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Barth
YIELDS IN THE PREPARATION OF
PURIFIED PHTHALIC ANHYDRIDE
Inventor:
Hans-Dieter Barth, Geyen, Ger
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Germany
Feb. 6, 1969
[22] Filed:
{21] Appl. No.: 797,211
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References Cited
UNITED STATES PATENTS
4/1965
PATENTEDAUS 1 m2
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INVKNTOR
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phthalic anhydride
30-90
components having a
PHTHALIC ANHYDRIDE
lower boiling
point than phthalic
anhydride
maleic anhydride
VI benzoic acid
10-70
2-40
5-60
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separators.
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% by weight
o-xylene as
starting material
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and before the product stream has substantially cooled 5 some phthalic anhydride and volatile products of
down. Thus, the forerun is fed into the hot product gas
secondary reactions. The collected crude product ?ows
stream at a point as close as possible to the downstream
from the storage tank 7 into a preheater 8 for thermal
side of the catalyst furnace, preferably where the
pretreatment during which the crude phthalic an
product gas is at a temperature of at least 200 C., more
hydride is brought to 150-285 C. under a slightly
preferably at least 285 C. In this way, the liquid
reduced pressure. In this pretreatment water is split off
forerun is immediately and automatically evaporated,
from phthalic acid evaporating with part of the lower
and the volatile components from the forerun are
boiling substances. The pretreatment product is then
THE DRAWING
sulfur.
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400,000 tons/year.
The preceding examples can be repeated with similar
success by substituting the generically or speci?cally
described reactants and/or operating conditions of this
invention for those used in the preceding examples.
product purity.
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50-60 C.
5. A process according to claim 3 wherein the
forerunnings of step (C) constitute up to about 2.5 per
with a coolant to separate therefrom the thus
produced phthalic anhydride as a solid con 30 cent by weight of the total distillate.
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