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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 21, 1999
Filed:
Aug. 07, 1998
Reinaldo Mario Machado, Allentown, PA (US);
David Joseph Parrillo, Fleetwood, PA (US);
Richard Peter Boehme, Allentown, PA (US);
Robert Roger Broekhuis, Allentown, PA (US);
Air Products and Chemicals, Inc., Allentown, PA (US);
Abstract
This invention relates to an improvement in a process for hydrogenating a nitroaromatic composition namely dinitrotoluene by contacting the dinitrotoluene with hydrogen in a reactor employing a monolith catalyst system. Broadly the improvement resides in the continuous, essentially solventless, adiabatic hydrogenation of dinitrotoluene to toluenediamine in a plug flow reactor system incorporating the monolith catalyst. The process generally comprises the steps: introducing a feedstock comprised of dinitrotoluene and reaction product components continuously into the reactor and said feedstock having less that 30% by weight of a solvent, carrying out the hydrogenation of dinitrotoluene to toluenediamine under adiabatic conditions; and, continuously removing hydrogenated reaction product from the reactor.