Abstract:
Crude liquid vinyl acetate comprising as the principal components, vinyl acetate, acetic acid, water, and ethyl acetate, is purified by introducing the liquid vinyl acetate into a single distillation zone, withdrawing an azeotropic mixture consisting essentially of vinyl acetate and water as the head product from said zone, separating said azeotropic mixture into a water phase and a vinyl acetate phase, recycling a sufficient quantity of said vinyl acetate phase to the top of said distillation zone to cause removal, by means of said head product, of a major portion of the water originally contained in the crude liquid vinyl acetate, withdrawing from the bottom of the zone acetic acid substantially free of vinyl acetate and containing from aboout 0.5 to 6% by weight of water and some of the ethyl acetate initially present in said crude liquid vinyl acetate, and withdrawing a side stream comprising ethyl acetate, acetic acid, vinyl acetate, and water from said distillation zone at a point intermediate the eighth and sixteenth distillation trays in said zone.
Abstract:
A crude hydrocarbon mixture containing isoprene and isobutene in addition to formaldehyde monomer and polymers, such as is obtained by cracking 4,4-dimethyl-1,3-dioxane, is subjected to distillation in a column which is supplied near its head with liquid water, fouling of the column thereby being reduced and the distillate being obtained in higher purity.
Abstract:
Nitrobenzene is reduced to aniline with hydrogen under elevated temperatures and pressure in the presence of a catalyst containing 0.1 to 10 percent by weight palladium and 0.1 to 5 percent by weight vanadium or a compound of vanadium on an aluminum oxide support wherein at least 20 percent thereof has been converted into lithium-aluminum spinel.
Abstract:
4,4-DIMETHYL-M-DIOXANE IS DECOMPOSED INTO ISOPRENE IN THE GASEOUS PHASE IN A FLUIDIZED BED OVER A CATALYST CONTAINING PHOSPHORIC ACID AND PREPARED BY SUSPENDING A SILICIC ACID FILLER HAVING A SPECIFIC SURFACE OF 30 TO 200 M.2/G. AND A KAOLINITE, MONTMORILLONITE OR ATTAPULGITE CLAY IN AN AQUEOUS STABLE SILICIC ACID SOL HAVING A SPECIFIC SURFACE AREA OF 150 TO 400 M.2/G. (DRY BASIS); ADDING TO THE RESULTING SUSPENSION A SUFFICIENT AMOUNT OF AN AQUEOUS SUSPENSION OF MAGNESIUM OXIDE TO SET THE SUSPENSION INTO BEADS; DRYING THE BEADS; HEATING THE BEADS TO 500 TO 1,000* C. FOR AT LEAST 10 MINUTES; ADDING THERETO 5 TO 30% PHOSPHORIC ACID; AND FURTHER HEATING THEM TO 300 TO 650*C.