Basf Se Corporation

Basf Aktiengesellschaft

Kai Rainer Ehrhardt

Michael L Hayes

Maximilian Vicari

Dirk Grossschmidt

Horst Neuhauser

Michael Russ

Christian Weichert

Peter Renze

Bernd Bartenbach

Raymond Poche

William R Scullin

Ekkehard Schwab

Thomas Heidemann

Gerrit Waters

Lucia Koenigsmann

Piotr Makarczyk

Dieter Stapf

Hans Zapf

Arne Hoffmann

Frank Kleine Jaeger

Michael Bachtler

Christopher P Witte

Mayke Mueller-Eversbusch

Dirk Großschmidt

The invention relates to a continuous method for producing acetylenes and syngas by partially oxidizing hydrocarbons with oxygen. A first feed stream () containing one or more hydrocarbons and a second feed stream () containing oxygen are &#x2014;mixed in a ratio of the mass flows of the second feed stream () to the first feed stream () corresponding to an oxygen number of less than or equal to 0.31, said streams being heated separately from each other, &#x2014;and fed to a combustion chamber (FR) via a burner block (BR), the partial oxidation of the hydrocarbons being carried out in said combustion chamber, &#x2014;thereby obtaining a first cracked gas stream I. The invention is characterized in that &#x2014;the first cracked gas stream Iis precooled to a temperature ranging from 100 to 1000&#xb0; C. in a prequench region (H), thereby obtaining a second cracked gas stream II, &#x2014;50 to 90% of the solids contained in the second cracked gas stream IIare separated therefrom in a solid-gas separating device (A), thereby obtaining a solid stream Iand a third cracked gas stream III, &#x2014;the third cracked gas stream IIIis cooled to 80 to 90&#xb0; C. by injecting water in a total quench region (B), thereby obtaining a fourth cracked gas stream IVand a first process water stream I, &#x2014;the fourth cracked gas stream IVundergoes a fine separation of solids in one or more scrubbing devices (C, D), thereby obtaining one or more process water streams II, IIIand a product gas stream VI, &#x2014;the process water streams I, II, IIIare merged into a combined process water stream IV, &#x2014;the combined process water stream IVis partly recirculated, as stream V, into the total quench region (B) and otherwise undergoes a cleaning process, as stream VI, by means of a partial evaporation process, thereby obtaining a cleaned process water stream VII, &#x2014;which is cooled by a recooling device (F), partially recycled, as stream VIII, into the method, and otherwise discharged, as stream IX.

Method for producing acetylenes and syngas

The present invention provides a process for preparing acetylene and synthesis gas by partial oxidation of hydrocarbons with oxygen, by first separately preheating the starting gases comprising a hydrocarbon-containing stream and an oxygen-containing stream and then mixing them in a mixing zone and, after they have flowed through the burner block, reacting them in the firing space and then cooling the products rapidly, wherein the surface on the firing space side of the burner block is covered with a purge gas stream and this purge gas stream is introduced through the burner block by means of several bores, where the averaged ratio of effective surface area of the burner block to number of these bores in the burner block for the purge gas stream is within a range from 5 to 100 cm.

Process and apparatus for preparing acetylene and synthesis gas

A process for preparing acetylene and synthesis gas by partial oxidation of hydrocarbons with oxygen, by first separately preheating the hydrocarbon gas and oxygen gas, and then reacting the gases and cooling the products rapidly. The reactor wall is blanketed with a purge gas stream, introduced through a plurality of feed lines. These feed lines deliver purge gas in a vector direction within a 10&#xb0; angle of the main flow direction of the reactive gas stream. The purge gas is delivered at multiple stages relative to the main flow direction of the reactive gas stream, and the free cross section of the firing space available to the reactive gas stream, at the height of the feed lines of the purge gas stream, is approximately constant.

In the process for hydrogenating butadiyne over a catalyst which comprises at least one platinum group metal on an inorganic metal oxide as a support, the hydrogenation is performed at a pressure in the range from 1 to 40 bar and a temperature in the range from 0 to 100&#xb0; C., and from 0.05 to 5% by weight, based on the overall catalyst, of platinum group metal is present on the support.

Process for hydrogenating butadiyne

A process is proposed for continuously operating a plant for preparing acetylene from hydrocarbons by partial oxidation, cleavage in an arc or pyrolysis of hydrocarbons to obtain a reaction gas mixture which is conducted through one or more compressors, the pressure of the reaction gas mixture on the suction side of the compressor being controlled within a predefined range by means of a conventional controller, which comprises additionally using a higher-level model-supported predictive controller which reacts to abrupt changes in the mass flow rate of the reaction gas mixture.

Process for preparing acetylene by partial oxidation of hydrocarbons

A process is proposed for continuously operating a plant for preparing acetylene from hydrocarbons by partial oxidation, cleavage in an arc or pyrolysis of hydrocarbons to obtain a reaction gas mixture which is conducted through one or more compressors, the pressure of the reaction gas mixture on the suction side of the compressor being controlled within a predefined range by means of a conventional controller, which comprises additionally using a high-level model-supported predictive controller which reacts to abrupt changes in the mass flow rate of the reaction gas mixture.

Process for the manufacture of acetylene by partial oxidation of hydrocarbons

A process for the preparation of acetylene and synthesis gas by partial thermal oxidation in a reactor which has a burner having passages, wherein the starting materials to be reacted are rapidly and completely mixed only immediately before the flame reaction zone in the passages of the burner, a mean flow rate which exceeds the flame propagation velocities under the given reaction conditions being established in the mixing zone within the passages.

Method and device for producing acetylene and synthesis gas by rapidly mixing the reactants

Process for the preparation of acetylene from hydrocarbons by partial oxidation, arc cleavage or pyrolysis, the material stream comprising the acetylene and soot obtained being fed to a compressor, wherein a liquid which takes up the major part of the soot present in the material stream is sprayed into the compressor.

Method for producing acetylene

The invention relates to a process for the scale-up of a reactor () having a supply of a reaction mixture via channels () of a burner block () to a reaction chamber (), a high temperature reaction having a short residence time taking place in the reaction chamber () and the reaction mixture subsequently being rapidly cooled in a quench area (). For a throughput enlargement the internal diameter of the reactor () is enlarged, the transition of the reaction chamber () to the quench area () being designed in the form of a gap, which is restricted to a width in the range from 2 to 200 mm.

Process for the scale-up of a reactor for carrying out a high-temperature reaction, reactor and use

A process is described for preparing hydrogen cyanide by autothermal noncatalytic oxidation of one or more nitrogenous hydrocarbons or a nitrogenous hydrocarbon mixture in which the nitrogenous hydrocarbons, an oxygen-containing gas, with or without ammonia, with or without water, with or without a gas containing nitrogen oxides and with or without other essentially inert feed gas constituents are introduced into a flame reaction zone, react in the flame reaction zone and a post-reaction zone at a temperature of from 1000 to 1800&#xb0; C. for a reaction time of 0.03 to 0.3 s to form a cleavage gas which comprises at least the constituents hydrogen cyanide, carbon oxides, hydrogen, water, ammonia, nitrogen, light hydrocarbons with or without other cleavage gas constituents, the atomic C/N ratio in the reaction zones being from 1 to 7 and the atomic air ratio &#x3bb;being &#x3c;0.6, the cleavage gas being cooled and separated.

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Kai Rainer Ehrhardt