Societa' Italiana Resine S.i.r. S.p.a.

Euteco Impianti S.p.a.

Societa' Italiana Resine S.p.a.

Benedetto Calcagno

Marcello Ghirga

Luigi Piccolo

Claudio Divo

Antonio Paolinelli

Gioacchino Cocuzza

Natale Ferlazzo

Luciano Console

Gian Fausto Buzzi

Gianni Torreggiani

Enzo Chiellini

Emanuele Sartorio

Lucio Di Fiore

Gabriele Bottai

Luigi Valtorta

Giorgio Cozza

Fulvio Trombetti

Luigi Verde

Italo Montoro

Emilio Bossi

Production of cumene by alkylation of benzene with propylene on a solid phosphoric acid catalyst, using in a first step a plurality of catalyst beds in series and in a second step a single catalyst bed, using an overall benzene/propylene molar ratio of at least 5:1, continuously delivering the benzene to the first bed, continuously delivering a series of streams of liquid propylene respectively to the first bed and, in the form of a cold stream, between each pair of contiguous beds, and carrying out a partial recycle of reaction products of the second step as a cold stream between the first and the second step, and using a benzene/propylene molar ratio higher than 13:1 at the inlet of each bed of the first step, and higher than 25:1 at the inlet of the bed of the second step.

Process for the production of cumene

Production of cumene by alkylation of benzene with propylene on a solid phosphoric acid catalyst, using a first step with a plurality of catalyst beds in series and a second step with a single catalyst bed, using an overall benzene/propylene molar ratio of at least 6:1, continuously delivering the benzene to the first bed, continuously delivering a series of streams of liquid propylene respectively to the first bed and, in the form of a cold stream, between each pair of contiguous beds, and using a benzene/propylene molar ratio higher than 16:1 at the inlet of each bed of the first step, and higher than 25:1 at the inlet of the bed of the second step.

Cumene is prepared by alkylation of benzene with propylene in the presence of a solid phosphoric acid catalyst in a continuous process by delivering liquid benzene and liquid propylene in a molar ratio lower than 6:1, to a liquid reaction medium consisting essentially of benzene and cumene and containing the catalyst, while maintaining the temperature and composition of said medium substantially uniform in each point, operating at 170.degree.-280.degree. C. and in the liquid phase, and with a contact time higher than about 0.4 hours, expressed as the ratio between volume of catalyst and hourly volume of reagents fed in.

Liquid-phase chlorination of n-paraffins is improved as to yield on chlorine and as to restriction to mono-substitution by passing the paraffins up a reactor divided into stages by baffles and feeding chlorine in controlled amounts to each stage.

Process for chlorinating linear paraffins

Novel compositions for use in agriculture as soil improvers and fertilizers comprising as essential components ammonium sulfate and ferric oxide hydrate. By-products obtained in the production of titanium dioxide from ilmenite or ilmenite slag in the sulfate process and substantially consisting of ferrous sulfate heptahydrate are reacted with ammonia and that the reaction product obtained, consisting substantially of ammonium sulfate and ferrous hydrate, is subsequently oxidized until a composition is obtained which substantially consists of ammonium sulfate and ferric oxide hydrate.

Novel composition for use in agriculture as soil improvers and

Ethylene oxide is prepared by supplying a gaseous mixture containing ethylene, oxygen and a moderator of the oxidation reaction to a first reaction zone containing a silver-based catalyst, cooling the gas stream leaving this zone, supplying it after enrichment with oxygen and moderator to a second reaction zone containing the silver-based catalyst, recovering ethylene oxide and recycling the residual gases after being combined with fresh reacting gases, the reaction temperature of the second zone being at least 5.degree. C less than the temperature of the first zone.

Process for the production of ethylene oxide

Titanium dioxide is post-treated by flowing it in a tubular zone as a suspension in a stream of carrier gas, injecting a gaseous stream of halides of Si, Ti and Al in said stream and then steam in the resulting mixture, once the latter is homogenized.

Process for the post-treatment of titanium dioxide pigments

Methyl acrylate alone or in mixture with acrylic acid is prepared by passing a gaseous stream containing methanol, acrolein and oxygen at a velocity of 5 to 50 cm/sec through a fluidized catalytic bed formed of spherical particles 15 to 100 .mu. in size, said particles comprising from 10 to 80 wt.% silica support, the remainder consisting of an active catalytic component defined by one of the general formulae:

Process for preparing methyl acrylate or mixtures thereof with acrylic

Methyl acrylate or a mixture of methyl acrylate with acrylic acid are prepared by passing through a fluidized bed of catalyst a gaseous mixture comprising acrolein, methanol and oxygen fed at the bottom of the catalytic bed. A further amount of methanol is fed at one intermediate point at least, between the top and bottom of the catalytic bed. The catalyst is defined by one of the general formulae:

Process for preparing methyl acrylate or mixtures of methyl acrylate and

A process for the joint production of titanium dioxide and sodium tripolyphosphate from ores of titanium and phosphorus, and from sulphuric acid, in which the titanium dioxide is produced by the 'sulphate process' and the impure dilute aqueous solution of sulphuric acid resulting therefrom is concentrated and used in the initial attack of phosphatic ones to provide a solution containing vanadium and chromium which can be removed without requiring any preventive conversion. The resulting sodium phosphate is then converted to sodium tripolyphosphate in a known way.

Process for the joint production of sodium tripolyphosphate and titanium

The copper and palladium ethylene-oxidation catalyst used in the preparation of vinyl acetate is regenerated in a process including deposition of the metals from solution in a Daniell-type galvanic cell and subsequent reconversion to the halides.

Process for the production of vinyl acetate from ethylene

A continuous process for polymerizing acrylonitrile monomer or copolymerizing a mixture of acrylonitrile monomer and a further ethylenically unsaturated monomer copolymerizable therewith in an aqueous medium and in the presence of a catalytic redox system through a primary and a secondary polymerization step. The primary step is carried out in a plurality of independent distinct reaction zones connected in parallel and operated under similar conditions, in which the conversion of the monomer or mixture of monomers is maintained at a value not exceeding 70%. The secondary step is carried out in a single reaction zone connected in series with each of the primary zones. The conversion of the monomer or mixture of monomers in the secondary zone is maintained at a value not exceeding 80% with respect to the overall feed of monomer or mixture of monomers to the primary zones.

Continuous process for the preparation of acrylonitrile polymers and

Palladium and copper ethylene-oxidation catalysts, used in production of vinyl acetate, are regenerated by a process including electrolytic deposition of the metals and subsequent reconversion to halides.

Sulphur dioxide and unreacted monomer or mixture of monomers are separated and recovered from the polymer or copolymer slurry obtained by polymerizing acrylonitrile monomer or copolymerizing acrylonitrile monomer and a further ethylenically unsaturated monomer copolymerizable therewith in the presence of a catalytic system comprising sulphur dioxide or a sulphite, by a process comprising the steps of separately removing the sulphur dioxide and the monomer or mixture of monomers from the slurry in two distinct volatilization zones connected in series under decreasing subatmospheric pressures, scrubbing with water the sulphur dioxide vapors removed in the first zone and vapors of unreacted monomer or monomers removed in the second zone, and recycling the two resulting aqueous solutions to the polymerization or copolymerization medium.

Separation and recovery of products obtained in catalytic processes of

Process for the simultaneous separation of ethylene oxide and carbon dioxide from the gaseous mixtures obtained in the direct oxidation of ethylene with oxygen, comprising

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