Abstract:
DIENES ARE SEPARATED FROM ORGANIC MIXTURES COMPRISING DIENE AND ALKENE HAVING ONE DOUBLE BOND BY CONTACTING THE MIXTURE AGAINST ONE SIDE OF A POLYMERIC PERMEATION MEMBRANE, THE MEMBRANE HAVING A TRANSITION METAL MOLECULARLY DISPERSED THEREIN AND WITHDRAWING ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE MEMBRANE A VAPOROUS MIXTURE HAVING INCREASED DIENE CONCENTRATION. EXEMPLARY OF THE ORGANIC MIXTURE IS A MIXTURE OF BUTADIENE AND BUTENE. EXEMPLARY OF TRANSITION METAL IS SILVER AS ELEMENTAL SILVER AND AS SILVER TETRAFLUOROBORATE.
Abstract:
A MONOALKENE, SUCH AS STYRENE OR HEXENE, IS SEPARATED FROM ORGANIC MIXTURES COMPRISING SAID ALKENE AND ANOTHER ORGANIC COMPONENT OR COMPONENTS BY CONTACTING SAID MIXTURE UNDER PREVAPORATION PERMEATION CONDITIONS AGAINST ONE SIDE OF A POLYMERIC, PERMEATION MEMBRANE, THE MEMBRANE HAVING A TRANSITION METAL MOLECULARLY DISPERSED THEREIN AND WITHDRAWING ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE MEMBRANE A VAPOROUS MIXTURE HAVING A HIGHER CONCENTRATION OF ALKENE. THE TRANSITION METAL IS IN AN OXIDATION STATE AND IN A FORM WHICH PERMITS CHEMICAL INTERACTION WITH THE MONOALKENE. EXEMPLARY OF TRANSITION METAL IS SILVER AS ELEMENTAL SILVER AND AS SILVER TETRAFLUOROBORATE.
Abstract:
STYRENE IS SEPARATED FROM ORGANIC MIXTURES COMPRISING STYRENE AND ETHYLBENZENE BY CONTACTING THE MIXTURE (FEED MIXTURE) AGAINST ONE SIDE OF A POLYURETHANE ELASTOMER MEMBRANE UNDER PERVAPORTAION PERMEATION CONDITIONS AND WITHDRAWING AT THE OTHER SIDE A VAPOROUS MIXTURE HAVING INCREASED STYRENE CONCENTRATION. THE POLYURETHANE ELASTOMER EMPLOYED CONTAINS POLYETHER OR POLYESTER GROUPINGS. EXAMPLES OF POLYURETHANE ELASTOMER POLYMERS ARE POLYMERS OF THE FORMULA
Abstract:
AND WITHDRAWING AT THE OTHER SIDE A VAPOROUS MIXTURE HAVING INCREASED DIENE CONCENTRATION. Exemplary of the organic mixtures is a mixture of butadiene and butene.
Dienes are separated from organic mixtures comprising diene and alkene having one double bond by contacting the mixture against one side of a polymeric permeation membrane which is an aromatic imide polymer of the formula
Abstract:
WHEREIN R AND R'' ARE AROMATIC OR ALIPHATIC. EXEMPLARY OF THE POLYAMIDES ARE NYLON-6 AND NYLON 6, 10.
-(NH-R-NH-CO-R-CO)A- AND -(NH-R-CO)A-
STYRENE IS SEPARATED FROM ORGANIC MIXTURE COMPRISING STYRENE AND ETHYLBENZENE BY CONTACTING THE SAID MIXTURE UNDER PERVAPORATION PERMEATION CONDITIONS AGAINST ONE SIDE OF A POLYAMIDE PERMEATION MEMBRANE AND WITHDRAWING ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE MEMBRANE A VAPOROUS MIXTURE HAVING AN INCREASED CONCENTRATION OF STYRENE. THE POLYAMIDES HAVE UNITS SELECTED FROM THE GROUP CONSISTING OF
Abstract:
DIENES SUCH AS BUTADIENE AND ISOPRENE ARE SEPARATED FROM ORGANIC MIXTURES CONTAINING SAME BY CONTACTING THE MIXTURE AGAINST ONE SIDE OF A POLYMERIC MEMBRANE AND WITHDRAWING AT THE OTHER SIDE A VAPOROUS MIXTURE HAVING INCREASED DIENE CONCENTRATION. THE POLYMER MEMBRANE IS AN ACRYLONITRILE CONTAINING POLYMER WHICH IS (1) A COPOLYMER OF ACRYLONITRILE OR (2) A POLYMER BLEND CONTAINING ACRYLONITRILE POLYMER. EXEMPLARY OF THE POLYMER MEMBRANES ARE COPOLYMERS OF ACRYLONITRILE AND A STYRENE, VINYL ACETATE AND N-VINYLPYRROLIDONE AND BLENDS OF POLYACRYLONITRILE AND POLYSTYRENE, POLYVINYL ACETATE AND POLYVINYLPYRROLIDONE. EXEMPLARY OF THE ORGANIC MIXTURES IS A MIXTURE OF BUTADIENE AND BUTENE.
Abstract:
Dienes are separated from organic mixtures comprising diene and alkene having one double bond by contacting the mixture against one side of a glycidyl methacrylate polymer membrane and withdrawing at the other side a vaporous mixture having increased diene concentration. Exemplary of the organic mixtures is a mixture of butadiene and butene.
Abstract:
DIENES ARE SEPARATED FROM ORGANIC MIXTURES COMPRISING DIENE AND ALKENE HAVING ONE DOUBLE BOND BY CONTACTING THE MIXTURE AGAINST ONE SIDE OF POLY(N-VINYLPYRROLIDONE) MEMBRANE AND WITHDRAWING AT THE OTHER SIDE A VAPOROUS MIXTURE HAVING INCREASED DIENE CONCENTRATION. EXEMPLARY OF THE ORGANIC MIXTURES IS A MIXTURE OF BUTADIENE AND BUTENE.
Abstract:
Dienes are separated from organic mixtures comprising diene and alkene having one double bond by contacting the mixture against one side of a cyanoethyl cellulose membrane and withdrawing at the other side a vaporous mixture having increased diene concentration. Exemplary of the organic mixtures is a mixture of butadiene and butene. The cyanoethyl cellulose perferably has a degree of substitution (D.S.) of from about 0.57 to 3.0.
Abstract:
STYRENE IS SEPARATED FROM ORGANIC MIXTURES COMPRISING STYRENE AND ETHYLBENZENE BY CONTACTING THE MIXTURE AGAINST ONE SIDE OF A CYANOETHYL CELLULOSE MEMBRANE WITHDRAWING AT THE OTHER SIDE A VAPOROUS MIXTURE HAVING INCREASED STYRENE CONCENTRATION. THE CYANOETHYL CELLULOSE EMPLOYED PREFERABLY HAS A DEGREE OF SUBSTITUTION (D.S.) OF FROM ABOUT 0.5 TO 3.0.