Abstract:
The present invention relates to a method for producing ethylene oxide by reacting ethylene with oxygen in the presence of at least one catalyst containing silver, wherein the reaction occurs in a reactor that has a catalyst packing having at least two layers (i) and (ii), and the silver content of the catalyst in the layer (i) is lower than the silver content of the catalyst in the layer (ii). The catalyst packing preferably comprises a further layer (a), with which the reaction mixture comes in contact prior to layers (i) and (ii). According to the invention, the silver content of the catalyst in the layer (a) is higher than the silver content of the catalyst in the layer (i).
Abstract:
The invention relates to a method for producing 1,2-propandiol, wherein a flow containing glycerine, in particular a flow produced on an industrial scale during the production of biodiesel, is subjected to hydrogenation in a two-step reactor cascade.
Abstract:
A process for heat integration in engineering processes in which, in a heat carrier circuit (10), a heat carrier medium takes up heat from a first process stream (14) in a first heat exchanger (12) and releases it to a refrigeration system (30), in addition, in a refrigerant circuit (20), a refrigerant is cooled in the refrigeration system (30) and the refrigerant takes up heat from a second process stream (24) in a second heat exchanger (22) or a second process stream (24) is cooled in the refrigeration system (30), characterized in that the first process stream (14) is a vapour stream from a thermal separation apparatus, and in that the temperature of the heat carrier medium is increased by heat supply between egress from the first heat exchanger (12) and ingress into the refrigeration system (30).
Abstract:
A process for coproducing di- and/or polyisocyanates and glycols, comprising process stages A, B, C and E for preparing glycols and process stages A, C, D, E, F and G for preparing di- and/or polyisocyanates, which comprises accomplishing the material coupling via the separation of the reaction mixture obtained in process stage A into process stages B and C, by in process stage A, reacting an aqueous alkylene oxide with carbon dioxide to give a reaction mixture comprising alkylene carbonate, hydrolyzing a portion of the alkylene carbonate-comprising reaction mixture obtained in process stage A to glycol in process stage B, dewatering the remaining alkylene carbonate-comprising stream of the reaction mixture from process stage A in process stage C, in process stage D, synthesizing amine by hydrogenating an aromatic nitro compound or a nitrile, in process stage E, transesterifying the dewatered alkylene carbonate-comprising mixture from process stage C with a monohydroxy alcohol to give the corresponding dialkyl carbonate, obtaining glycol as a coproduct, in process stage F, reacting the dialkyl carbonate-comprising reaction mixture obtained in process stage E with the amine obtained in process stage D to a mixture comprising the corresponding mono-, di- and/or polycarbamate, which in process stage G is cleaved to obtain the corresponding di- and/or polyisocyanate.
Abstract:
This invention relates to a process, comprising reacting ethylene and oxygen or a source of oxygen in the presence of a catalyst in a reactor to form a product comprising ethylene oxide, wherein the catalyst contains silver or silver compound and a support and the catalyst is in the form of particulate solids having a mean particle diameter from 1 to 1000 μm and wherein the molar ratio of oxygen to ethylene is from 1:4 to 10:1.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of 1,2-propanediol, in which a glycerol-containing stream, in particular a stream obtained on an industrial scale in the production of biodiesel, is subjected to a hydrogenation.