Evonik Degussa Gmbh

Evonik Operations Gmbh

Evonik Industries Ag

Joerg Schallenberg

Dietrich Maschmeyer

Stephan Peitz

Guido Stochniol

Markus Winterberg

Helene Reeker

Harald Haeger

Frank Geilen

Armin Matthias Rix

Horst-Werner Zanthoff

Reiner Bukohl

Andreas Wolff

Ted M Pettijohn

Matthias Leipold

Stephen Bowers

Shahbaz Naeem

Oliver Markus Busch

A process for the combined preparation of at least butene and octene from ethane, proceeds by a) providing an inert solvent having a boiling point or boiling range below the boiling point of butene; b) providing a first feed mixture comprising at least the inert solvent and ethene dissolved therein; c) converting the first feed mixture in a first synthesis; d) in the first synthesis, oligomerizing at least a portion of the ethene present in the first feed mixture in the presence of a first heterogeneous catalyst and in the presence of the inert solvent to obtain a first reaction mixture comprising at least the inert solvent, butene, hexene and octene; e) working-up of the first reaction mixture and/or a substance stream based thereon into a low boiler fraction comprising the inert solvent, at least one C-fraction comprising butenes, a C-fraction comprising hexenes, a C-fraction comprising octenes and into a C-fraction comprising hydrocarbons having more than eight carbon atoms; f) using at least a portion of the low boiler fraction for providing the first feed mixture; g) providing a second feed mixture comprising at least hexene and ethene dissolved in the hexene using at least a portion of the C-fraction; h) converting the second feed mixture in a second synthesis, wherein the second synthesis is spatially separated from the first synthesis; i) in the second synthesis, reacting at least a portion of the ethene present in the second feed mixture with at least a portion of the hexene present in the second feed mixture in the presence of a second heterogeneous catalyst to obtain a second reaction mixture comprising at least octene; and k) joint working-up of the second reaction mixture with the first reaction mixture or with the substance stream based thereon.

Combined preparation of at least butene and octene from ethene

A process for the combined preparation of a butene and an octene from ethene, proceeds by: a) providing a solvent having a boiling point or boiling range above the boiling points of the butenes and below the boiling points of the octenes and wherein the solvent is an inert solvent or is hexene alone or is hexene admixed with pentane or hexane or heptane or is a mixture of pentane, hexane, and heptane; b) providing a first feed mixture containing at least the solvent and ethene dissolved therein; c) providing a second feed mixture containing at least hexene, the solvent and also ethene dissolved in the solvent and/or in the hexene; d) transferring the first feed mixture into a first synthesis and the second feed mixture into a second synthesis, wherein the first and second syntheses are physically separated from one another; e) oligomerizing of at least part of the ethene present in the first feed mixture in the presence of a first heterogeneous catalyst and in the presence of the solvent in the first synthesis to give a first reaction mixture comprising at least the solvent, butene and hexene; f) separating a butene-containing low boiler fraction from the first reaction mixture or from a stream based on the first reaction mixture; g) separating an intermediate boiler fraction containing hexene and the solvent from the first reaction mixture or from a stream based on the first reaction mixture; h) using at least part of the intermediate boiler fraction in the course of providing the second feed mixture; and i) reacting at least part of the ethene present in the second feed mixture with at least part of the hexene present in the second feed mixture in the presence of a second heterogeneous catalyst and in the presence of the solvent in the second synthesis to give a second reaction mixture comprising at least octene and the solvent.

Combined preparation of butene and octene from ethene

The invention relates to a method for producing linear butenes from methanol. The problem addressed is that of specifying such a method in which the methanol used is converted, to the largest possible extent, into butenes. The problem is solved by combining a methanol-to-propylene process with a metathesis reaction by means of which the propene obtained from the methanol is converted into linear butenes.

Process for preparing linear butenes from methanol

The invention relates to a method for the thioetherification of mercaptanes with polyunsaturated hydrocarbons, carried out in a reactor with the addition of hydrogen, using a heterogenic catalyst and in the presence of 1-butene. The aim of the invention is to develop such a method to the extent that the creation of value from the Craw material stream is increased. Said aim is achieved in that the hydrogen is added to the reaction in such a manner that the molar ratio of hydrogen to polyunsaturated hydrocarbons is no more than one.

Thioetherification of mercaptanes in C4 hydrocarbon mixtures

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Joerg Schallenberg