Basf Se Corporation

Eberhardt Gaffron

Bernd Heida

Uwe Stabel

Michael Jäger

Harry Zachmann

Gerhard Schäfer

A process is proposed for distillatively obtaining pure 1,3-butadiene from crude 1,3-butadiene in a plant comprising one or more distillation columns, comprising supply of a feed stream of crude 1,3-butadiene to the one distillation column or the first of the plurality of distillation columns, the one distillation column or the plurality of distillation columns having a flange with an internal diameter of &#x2267;80 mm, comprising two mutually opposite plane-parallel surfaces () with an intermediate seal () which seals the interior of the one distillation column or of the first of the plurality of distillation columns from an intermediate space () on the atmosphere side between the two mutually opposite plane-parallel surfaces (), and the intermediate space () on the atmosphere side between the two mutually opposite plane-parallel surfaces () being closed off from the atmosphere to form a chamber, wherein the chamber is purged continuously during the operation of the plant with a low-oxygen gas or a low-oxygen liquid comprising 1% by weight of molecular oxygen or less, based on the total weight of the low-oxygen gas or of the low-oxygen liquid.

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Lampertheim, Germany

Eberhardt Gaffron