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Willi Schmidt

Stefan Rittinger

Aurelie Alemany

Mark Wehinger

Gerd Kaibel

Gerhard Nestler

Toni Dockner

Alexander Weck

Manfred Julius

Wolfgang Reif

Holger Herbst

Frank-Friedrich Pape

Andreas Wölfert

Matthias Geisendorfer

Heinz Rütter

Heinrich Hartmann

Alfred Oftring

Michael Kroener

Heinrich Aichinger

Gabriele Iffland

Joachim Simon

Albrecht Dams

Theo Proll

Herbert Exner

Heinz R&uuml;tter

Peter Wahl

Elke Geiβbler

Elke Geiβler

Elke Geißler

Apparatus and processes for continuous distillative separation of a mixture comprising one or more alkanolamine(s) are described. The separation is performed in one or more dividing wall column(s) and the alkanolamine or the alkanolamines is/are withdrawn as a side draw stream or side draw streams (side fraction(s)).

Devices and method for continuous distillative separation of a mixture containing one or more alkanolamine(s)

Apparatus and processes for continuous distillative separation of a mixture comprising one or more alkanolamine(s), wherein the separation is performed in one or more dividing wall column(s) and the alkanolamine or the alkanolamines is/are withdrawn as a side draw stream or side draw streams (side fraction(s)).

An amine-containing mixture containing one or more amines, water, low-boilers and optionally high-boilers is fractionated by a process having the steps (iii) and (iv) and optionally the steps (i), (ii) and (v):

Process for fractionating water-containing crude amine mixtures from amine synthesis

A mixture containing one or more amines, water, low-boilers and high-boilers, is fractioned in a process wherein

In a process for purifying crude pyrrolidine to give a pyrrolidine composition comprising more than 99% (m/m) of pyrrolidine and less than 0.3% (m/m) of water, crude pyrrolidine comprising from 40 to 98% (m/m) of pyrrolidine and having a water content of more than 2% (m/m) is subjected to continuous distillation at a pressure at the top of less than 950 hPa in a column having a stripping section and a rectifying section.

Dewatering and purification of crude pyrrolidine

In a process for the continuous preparation of alkyl esters of (meth)acrylic acid by reacting (meth)acrylic acid with alkanols having from 1 to 8 carbon atoms in a homogeneous, liquid, solvent-free phase at elevated temperature and in the presence of an acid esterification catalyst, in which the (meth)acrylic acid, the alkanol and the acid catalyst are fed to a reaction zone, the water formed is removed by rectification during a residence time as constituent of a mixture comprising starting alkanol in a rectification unit (III) superposed on the reaction zone, the distillate obtained is separated into an organic phase comprising alkanol and an aqueous phase comprising water, the organic phase is essentially completely returned to the rectification unit (III), the reaction mixture is discharged from the reaction zone and conveyed into a distillative separation zone comprising further rectification units and in the latter the alkyl (meth)acrylate formed is separated off.

Continuous preparation of alkyl esters of (meth)acrylic acid

In the process for the continuous preparation of alkyl esters of (meth)acrylic acid by reacting (meth)acrylic acid with monohydric alkanols having from 1 to 8 carbon atoms in the presence of an acid esterification catalyst in a reaction zone, there is discharged from the reaction zone a product mixture which comprises the alkyl (meth)acrylate formed, the catalyst and the by-products formed during the course of the esterification having boiling points higher than that of the alkyl (meth)acrylate, and from which the alkyl (meth)acrylate is separated by distillation in a separation zone. The product mixture discharged from the reaction zone is fed to a rectification unit (I), in this unit the product mixture discharged is separated by rectification into at least one product (I) comprising the alkyl ester of (meth)acrylic acid and a product (II) comprising the catalyst, the product (I) is fed to a further rectification unit (II) and in this the alkyl ester of (meth)acrylic acid is separated off by rectification.

N-Vinylformamide is purified by fractional distillation in the presence of formamide in a column under from 0.5 to 30 mbar by a method in which the distillation is controlled so that N-vinylformamide containing from 0.1 to 15% by weight of formamide is obtained as the distillate. Homopolymers having particularly high molecular weights can be prepared from the N-vinylformamide purified in this manner.

Purification of n-vinylformamide

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