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Kaung-Far Lin

William B Waites

Carroll W Lanier

Gunner E Nelson

George H Ransford

James E Boone

John C Prindle

Joseph A Bossier, Iii

Neal J Colonius

Michael D Matthews

Sharon D Booth McGee

William H Beaver

Douglas H Krzystowczyk

A highly efficient method of producing alkyl mercaptan and/or dialkyl monosulfides which involves employing carbon dioxide as an internal coolant is described. Only negligible amounts of carbonyl sulfide were formed. In addition, relatively easy separation of carbon dioxide from the reaction mixture facilitates an efficient coolant recycle process, giving a simple and effective mode of temperature control.

Method for producing alkyl mercaptans and/or dialkyl monosulfides

A highly efficient method of producing dialkyl disulfides from mercaptans and oxygen is described which involves employing carbon dioxide as an internal coolant. Among the benefits made possible by this method are (1) an increase in the proportion of mercaptan converted to dialkyl disulfide per pass through the reactor, (2) an increased ease of separation of and recycling of carbon dioxide, (3) the ability to use a common contaminant as a coolant, and (4) the use of a simple adiabatic reactor design.

Method for producing dialkyl disulfides

A process for producing an vinylidene olefin of the formula ##STR1## where R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 are the same or different and are hydrogen or alkyl and m is an integer of from 0 to 18, with a catalytically effective amount of a mixture of i) an aluminum compound of the formula R.sup.4.sub.n Al(OR.sup.5).sub.p where R.sup.4 and R.sup.5 are the same or different and are alkyl, n is an integer from 0.75 to 2.75, and p is an integer from 0.25 to 2.25, the sum of n and p being 3, at a temperature of from about 120.degree. C. to about 200.degree. C. whereby a major amount of said vinylidene and deep internal olefin dimer is produced and only a minor amount of a beta internal olefin isomer.

Dimerization catalyst and process using alkyl aluminum alkoxide

A process is described for coproducing vinylidene alcohol and vinylidene olefin. The process involves dimerizing one or more vinylolefins with an alkyl aluminum catalyst to form a first product mixture comprising at least vinylidene olefin and alkyl aluminum compound. The vinylidene olefin is then reacted with the alkyl aluminum compound under displacement conditions to form 1-olefin while concurrently removing the 1-olefin from the displacement reaction mixture to form a second product mixture comprising at least beta-branched alkyl aluminum compound. The second product mixture is treated with air or oxygen under mild oxidation conditions to form a third product mixture comprising at least beta-branched aluminum alkoxide. The beta-branched aluminum alkoxide is then hydrolyzed to form vinylidene alcohol. The process makes effective use of the alkyl aluminum catalyst both as a catalyst and as a reactant, and requires only a relatively small amount of reaction equipment.

Coproduction of vinylidene alcohols and vinylidene hydrocarbons

Processes are described for the production and use of tri-(beta-branched alkyl)aluminum compounds. In a preferred embodiment, a process of this invention involves dimerizing one or more vinylolefin monomers with an alkyl aluminum catalyst to form a first product mixture comprising at least vinylolefin monomer, trialkylaluminum in which each alkyl group has the same number of carbon atoms and skeletal structure as said vinylolefin monomer, and vinylidene olefin. The vinylolefin monomer is then removed while concurrently the trialkylaluminum and vinylidene olefin are converted to tri-(beta-branched alkyl)aluminum by reactive distillation. Reactive distillation effects a shift of the chemical equilibrium away from the trialkylaluminum compound and toward the production of tri-(beta-branched alkyl)aluminum. compound. The tri-(beta-branched alkyl)aluminum compound may then be purified by a subsequent distillation, or similarly purified and recycled back into the process as the alkyl aluminum catalyst used in forming the first product mixture. The described processes constitute highly efficient economical processes which may be carried out in a single reactor, if desired, for the high-yield production and use of such compounds.

Production and utilization of tri-(beta-branched alkyl) aluminum

Vinylidene olefin can be formed in good yield and high selectivity in much shorter reaction periods than found critical heretofore. The process involves dimerizing vinyl olefin with at least one trialkylaluminum compound as the catalyst component charged to the reaction vessel. These materials are charged to the reactor so that it contains in the range of 0.001 to 0.5 mol of trialkylaluminum per mol of the initial vinyl olefin. The reaction is performed at a temperature in the range of 100.degree. to 200.degree. C. for a period of time sufficient to convert 10 to 99% by weight of the initial vinyl olefin to a different product with at least 80 wt % vinylidene dimer selectivity. In conducting the process the liquid reaction mixture is in direct contact with a nickel-containing metal alloy surface for at least one hour at a temperature above about 50.degree. C., and (ii) at least one acetylenic hydrocarbon is added to the mixture prior to such contact in an mount at least sufficient to inhibit double bond isomerization in the reaction mixture but insufficient to inhibit formation of the vinylidene dimer. The acetylenic hydrocarbon also overcomes the devastating effect nickel impurities in the feed or in residues in the reactor have on dimer selectivity.

Production of vinylidene olefins

Vinylidene olefin can be formed in good yield and high selectivity in much shorter reaction periods than found critical heretofore. The process involves dimerizing vinyl olefin with at least one trialkylaluminum compound as the sole catalyst component charged to the reaction vessel. These materials are charged to the reactor so that it contains in the range of 0.001 to 0.5 mol of trialkylaluminum per mol of the initial vinyl olefin. The reaction is performed at a temperature in the range of 100.degree. to 200.degree. C. for a period of time sufficient to convert 10 to 99% by weight of the initial vinyl olefin to a different product and form a product mixture with at least 80 wt % vinylidene dimer selectivity. In conducting the process the liquid mixture in the reactor is maintained in direct contact with passivated ferrous metal such as low nickel ferrous metal or steel alloy interior surfaces during at least 90 percent of the total period of time during which the reactor contents are at a temperature above about 50.degree. C.

Vinylidene olefin can be formed in good yield in much shorter reaction periods than found critical heretofore. The process involves dimerizing vinyl olefin with at least one trialkylaluminum compound as the sole catalyst component charged to the reaction vessel. These materials are charged to the reactor so that it contains in the range of 0.001 to 0.05 mol of trialkylaluminum per mol of the initial vinyl olefin. The reaction is performed at a temperature in the range of over 140.degree. C. and below 172.degree. C. for a period of time in the range of 1 to 24 hours sufficient to convert at least 10% by weight of the initial vinyl olefin to a different product with at least 80 wt % vinylidene dimer selectivity.

An environmentally friendly invert drilling fluid comprises a water-in-oil emulsion which includes (a) at least 50 volume percent of a low toxicity base oil, and (b) at least one additive selected from the group consisting of emulsifiers, viscosifiers, weighing agents, oil wetting agents and fluid loss preventing agents, at least about 25 weight percent of the base oil content of the drilling fluid being a mixture of a linear alkane combined with a branched chain alkane, the alkanes individually having from about 14 to about 30 carbon atoms.

Synthetic paraffinic hydrocarbon drilling fluid

This invention provides an improved process for the preparation of an aluminum alkyl chain growth product by the chain growth reaction of alpha-olefins on aluminum alkyl, the improvement comprising catalyzing the chain growth reaction that is a partially oxidized aluminum alkyl.

Alpha-olefin catalyst and process

Aqueous solutions containing bromide and one or more polyvalent anions are separated by nanofiltration into two streams, a brine enriched in the bromide and a brine enriched in the polyvalent anion. The bromide-enriched brine can be concentrated using reverse osmosis, and the concentrated brine can be used, e.g., as feed to a process for recovering elemental bromine or for the production of metal bromide salt.

Bromide separation and concentration using semipermeable membranes

A process for separating a mixture of aluminum alkyl and alpha-olefin, said process comprising contacting a silica modified inorganic membrane filter with said mixture and recovering, as the permeate, an alpha-olefin fraction which contains a lower concentration of aluminum alkyl than in said mixture, as the retentate, an aluminum alkyl fraction which contains a higher concentration of aluminum alkyl than in said mixture.

Separation of aluminum alkyls from olefins using modified inorganic

A process for separating a mixture of aluminum alkyl and alpha-olefin comprises contacting, under an elevated pressure of at least about 300 psig, an organic solvent stable, polyphenylene oxide-derived membrane with said mixture and recovering as the permeate an alpha-olefin fraction which contains a lower concentration of aluminum alkyl than in the starting mixture.

Separation of aluminum alkyls from olefins using polyphenylene oxide

An improved process for making olefins from a lower olefin such as ethylene and an alkyl aluminum by chain growth employes a butene displacement reaction using mixing device such as a static mixer which permits efficient operation of the displacement reaction at moderate pressures where the reactants form a two-phase vapor-liquid system or a vapor system.

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