Maruzen Petrochemical Company, Limited

National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology

Yasunori Hayashi

Takeshi Haruna

Takashi Naniki

Hiroyuki Yasuda

Toshikazu Takahashi

Shouji Yamamoto

Takuro Furukawa

Goro Sawada

Yoshikazu Iijima

Kouzo Osaki

Koichiro Kanai

An apparatus and method for continuously producing a cyclic carbonate which are easily scaled up without requiring a large-sized reactor or excessive ancillary facilities even in the case of producing a cyclic carbonate by using an immobilized catalyst as a catalyst on an industrial scale, are able to produce a cyclic carbonate without impairing the expected catalytic efficiency and catalyst lifetime, are economical, and exhibit excellent industrial productivity. The apparatus includes an adiabatic reactor to be filled with a heterogeneous catalyst for reacting an epoxide with carbon dioxide, a circulation path for returning at least a portion of a fluid mixture in a liquid form flowed out through a reactor outlet into the reactor, a carbon dioxide supply means for continuously supplying carbon dioxide in a liquid form or a supercritical state into the circulation path, and an epoxide supply means.

Apparatus and method for producing cyclic carbonate

A method for producing a hydrogenated petroleum resin by reacting dicyclopentadiene with a vinyl aromatic compound, subjecting the reaction product obtained by this reaction to thermal polymerization, and then hydrogenating the resulting product, including the following steps (A) to (C): 

Method for producing hydrogenated petroleum resin

Provided is a method for producing a cyclic carbonate obtained by reacting epoxide and carbon dioxide in the presence of a quaternary onium salt as a counter ion or a quaternary phosphonium salt having a halogenated anion as a counter ion, or in the presence of a solid catalyst obtained by immobilizing the quaternary onium salt onto a carrier, wherein an organohalogen compound containing at least one halogen atom in one molecule is added to the reaction system.

Method for producing cyclic carbonate

Provided is a method for continuously producing a cyclic carbonate, by which generation of a glycol in a reaction for synthesizing a cyclic carbonate is suppressed, and a cyclic carbonate having a high purity can be efficiently obtained even by simple purification. A method for continuously producing a cyclic carbonate, including filling a catalyst in a fixed-bed tube reactor, and continuously feeding carbon dioxide and an epoxide to the fixed-bed tube reactor to thereby bringing the carbon dioxide and the epoxide into contact with the catalyst, while continuously withdrawing the reaction liquid in the fixed-bed tube reactor, wherein the method includes a pre-treatment step in which a pre-treatment liquid containing a cyclic carbonate is brought into contact with the catalyst before feeding the carbon dioxide and the epoxide to the fixed-bed tube reactor, and the generated glycol is removed out of the system.

Method for continuously producing cyclic carbonate

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Yasunori Hayashi