st zone) is 20° C.; and TB(1st zone) is 10° C.
摘要:
Disclosed is a method for producing a catalyst containing vanadium, phosphorus, and oxygen, which is used for oxidizing the gas phase of a hydrocarbon having at least four carbon atoms to maleic anhydride. According to the inventive method, a corresponding catalyst precursor which contains vanadium, phosphorus, and oxygen and is provided with particles having an average diameter of at least 2 mm is converted into a catalytically active form by means of calcination, and a flow of the catalyst precursor is transported on a conveyor belt across at least one calcination area over a distance ln at an essentially steady speed in order to be calcinated. The variation over time of the gas temperature in relation to the set point value amounts to ≦5 ° C. at each position in the area of the flow of the catalyst precursor, which lies within the second half ln/2 of the calcination area, while the local difference in the gas temperature between any positions in the area of the flow of the catalyst precursor, which is located within the second half lnn/2 of the calcination area, amounts to ≦5 ° C.
摘要:
The invention relates to a process for the preparation of halobenzaldehydes of the formula (I): ##STR1## in which Hal is fluorine, chlorine, bromine or iodine and z=1, 2, 3 or 4, by catalytic gas-phase oxidation of a substituted toluene of the formula (II), ##STR2## by oxygen, which comprises carrying out the oxidation in the presence of a catalyst of the formula (III)Me.sup.1.sub.a Me.sup.2.sub.b Me.sup.3.sub.c O.sub.x (III),in which Me.sup.1 is bismuth or vanadium, Me.sup.2 is at least one of the elements selected from the group consisting of lithium, sodium, potassium, rubidium and cesium, Me.sup.3 is at least one element selected from the group consisting of iron, cobalt, nickel, niobium, molybdenum, arsenic, tin, antimony, tungsten, tantalum, phosphorus, chromium, manganese, palladium, copper, zinc, cerium, silver, boron, samarium, barium, calcium, magnesium and rhenium, and the letters a, b and c represent an atomic ratio of the respective elements such that when a=1, b has a value in the range from 0.1 to 2 and c has a value in the range from 0.05 to 2, different values for b and c being possible for different elements Me.sup.2 or Me.sup.3.
摘要:
The present invention relates to a process for preparing tetrahydrofuran by absorption of C4-dicarboxylic acids and/or derivatives thereof from a crude product mixture into an organic solvent or water as absorption medium, removal of the absorption medium, catalytic hydrogenation of the resulting C4-dicarboxylic acids and/or derivatives thereof and distillation of the water-comprising crude tetrahydrofuran in at least one distillation column, wherein THF-comprising waste streams from the distillation are catalytically hydrogenated with complete or partial recirculation to the process.
摘要:
What is described is a process for obtaining maleic anhydride by distillation from a solution of maleic anhydride in a high-boiling absorbent which has been obtained by gas phase oxidation of a hydrocarbon and at least partial absorption of the oxidation products into the absorbent, by i) introducing the solution into the side of a feed column with a rectifying section disposed above the feed point and a stripping section disposed below the feed point, ii) providing an upper combining column which communicates with the upper end of the rectifying section and a lower combining column which communicates with the lower end of the stripping section, iii) providing a draw column which communicates with the upper combining column and the lower combining column, iv) drawing maleic anhydride off as a side draw from the draw column, and drawing off compounds having a lower boiling point than maleic anhydride at the top of the upper combining column and the high-boiling absorbent at the bottom of the lower combining column. The maleic anhydride obtained as a side draw has a low content of acrylic acid and acetic acid.
摘要:
A process for the selective preparation of acetic acid from a gaseous feed comprising ethane, ethylene or mixtures thereof plus oxygen at elevated temperature, which comprises bringing the gaseous feed into contact with a catalyst comprising the elements Mo, Pd, Re, X and Y in gram atom ratios a:b:c:d:e in combination with oxygenMo.sub.a Pd.sub.b Re.sub.c X.sub.d Y.sub.e (I)where the symbols X, Y have the following meanings:X=Cr, Mn, Nb, B, Ta, Ti, V and/or WY=Bi, Ce, Co, Cu, Te, Fe, Li, K, Na, Rb, Be, Mg, Ca, Sr, Ba, Ni, P, Pb, Sb, Si, Sn, Tl and/or U;the indices a, b, c, d and e are the gram atom ratios of the corresponding elements, wherea=1, b>0, c>0, d=0.05-2, e=0-3.
摘要:
What is described is a process for obtaining maleic anhydride by distillation from a solution of maleic anhydride in a high-boiling absorbent which has been obtained by gas phase oxidation of a hydrocarbon and at least partial absorption of the oxidation products into the absorbent, by i) introducing the solution into the side of a feed column with a rectifying section disposed above the feed point and a stripping section disposed below the feed point, ii) providing an upper combining column which communicates with the upper end of the rectifying section and a lower combining column which communicates with the lower end of the stripping section, iii) providing a draw column which communicates with the upper combining column and the lower combining column, iv) drawing maleic anhydride off as a side draw from the draw column, and drawing off compounds having a lower boiling point than maleic anhydride at the top of the upper combining column and the high-boiling absorbent at the bottom of the lower combining column. The maleic anhydride obtained as a side draw has a low content of acrylic acid and acetic acid.
摘要:
A process for preparing a vanadium, phosphorus, and oxygen catalyst precursor for preparing maleic anhydride by heterogeneously catalyzed gas-phase oxidation of a hydrocarbon having at least four carbon atoms, which comprises (a) reacting vanadium pentoxide with from 102 to 110% strength phosphoric acid in the presence of a primary or secondary, noncyclic or cyclic, unbranched or branched, saturated alcohol having from 3 to 6 carbon atoms in a temperature range from 80 to 160° C.; (b) isolating the precipitate formed; (c) setting an organic carbon content of ≦1.1% by weight in the isolated precipitate by heat treatment in a temperature range from 250 to 350° C., the heat-treated product, following the addition of 3.0% by weight of graphite, giving a powder X-ray diffraction diagram which in the 2θ region features a ratio of the height of the peak of any pyrophosphate phase present at 28.5° to the height of the peak due to the graphite at 26.6° of ≦0.1; and (d) shaping the heat-treated product obtained from step (c) into particles having an averaged diameter of at least 2 mm; a catalyst precursor obtainable from this process; a process for preparing a catalyst from the catalyst precursor; a catalyst obtainable from that process; and also a process for preparing maleic anhydride over that catalyst.
摘要:
Process for preparing maleic anhydride by heterogeneously catalyzed gas-phase oxidation of hydrocarbons having at least four carbon atoms by means of oxygen-containing gases at from 350 to 500° C. in the presence of a volatile phosphorus compound over a vanadium-, phosphorus- and oxygen-containing catalyst in a shell-and-tube reactor unit having at least one reaction zone cooled by means of a heat transfer medium, in which the temperature and/or the amount of the heat transfer medium flowing into the first (relative to the feed direction) reaction zone are set so that the mean temperature of the heat transfer medium in the first reaction zone TSB(1st zone), which is calculated as the mean of the inflow temperature and the outflow temperature of the heat transfer medium, is in accordance with the formulae (I) and (II) TSB(1st zone)≦TR(1st zone)−TSafety(1st zone) (I) TSB, Ymax(1st zone)−TA(1st zone)≦TSB(1st zone)≦TSB, Ymax(1st zone)+TB(1st zone) (II), where TR(1st zone) is the runaway temperature of the first reaction zone; TSafety(1st zone) is the safety temperature of the first reaction zone and has a value of 1° C.; TSB, Ymax(1st zone) is the mean temperature of the heat transfer medium in the first reaction zone at which the maximum maleic anhydride yield is achieved in the range TSB(1st zone)≦TR(1st zone); TA(1st zone) is 20° C.; and TB(1st zone) is 10° C.