Basf Se Corporation

Basf Aktiengesellschaft

Linde Aktiengesellschaft

Steffen Rissel

Sylke Haremza

Volker Schliephake

Peter Zurowski

Thorsten Friese

Ulrich Hammon

Volker Diehl

Till Blum

Klaus Joachim Mueller-Engel

Juergen Schroeder

Klaus Joachim Müller-Engel

Tobias Johannes Korn

Gunter Lipowsky

Ulrich Jäger

Joerg Heilek

Mark Duda

Anton Wellenhofer

Jörg Heilek

Ulrich Jaeger

Frank Hoefer

Friedrich-Georg Martin

Markus Hoelzle

Jan Pablo Josch

Ulrike Wenning

Hendrik Reyneke

Knut Eger

Christine Toegel

Silke Berndt

Ragavendra Prasad Balegedde Ramachandran

Imke Britta Mueller

Veron Nsunda

Darryl Welch

Philipp Gruene

Travis Carline

Christopher Fuchs

Frank Höfer

Martin Gembala

Imke Britta Müller

Oswin Schmidt

A process for production of acrylic acid includes preparing a product gas mixture by a catalytic gas-phase oxidation of a Cprecursor; cooling and contacting the cooled product gas mixture in an absorption column having at least two cooling loops in countercurrent with an absorbent to obtain an absorbate A, containing the absorbent and absorbed acrylic acid; condensing a high boiler fraction of the product gas mixture in a first cooling loop; condensing a low boiler fraction of the product gas mixture in a second cooling loop; maintaining a temperature of the absorbate A in the second cooling loop at a value of at least 56&#xb0; C.; removing an acid water stream comprising glyoxal from the absorption column at a side take-off located above the second cooling loop; and removing a stream F of absorbate A from the absorption column at a side take-off, located at a height of the absorption column between the first cooling loop and the second cooling loop.

Process for production of acrylic acid

A process for inhibiting unwanted free-radical polymerization of acrylic acid present in a liquid phase P whose acrylic acid content is at least 10% by weight and which, based on the weight of the acrylic acid present therein, additionally comprises at least 100 ppm by weight of propionic acid and at least 100 ppm by weight of glyoxal, in which at least one chemical compound of the element copper is added to the liquid phase P, and the resulting liquid phases P to which a chemical compound of the element copper has been added.

Process for inhibiting unwanted free-radical polymerization of acrylic acid present in a liquid phase P

In a method of stabilizing acrylic compounds, a liquid phase containing at least one acrylic compound is mixed with at least one metal and at least one ligand. The acrylic compound can be acrylic acid, methacrylic acid, and their respective esters. The metal can be copper, manganese, and cerium. The ligand can be a quinoline compound of formula (I), an N-oxide of a compound of formula (I), 2,2&#x2033;-bis(2,3-dihydro-3-oxoindolylidene), or an aliphatic y-dentate ligand with y being 2-6 and comprising at least two nitrogen atoms joined by aliphatic or aromatic C-Cbridges comprising y-2 further coordinating nitrogen atoms or heteroatoms: where X is OH, NH, O&#x2014;(C-C)-alkyl, O&#x2014;C(O)&#x2014;(C-C)-alkyl, or O&#x2014;C(O)-phenyl; Ris H, or (C-C)-alkyl; Ris H, (C-C)-alkyl, Cl, Br, or SOH; and Ris H, Cl or Br.

Method of stabilizing polymerizable compounds

A process for inhibiting polymerization of (meth)acrylic acid and/or (meth)acrylic esters by introducing an oxygenous gas into the (meth)acrylic acid and/or the (meth)acrylic ester, in which the (meth)acrylic acid and/or the (meth)acrylic ester has a degree of purity of at least 95% and is in the liquid state.

Process for inhibiting polymerization of (meth)acrylic acid and/or (meth)acrylic esters

A process for separating acrylic acid present as a main product and glyoxal present as a by-product in a product gas mixture of a partial gas phase oxidation of a Cprecursor compound, in which a liquid phase P is obtained, which consists of acrylic acid to an extent of at least 70% of its weight and, based on the molar amount of acrylic acid present therein, comprises at least 200 molar ppm of glyoxal, in which the glyoxal is separated from the acrylic acid in the liquid phase P by crystallization.

Process for separating acrylic acid present as a main constituent and glyoxal present as a by-product in a product gas mixture of a partial heterogeneously catalyzed gas phase oxidation of a C3 precursor compound of acrylic acid

A process for transferring heat to a liquid mixture comprising at least one (meth)acrylic monomer in an indirect heat exchanger, wherein a quaternary ammonium salt, a tertiary amine or a salt thereof with a Br&#xf8;nsted acid is added to the liquid mixture to reduce fouling.

Process for transferring heat to a liquid mixture comprising at least one (meth)acrylic monomer

A method of charging a vertical tube having an internal diameter of 50 mm or less with catalyst particles, which comprises introducing a filling aid into the vertical tube, where the filling aid comprises a flexible elongated body and the ratio of the cross section of the flexible elongated body to the cross section of the tube is from 0.003 to 0.08, and introducing the catalyst particles into the tube.

Method for filling a vertical tube with catalyst particles

A separating column containing a sequence of mass transfer trays that are supported by at least one covered double-T support and/or covered U-shaped support.

Thermal separating process

(Meth)acrylic monomers are separated by a thermal separation process by ascending at least one ascending gaseous stream in a separating column containing a sequence of mass transfer trays and a liquid stream that contains dissolved polymerization inhibitor which descends in the separating column, and in at least one of the streams being (meth)acrylic monomers; and spraying the inner surface of the separating column with the descending liquid stream that contains the dissolved polymerization inhibitor, and the separating column having internals, certain areas of which are shadow regions of the sprayed descending liquid stream; and which shadow regions are equipped by covering means which prevent contact of the shadow regions with (meth)acrylic monomers and consequently undesired polymerization of monomer.

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