Abstract:
The present invention provides for the use of water, rather than cumene, as a more environmentally acceptable diluent for purified cumene hydroperoxide (CHP) solutions. From 1 to about 6 weight percent water can be used to dilute purified CHP solutions, thus reducing or eliminating the use of a hazardous compound, as a diluent. The method and CHP-water solutions of the present invention should significantly reduce or eliminate the hazardous emissions problems encountered with the use of cumene as a diluent and make CHP solutions more environmentally acceptable to produce, transport and use. Water as a diluent also depresses the freezing point of the resultant solution, thereby permitting year-round use of higher concentration CHP solutions. Water diluted CHP solutions will also reduce cumene-related impurities in finished products made therefrom.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a method for oxidizing substrates such as hydrocarbons, waxes or soot. The method involves the use of a compound of formula (I) in which: R and R represent H, an aliphatic or aromatic alkoxy radical, carboxyl radical, alkoxycarbonyl radical or hydrocarbon radical, each having 1 to 20 hydrocarbon atoms, SO3H, NH2, OH, F, Cl, Br, I and/or NO2, whereby R and R designate identical or different radicals or R and R can be linked to one another via a covalent bonding; Q1 and Q2 represent C, CH, N, CR , each being the same or different; X and Z represent C, S, CH2, each being the same or different; Y represents O and OH; k = 0, 1, 2; l = 0, 1, 2; m = 1 to 3, and; R represents one of the meanings of R . Said compound is used as a catalyst in the presence of a radical initiator, whereby the molar ratio of the catalyst to the hydrocarbon is less than 10 mol %. Peroxy compounds or azo compounds can be used as the radical initiator. Preferred substrates are aliphatic or aromatic hydrocarbons.
Abstract:
Process for the oxidation of alkylaromatic hydrocarbons to hydroperoxide catalyzed by N-hydroxy derivatives in the presence of a solvent which includes recovering the catalyst from the oxidation mixture by the possible removal of the solvent by distillation and/or cooling of the oxidation mixture, with the consequent precipitation and filtration of the N-hydroxy-derivative catalyst, and adsorption with non-basic adsorbing solids for the substantially complete recovery of the catalyst.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a process for the alkylation of benzene with isopropanol (IPA) as alkylating agent, or blends of isopropanol and propylene, which comprises effecting said reaction completely in gaseous phase and in the presence of a catalytic system containing a zeolite belonging to the MTW family.
Abstract:
Horizontal reactor vessel (1) having a lower part (3) and two opposite ends (9, 10), which reactor vessel comprises a liquid inlet (13) at one end (9), a fluid outlet (14) at the opposite end (10) and a gas inlet device (17) arranged in the lower part (3), which reactor vessel contains at least one substantially vertical baffle-plate (23) arranged in the direction of liquid flow through the reactor vessel (1) during normal operation.
Abstract:
Process for the production in continuous or semi- continuous of phenol/acetone from cumene, via cumene hydroperoxide (CHP), which comprises: a. producing CHP in an air-lift reactor in which at least the upper and/or lower part of the downcomer has a flaring; b. cleaving the cumene hydroperoxide by means of acid treatment in a loop reactor comprising two heat exchangers connected in series and wherein the feedings of CHP and fresh acetone are in pairs and each pair is positioned upstream of each exchanger.
Abstract:
The present invention concerns a process for oxidizing cumene to cumene hydroperoxide using an oxygen containing gas, preferably air, which process comprises - conducting a cumene feed and an oxygen containing gas feed to at least the first oxidation reactor in a series of 3-8 reactors, thereby forming an oxidation mixture, and conducting the formed oxidation mixture from one reactor to the next, preferably after an oxidation reaction has taken place, wherein - the reactors comprise at least one lower pressure oxidizer (1) as the first reactor in the series and at least one higher pressure oxidizer (2) as the last reactor in the series; - any lower pressure oxidizer is operated at a pressure of at least atmospheric pressure and any higher pressure oxidizer is operated at a pressure of at least 0.5 bar higher than said at least one lower pressure oxidizer.
Abstract:
A process for oxidizing cumene to cumene hydroperoxide using an oxygen containing gas, which process composes - conducting a cumene feed and an oxygen containing gas feed to at least the first oxidation reactor in a series of 3-8 reactors, thereby forming an oxidation mixture, and - conducting the oxidation mixture from one oxidation reactor to at least one subsequent reactor, wherein - the reactors are operated with reducing liquid levels; - the oxidation is operated as a dry oxidation, whereby the only gaseous feeds conducted to the oxidation reactors are the cumene feed and the oxygen containing gas feed; - the oxygen containing gas feed is washed with caustic and then with water to remove all acidic or caustic traces before conducting it into an oxidation reactor; - the pressure within each oxidation reactor is in the range of 0-10 barg; - the off-gases from the top section of each oxidation reactor are separated and cooled, whereby a condensate containing unreacted cumene is formed, and - washing the condensate and recycling at least a part of it to at least the first oxidation reactor; - the non-condensed off-gases are treated in a thermal oxidizer; and - the first reactor in the series of oxidation reactors has a liquid inventory of 30- 300% larger than in the remaining reactors, preferably 50-100%, or the first two reactors in the series of oxidation reactors have a liquid inventory of 30— 300% larger than in the remaining reactors, preferably 50—100%.
Abstract:
The purpose of the present invention is to provide an advantageous method for accelerating the cumene oxidation reaction without the drawbacks of the above-described previously known approaches by utilizing one or more airlift- type tray installed in one or more conventional commercial reactors utilized during the cumene oxidation process. Such a method is of great use in process configurations where it is desirable to achieve a controlled acceleration of the cumene oxidation process without decreasing process selectivity.