Hoechst Aktiengesellschaft

Hubert Wloch

Karl-Friedrich Muck

Dieter Arnold

Bernhard Hierholzer

Hans-Dietmar Schnabel

Monika Reiss

Peter Richter

This invention relates to a reactor 1 for the continuous production of linear or cyclic acetals, in particular trioxane, dioxolane, tetroxane, dimethoxymethane, diethoxymethane, diethoxyethane and dibutoxyethane. This reactor has internal adjacently arranged evaporator elements 2, which allow for flow-through of a heat transport medium, and which are at least two meters high so as to generate a thermosiphon flow. The clear cross section between the evaporator elements is 20 to 80% of the overall cross section. Using the reactor, circulation ratios of up to 250 can be achieved. Thus, the reliability and availability of a production plant is increased while the susceptibility to breakdown decreases.

Natural circulation reactor and use for producing linear and cyclic

A process for removing trioxane from a liquid mixture containing trioxane, water and formaldehyde, which includes distilling the liquid mixture in a first distillation stage at a low pressure, distilling the resulting distillate in a second distillation stage at a higher pressure and taking off trioxane as bottom product.

Process for removing trioxane from an aqueous mixture

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Niedernhausen, Germany

Hubert Wloch