Basf Se Corporation

Basf Aktiengesellschaft

University of California

Torsten Mattke

Gerhard Olbert

Carsten Knoesche

Eckhard Stroefer

Kai Thiele

Filip Nevejans

Heiner Schelling

Andreas Daiss

Stefan Maixner

Andreas Woelfert

Hans-Juergen Pallasch

Wolfgang Gerlinger

Robert Baumann

Frank Rosowski

Michael Bock

Markus Siegert

Veronika Wloka

Gerrit Waters

Axel Franzke

Manfred Heilig

Matthias Kummer

Radwan Abdallah

Peter Zehner

Matthias Kroner

Klemens Massonne

Oliver Bey

Bernhard Geissler

Horst Binder

Stefan Karbach

Ulrich Penzel

Wolfgang Mackenroth

Mark Duda

Harald Schaefer

Bernd Sachweh

Sabine Weiguny

Ralf Boehling

Jan-Dirk Arndt

Andreas Wölfert

Eckhard Ströfer

Vanessa Simone Lehr

Julia Leschinski

Kerstin Heinen

Carsten Knösche

Daniel Breuninger

Tsung-Chieh Cheng

Jens Ferbitz

Jens Denecke

Luc Vanderwaeren

Jan Hammenecker

Thomas Schulz

Bernd Rumpf

Nils Bottke

Günther Huber

Jan Pablo Josch

Burkhardt Dames

Heinrich-Josef Blankertz

Matthias Kloetzer

Peter Van Den Abeel

Matthias Hinrichs

Johannes Jacobs

Thomas Ruehl

Ahmad Dehestani

Stephan Zuend

Leo Denissen

Jochen Gauer

Markus Hiller

Tilmann Steinmetz

Koenraad Vandewalle

Alexander Bayer

Silvia Tauro

Matthias Klötzer

Viktor Ladnak

Patric Mueller

Carsten Knöesche

Wolfgang Haip

Hans-Jürgen Pallasch

Thomas Rühl

Shizhao Su

Sabine Frischhut

Jim Brandts

Klaus-Peter Metzner

Christian Tragut

Myung Un Won

Behzad Tangeysh

Eric Wesley Mcfarland

Hendrik De Winne

Patric Müller

Bernhard Geißler

The invention relates to a process for producing isocyanates by reacting the corresponding amines with phosgene in the liquid phase, comprising: (a) mixing an amine comprising feed stream, a phosgene comprising feed stream and optionally an inert solvent; (b) reacting the amine with phosgene in a first reaction section to obtain an intermediate reaction mixture comprising isocyanate, carbamoyl chlorides, amine hydrochlorides and unreacted phosgene; (c) cleaving the carbamoyl chlorides and remove phosgene from the intermediate reaction mixture in a second reaction section to obtain an isocyanate comprising crude product, (d) optionally working-up the crude product; wherein reacting (b) is carried out such that the intermediate reaction mixture comprises 1.7 to 5 mol-% solid amine hydrochlorides based on the molar amount of amine fed into the process.

Process for producing isocyanates

The present invention relates to a process for preparing phosgene by reacting chlorine with carbon monoxide over an activated carbon catalyst, wherein the content of chlorine oxides in the chlorine feed stream is low, to an apparatus for preparation of phosgene and to the use of the phosgene prepared by the process of the invention.

Method for producing phosgene

A process for preparing an aromatic polyamine mixture including 4,4'-methylenedi(phenylamine) and higher homologues of MDA is provided. The process includes steps of (i) reaction of aniline with formaldehyde by means of an acid catalyst to form a crude product mixture (I), (ii) neutralization of the crude product mixture (I) and removal of the salts formed; (iii) isolation of aniline; (iv) distillation of the resulting crude product mixture so as to separate off (iv-1) a mixture (II) of MDA isomers (II-1) containing from 8 to 20% by weight of 4,4&#x2032;-methylenedi(phenylamine) and not more than 0.3% by weight of secondary components (II-2) and (iv-2) a low boiler mixture of at least 55% by weight of secondary components (II-2) and MDA isomers (II-1); and (v) recirculation of the mixture (II).

Process for preparing an aromatic polyamine mixture

The invention relates to a process for preparing isocyanates by reacting primary amines with phosgene in a solvent, where the solvent comprises a dialkyl carbonate.

Process for preparing isocyanates in dialkyl carbonates as solvent

The invention relates to a method of separating a phosgene- and hydrogen chloride-comprising stream (), wherein said method comprises conveying the hydrogen chloride- and phosgene-comprising stream () into a distillation column (), withdrawing at the bottom of the distillation column () a phosgene-comprising stream () and withdrawing at the top of the column an essentially hydrogen chloride-comprising stream (). At least a portion of the stream () withdrawn at the top is compressed and at least partially condensed and at least a portion of the liquid and compressed essentially hydrogen chloride-comprising stream is decompressed and recycled into the top of distillation column () as reflux.

Separation of a phosgene- and hydrogen chloride-comprising stream

The subject of the present invention is an apparatus for the intermixing of a fluid stream with a fluid stream, which comprises a pipe through which the fluid stream is routed, at least two distributors for delivering the fluid stream being arranged inside the pipe, this arrangement of the distributors being made possible by bores in the casing of the pipe, and these distributors having a free flow cross section which is constant or decreases continuously, as seen in the main direction of flow of the fluid, and the distributors having one or more rows of holes for delivering the fluid into the fluid.

Method and apparatus for the intermixing of two fluid streams

Process for preparing isocyanates by reacting the corresponding amines with phos-gene comprising (a) providing at least one amine-comprising feed stream and at least one phosgene-comprising feed stream, (b) mixing the feed streams to form at least one reaction mixture in a mixing zone, (c) reacting the at least one reaction mixture in a reaction zone and (d) working-up the product mixture obtained from (c).

Process for preparing isocyanates

The present invention relates to gas phase phosgenation of amines for preparation of isocyanates. In the present invention, phosgene is prepared by reacting chlorine with an excess of carbon monoxide in a gas phase. The obtained phosgene-containing reaction mixture is divided into two streams by a thermal and/or a membrane separating process. The first stream is a low-carbon monoxide stream of no more than 1% by weight of carbon monoxide, based on a total weight of the first stream. The second stream is a carbon monoxide-rich stream of more than 10% by weight of carbon monoxide, based on a total weight of the second stream. The first stream is used as the phosgene-containing reactant stream in the gas phase phosgenation of amines to prepare isocyanates. The second stream can be recycled into the phosgene synthesis.

The present invention relates to a process for preparing isocyanates by reacting amines with phosgene in the liquid phase, where phosgene, hydrogen chloride and isocyanates are separated with stripping columns operated at different pressures.

Process for preparing isocyanates by phosgenation of amines in the liquid phase

The invention relates to a process for preparing isocyanates by reacting the corresponding amines with phosgene in the gas phase, optionally in the presence of an inert medium, in which phosgene and amine are first evaporated and then superheated further to reaction temperature, and the superheated phosgene and amine are mixed and fed to a reactor in which the phosgene and the amine are converted to the isocyanate, wherein the residence time of the phosgene at temperatures greater than 300&#xb0; C. is not more than 5 s, and/or the temperature of heat transfer surfaces in contact with phosgene is not more than 20 K above the phosgene temperature to be established. The invention further relates to an apparatus for preparing isocyanates by reacting the corresponding amines with phosgene in the gas phase.

Process and apparatus for preparing isocyanates

The invention relates to a process for preparing isocyanates, comprising (a) the reaction of at least one amine with phosgene in the gas phase in a reaction zone and (b) the subsequent cooling of the reaction gases in a cooling zone by means of indirect cooling, the cooling medium which absorbs the heat of the reaction gases being conducted in countercurrent to the product stream at least in the region of the highest temperature in the cooling zone.

The invention relates to a process for preparing an isocyanate, which involves contacting fluid streams of amine, phosgene and inert medium in at least one mixing device, such that an inert medium stream is metered at least between one amine stream and one phosgene stream within the mixing device, and then reacting an amine with phosgene in a reaction chamber to form an isocyanate. In this process the inert medium stream is metered such that a point of first contact of the amine and the phosgene occurs at a distance from a surface of the mixing device, and a turbulent flow is present in the reaction chamber.

Method for producing isocyanate

The invention relates to a process for preparing isocyanates by reacting the corresponding amines with phosgene in the gas phase, if appropriate in the presence of an inert medium, in which the amine and the phosgene are first mixed and converted to the isocyanate in a reactor, by cooling a reaction gas which comprises isocyanate and hydrogen chloride and leaves the reactor in a quench by adding a liquid quench medium to obtain a mixture of reaction gas and quench medium. The amount of quench medium added is such that the temperature of the mixture of reaction gas and quench medium which is established in the quench is above the dew point of the gas present in the quench.

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Torsten Mattke