Abstract:
1. A PROCESS FOR CARRYING OUT AN EXOTHERMIC CATALYTIC HYDROGENATION WITH MOLECULAR HYDROGEN OF A CARBON-CARBON TRIPLE OR DOUBLE BOND, AN AROMATIC RING, A CARBONYL GROUP, A NITRO GROUP, A NITRILE GROUP, AN OXIME GROUP, AN AMINOIXDE GROUP, AN ACID CHLORIDE GROUP, A BENZYL ESTER GROUP, OR A BENZYL EHTER GROUP OF AN ORGANIC COMPOUND IN AN EXOTHERMIC REACTION IN A BODY OF LIQUID HAVING SUSPENDED OR DISSOLVED THEREIN A SOLID, FINELY DIVIDED HYDROGENATION CATALYST OF A CATALYTIC METAL SELECTED FROM THE GROUP CONSISTING OF PLATINUM, PALLADIUM, RHODIUM, RUTHENIUM, NICKEL AND COBALT, WHICH COMPRISES WITHDRAWING A PORTION OF SAID LIQUID FROM SAID BODY, RECYCLING THE WITHDRAWN PORTION BY INTRODUCING THE LATTER THROUGH A FIRST NOZZLE INTO SAID BODY OF LIQUID AT A POINT BELOW THE SURFACE OF SAID BODY AND INTO A SMALL CYLINDRICAL TUBE IMMERSED IN SAID BODY AND HAVING AN INLET, INTRODUCING HYDROGEN THROUGH ANOTHER NOZZLE IN SAID BODY OF LIQUID AND INTO SAID INLET OPENING, THE RECYCLED LIQUID HAVING A VELOCITY OF 5-100 METER PER SECOND AT ITS POINT OF INTRODUCTION INTO SAID BODY, THE RATIO OF THE VOLUME OF THE RECYCLED LIQUID TO THE VOLUME OF HYDROGEN INTRODUCED THROUGH THIER RESEPECTIVE NOZZLES BEING FROM 1:5 TO 1:01, THE EXOTHERMIC HYDROGENATION ACTION OCCURING IN SAID CYLINDRICAL TUBE AS THE HYDROGEN AND LIQUID JET FROM THE INLET OPENING OF SAID TUBE AND THROUGH SAID TUBE, INDUCING BY THE JETTING ACTION OF SAID LIQUID IN SAID BODY OF LIQUID IN SAID CYLINDIRCAL TUBE A CIRCULATION OF ADDITIONAL LIQUID DRAWN THROUGH SAID CYLINDRICAL TUBE IN AN AMOUNT OF ABOUT 10 TO 100 TIMES THE AMOUNT OF THE RECYCLED LIQUID SUPPLIED THROUGH SAID FIRST NOZZLE, SAID ADDITIONAL LIQUID ALSO DRAWN DISSIPATING IMMEDIATELY THE HEAT OF THE EXOTHERMIC HYDROGENATION ACTION IN SAID CYLINDRICAL TUBE, AND THE INLET OPENING OF SAID TUBE HAVING A MEAN DIAMETER OF 2 TO 20 TIMES THE MEAN DIAMETER OF SAID FIRST NOZZLE AND THE CYLINDRICAL TUBE HAVING A LENGTH OF 3 TO 30 TIMES ITS HYDRAULIC DIAMETER.
Abstract:
In the oxidative dehydrogenation of organic compounds by means of free halogen, it is an advantage to obtain the free halogen as a result of ammonium halide splitting by bringing an aqueous ammonium halide solution into contact with a flame produced by burning hydrogen or combustible organic gases with oxygen or oxygen-containing gases.
Abstract:
AQUEOUS AMMONIUM IODIDE SOLUTIONS ARE OBTAINED BY QUENCHING THE GASEOUS REACTION MIXTURE RESULTING FROM THE REACTION, AT FROM 300 TO 1,000*C., OF IODINE WITH AMMONIA IN AN EXCESS OF FROM 10 TO 20 TIMES MOLAR, WITH WATER AT TEMPERATURES ABOVE 70*C.
Abstract:
Dehydrogenation of isobutyronitrile, ethylbenzene or methyl isobutyrate with iodine and oxygen into methacrylonitrile, styrene or methyl methacrylate at 400* to 800*C is carried out in a reaction chamber in which there are arranged, in the direction of flow of the bulk of the reactants introduced through a nozzle, coaxially from inside to outside first a mixing zone and then a circulation tube.
Abstract:
THE INVENTION RELATES TO A METHOD OF MIXING A GAS WITH LIQUIDS IN A TUBULAR REACTOR BY FEEDING THE GAS AND THE LIQUIDS TO A MIXING zONE. THE INVENTION ALSO RELATES TO AN SEPARATUS FOR CARRYING OUT THIS METHOD. RAPID MIXING ID EFFECTIVE BY FEEDING A STREAM OF LIQUID TO THE MIXING ZONE THROUGH ONE OR MORE NOZZELS WHOSE AXS EXTEND IN THE SAME DIRECTION AS THE AXIS OF THE MIXING ZONE, IN INJECTED LIQUID HAVING A VELOCITY OF FROM 5 TO 100 M./S., WHILST A SECOND STREAM OF LIQUID OF MUCH LOWER VELOCITY IS INTRODUCED INTO THE REACTOR INLET ZONE SURROUNDING SAID NOZZEL. THE GAS IS FED TO THE MIXING ZONE THROUGH ONE
OR MORE GAS INLETS LOCATED NEAR THE ORIFIECES OF THE LIQUID NOZZELS. THE MEAN CROSS-SECTIONAL AREA OF THE MIXING ZONE BEARS A SPECIFIC RATIO TO THE CROSS-SECTIONAL AREA OF THE ORIFICES OF THE LIQUID NOZZLES AND THE LENGTH OF THE MIXING ZONE BEARS A SPECIFIC RATIO TO THE HYDROLIC DIAMETER THEREOF. THE METHOD AND APPARATUS ARE PARTICULARLY SUITABLE FOR CARRYING OUT REACTIONS IN WHICH SHORT RESIDENCE TIMES ARE DESIRABLE AND THE REACTION PRODUCTS MUST NOT RECONTACT THE STARTING MATERIALS.
Abstract:
A PROCESS FOR REMOVING RESIDUAL AMOUNTS OF CARBON DIOXIDE FROM PURE ACETYLENE (WHICH HAS BEEN OBTAINED BY THERMAL CRACKING OF HYDROCARBONS AFTER A MAIN WASHING OF THE CRACKED GAS WITH DIETHANOLAMINE FOR REMOVAL OF THE MAJOR PORTION OF C02 AND SEPARATION OF THE OTHER COMPONENTS OF THE CRACKED GAS) WHICH COMPRISES FIRST GIVING THE PURE ACETYLENE A PRELIMINARY WASH WITH THE REGENERATED DIETHANOLAMINE SOLUTION FROM THE MAIN CO2 WASH, THEN FURTHER WASHING IT WITH A FRESH DIETHANOLAMINE SOLUTION SERVING TO REPLENISH THE WASH SOLUTION OF THE MAIN C02 WASH, COMBINING THE TWO WASH SOLUTIONS AND RESUPPLYING THEM TO THE MAIN CO2 WASH CYCLE.
Abstract:
AN IMPROVED PROCESS FOR THE RECOVERY OF PHTHALONITRILES FROM HOT REACTION GASES CONTAINING THE SAME BY CONTACTING THE HOT REACTION GASES WITH A COOLANT WHICH IS AT A TEMPERATURE OF FROM 40* TO 200*C. AND COOLING THEM DOWN AT A RATE OF MORE THAN 350*C. PER SECONDS, THE COOLANT BEING WATER, BENZONITRILE OR O-TOLUNITRILE WHICH FROM RRECYCLING CONTAINS 2 TO 40% PHTHALONITRILES. O-PHTHALONITRILE IS SUITABLE FOR THE PRODUCTION OF PHTHALOCYANINES WHICH ARE VALUABLE PIGMENTS, TEREPHTHALONITRILE AND ISOPHTHALONITRILES CAN BE REDUCED TO THE CORRESPONDING DIAMINES WHICH ARE STARTING MATERIALS FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF POLYAMIDES WHICH CAN BE USED FOR THE PRODUCTION OF FIBERS.