Abstract:
The invention relates to a method for producing phthalic acid anhydride by means of heterogeneously catalysed gas phase oxidation, in a reactor comprising an element for guiding a reaction mixture in at one reactor end and an element for guiding the product mixture out at the opposite reactor end. The reactor also comprises devices for carrying off the reaction heat, through which heat exchanger agents flow and which are configured as heat exchanger plates, these devices being located in the inner chamber of the reactor.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a method for the production of maleic acid anhydride by heterogeneously catalysed gas phase oxidation in a reactor. Said reactor has a reaction mixture inlet at one end of the reactor and a product mixture outlet at the opposite end of the reactor and, within the reactor volume, a device for removal of the heat of reaction, which is arranged in the form of heat exchanger plates, with a heat exchange agent flowing through said plates.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a method for producing acrolein and/or acrylic acid from propane and/or propene, comprising the following steps: (a) separating the propane and/or propene from a gas mixture containing propane or propene by means of absorption into an absorption agent, (b) separating the propane and/or propene from the absorption agent thereby obtaining a gas B, and (c) using the gas B obtained in step (b) to convert propane and/or propene into acrolein and/or acrylic acid by means of oxidation. No heterogeneously catalysed dehydrogenation of propane is carried out between steps (b) and (c) without a supply of oxygen.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a method for safely carrying out a continuous, heterogeneously catalyzed gas phase partial oxidation of an organic compound in a reactor, the composition of the feedstock mixture being controlled by the pressure-regulated determination of concentration of relevant components.
Abstract:
Disclosed is a method for producing at least one partial propylene oxidation and/or ammoxidation product, according to which the propylene is produced from raw propane by means of dehydration and is subjected to a heterogeneously catalyzed partial gas phase oxidation and/or partial gas phase ammoxidation in the presence of unreacted propane as a component of a gas mixture 2 containing
Abstract:
The invention relates to a reactor for partial oxidation of a fluid reaction mixture in the presence of a heterogeneous particulate catalyst. Said reactor comprises one or several cuboid heat-transfer sheet modules (1) which are each composed of two or several right-angled heat-transfer sheets (2), arranged parallel to each other such as to form a slit (3) which can be filled with the heterogeneous particulate catalyst and through which the fluid reaction mixture flows, the heat of reaction being absorbed by a heat carrier which flows through the heat-transfer sheets (2) and at least partially evaporates. Said reactor also comprises a mainly cylindrical envelope (4, 15, 16) which depressurizes the heat-transfer sheet modules and fully surrounds said modules, said envelope being composed of a cylinder casing (4) and of caps (15, 16), closing said casing at both ends, the longitudinal axis of which extends parallel to the plane of said heat-transfer sheets (2). Said reactor finally comprises one or several sealing elements (7, 23), arranged so that the fluid reaction mixture flows only through the slit (3), except through the reactor interior spaces, defined by the caps (15, 16).
Abstract:
A process is proposed for monitoring, controlling and/or regulating reactions of a fluid reaction mixture in the presence of a heterogeneous particulate catalyst, in a reactor having two or more thermoplates ( 1 ) arranged vertically and parallel to each other while in each case leaving a gap ( 2 ), the heterogeneous particulate catalyst being installed in the gaps ( 2 ) and the fluid reaction mixture being passed through the gaps ( 2 ), which comprises selecting as a regulation signal the temperature which is determined in one or more gaps ( 2 ), at two or more measurement points which are distributed over the height of each gap ( 2 ).
Abstract:
Continuous heterogeneously catalyzed partial dehydrogenation of at least one hydrocarbon to be dehydrogenated in the gas phase involves at least one catalyst bed disposed in the reaction chamber and with generation of a product gas comprising the at least one dehydrogenated hydrocarbon, unconverted hydrocarbon to be dehydrogenated and molecular hydrogen and/or steam, is dehydrogenated partially in an oxidative or non-oxidative manner to at least one dehydrogenated hydrocarbon, and at least one product gas stream is withdrawn continuously from the reaction chamber. Process for continuous heterogeneously catalyzed partial dehydrogenation of at least one hydrocarbon to be dehydrogenated in the gas phase involves a reaction chamber enclosed by a shell which is in contact with the reaction chamber and has at least one first orifice for feeding at least one starting gas stream into the reaction chamber and at least one second orifice for withdrawing at least one product gas stream from the reaction chamber, at least one starting gas stream comprising at least one hydrocarbon to be dehydrogenated is fed continuously in the reaction chamber. The at least one hydrocarbon to be dehydrogenated is conducted through at least one catalyst bed disposed in the reaction chamber and with generation of a product gas comprising the at least one dehydrogenated hydrocarbon, unconverted hydrocarbon to be dehydrogenated and molecular hydrogen and/or steam, is dehydrogenated partially in an oxidative or non-oxidative manner to at least one dehydrogenated hydrocarbon, and at least one product gas stream is withdrawn continuously from the reaction chamber. The shell is manufactured from a composite material which, on its side B in contact with the reaction chamber, consists of steel B comprising (wt.%): chromium (18-30), nickel (9-37), silicon (1-4), aluminum (>=0-4), nitrogen (>=0-0.3), carbon (>=0-0.15), manganese (>=0-4), phosphorus (>=0-0.05), sulfur (>=0-0.05), and at least one rare earth metal (>=0-0.1), and iron and impurities resulting from production. The steel B, on its side A facing away from the reaction chamber, is plated either directly or via an intermediate layer of copper, and/or nickel, onto steel A comprising (wt.%): chromium (15-20), nickel (6-18), silicon (>=0-0.8), aluminum (>=0-0.8), nitrogen (>=0-0.3), carbon (>=0-0.15), molybdenum (>=0-4), manganese (>=0-2), titanium (>=0-0.8), niobium (>=0-1.2), vanadium (>=0-0.9), boron (>=0-0.1), phosphorus (>=0-0.05), sulfur (>=0-0.05), iron and impurities resulting from production, or a composition comprising (wt.%) Cr (19-23), Ni (30-35), Co (>=0-1), Si (>=0-1), Al (0.15-0.7), C (>=0-0.12), Mn (>=0-2), Cu (>=0-0.75), Ti (0.15-0.7), Nb (>=0-0.1), P (>=0-0.05), S (>=0-0.05) and iron and impurities resulting from production. An independent claim is included for a shell encloses an interior and has at least one first orifice for feeding at least one gas stream into the interior and at least one second orifice for withdrawing a gas stream fed to the interior beforehand via the at least one first orifice O1 from the interior. The shell is manufactured from a composite material which, on its side B in contact with the reaction chamber, consists of steel B on its side A facing away from the reaction chamber is plated either directly or via an intermediate layer of copper and/or nickel onto steel A.
Abstract:
Process for heterogeneously catalyzed partial dehydrogenation of a hydrocarbon, comprises conducting a feed stream of a gaseous reaction mixture comprising hydrocarbons, oxygen and hydrogen through a fixed catalyst bed; filling inert bodies and then catalyst body along the flow direction of the feed stream, under the condition that it needs lesser activation energy for the combustion reaction of the hydrocarbon with the molecular oxygen to form carbon dioxide and water; and dehydrogenating at least a partial quantity of hydrocarbon. Procedure for a heterogeneously-catalyzed partial dehydrogenation of at least a hydrocarbon, comprises: conducting a feed stream of a gaseous reaction mixture comprising oxygen, hydrogen and at least one hydrocarbon to be dehydrogenated, through a fixed bed catalyst, which is present in a column with a given cross-section; filling of inert bodies and then catalytically active filling with at least a catalyst body along the flow direction of the feed stream of the gaseous reaction mixture, under the condition that the filling is designed in such a manner that it at least in the inlet area along the flow direction of the feed stream of the gaseous reaction mixture needs lesser activation energy for the combustion reaction of molecular hydrogen with molecular oxygen to form water and/or for the combustion reaction of the hydrocarbon contained in the feed stream of the gaseous reaction mixture with the molecular oxygen to form carbon dioxide and water than that for the dehydrogenation of the at least one hydrocarbon to form the at least one dehydrogenated hydrocarbon; dehydrogenating at least a partial quantity of hydrocarbon, by which the feed stream of the gaseous reaction mixture is produced in the column; metering a gaseous feed stream I, which flows through the column with a volumetric flow rate (V1) on to the fixed bed catalyst and which contains molecular hydrogen and the at least one hydrocarbon, a feed gas II containing molecular oxygen and with a volumetric flow rate V2, before the catalyst bed, where the feed gas II is metered in such a manner in the form of a multitude of feed gas streams II that flow out of discharge openings A of a duct system that are present along the flow direction of the gaseous feed stream I before the fixed catalyst bed that (a) the directions of the multiple M of all the feed gas streams II withdrawing from the discharge openings A in the fictitious absence of the feed gas stream I include an angle an angle alpha of 90+-60[deg] with the flow direction of the feed stream I; (b) the distance D of the multiple M of all the discharge openings A of the catalyst bed, related to the flow velocity W of the feed gas stream I in the column is lower or the same as the induction time J of the gaseous feed stream of the reaction mixture multiplied by 2W; (c) with a projection of the centers of gravity of the multiple M of all the discharge openings A along the flow direction of the feed gas stream I in the projection plane E perpendicular to the flow direction of the feed gas stream I within the projection plane E for at least 75% of the projection surface traced out by the feed gas stream I, the number ZA of the center of gravities that are present in any surface area m 2> amounts to >= 10; (d) the individual feed gas streams II that withdraw from the discharge openings A that belong to the number ZA of the center of gravities of the discharge openings A deviate by not more than 50% from their numerical average; (e) within the number ZA of discharge openings, the distance d from the center of gravity of a discharge opening to that of an adjacent discharge opening amounts to not more than 2.(lm 2>/ZA) 1> > 2>, and (f) the ratio V1: V2 >= 8.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a method for the production of at least one partial oxidation and/or ammoxidation product of a hydrocarbon, wherein at least one saturated hydrocarbon (K) that is heterogeneously catalyzed is partially dehydrogenated and the resulting product gas mixture (A) containing the partially dehydrogenated hydrocarbon is used as such or in modified form for the heterogeneously catalyzed, partial oxidation and/or ammoxidation of the partially dehydrogenated hydrocarbon contained in the product gas mixture (A), wherein at least one mechanical separation operation is conducted between the product gas mixture (A) and the heterogeneously catalyzed, partial oxidation and/or ammoxidation.