Abstract:
A catalyst for the oxidation of alkenes to unsaturated aldehydes and carboxylic acids containing Ni, Co, Fe, Bi, P, Mo and O is improved by adding tantallum oxide or samarium oxide. The catalyst can be employed on a carrier.
Abstract:
A catalyst useful in preparing o-phthalodinitrile from o-xylene comprises antimony oxide and vanadium oxide and/or antimony vanadate. The antimony oxide is present as Beta -antimony tetroxide.
Abstract:
Malonodinitrile produced from cyanogen halide and acetonitrile and containing fumarodinitrile as an impurity is purified and stabilized by recrystallizing from an aliphatic alcohol or dialkyl ether in the presence of benzonitrile.
Abstract:
CYANOGEN IS PREPARED BY REACTING HYDROGEN CYANIDE AND CHLORINE IN THE PRESENCE OF A SURFACE ACTIVE CATALYST. THE PRODUCT STILL CONTAINING HYDROGEN CYANIDE IS TREATED WITH 1 TO 1.1 MOLE OF CHLORINE PER MOLE OF HYDROGEN CYANIDE REMAINING AT 195 TO 800* C. FOR 10 TO 0.01 SECOND AND IN THE PRESENCE OF THE SURFACE ACTIVE CATALYST, PREFERABLY ACTIVATED CARBON.
Abstract:
A MIXTURE OF CYANOGEN CHLORIDE AND HYDROGEN CHLORIDE IS SEPARATED BY MEANS OF ORGANIC LIQUID IN WHICH THE CYANOGEN CHLORIDE IS ABSORBED BUT IN WHICH THE HYDROGEN CHLORIDE IS INSOLUBLE.
Abstract:
PROCESS FOR THE PRODUCTION OF A FREE FLOWING PARAFORMALDEHYDE PRODUCT WHICH COMPRISES SPRAYING A LIQUID FORMALDEHYDE CONCENTRATE CONTAINING 85 TO 90% BY WEIGHT OF FORMALDEHYDE IN THE FORM OF DROPLETS INTO THE UPPER PORTION OF A COOLING TOWER SUPPLYING A COOLING INERT GAS AT A TEMPERATURE WHICH IS BELOW +39*C., AND PREFERABLY BETWEEN -40 AND +30*C., TO THE COOLING TOWER AND PASSING IT UPWARDLY THERETHROUGH, PERMITTING THE DROPLETS TO SOLIDIFY AS THEY DROP THROUGH THE RISING GAS BEFORE THEY REACH THE BOTTOM OF THE TOWER AND WITHDRAWING THE SOLIDIFIED PARTICLES FROM THE BOTTOM OF THE TOWER. PREFERABLY A FLUIDIZED BED OF SOLIDIFIED PARAFORMALDEHYDE PARTICLES IS MAINTINED IN THE BOTTOM PORTION OF THE TOWER AND THE SOLIDIFIED PARTICLES ARE FURTHER COOLED AFTER REMOVAL FROM THE TOWER.
Abstract:
There is provided a process for the recovery of acrylic acid and acrolein from the gas mixture resulting from the catalytic gas phase oxidation of propylene or acrolein by washing the gas mixture with liquids in which at first the acrylic acid is dissolved at higher temperature and then the acrolein is dissolved at lower temperature. The improvement comprises washing the gas mixture for the separation of the acrylic acid at temperatures from about 60* to 120* C. with a washing liquid which is a mixture of water and organic liquid and then washing the gas mixture with a washing liquid which is water or a mixture of water and organic liquid at temperatures between 0* and 30* C. The organic liquid used has a higher boiling point than acrylic acid, does form an azeotrope with water alone, but does not form an azeotrope with acrolein or a mixture of water and acrolein, has slight miscibility with water and forms a solution with acrylic acid in which the acrylic acid has an activity coefficient of less than about 1.5.
Abstract:
In situ regeneration of noble metal catalysts for the synthesis of hydrogen peroxide by the anthraquinone process is provided by employing as the working solution coming from the extraction or desorption step and being introduced into the hydrogenation step a solution which contains at least 250 mg/liter of hydrogen peroxide, to thereby completely regenerate the noble metal catalyst by full capacity of the hydrogenation step.
Abstract:
Tetrabromophthalic anhydride is produced by brominating phthalic anhydride at elevated temperatures in the presence of sulfuric acid and a bromination catalyst using bromine and hydrogen peroxide as the brominating agent.