Abstract:
PURPOSE: To prevent heat flow passing through a separation device and to improve the separation efficiency of a distillation column by providing a gas chamber between two walls of the separation device, which functions in the longitudinal direction at the central zone of the distillation column and setting the space between the both walls to a specified value. CONSTITUTION: The distillation column 1 is divided by a separation device 5 into a feeding part 2 and a withdrawing part 3, which separation device 5 functions in the longitudinal direction at the central zone of the distillation column 1. The separation device 5 is constituted of two walls 4 and has a gas chamber between the walls. The distance between the walls is 1 to 50 mm. An inert gas is charged from an inert gas inlet 6 provided at the upper terminal part of the gas chamber and is introduced into a distillation chamber from an inert gas outlet 7 provided at the lower terminal part. A mixture of plural substances A, B, C is fed into a feeding part 2 and the substances are separated according to the order of the volatility of each substance into each pure fraction. The fraction A having high volatility and the fraction C having low volatility are withdrawn from the distillation column 1 as a overhead product and a bottom product, respectively. The fraction B having intermediate volatility is withdrawn from the side part of the distillation column as a side distillate product.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To produce the subject compound useful as an intermediate capable of producing isophytol of a precursor of an essential vitamin E in higher selectivity and higher space time yield by reacting a corresponding α,β-unsaturated alcohol with an alkyl acetoacetate by Carroll reaction. SOLUTION: (A) A corresponding α,β-unsaturated alcohol of formula II is reacted with (B) an alkyl acetoacetate of formula II (R3 is a 1-4C alkyl) in the presence of (C) 0.1-5 mol% organoaluminum compound as a catalyst in a reactor with a fractionating column while eliminating and continuously removing an alcohol of the formula R3-OH and produced carbon dioxide by distillation, and while introducing the components A and C to the reactor, further a calculated amount of the component B thereto preferably at 175-220 deg.C reaction temperature to provide the objective unsaturated ketone of formula I [a dotted line represents an additional C-C bond; R1 is a 1-4C alkyl; R2 is a 4-30C (un)saturated aliphatic or the like].
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a new method for industrially advantageously producing a glyoxal monoacetal, enabling to profitably obtain the glyoxal monoacetal by reacting glyoxal and a glyoxal bisacetal with an alcohol under a specific reaction condition. SOLUTION: This method for producing a glyoxal monoacetal of formula I (R , R are each a 1-4C alkyl, a 2-4C alkenyl) comprises reacting the mixture of glyoxal with a glyoxal bisacetal of formula II with an excessive amount of an alcohol of the formula: R OH or R OH or their mixture in the presence of an acidic catalyst until the equilibrium of the reaction is achieved. The acidic catalyst is preferably an acidic ion exchange material, especially preferably the fixed bed of the acidic ion exchange material. The alcohol is preferably methanol. The glyoxal bisacetal, the acidic catalyst and the alcohol are preferably reutilized for the reaction.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for separating an azeotropic mixture economical and simple from an aspect of process engineering. SOLUTION: The method for separating a liquid mixture comprising at least two kinds of components A and B, which form the azeotropic mixture mutually or along with other component, includes a process (i) for distilling the mixture to be separated in the presence of an auxiliary H, which forms a two-component azeotropic mixture AH or BH having a boiling point lower than that of the auxiliary H along with two kinds of the components A and B, and a process (ii) for isolating an A, H-containing fraction of which the content of B is reduced as compared with the mixture to be separated and a B, H-containing fraction of which the content of A is reduced as compared with the mixture to be separated.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To overcome disadvantages of the prior art and to provide a process for preparing an unsaturated acetal which is easy to regulate and can be operated in a stable manner. SOLUTION: This continuous process for preparing the unsaturated acetal of formula I (wherein, R1 to R7 are each independently hydrogen or a straight- chain or a branched, optionally substituted 1-6C alkyl group; R8 is hydrogen or a saturated or a mono- or a polyunsaturated straight-chain or branched, optionally substituted 1-12C alkyl group or a 3- to a 12-membered saturated or a mono- or a polyunsaturated carbocyclic ring) by reacting 1 mol of an aldehyde of formula II (wherein, R1 to R3 are as defined in the following formula I) with at least 1 mol of an alcohol of formula III (wherein, R5 to R8 are as defined by the following formula I) in the presence of a catalytic amount of an acid while removing water formed during the reaction, which comprises only partially reacting the reactants in a reactional column, concentrating the resultant acetal in at least two successive evaporation stages and returning the recovered reactants to the reactional column.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a method for the hydrogenation of unsubstituted or at least monoalkyl substituted uni- or poly-nuclear aromatics by means of bringing the above at least one aromatic into contact with a gas containing hydrogen, in the presence of a catalyst comprising at least one metal of sub-group VIII of the periodic system as active metal, supported on a structured or monolithic support.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a liquid cooling device in an internal combustion engine (11) and to a process for manufacturing same. The device according to the invention comprises a cooling circuit (13) having at least one cooling duct (23, 24, 41) for a liquid coolant, the duct being in thermal contact with at least one component (12a, 12b, 31) of the internal combustion engine (11). A wall of the cooling duct (23, 24, 41) that comes into contact with the coolant comprises in at least one partial zone a microstructured surface with a certain porosity and roughness. According to the invention, this device is produced by forming a cooling circuit for a liquid coolant, the circuit comprising cooling ducts that can be brought at least in part into thermal contact with the internal combustion engine, and by generating a microstructured surface on at least part of the walls of the cooling ducts that come into contact with the liquid coolant.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a method for dealkylating alkyl-substituted aromatic hydrocarbons with the aid of water vapour in the presence of a dealkylation catalyst, by means of a gas containing oxygen.
Abstract:
A process for recovering crude 1,3-butadiene from a C 4 fraction by extractive distillation using a selective solvent in a dividing wall column (TK) in which a dividing wall (T) is arranged in the longitudinal direction of the column to form a first subregion (A), a second subregion (B) and a lower common column region (C) and which is preceded by an extractive scrubbing column (K) is proposed.
Abstract:
Trimethylolpropane is isolated from a reaction mixture which has been obtained by reaction of n-butyraldehyde with formaldehyde in the presence of a base and, if appropriate, hydrogenation of the resulting mixture by distilling the mixture by means of a dividing wall column or a distillation column with a precolumn or a distillation column with an after-column. The process has low capital costs and a low energy consumption and gives reduced formation of high-boiling by-products.