Abstract:
The invention relates to a process for scrubbing a crude mixture comprising dinitrotoluene, nitric acid, nitrogen oxides and sulfuric acid obtained in the nitration of toluene after the nitrating acid has been separated off, which comprises two scrubbing steps (SS-I) and (SS-II), wherein i) in a first scrubbing step (SS-I), the crude mixture is extracted with a scrubbing acid I comprising nitric acid, nitrogen oxides and sulfuric acid in a scrub comprising at least one extraction stage, where the scrubbing acid discharged from the first extraction stage (SS-I-1) of the first scrubbing step (SS-I) has a total acid content of from 20 to 40% by weight and a prescrubbed crude mixture is obtained, ii) in a second scrubbing step (SS-II), the prescrubbed crude mixture comprising dinitrotoluene is extracted with a scrubbing acid II in a scrub comprising at least one extraction stage, where the scrubbing acid discharged from the first extraction stage (SS-II-1) of the second scrubbing step (SS-II) has a pH of less than or equal to 4 and a mixture comprising dinitrotoluene which is essentially free of nitric acid, sulfuric acid and nitrogen oxides is obtained.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a continuous process for preparing at least one aromatic amine by hydrogenation of at least one nitroaromatic by means of hydrogen, where a liquid phase comprising at least the aromatic amine and a gas phase comprising at least hydrogen are present, in the presence of a catalyst suspended in the liquid phase at a temperature of from 50 to 250° C. and a pressure of from 5 to 50 bar, wherein the pressure in the reactor is kept essentially constant by continuous adaptation of the amount of hydrogen fed to the reactor, the total amount of hydrogen fed to the reactor is monitored and the introduction of the at least one nitroaromatic is interrupted if the hydrogen uptake in the reactor is not at least 50 mol % of the amount of hydrogen required for stoichiometric reaction of the at least one nitroaromatic to form the at least one aromatic amine.
Abstract:
Process for scrubbing a crude mixture which is obtained in the nitration of toluene after separating off the nitrating acid and comprises dinitrotoluene, nitric acid, nitrogen oxides and sulfuric acid, which comprises two scrubbing steps (WS-I) and (WS-II), whereini) in a first scrubbing step (WS-I), the crude mixture is extracted with a scrubbing acid I comprising nitric acid, nitrogen oxides and sulfuric acid in a scrub comprising at least one extraction stage, where the scrubbing acid discharged from the first extraction stage (WS-I-1) of the first scrubbing step (WS-I) has a total acid content of from 10 to 40% by weight and a content of from 80 to 350 ppm of hydrocyanic acid, giving a prescrubbed crude mixture,ii) in a second scrubbing step (WS-II), the prescrubbed crude mixture comprising dinitrotoluene is extracted with a scrubbing acid II in a scrub comprising at least one, preferably at least 2, extraction stage(s), where the scrubbing acid discharged from the first extraction stage (WS-II-1) of the second scrubbing step (WS-II) has a pH of less than or equal to 4, giving a dinitrotoluene-comprising mixture which is essentially free of nitric acid, sulfuric acid, nitrogen oxides and hydrocyanic acid and has a content of not more than 300 ppm of nitric acid and nitrogen oxides, not more than 3 ppm of sulfate and not more than 50 ppm of hydrocyanic acid.
Abstract:
Proposed is a separation method in a toluene to dinitrotoluene process, wherein said method with a first process step comprising feeding a toluene comprising first stream (1) and a nitric acid comprising second stream (2) into a first reactor (R1), reacting of the toluene comprising first stream (1) and the nitric acid comprising second stream (2) within the first reactor (R1) to a first reaction mixture (3), said first reaction mixture (3) comprising a first liquid/liquid mixed phase of an acid phase and an organic phase comprising mononitrotoluene, feeding the first reaction mixture (3) into a first separation device (S1), separating the first reaction mixture (3) within the first separation device (S1) into a first forward stream (4) having a flow direction to a second process step and a first backward stream (5) having a flow direction back to the first reactor (R1), said method having a second process step comprising feeding the first forward stream (4) into a second reactor (R2), feeding a nitric acid comprising third stream (6) and a sulfuric acid comprising fourth stream (7) into the second reactor (R2), reacting of the first forward stream (4), the nitric acid comprising third stream (6) and the sulfuric acid comprising fourth stream (7) within the second reactor (R2) to a second reaction mixture (8), said second reaction mixture (8) comprising a second liquid/liquid mixed acid phase and an organic phase comprising mononitrotoluene and dinitrotoluene, feeding the second reaction mixture (8) into a second separation device (S2), separating the second reaction mixture (8) within the second separation device (S2) into a second forward stream (9) having a flow direction to a process output and a second backward stream (10) having a flow direction back to the first reactor (R1), wherein fine separating of at least one of the streams (4, 5, 9, 10) after the first separation step (S1) and/or the second separation step (S2) in a coalescer is carried out.
Abstract:
A process for obtaining pure aniline contains catalytically hydrogenating nitrobenzene, to obtain a reaction mixture, separating the reaction mixture into a gas phase containing hydrogen and a liquid phase, liquid/liquid phase separating the liquid phase to obtain an aqueous phase and also crude aniline containing water as an organic phase, distillatively pre-purifying the crude aniline by removing the water via an overhead stream of a first distillation column to obtain a first bottom stream, feeding the first bottom stream as a feed stream to a pure column from which a pure aniline stream is taken off at the top and a second bottom stream containing high boilers is taken off, and passing the second bottom stream to incineration, by pumping the second bottom stream through heated pipelines and by adding methanol, ethanol, propanol, and/or acetone to the second bottom stream.