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Deggendorfer Werft Und Eisenbau Gmbh

Helmut Klein

Henning Buchold

Walter Laber

Kamar P John

Otto-Ludwig Garkisch

Friedrich-Wilhelm Moller

Friedrich Gutlhuber

Friedrich Guetlhuber

Friedrich-Wilhelm Moeller

Stephen Lukatsch

Hans F Danulat

A process for producing styrene by the dehydrogenation of ethyl benzene whereby the ethyl benzene in a mixture with steam is introduced into a tubular reactor, the tubes of which are heated by molten salts. The structural parameters of this process are the tube diameter which should be 20 to 35 millimeters, the temperature of the molten salts which should be 580.degree. to 660.degree. C. and at most 20.degree. C. higher than the reaction temperature at the catalyst and the weight ratio of steam to ethyl benzene of the feed stock which should be 0.5 to 1. The process saves energy and increases efficiency by reducing the steam consumption.

Process for producing styrene

A process for recovering pure benzene from hydrocarbon mixtures containing the same and non-aromatic compounds which are gaseous and difficultly condensible is described in which the feedstock is fed to an initial distillation column operated at atmospheric or sub-atmospheric pressure. Overhead comprising benzene and non-aromatics is obtained and a portion thereof condensed. The condensible material is in part returned to the distillation column and in part subjected to extractive distillation to recover pure benzene. Those components which did not condense, i.e. the non-condensible and difficultly condensible components and entrained aromatics are fed to a reflux vessel such as a scrubber, stripper, or the like for recovery of any benzene or other valuable components which might be soluble in a selective solvent and used for such recovery. The selective solvent can be the same solvent used for the extractive distillation.

Process for recovering pure benzene

The invention relates to a process of converting ethylbenzene to styrene by catalytic dehydrogenation at temperatures of about 600.degree. C. in the presence of water vapor in a tubular reactor. The heat required for the dehydrogenation is fed to the tubular reactor with a molten salt bath. The dehydrogenation is effected isothermally and in a single stage under atmospheric pressure or preferable under a subatmospheric pressure with a water vapor-ethylbenzene ratio of 1.2 to 1.5 kg of water vapor per kg of ethylbenzene. The temperature of the ethylbenzene-water-vapor mixture entering the tubular reactor is maintained 50.degree. to 100.degree. C. below the temperature of the molten salt bath.

Process of converting ethylbenzene to styrene by catalytic

A process of recovering an n-hexane product which is free from aromatic compounds by extractive distillation from a mixture of aromatic and non-aromatic compounds. The mixture is fed to and distilled in a first distillation column, from which a benzene-containing sump product and the overhead product consisting of non-aromatic compounds are withdrawn. The distillate is laterally withdrawn above the feeding point of the feed mixture and transferred to the upper portion of a second distillation column. The hexane cut is withdrawn as sump product from the second distillation column and fed to an extractive distillation column approximately in the middle thereof and is extracted in the extractive distillation column with a selective solvent which is fed above the feeding point of the hexane cut consisting of the sump product of the second distillation column. The sump product containing the selective solvent is withdrawn from the extractive distillation column and the overhead thereof vapors are condensed. The condensate is withdrawn as an n-hexane product that is free from aromatic compounds.

Process of recovering an n-hexane product which is free from aromatic

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Helmut Klein