Abstract:
Caprolactam is purified by oxidative treatment in which mixtures which essentially contain the caprolactam to be purified and unsaturated lactams are treated with oxygen or an oxygen-containing gas mixture in an alkaline medium.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a process for the production of caprolactam by thermal depolymerization of polyamide in the presence of small quantities of potassium carbonate at 250.degree. to 320.degree. C. and to a process for purifying the resulting caprolactam.
Abstract:
Epsilon -CAPROLACTAM MATERIAL SUCH AS A MONOMER, OLIGOMERS AND POLYMERS OF Epsilon -CAPROLACTAM AND MIXTURES OF THESE COMPOUNDS ARE PURIFIED FROM IMPURITY COMPOUNDS SUCH AS PHOSPHORIC ACID AND IONIZED METAL COMPOUNDS CONTAINED THEREIN BY BRINGING THE Epsilon -CAPROLACTAM MATERIAL INTO CONTACT WITH AN AQUEOUS SOLUTION CONTAINING 15 TO 75 PERCENT BY WEIGHT OF AT LEAST ONE ALKALI METAL PHOSPHATE TO EXTRACT THE IMPURITY COMPOUND FROM THE Epsilon -CAPROLACTAM MATERIAL INTO THE PHOSPHATE AQUEOUS SOLUTION AND, THEREAFTER, SEPARATING THE Epsilon -CAPROLACTAM MATERIAL FROM THE PHOSPHATE AQUEOUS SOLUTION BY WAY OF SETTLING OR CENTRIFUGING THE MIXTURE.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a process for separating at least one ε-caprolactam oligomeric compound CPO from a stream SR comprising said at least one CPO and ε-caprolactam monomeric compound CPM.
Abstract:
Described herein are methods of preparing compounds derived from triglycerides or condensation polymers such as polyesters and/or polyamides. The methods may include subjecting triglyceride or condensation polymer containing matter to mechanical processing in the presence of a nucleophile.
Abstract:
Process for the preparation of a mixture of .epsilon.-caprolactam, 6-aminocaproic acid and 6-aminocaproic amide by heating an aqueous mixture containing ammonia and oligomers of 6-aminocaproic acid and/or of 6-aminocaproic amide, the aqueous mixture containing 0.5-7 wt. % of equivalent ammonia (calculated as NH.sub.3) and the temperature lying between 280.degree. C. and 330.degree. C., in which by "equivalent ammonia" is meant free ammonia and ammonia present in the form of a terminal amide group of one of the compounds present in the aqueous mixture.
Abstract:
The present invention provides an improved process for the recovery of caprolactam from polycaprolactam processing waste. The present process for depolymerizing polycaprolactam waste to form caprolactam comprises the step of: in the absence of added catalyst, contacting the polycaprolactam waste with superheated steam at a temperature of about 250.degree. C. to about 400.degree. C. and at a pressure within the range of about 1.5 atm to about 100 atm and substantially less than the saturated vapor pressure of water at the temperature wherein a caprolactam-containing vapor stream is formed.
Abstract:
The present invention provides an efficient process for the recovery of caprolactam from polycaprolactam-containing waste material. The present process for depolymerizing multi-component waste material comprising polycaprolactam and non-polycaprolactam components to form caprolactam comprises the step of: in the absence of added catalyst, contacting the multi-component waste material with superheated steam at a temperature of about 250.degree. C. to about 400.degree. C. and at a pressure within the range of about 1 atm to about 100 atm and substantially less than the saturated vapor pressure of water at the temperature wherein a caprolactam-containing vapor stream is formed. The formed caprolactam may then be used in the production of engineered resins and fibers.
Abstract:
A process of using fast pyrolysis in a carrier gas to convert a plastic waste feedstream having a mixed polymeric composition in a manner such that pyrolysis of a given polymer to its high value monomeric constituent occurs prior to pyrolysis of other plastic components therein comprising: selecting a first temperature program range to cause pyrolysis of said given polymer to its high value monomeric constituent prior to a temperature range that causes pyrolysis of other plastic components; selecting a catalyst and support for treating said feed streams with said catalyst to effect acid or base catalyzed reaction pathways to maximize yield or enhance separation of said high value monomeric constituent in said temperature program range; differentially heating said feed stream at a heat rate within the first temperature program range to provide differential pyrolysis for selective recovery of optimum quantities of the high value monomeric constituent prior to pyrolysis of other plastic components; separating the high value monomeric constituents; selecting a second higher temperature range to cause pyrolysis of a different high value monomeric constituent of said plastic waste and differentially heating the feedstream at the higher temperature program range to cause pyrolysis of the different high value monomeric constituent; and separating the different high value monomeric constituent.
Abstract:
A process for preparing caprolactam by cyclization of 6-aminocapronitrile in the presence of water at elevated temperature and in the presence or absence of a catalyst and a solvent, comprises a) removing from the cyclization reaction effluent ("reaction effluent I") caprolactam and all components boiling higher than caprolactam ("high boilers"), b) treating the high boilers of stage a) with phosphoric acid and/or polyphosphoric acid at from 200 to 350.degree. C. to obtain a reaction effluent II, and c) removing caprolactam formed and any 6-aminocapronitrile from reaction effluent II of stage b) to obtain separation from unconverted high boilers and acid used.