Asahi Kasei Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Shigeru Kurihara

Hiroyuki Ohashi

Hideo Midorikawa

Shigeo Nakamura

Minoru Saitoh

Akihiko Sakamoto

Hiroaki Muroya

Shoichi Miyamoto

Process for producing .alpha.,.beta.-unsaturated nitrile

A process for purifying crude acetonitrile comprising: (1) a step of contacting crude acetonitrile with nascent oxygen, (2) a step of contacting the acetonitrile from step (1) with a solid base, and (3) a step of removing low-boiling compounds and high-boiling compounds from the acetonitrile from step (2), wherein the step (3) may be effected after the step (1) and before the step (2).

Highly purified acetonitrile and process for purifying crude acetonitrile

In a process for producing chemical substances comprising steps of cooling, condensing and solvent-absorbing the reaction product gas having a high temperature formed in a reactor, an absorption type refrigerator or an absorption type heat pump is driven by using, as the driving source, a heat source having such a temperature as not to be advantageous for the heat exchange in the process, which heat source has been taken out of the steps of cooling the reaction product gas, condensing it or solvent-absorbing it to obtain a refrigerant or a hot water having a temperature higher than the temperature of the heat source, and the refrigerant or the hot water is used as a cooling source or a heating source in the steps comprised in said process for producing chemical substances.

Method for recovering and utilizing waste heat

A process for producing an unsaturated nitrile with saved energy by which the bottom stream from a recovery column is used as the heat source for at least one distillation column in the process and thereafter used to pre-heat a recovery column feed withdrawn from the bottom of an absorption column, characterized in that the bottom stream of the absorption column is previously heated by at least one source of waste heat in the process, the source being selected from (1) the circulating water in the quenching column, (2) the overhead vapor of the absorption column, (3) the overhead vapor of a dehydration column and (4) the overhead vapor of a product column.

Process for producing unsaturated nitrile

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Shigeru Kurihara