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Isolation of butadiene from a C4 -hydrocarbon mixture
Assignee: BASF SE
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Filing: 1979-08-22
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Granted: 1981-09-29
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Expires: 1999-08-22
Abstract
Abstract A process for isolating butadiene, with the aid of a selective solvent, from a C 4 -hydrocarbon mixture which contains butadiene and small amounts of styrene and may contain oxygen, hydrocarbons more soluble than butadiene in the selective solvent and hydrocarbons less soluble than butadiene in the selective solvent, in which process the C 4 -hydrocarbon mixture is separated by extractive distillation into a distillate which contains the less soluble hydrocarbons, a stream of butadiene and a stream containing the more soluble hydrocarbons, and in which a mixture of styrene and C 4 -hydrocarbons is removed from the C 4 -hydrocarbon mixture in a distillation zone upstream of the extractive distillation, the top product of the said distillation zone being fed to the extractive distillation.
Inventors
- 👤 Alfred Lindner
- 👤 Klaus Volkamer
- 👤 Ulrich Wagner
- 👤 Dieter Pommer
- 👤 Klaus-Juergen Schneider
- 👤 Harald Schwentker
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
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Last Synchronized
2026-11-01 17:34
CPC Classifications
C; C07; C07C; C07C7/00; C07C7/005
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 7
Claim 1
Independent Claim
214 words
A process for isolating butadiene, with the aid of a selective solvent, from a C 4 -hydrocarbon mixture which contains butadiene, small amounts of styrene, hydrocarbons more soluble than butadiene in the selective solvent and hydrocarbons less soluble than butadiene in the selective solvent, which process comprises: (a) subjecting the styrene-containing C 4 -hydrocarbon mixture to distillation in a distillation zone upstream of an extractive distillation in a butadiene isolation plant, (b) feeding at the same time a second stream of liquid or gaseous C 3 - and/or C 4 -hydrocarbons to the upstream distillation zone at or below the point where the styrene-containing C 4 -hydrocarbon mixture is fed to the upstream distillation zone, (c) removing a mixture of styrene and C 4 -hydrocarbons from the C 4 -hydrocarbon mixture as bottom product of the upstream distillation zone and obtaining as top product of the upstream distillation zone a styrene-free C 4 -hydrocarbon mixture, and (d) subjecting the styrene-free C 4 -hydrocarbon mixture to extractive distillation with the aid of the selective solvent in the downstream butadiene isolation plant, (e) wherein the styrene-free C 4 -hydrocarbon mixture is separated into a distillate containing the hydrocarbons less soluble than butadiene, a stream containing butadiene and a stream containing the hydrocarbons more soluble than butadiene.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
214 words
A process for isolating butadiene, with the aid of a selective solvent, from a C 4 -hydrocarbon mixture which contains butadiene, small amounts of styrene, hydrocarbons more soluble than butadiene in the selective solvent and hydrocarbons less soluble than butadiene in the selective solvent, which process comprises: (a) subjecting the styrene-containing C 4 -hydrocarbon mixture to distillation in a distillation zone upstream of an extractive distillation in a butadiene isolation plant, (b) feeding at the same time a second stream of liquid or gaseous C 3 - and/or C 4 -hydrocarbons to the upstream distillation zone at or below the point where the styrene-containing C 4 -hydrocarbon mixture is fed to the upstream distillation zone, (c) removing a mixture of styrene and C 4 -hydrocarbons from the C 4 -hydrocarbon mixture as bottom product of the upstream distillation zone and obtaining as top product of the upstream distillation zone a styrene-free C 4 -hydrocarbon mixture, and (d) subjecting the styrene-free C 4 -hydrocarbon mixture to extractive distillation with the aid of the selective solvent in the downstream butadiene isolation plant, (e) wherein the styrene-free C 4 -hydrocarbon mixture is separated into a distillate containing the hydrocarbons less soluble than butadiene, a stream containing butadiene and a stream containing the hydrocarbons more soluble than butadiene.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
35 words
The process of claim 1, wherein the second stream fed to the upstream distillation zone is a saturated or monoolefinically unsaturated C 4 -hydrocarbon or a mixture of saturated and/or monoolefinically unsaturated C 4 -hydrocarbons.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
23 words
The process of claim 1 or 2, wherein the second hydrocarbon stream is introduced into the lower one-third of the upstream distillation zone.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
58 words
The process of claim 1 or 2, wherein oxygen is present in the styrene-containing C 4 -hydrocarbon mixture and wherein the styrene-containing C 4 -hydrocarbon mixture is first fed to a distillation zone for removing oxygen in which zone an oxygen-containing top product and a styrene-containing bottom product is used as the feed for the upstream distillation zone.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
31 words
The process of claim 4, wherein a part of the top product from the upstream distillation zone is fed to the bottom of the distillation zone for the removal of oxygen.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
44 words
The process of claim 1, wherein the top product from the distillation zone upstream of the extractive distillation is fed to a butadiene-containing C 4 -hydrocarbon mixture, which constitutes the main feed stream for the extractive distillation, before being fed to the extractive distillation.
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