Kemira Oy

Kemira Chemicals Oy

Kemira Oyj

Eva-Liisa Mustonen

Ilkka Turunen

Teuvo Maunula

Pirkko J Virta

Seppo Pohjanvesi

Arto Pukkinen

Reino Lehtinen

The conventional process for the production of a peracetic acid product, wherein hydrogen peroxide, acetic acid and water are fed into an aqueous reaction medium containing hydrogen peroxide, acetic acid, peracetic acid and an acid catalyst, wherein hydrogen peroxide and acetic acid react in the presence of the acid catalyst and form peracetic acid, and an aqueous peracetic acid concentrate is removed continuously from the reaction medium by distillation, has now been improved by feeding the acid catalyst continuously into the reaction medium and by withdrawing continuously a portion of the reaction medium as a bottom product. When the through flow of the reaction medium is thus increased, it is purified of impurities threatening the safety of the process. If the amount of acid catalyst in the reaction medium is further decreased, a product suitable, for example, for disinfection is obtained from the bottom product.

Process for the production of percarboxylic acid

The invention relates to a process for converting anthrahydroquinone dissolved in an organic solvent to hydrogen peroxide and anthraquinone by causing a mixture of oxygen and anthrahydroquinone to flow concurrently through a reaction zone. According to the invention, the mixture of oxygen and anthrahydroquinone is caused, as an almost continuous mixed dispersion, to flow through the tubular reaction zone at such a velocity that the vacuum-pipe velocity of the liquid therein is higher than 0.05 m/s. The ratio of the length of the tube used as the reactor to its diameter is at minimum approx 10, and it may contain a static mixer made up of one or several parts.

Process for the production of hydrogen peroxide

The invention relates to a process for the production of hydrogen peroxide by the anthraquinone process. A reaction mixture into which there are fed hydrogen or a hydrogen-containing gas and a working solution, i.e. an anthraquinone derivative in an organic solvent, is circulated via a tubular static mixing zone (9) which is continuous or comprises several parts, in order to hydrogenate the anthraquinone derivative in the presence of a solid catalyst, and by removing hydrogenated working solution (13) and gas (11) from the circulating reaction mixture (8). According to the invention, the reaction mixture (14) is circulated (8) via a catalyst-coated static mixing zone (9), where it is simultaneously both mixed and catalyzed.

Process for the preparation of hydrogen peroxide (I)

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