Abstract:
Apparatus for continuously performing chemical processes and reactions which require heat administration from the outside and are conducive to the evolution of volatile by-products, such as the processes leading to the production of spinnable polyesters, comprising a reactor having substantially vertical metal walls, means for introducing the reactant and, if desired, a recycled reacted product at the reactor top, centrifuging means for hurling the material or materials introduced at the top of said walls so that it or they descend in the form of a liquid film therealong, and means for recycling a fraction of the product, which has been collected at the base of the reactor, towards the top thereof.
Abstract:
Continuous process for the rapid realization of chemical processes, which require a change of thermal energy and the separation of volatile byproducts from the reaction, such as processes that include esterification and transesterification and/or polycondensation reactions, characterized in that the initial and intermediate materials, to react, are fed continuously, with a certain volume, to the reaction chamber, against the upper part of the inner surface of descending walls, of material that is a good conductor of heat, and externally in contact with a vehicle. Thermal, because the reacted product, in a liquid state, is continuously extracted from the bottom of said enclosure, in a volume with a large excess with respect to the aforementioned determined volume of supply, and because said excess of reacted product is in turn reintroduced and conducted against the aforementioned upper part of the mentioned walls, in order to form a liquid layer that slides in contact with said walls, absorbing heat by contact with said internal surface, and in whose liquid layer said materials and products are dispersed and put at the temperature and under the conditions of reaction and/or transformation of the same. State and separation of the aforementioned volatile by-products. (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding)
Abstract:
1,129,456. Purifying polyamides and polyesters. SNIA VISCOSA SOCIETA' NAZIONALE INDUSTRIA APPLICAZIONI VISCOSA S.p.A. 27 Oct., 1965 [30 Oct., 1964], No. 45473/65. Heading C3R. In processes for stripping volatile fractions from, and increasing the molecular weight of, polyamides and polyesters wherein the molten polymer falls freely as liquid threads or droplets through an inert gaseous atmosphere in an enclosure the material collected at the bottom of the enclosure is recycled. The inert gaseous atmosphere may be stripped and also recycled. In Fig. 2 crude polymer from line 13 and recycled polymer pumped through line 18 1 by pump 19 1 falls as threads B and is collected in stirred autoclave C 1 for recycling or discharge. An inert gas (N 2 , CO 2 or superheated steam) is heated at F and introduced into enclosure A through foraminous ring 15, discharged through line 16 and recycled via condenser D in line 26. Fig. 1 (not shown) is similar except that autoclave C 1 is omitted, the polymer collecting in and being recycled or discharged from the bottom of enclosure A.