Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for copolymerizing THF with an α, ω-diol in the presence of heteropolyacid, more economically, at a higher polymerization conversion, and more accurately in control of average-molecular weight. SOLUTION: The method for continuously producing tetrahydrofuran-copolymer comprises copolymerizing tetrahydrofuran with an α, ω-diol in a reaction cascade in the presence of a heteropolyacid and a telogen, wherein the telogen and/or the α, ω-diol are added in the first reactor of the cascade and water is distilled away from at least one reactor to outside the polymerization reaction. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a process for removing the sodium once more which derives from a catalyst after transesterification with minimum facilities. SOLUTION: For producing a hydroxyl group-containing polymer, especially a polytetrahydrofuran containing a hydroxyl end group, a corresponding acyloxy group-containing polymer, used as a start material, is transesterified with an alcohol in the presence of a sodium-containing catalyst, and for removing sodium cations, following the transesterification, in a catalytic amount of water, the polytetrahydrofuran solution is directly introduced into at least one ion exchanger and allowed to flow through it.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for continuously producing a (meth)acrylic acid alkyl ester, slightly causing ether of a by-product and high boiling point material in high space time yield and provide an apparatus therefor. SOLUTION: (Meth)acrylic acid is reacted with a 1-5C alkanol in (1:0.75) to (1:2) molar ratio and an organic phase from a rectifier III above a reaction zone is returned to the rectifier and water phase is removed from the system and water is added to a reaction mixture discharged from the reaction zone and the reaction mixture is fed to the rectifier I and separated into a product II containing residual (meth)acrylic acid and a product I containing residual alkanol and water in the rectifier I and the product 11 is returned to the reaction zone and the product from the rectifier I is separated into a (meth)acrylic acid alkyl ester-containing organic phase and water phase and the organic phase is fed to the rectifier II and the residual alkanol is separated from the (meth)acrylic acid alkyl ester and returned to the reaction zone.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To avoid production of ether which is a by-product from an alkanol in a method for continuously producing an alkyl ester of a (meth)acrylic acid by reacting (meth)acrylic acid with a 1-8C monohydric alkanol in a reaction zone in the presence of an acid esterification catalyst, discharging a product mixture containing the resultant alkyl (meth)acrylate, the catalyst and a by- product having higher boiling point than the alkyl (meth)acrylate and subjecting the alkyl (meth)acrylate to separation by distillation in a separation zone from the mixture. SOLUTION: A product mixture from a reaction zone is fed to a rectifier I and the product mixture discharged in the apparatus is separated into one or more products I containing an alkyl ester of (meth)acrylic acid and product II containing a catalyst by rectification and the product I is fed to other rectifier II and an alkyl ester of (meth)acrylic acid is separated by rectification in the apparatus.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a method for producing optionally akyl-substituted 1,4-butandiol by two-stage catalytic hydration in the gaseous phase of C4 dicarboxylic acids and/or the derivatives thereof with the steps of: a) introducing a gaseous flow of a C4 dicarboxylic acid or a derivative thereof at 200 to 300 °C and 2 to 60 bar in a first reactor and catalytic gas phase hydration to a mainly optionally alkyl-substituted gamma-butyrolactone containing product; b) introducing the product flow so obtained into a second reactor at a temperature of from 150 °C to 240 °C and a pressure of from 15 to 100 bar and catalytic gas phase hydration to optionally alkyl-substituted 1,4-butandiol; c) removing the desired product from the intermediates, byproducts and possibly not reacted educt; d) optionally returning non-reacted intermediates to one or both hydration stages, whereby in both hydration stages one catalyst each is used which comprises = 5 % by weight, preferably 5 to 95 % by weight, especially 20 to 90 % by weight of an oxidic carrier, the pressure prevailing in the second reactor is higher than in the first reactor, and the product mixture removed from the first reactor is introduced into the second reactor without further purifying it.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a catalyst containing from 0.1 to 20 mass % rhenium and 0.05 to 10 mass % platinum in relation to the total mass thereof. The inventive method for producing a support for said catalyst consists in a) treating a support which can be eventually pre-treated with the aid of a solution of rhenium compound, b) drying and annealing said support at a temperature ranging from 80 to 600 DEG C, and c) impregnating the support with a solution of platinum compound and in drying it. The inventive method for producing alcohol by catalytic hydrogenation of carbonyl compound on said catalyst is also disclosed.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a method for producing polytetrahydrofuran, polytetrahydrofuran copolymer, polytetrahydrofuran diester, or polytetrahydrofuran monoester by polymerizing tetrahydrofuran in the presence of at least one telogen and/or comonomer and an acid heterogeneous catalyst based on activated layered silicates or mixed metal oxides in a fluidized bed.
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 variable production of mixtures of optionally alkyl-substituted BDO, GBL and THF by two-stage hydrogenation in the gaseous phase of C4-dicarboxylic acids and/or the derivatives thereof, characterized in that a) a gas flow of C4-dicarboxylic acids and/or the derivatives thereof is hydrogenated in a first stage in the gaseous phase on a catalyst at a pressure of 2-100 bars and at a temperature of 200 DEG C to 300 DEG C in a first reactor in the presence of a catalyst in the form of catalyst moulded bodies with a volume of less than 20 mm3, consisting of 5 - 95 wt. % Cu-oxide and 5 - 95 wt. % of an oxide with acid centres in order to form a flow maintly consisting of optionally aryl-substituted GBL and THF, b) succinic anhydride optionally arising therefrom is separated by partial condensation, c) the products THF, water and GBL which remain predominantly in the gaseous phase during said partial condensation are reacted at the same pressure or at a pressure which is reduced in order to reduce flow losses in the hydrogenation circuit at a temperature of 150 to 240 DEG C in a second reactor on a catalyst of > 95 wt. % CuO and 5 to 95 wt. % of one or several oxides selected from the group consisting of ZnO, Al2O3, SiO2, TiO2, ZrO2, CeO2, MgO, CaO, SrO, BaO, La2O3, and Mn2O3 in order to form a mixture consisting of a flow containing BDO, GBL and THF, d) the hydrogen is separated from the products and returned to the hydrogenation, e) the products THF, BDO, GBL and Wasser are separated in a distillatory manner, a flow rich in GBL is optionally returned to the second reactor or is optionally removed therefrom and BDO, THF and GBL are processed in a distillatory manner, and the ratio of the products THF, GBL and BDO is adjusted in relation to each other in the region of 10 to 100 wt. % THF, 0 to 90 wt. % GBL and 0 to 90 wt. % BDO exclusively by varying the temperatures in the two hydrogenation areas, in addition to that of the GBL return flow.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a method for the production of optionally alkyl-substituted THF. The above is obtained by catalytic hydrogenation of C4-dicarboxylic acids and/or derivatives thereof, in the gas phase, using a catalyst containing 20 wt. %, preferably >30 wt %, in particular 35 to 90 wt. % of an oxidic support with acidic centres, whereby the method is carried out with a hot spot temperature of 240 to 280 DEG C and a catalytic loading of 0.01 to 1.0, preferably 0.02 to 1, in particular 0.05 to 0.5 kg reactant/l catalyst.hour.