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Basf Aktiensegellschaft

Basf Se Corporation

Dirk Borchers

Thomas Wettling

Hans Peter Rath

Wim Verrelst

Heinz Auer

A process for reducing the content of oxygen-containing and/or nitrogen-containing compounds in streams having an isobutene content of at least 10% by weight, which comprises passing the stream in the liquid state at a temperature T [in K] and a linear velocity v [in cm/min] over a fixed bed of an acid-free zeolite having a mean pore size of from 0.3 to 1.5 nm, where the fixed bed has a length l [in cm] in the flow direction of the stream and T, v and l obey the relationship2&#x2266;500 min,is described. The process avoids the formation of isobutene oligomers.

Reduction of the content of compounds containing oxygen and/or nitrogen in material flows containing isobutene

A polyisobutene composition having a global maximum of the differential molecular weight distribution curve at a molecular weight Mof from 3 500 to 8 000 is described, which comprises at least one local maximum at a molecular weight of from 112 to 560. The isobutene oligomers present act as flow improvers and boiling assistants. They are added to higher molecular weight isobutene polymers, preferably before or in the course of a distillation, for removing unconverted isobutene and/or an inert diluent.

Polyisobutene composition

A process for working up a liquid reaction discharge of the cationic polymerization of isobutene, which substantially comprises polyisobutene, unconverted isobutene and an inert diluent, in which the reaction discharge is heated and is let down into a flash container, is described, the reaction discharge separating, as a result of the flashing, into a polyisobutene-containing liquid phase and a gas phase containing the main amount of the isobutene contained in the reaction discharge and of the diluent.

Method for the processing of a liquid reaction discharge of the cationic polymerization of isobutene

The invention relates to a method for deactivating and recovering boron trifluoride when producing polyisobutenes by means of cationic polymerization of isobutene or hydrocarbon streams containing isobutene in the liquid phase in the presence of boron trifluoride or in the form of a boron trifluoride catalyst complex. The catalyst complex is separated, essentially in the liquid phase, from the reactor discharge. The method comprises the following steps: a) removing from the polymerization reactor at &#x2212;60 to 020  C., methanol, ethanol or a mixture of methanol and ethanol in such a quantity that an alcohol phase rich in boron trifluoride is formed; b) separating the alcohol phase according to (a) and, (c) optionally recycling the boron trifluoride of the alcohol phase obtained from (b) to the method in a suitable manner.

Method for deactivating and recovering boron trifluoride when producing polyisobutenes

Polyisobutenes are prepared by cationic polymerization of isobutene or isobutene-containing hydrocarbon streams in the liquid phase in the presence of boron trifluoride as a catalyst, the catalytic activity of the boron trifluoride being partially or completely eliminated at a desired time by means of a solid deactivator, by a process in which the solid deactivator has boron trifluoride-binding primary, secondary, tertiary and/or quaternary nitrogen atoms and is insoluble in the reaction mixture.

Method for producing polyisobutylenes

A process for the preparation of polyisobutylenes by cationic polymerization of isobutylene or isobutylene-containing hydrocarbon streams in the liquid phase in the presence of boron trifluoride acting as catalyst, the catalytic activity of boron trifluoride being partially or completely stopped by means of a solid deactivator following a given timelapse, which deactivator is an inorganic, anhydrous or hydrous oxygen compound of aluminum which is insoluble in the reaction mixture.

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