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Definitions

• the present invention relates to a process for producing a chlorohydrin. More specifically, the invention relates to a process for producing a chlorohydrin in equipment made of corrosion resistant materials.
• Chlorohydrins are reaction intermediates in the manufacture of epoxides and derived products.
• Dichloropropanol for example, is a reaction intermediate in the manufacture of epichlorohydrin and epoxy resins (Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology, Fourth Edition, 1992, Vol 2, page 156, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.) .
• dichloropropanol can be obtained in particular by hypochlorination of allyl chloride, by chlorination of allyl alcohol and by hydrochlorination of glycerol.
• the latter process has the advantage that dichloropropanol can be obtained from fossil raw materials or renewable raw materials, and it is known that petrochemical natural resources, from which fossil fuels are derived, for example petroleum, natural gas or coal, available on the earth are limited.
• the application WO 2005/054167 of SOLVAY SA describes a process for the manufacture of dichloropropanol by reaction between glycerol and hydrogen chloride in the presence of an acid such as adipic acid as catalyst.
• the reaction is carried out in a reactor made of or covered with a material resistant to the chlorinating agent under the reaction conditions.
• the use of this type of material is, however, limited to the glycerol chlorination reactor.
• the invention relates to a process for producing a chlorohydrin comprising: (a) a step in which a polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon, an ester of a polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon or a mixture thereof is subjected to a reaction with a chlorinating agent containing hydrogen chloride (b) at least one other step performed in equipment, made of or covered with chlorinating agent resistant materials, under the conditions of completion of this step.
• the invention therefore also relates to the use of equipment, made of or coated with chlorine-resistant materials in a process for the manufacture of a chlorohydrin comprising a step in which a polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon, an ester is subjected to of a polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon, or a mixture thereof, to a reaction with a chlorinating agent containing hydrogen chloride, in at least one step other than the reaction step.
• Water can be water generated by the reaction between the polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon and the chlorinating agent or water introduced into the process.
• the invention finally relates to a plant for the manufacture of a chlorohydrin comprising: (a) a part in which a polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon, an ester of a polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon, or a mixture of them, is subjected to reaction with a chlorinating agent containing hydrogen chloride
• polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon refers to a hydrocarbon that contains at least two hydroxyl groups attached to two different saturated carbon atoms.
• the polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon may contain, but is not limited to, from 2 to 60 carbon atoms.
• Each of the carbons of a polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon bearing the functional hydroxyl (OH) group can not have more than one OH group, and must be of sp3 hybridization.
• the carbon atom carrying the OH group may be primary, secondary or tertiary.
• the polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon used in the present invention must contain at least two sp3 hybridization carbon atoms carrying an OH group.
• the polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon includes any hydrocarbon containing a vicinal diol (1,2-diol) or a vicinal triol (1,2,3-triol) including higher orders of these repeating units, vicinal or contiguous .
• the definition of the polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon also includes, for example, one or more 1,3-, 1,4-, 1,5- and 1,6-diol functional groups.
• the polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon may also be a polymer such as polyvinyl alcohol. Geminated diols, for example, are excluded from this class of polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbons.
• the polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbons may contain aromatic entities or hetero atoms including, for example, hetero atoms of the halogen, sulfur, phosphorus, nitrogen, oxygen, silicon and boron type, and mixtures thereof.
• polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon refers to a hydrocarbon that contains at least two hydroxyl groups attached to two different saturated carbon atoms.
• the polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon may contain, but is not limited to, from 2 to 60 carbon atoms. - AT -
• Each of the carbons of a polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon bearing the functional hydroxyl (OH) group can not have more than one OH group, and must be of sp3 hybridization.
• the carbon atom carrying the OH group may be primary, secondary or tertiary.
• the polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon used in the present invention must contain at least two sp3 hybridization carbon atoms carrying an OH group.
• the polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon includes any hydrocarbon containing a vicinal diol (1,2-diol) or a vicinal triol (1,2,3-triol) including higher orders of these repeating units, vicinal or contiguous .
• the definition of the polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon also includes, for example, one or more 1,3-, 1,4-, 1,5- and 1,6-diol functional groups.
• the polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon may also be a polymer such as polyvinyl alcohol. Geminated diols, for example, are excluded from this class of polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbons.
• the polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbons may contain aromatic entities or hetero atoms including, for example, hetero atoms of the halogen, sulfur, phosphorus, nitrogen, oxygen, silicon and boron type, and mixtures thereof.
• Polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbons for use in the present invention include, for example, 1,2-ethanediol (ethylene glycol), 1,2-propanediol (propylene glycol), 1,3-propanediol, 1-chloro-2, 3-propanediol (chloropropanediol), 2-chloro-1,3-propanediol (chloropropanediol), 1,4-butanediol, 1,5-pentanediol, cyclohexanediols, 1,2-butanediol, cyclohexanedimethanol, 1,2,3-propanetriol (also known as "glycerol” or "glycerin”), and mixtures thereof.
• 1,2-ethanediol ethylene glycol
• 1,2-propanediol propylene glycol
• 1,3-propanediol 1,3-propanedi
• the polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon used in the present invention includes, for example, 1,2-ethanediol, 1,2-propanediol, 1,3-propanediol, chloropropanediol and 1,2,3-propanetriol, and mixtures of at least two of them. More preferably, the polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon used in the present invention includes, for example, 1,2-ethanediol, 1,2-propanediol, chloropropanediol and 1,2,3-propanetriol, and mixtures thereof. least two of them. 1,2,3-propanetriol or glycerol is the most preferred.
• the polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon esters may be present in the polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon and / or may be produced in the process for the manufacture of chlorohydrin and / or may be manufactured beforehand.
• process for producing chlorohydrin examples include ethylene glycol monoacetate, propanediol monoacetates, glycerol monoacetates, glycerol monostearates, glycerol diacetates, and mixtures thereof.
• chorhydrin is used here to describe a compound containing at least one hydroxyl group and at least one chlorine atom attached to different saturated carbon atoms.
• a chlorohydrin which contains at least two hydroxyl groups is also a polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon.
• the starting material and the product of the reaction can each be chlorohydrins.
• the "produced" chlorohydrin is more chlorinated than the starting chlorohydrin, that is to say that it has more chlorine atoms and fewer hydroxyl groups than the starting chlorohydrin.
• Preferred chlorohydrins are chloroethanol, chloropropanol, chloropropanediol, dichloropropanol and mixtures of at least two of them. Dichloropropanol is particularly preferred.
• chlorohydrins are 2-chloroethanol, 1-chloropropan-2-ol, 2-chloropropan-1-ol, 1-chloropropane-2,3-diol, 2-chloropropane-1,3-diol. 1,3-dichloropropan-2-ol, 2,3-dichloropropan-1-ol and mixtures of at least two of them.
• the polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon, the polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon ester, or the mixture of them, in the process according to the invention can be obtained starting from fossil raw materials or starting from renewable raw materials, from preferably from renewable raw materials.
• Fossil raw materials are understood to mean materials from the processing of petrochemical natural resources, for example, petroleum, natural gas, and coal. Of these materials, organic compounds having 2 and 3 carbon atoms are preferred.
• the polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon is glycerol, allyl chloride, allyl alcohol and "synthetic" glycerol are particularly preferred.
• Synthetic is meant a glycerol generally obtained from petrochemical resources.
• polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon is ethylene glycol
• ethylene and “synthetic" ethylene glycol are particularly preferred.
• synthetic ethylene glycol is meant an ethylene glycol generally obtained from petrochemical resources.
• propylene glycol propylene and “synthetic" propylene glycol are particularly preferred.
• synthetic propylene glycol is meant a propylene glycol generally obtained from petrochemical resources.
• Renewable raw materials are defined as materials derived from the treatment of renewable natural resources.
• “natural” ethylene glycol, “natural” propylene glycol and “natural” glycerol are preferred.
• “natural” ethylene glycol, propylene glycol and glycerol are obtained by sugar conversion via thermochemical processes, which sugars can be obtained from biomass, as described in Industrial Bioproducts: Today and Tomorrow, Energetics. , Incorporated for the US Department of Energy, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Office of the Biomass Program, July 2003, pages 49, 52 to 56 ".
• One of these processes is, for example, the catalytic hydrogenolysis of sorbitol obtained by thermochemical conversion of glucose.
• Another method is for example the catalytic hydrogenolysis of xylitol obtained by hydrogenation of xylose.
• the xylose can for example be obtained by hydrolysis of the hemicellulose contained in the corn fibers.
• glycerol obtained from renewable raw materials is meant in particular glycerol obtained during the manufacture of biodiesel or glycerol obtained during transformations of fats or oils of vegetable or animal origin in general such as saponification, transesterification or hydrolysis reactions.
• oils used it is also possible to indicate partially modified oils, for example by polymerization or oligomerization, for example the "standolies" of linseed oil, sunflower oil and blown vegetable oils.
• partially modified oils for example by polymerization or oligomerization, for example the "standolies" of linseed oil, sunflower oil and blown vegetable oils.
• a particularly suitable glycerol can be obtained during the processing of animal fats.
• Another particularly suitable glycerol can be obtained during the manufacture of biodiesel.
• a third particularly suitable glycerol can be obtained during the transformation of fats or oils, animal or vegetable by trans-esterification in the presence of a heterogeneous catalyst, as described in documents FR 2752242, FR 2869612 and FR More specifically, the heterogeneous catalyst is chosen from mixed oxides of aluminum and zinc, mixed oxides of zinc and titanium, mixed oxides of zinc, titanium and aluminum, and mixed oxides of bismuth and of aluminum, and the heterogeneous catalyst is implemented in the form of a fixed bed. The latter process may be a biodiesel manufacturing process.
• the polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon may be as described in the patent application entitled "Process for preparing chlorohydrin by conversion of polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbons" deposited in the name of SOLVAY SA the same day as the present application, the contents of which are hereby incorporated by reference.
• a process for producing a chlorohydrin in which a polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon, an ester of a polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon, or a mixture thereof, of which the total content of expressed metals, is reacted. in the form of elements is greater than or equal to 0.1 ⁇ g / kg and less than or equal to 1000 mg / kg, with a chlorinating agent.
• glycerol obtained from renewable raw materials.
• the polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon, the polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon ester, or the mixture of them can be a crude product or a purified product, such as specifically disclosed in the application
• the polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon, the polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon ester, or the mixture of them may be a polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon whose alkali and / or alkaline earth metals may be less than or equal to 5 g / kg as described in the application entitled "Process of manufacture of a chlorohydrin by chlorination of a polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon "deposited in the name of SOLVAY SA on the same day as the present application, the contents of which are hereby incorporated by reference.
• the alkali metals can be selected from lithium, sodium, potassium, rubidium and cesium and the alkaline earth metals can be selected from magnesium, calcium, strontium and barium.
• the content of alkali and / or alkaline-earth metals of the polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon, of the polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon ester, or of the mixture of them is less than or equal to at 5 g / kg, often less than or equal to 1 g / kg, more particularly less than or equal to 0.5 g / kg and in some cases less than or equal to 0.01 g / kg.
• the content of alkaline and / or alkaline earth metals of glycerol is generally greater than or equal to 0.1 ⁇ g / kg.
• the alkali metals are generally lithium, sodium, potassium and cesium, often sodium and potassium, and frequently sodium.
• the lithium content of the polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon, of the polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon ester, or of the mixture of them is generally less than or equal to at 1 g / kg, often less than or equal to 0.1 g / kg and more particularly less than or equal to 2 mg / kg. This content is generally greater than or equal to 0.1 ⁇ g / kg.
• the sodium content of the polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon, of the polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon ester, or of the mixture of them is generally less than or equal to 1 g / kg, often less than or equal to 0.1 g / kg and more particularly less than or equal to 2 mg / kg. This content is generally greater than or equal to 0.1 ⁇ g / kg.
• the potassium content of the polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon, of the polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon ester, or of the mixture of them is generally less than or equal to 1 g / kg, often less than or equal to 0.1 g / kg and more particularly less than or equal to 2 mg / kg. This content is generally greater than or equal to 0.1 ⁇ g / kg.
• the rubidium content of the polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon, the polyhydric aliphatic hydrocarbon ester hydroxyl, or a mixture of them is generally less than or equal to 1 g / kg, often less than or equal to 0.1 g / kg and more particularly less than or equal to 2 mg / kg. This content is generally greater than or equal to 0.1 ⁇ g / kg.
• the cesium content of the polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon, of the polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon ester, or of the mixture of them is generally less than or equal to 1 g / kg, often less than or equal to 0.1 g / kg and more particularly less than or equal to 2 mg / kg. This content is generally greater than or equal to 0.1 ⁇ g / kg.
• the alkaline-earth elements are generally magnesium, calcium, strontium and barium, often magnesium and calcium and frequently calcium.
• the magnesium content of the polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon, of the polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon ester, or of the mixture of them is generally less than or equal to 1 g / kg, often less than or equal to 0.1 g / kg and more particularly less than or equal to 2 mg / kg. This content is generally greater than or equal to 0.1 ⁇ g / kg.
• the calcium content of the polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon, of the polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon ester, or of the mixture of them is generally less than or equal to 1 g / kg, often less than or equal to 0.1 g / kg and more particularly less than or equal to 2 mg / kg. This content is generally greater than or equal to 0.1 ⁇ g / kg.
• the strontium content of the polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon, of the polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon ester, or of the mixture of them is generally less than or equal to 1 g / kg, often less than or equal to 0.1 g / kg and more particularly less than or equal to 2 mg / kg. This content is generally greater than or equal to 0.1 ⁇ g / kg.
• the barium content of the polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon, of the polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon ester, or of the mixture of them is generally less than or equal to 1 g / kg, often less than or equal to 0.1 g / kg and more particularly lower or equal to 2 mg / kg. This content is generally greater than or equal to 0.1 ⁇ g / kg.
• the alkali and / or alkaline earth metals are generally present in the form of salts, frequently in the form of chlorides, sulphates and mixtures thereof. Sodium chloride is most often encountered.
• the chlorinating agent may be as described in the application WO 2005/054167 of SOLVAY SA, of page 4, line 25, on page 6, line 2
• the chlorinating agent may be hydrogen chloride may be as described in SOLVAY SA application WO 2005/054167, page 4, line 30 on page 6, line 2.
• a chlorinating agent which may be aqueous hydrochloric acid or preferably anhydrous hydrogen chloride.
• the hydrogen chloride may be derived from a process for the pyrolysis of chlorinated organic compounds such as, for example, vinyl chloride production, a process for the manufacture of 4,4-methylenediphenyl diisocyanate (MDI) or toluene diisocyanate (TDI), metal stripping processes or a reaction between an inorganic acid such as sulfuric or phosphoric acid and a metal chloride such as sodium chloride, potassium chloride or calcium chloride.
• MDI 4,4-methylenediphenyl diisocyanate
• TDI toluene diisocyanate
• metal stripping processes or a reaction between an inorganic acid such as sulfuric or phosphoric acid and a metal chloride such as sodium chloride, potassium chloride or calcium chloride.
• the chlorinating agent is gaseous hydrogen chloride or an aqueous solution of hydrogen chloride or a combination of both.
• the hydrogen chloride may be an aqueous solution of hydrogen chloride or preferably anhydrous hydrogen chloride, resulting from a chlorine-producing plant. allyl and / or manufacture of chloromethanes and / or chlorinolysis and / or high temperature oxidation of chlorinated compounds as described in the application entitled "Process for producing a chlorohydrin by reaction between a polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon and a chlorinating agent "filed on behalf of SOLVAY SA on the same day as the present application, the contents of which are hereby incorporated by reference.
• a process for producing a chlorohydrin from a polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon, an ester of a polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon, or a mixture of them, and a chlorinating agent the latter containing at least one of the following compounds: nitrogen, oxygen, hydrogen, chlorine, an organic hydrocarbon compound, a halogenated organic compound, an oxygenated organic compound and a metal.
• organic hydrocarbon compound which is selected from aromatic hydrocarbons, saturated or unsaturated aliphatic and mixtures thereof.
• an unsaturated aliphatic hydrocarbon which is selected from acetylene, ethylene, propylene, butene, propadiene, methylacetylene, and mixtures thereof, of a saturated aliphatic hydrocarbon which is selected from methane , ethane, propane, butane, and mixtures thereof, and an aromatic hydrocarbon which is benzene.
• halogenated organic compound which is a chlorinated organic compound chosen from chloromethanes, chloroethanes, chloropropanes, chlorobutanes, vinyl chloride, vinylidene chloride, monochloropropenes, perchlorethylene, trichlorethylene, chlorobutadiene, chlorobenzenes and mixtures thereof.
• halogenated organic compound which is a fluorinated organic compound selected from fluoromethanes, fluoroethanes, vinyl fluoride, vinylidene fluoride, and mixtures thereof.
• an oxygenated organic compound which is chosen from alcohols, chloroalcohols, chloroethers and their mixtures
• a metal chosen from alkali metals, alkaline-earth metals, iron, nickel, copper, lead, arsenic, cobalt, titanium, cadmium, antimony, mercury, zinc, selenium, aluminum, bismuth, and mixtures thereof.Mention is more particularly made of a process in which the chlorinating agent is derived at least partially from a process for the production of chlorine. allyl and / or a process for producing chloromethanes and / or a chlorinolysis process and / or a process for the oxidation of chlorinated compounds at a temperature greater than or equal to 800 ° C.
• hydrogen chloride is a aqueous solution of hydrogen chloride and does not include gaseous hydrogen chloride.
• the reaction between the polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon, the polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon ester, or the mixture of them, and the chlorinating agent can be carried out in a reactor as described in SOLVAY SA application WO 2005/054167, on page 6, lines 3 to 23.
• a continuous process for the production of chlorohydrin in which a polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon, an ester of a polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon or a mixture of them is reacted with a chlorinating agent and an organic acid.
• a liquid reaction medium whose composition in the stationary state comprises polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon and esters of the polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon whose sum of the contents expressed in moles of polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon is greater than 1, 1 mol% and less than or equal to 30 mol%, the percentage being related to the organic part of the liquid reaction medium.
• the organic part of the liquid reaction medium consists of all the organic compounds of the liquid reaction medium, that is to say compounds whose molecule contains at least 1 carbon atom.
• the reaction between the polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon, the polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon ester, or the mixture of them, and the chlorinating agent can be carried out in the presence of a catalyst as described in SOLVAY SA application WO 2005/054167, page 6, line 28, to page 8, line 5.
• a catalyst as described in SOLVAY SA application WO 2005/054167, page 6, line 28, to page 8, line 5.
• an acid-based catalyst carboxylic acid or a carboxylic acid derivative having a boiling point atmospheric greater than or equal to 200 ° C, in particular adipic acid and derivatives of adipic acid.
• the reaction between the polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon, the polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon ester, or the mixture of them, and the chlorinating agent can be carried out at a catalyst concentration, a temperature, a pressure and for residence times as described in SOLVAY SA application WO 2005/054167, page 8, line 6 to page 10, line 10. Mention is especially made of a temperature of at least 20 ° C and at most 160 ° C, a pressure of at least 0.3 bar and at most 100 bar, and a residence time at least 1 hour and not more than 50 hours.
• the reaction between the polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon, the polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon ester, or the mixture of them, and the chlorinating agent can be carried out in the presence of a solvent as described in the application WO 2005/054167 of SOLVAY SA, on page 11, lines 12 to 36.
• an organic solvent such as a chlorinated organic solvent, an alcohol, a ketone, an ester or an ether, a non-aqueous solvent miscible with the polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon such as chloroethanol, chloropropanol and chloropropanediol. , dichloropropanol, dioxane, phenol, cresol, and mixtures of chloropropanediol and dichloropropanol, or heavy products of the reaction such as oligomers of at least partially chlorinated and or esterified polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon.
• an organic solvent such as a chlorinated organic solvent, an alcohol, a ketone, an ester or an ether
• a non-aqueous solvent miscible with the polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon such as chloroethanol, chloropropanol and chloropropanediol.
• the reaction between the polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon and the chlorinating agent can be carried out in the presence of a liquid phase comprising heavy compounds other than the polyaliphatic hydrocarbon.
• hydroxylated as described in the application entitled “Process for producing a chlorohydrin in a liquid phase” filed in the name of SOLVAY SA on the same day as the present application, the contents of which are hereby incorporated by reference.
• a process for producing a chlorohydrin wherein a polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon, a polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon ester, or a mixture thereof is subjected to a reaction with a chlorinating agent. in the presence of a liquid phase comprising heavy compounds other than the aliphatic hydrocarbon polyhydroxylated and whose boiling point under a pressure of 1 bar absolute is at least 15 ° C higher than the boiling point of chlorohydrin under a pressure of 1 bar absolute.
• the reaction between the polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon, the polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon ester, or the mixture of them, and the chlorinating agent is preferentially carried out in a liquid reaction medium.
• the liquid reaction medium may be mono- or multiphasic.
• the liquid reaction medium consists of all the dissolved or dispersed solid compounds, dissolved or dispersed liquids and gaseous dissolved or dispersed, at the reaction temperature.
• the reaction medium comprises the reactants, the catalyst, the solvent, the impurities present in the reagents, in the solvent and in the catalyst, the reaction intermediates, the products and the by-products of the reaction.
• reagents is meant the polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon, the polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon ester and the chlorinating agent.
• impurities present in the polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon mention may be made of carboxylic acids, carboxylic acid salts, fatty acid esters with polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon, esters of fatty acids with the alcohols used. during the trans-esterification, inorganic salts such as chlorides and sulphates alkali or alkaline earth.
• the polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon is glycerol
• reaction intermediates mention may be made of the monochlorohydrins of the polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon and their esters and / or polyesters, the esters and / or polyesters of the polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon and the esters of the polychlorohydrins.
• the polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon ester may therefore be, depending on the case, a reagent, an impurity of the polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon or a reaction intermediate.
• products of the reaction is meant chlorohydrin and water.
• the water may be the water formed in the chlorination reaction and / or the water introduced into the process, for example via the polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon and / or the chlorinating agent, as described in the application WO 2005/054167 of SOLVAY SA, on page 2, lines 22 to 28, on page 3, lines 20 to 25, on page 5, lines 7 to 31 and on page 12, lines 14 to 19.
• By-products include, for example, partially chlorinated and / or esterified polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon oligomers.
• the polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon is glycerol
• the by-products mention may be made, for example, of partially chlorinated and / or esterified glycerol oligomers.
• the reaction intermediates and by-products may be formed in the various process steps such as, for example, during the chlorohydrin manufacturing step and during the chlorohydrin separation steps.
• the liquid reaction medium may thus contain the polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon, the dissolved or dispersed chlorination agent in the form of bubbles, the catalyst, the solvent, the impurities present in the reactants, the solvent and the catalyst, such as dissolved salts. or solids for example, the solvent, the catalyst, the reaction intermediates, the products and the by-products of the reaction.
• the steps (a) and (b) of the method according to the invention can be carried out in batch mode or in continuous mode. It is preferred to carry out all the steps in continuous mode.
• the separation of the chlorohydrin and the other compounds from the reaction medium can be carried out according to the modes as described in the application WO 2005/054167 of SOLVAY SA, of page 12, line 1, to the page 16, line 35 and on page 18, lines 6 to 13.
• These other compounds are those mentioned above and comprise the reagents not consumed, the impurities present in the reagents, the catalyst, the solvent, the reaction intermediates, water and by-products of the reaction.
• EP 05104321.4 filed in the name of SOLVAY SA on May 20, 2005, the contents of which are hereby incorporated by reference.
• a separation mode comprising at least one separation operation for removing the salt from the liquid phase.
• a process for producing a chlorohydrin in which (a) a polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon, an ester of a polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon or a mixture thereof is subjected to a reaction with a chlorinating agent in a reaction medium, (b) a fraction of the reaction medium containing at least water and chlorohydrin is withdrawn continuously or periodically, (c) at least part of the fraction obtained in step (b) ) is introduced into a distillation step and (d) the reflux ratio of the distillation step is controlled by supplying water to said distillation step.
• a process for producing a chlorohydrin in which (a) a polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon, an ester of a polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon or a mixture thereof is subjected to reaction with hydrogen chloride in a reaction medium, (b) a fraction of the reaction medium containing at least water and chlorohydrin is withdrawn continuously or periodically, (c) at least a part of the fraction obtained from step (b) is introduced into a distillation step, wherein the ratio between the hydrogen chloride concentration and the water concentration in the fraction introduced into the distillation step is smaller than the ratio of the chloride concentrations of hydrogen / water in the azeotropic hydrogen chloride / water binary composition at the distillation temperature and pressure.
• the separation of the chlorohydrin and the other compounds from the reaction medium of chlorination of the polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon can be carried out according to the modes as described in the application entitled “Process of manufacture of a chlorohydrin "deposited in the name of SOLVAY SA, the same day as the present application, and the contents of which are hereby incorporated by reference.
• a process for producing a chlorohydrin comprising the following steps: (a) reacting a polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon, an ester of a polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon, or a mixture thereof, with a chlorination and an organic acid to obtain a mixture containing chlorohydrin and chlorohydrin esters, (b) subjecting at least a portion of the mixture obtained in step (a) to one or more treatments in subsequent steps in step (a) and (c) polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon is added to at least one of the steps subsequent to step (a), so that it reacts at a temperature greater than or equal to 20 ° C, with the chlorohydrin esters so as to at least partially form esters of the polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon.
• the separation of the chlorohydrin and the other compounds from the reaction medium of chlorination of the polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon can be carried out according to the modes as described in the application entitled "Process of manufacture of a chlorohydrin from a polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon deposited in the name of SOLVAY SA on the same day as the present application, and the contents of which are hereby incorporated by reference.
• a process comprising the following steps: (a) reacting a polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon, an ester of a polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon, or a mixture of them, with a chlorination agent such as to obtain at least one medium containing chlorohydrin, water and chlorinating agent, (b) removing at least a fraction of the medium formed in step (a) and (c) subjecting the fraction taken in step (b) to a distillation and / or stripping operation in which polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon is added so as to separate from the fraction taken in step (b) a mixture containing water and chlorohydrin having a reduced content of chlorinating agent compared to that of the fraction taken in step (b).
• the separation of the chlorohydrin and of the other compounds from the reaction medium of chlorination of the polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon can be carried out according to the modes as described in the application entitled "Process of conversion of polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbons to chlorhydrins "deposited in the name of SOLVAY SA on the same day as the present application and the contents of which are hereby incorporated by reference.
• a process for preparing a chlorohydrin comprising the following steps: (a) reacting a polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon, an ester of a polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon, or a mixture of them, with an agent chlorination process so as to obtain a mixture containing chlorohydrin, chlorohydrin esters and water, (b) subjecting at least a fraction of the mixture obtained in step (a) to a distillation treatment and / or stripping so as to obtain a concentrated portion of water, chlorohydrin and chlorohydrin esters and (c) subjecting at least a fraction of the portion obtained in step (b) to a separation operation in the presence of minus an additive so as to obtain a concentrated portion of chlorohydrin and chlorohydrin esters and which contains less than 40% by weight of water.
• the separation operation is more particularly a settling.
• the separation and the treatment of the other compounds of the reaction medium can be carried out according to modes as described in the application entitled "Process for the production of a chlorohydrin by chlorination of a polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon deposited in the name of SOLVAY SA the same day as the present application.
• a preferred treatment is to subject a fraction of the by-products of the reaction to high temperature oxidation.
• a process for producing a chlorohydrin comprising the following steps: (a) reacting a polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon, an ester of a polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon, or a mixture of them, the alkali and / or alkaline-earth metal content is less than or equal to 5 g / kg, an oxidizing agent and an organic acid so as to obtain a mixture containing at least chlorohydrin and by-products, (b) subject to at least a portion of the mixture obtained in step (a) to one or more treatments in steps subsequent to step (a) and (c) at least one of the steps subsequent to step (a) consists of oxidation at a temperature greater than or equal to 800 ° C.
• step (b) is a separation operation chosen from among the operations of decantation, filtration, centrifugation, extraction, washing, evaporation, stripping, distillation, adsorption or combinations of at least two of them.
• the chlorohydrin when the chlorohydrin is chloropropanol, it is generally used in the form of a mixture of compounds comprising the isomers of 1-chloropropan-2-ol and 2-chloropropane-1. ol.
• This mixture generally contains more than 1% by weight of the two isomers, preferably more than 5% by weight and more particularly more than 50%.
• the mixture usually contains less than 99.9% by weight of the two isomers, preferably less than 95% by weight and most preferably less than 90% by weight.
• the other constituents of the mixture may be compounds derived from chloropropanol production processes, such as residual reagents, reaction by-products, solvents and in particular water.
• the weight ratio between the isomers 1-chloropropane-2-ol and 2-chloropropane-1-ol is usually greater than or equal to 0.01, preferably greater than or equal to 0.4. This ratio is usually less than or equal to 99 and preferably less than or equal to 25.
• the chlorohydrin is chloroethanol
• it is generally used in the form of a mixture of compounds. comprising the 2-chloroethanol isomer.
• This mixture generally contains more than 1% by weight of the isomer, preferably more than 5% by weight and especially more than 50%.
• the mixture usually contains less than 99.9% by weight of the isomer, preferably less than 95% by weight and most preferably less than 90% by weight.
• the other constituents of the mixture may be compounds derived from chloroethanol production processes, such as residual reagents, reaction by-products, solvents and in particular water.
• the chlorohydrin when the chlorohydrin is chloropropanediol, it is generally used in the form of a mixture of compounds comprising the isomers of 1-chloropropane-2,3-diol and 2-chloropropane. -l, 3-diol.
• This mixture generally contains more than 1% by weight of the two isomers, preferably more than 5% by weight and more particularly more than 50%.
• the mixture usually contains less than 99.9% by weight of the two isomers, preferably less than 95% by weight and most preferably less than 90% by weight.
• the other constituents of the mixture may be compounds derived from chloropropanediol production processes, such as residual reagents, reaction by-products, solvents and in particular water.
• the weight ratio between the isomers 1-chloropropane-2,3-diol and 2-chloropropane-1,3-diol is usually greater than or equal to 0.01, preferably greater than or equal to 0.4. This ratio is usually less than or equal to 99 and preferably less than or equal to 25.
• the chlorohydrin when dichloropropanol, it is generally used in the form of a mixture of compounds. comprising the isomers of 1,3-dichloropropan-2-ol and 2,3-dichloropropan-1-ol. This mixture generally contains more than 1% by weight of the two isomers, preferably more than 5% by weight and more particularly more than 50%.
• the mixture usually contains less than 99.9% by weight of the two isomers, preferably less than 95% by weight and all especially less than 90% by weight.
• the other constituents of the mixture may be compounds from dichloropropanol production processes, such as residual reagents, reaction by-products, solvents and in particular water.
• 2,3-dichloropropan-1-ol is usually greater than or equal to 0.01, often greater than or equal to 0.4, frequently greater than or equal to 1.5, preferably greater than or equal to 3.0, so more preferably greater than or equal to 7.0 and most preferably greater than or equal to 20.0.
• This ratio is usually less than or equal to 99 and preferably less than or equal to 25.
• the chlorination reaction of the polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon, of the polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon ester, or of the mixture of them can be carried out in the presence an organic acid.
• the organic acid can be a product from the process for producing the polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon or a product not from this process. In the latter case, it may be an organic acid used to catalyze the reaction between the polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon and the chlorinating agent.
• the organic acid may also be an organic acid mixture derived from the process for producing the polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon and an organic acid not derived from the process for producing the polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon.
• the esters of the polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon can come from the reaction between the polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon and the organic acid before, during or in the steps which follow the reaction with the chlorinating agent. .
• the chlorohydrin obtained in the process according to the invention may contain a high content of halogenated ketones, in particular chloroacetone, as described in the patent application FR 05.05120 of 20/20172005 filed in the name of the Applicant, and whose content is hereby incorporated by reference.
• the content of halogenated ketone can be reduced by subjecting the chlorhdyrine obtained in the process according to the invention to azeotropic distillation in the presence of water or by subjecting the chlorohydrin to a dehydrochlorination treatment as described in this application, on page 4, line 1, page 6, line 35.
• a process for producing an epoxide in which halogenated ketones are formed as by-products and which comprises at least one treatment for removing at least a portion of the halogenated ketones formed Mention is more particularly made of a process for producing an epoxide by dehydrochlorination of a chlorohydrin of which at least one fraction is produced by chlorination of a polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon, an ester of a polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon, or a mixture thereof, a dehydrochlorination treatment and azeotropic distillation treatment of a halogenated water-ketone mixture for removing at least a portion of the halogenated ketones formed and a method of manufacture epichlorohydrin in which the halogenated ketone formed is chloroacetone.
• the chlorohydrin obtained in the process according to the invention can be subjected to a dehydrochlorination reaction to produce an epoxide as described in the patent applications WO 2005/054167 and FR 05.05120 filed in the name of SOLVAY SA.
• epoxide is used herein to describe a compound having at least one oxygen bridged on a carbon-carbon bond. Generally the carbon atoms of the carbon-carbon bond are adjacent and the compound may contain other atoms than carbon and oxygen atoms, such as hydrogen atoms and halogens.
• Preferred epoxides are ethylene oxide, propylene oxide and epichlorohydrin.
• the dehydrochlorination of the chlorohydrin can be carried out as described in the application entitled "Process for producing an epoxide from a polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon and a chlorinating agent" deposited in the name of SOLVAY SA on the same day as the present application, and the content of which is hereby incorporated by reference.
• a process for producing an epoxide in which a reaction medium resulting from the reaction between a polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon, an ester of a polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon, or a mixture of them, is subjected to and a chlorinating agent, the reaction medium containing at least 10 g of chlorohydrin per kg of reaction medium, to a subsequent chemical reaction without intermediate treatment.
• Epoxide manufacturing comprising the steps of: (a) reacting a polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon, an ester of a polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon, or a mixture thereof, with a chlorinating agent and an organic acid to form chlorohydrin and chlorohydrin esters in a reaction medium containing polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon, polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon ester, water, the chlorinating agent and the organic acid, the reaction medium containing at least 10 g of chlorohydrin per kg of reaction medium (b) subjecting at least a fraction of the reaction medium obtained in step (a), which fraction having the same composition as the reaction medium obtained in step (a), to one or more treatments in subsequent steps in step (a) and (c) adding a basic compound to at least one of the steps subsequent to step (a) to react at least partially with the chlorohydrin, the chlorohydrin esters, the chlorine and the organic acid to form epoxide and salts.
• the process for the production of the chlorohydrin according to the invention can be integrated into an overall scheme for producing an epoxide as described in the application entitled "Process for producing an epoxide from a chlorohydrin" deposited in the name of SOLVAY SA the same day as the present application, and the contents of which are hereby incorporated by reference.
• a process for the production of an epoxide comprising at least one step of purifying the epoxide formed, the epoxide being at least partly produced by a process for the dehydrochlorination of a chlorohydrin, the latter being at least partly manufactured by a process for chlorinating a polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon, an ester of a polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon, or a mixture of them.
• the other step is, for example, a stage of storage, supply, sampling, transfer, chemical treatment or physical treatment of compounds used or produced in the process.
• process for producing chlorohydrin Examples of these steps have been described above.
• the storage steps there may be mentioned, for example, the storage of the chlorinating agent containing hydrogen chloride and the polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon, before use, the storage of purges before treatment, the storage of chlorohydrin produced, the storage of the catalyst and its preparations.
• the chemical treatment steps there may be mentioned, for example, a hydrolysis treatment for recovering the catalyst and a treatment for dissolving the catalyst.
• the physical treatment steps there may be mentioned, for example, the separation operations by stripping, distillation, evaporation, extraction, decantation and filtration, the heat exchange, heating and cooling operations.
• the steps of supply, withdrawal or transfer there may be mentioned, for example, operations for recycling, purging and discharge of effluents, the transport of fluids between the various pieces of equipment in which are performed chemical reactions, storage and chemical and physical treatments.
• equipment is understood to mean containers in which compound storage, chemical reactions and / or physical operations are carried out, the pipes and fittings connecting these containers, the sealing parts at the connections, the instruments necessary for the transfer of compounds between receptacles, instruments and measuring equipment of the various parameters necessary for the control of storage, the transfer of compounds and the carrying out of chemical reactions and physical operations.
• low temperature is meant a temperature which is less than or equal to 110 ° C, often less than or equal to 100 ° C and more particularly less than or equal to 95 ° C. This low temperature is generally greater than or equal to 0 ° C, frequently greater than or equal to 5 ° C and more particularly greater than or equal to 10 ° C.
• Equipment used at low temperature are, for example, storage equipment for acidic raw materials and chlorohydrin produced and decanters.
• High temperature means a temperature which is greater than 110 ° C. This high temperature is generally less than or equal to 200 ° C., frequently less than or equal to 160 ° C. and more particularly less than or equal to 140 ° C.
• Equipment used at high temperature are, for example, the reactors where the chlorination reaction of the polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon is carried out, the treatment of purges, the recovery of the catalyst and the preparation of the catalyst, the heat exchangers, the apparatus separation by stripping, distillation, evaporation, extraction and filtration.
• low pressure is meant a pressure which is less than or equal to 3 bar absolute, often less than or equal to 2 bar and more preferably less than or equal to 1.5 bar. This low pressure is generally greater than or equal to 0.01 bar absolute, frequently greater than or equal to 0.05 bar and more preferably greater than or equal to 0.1 bar.
• Equipment used at low pressure are, for example, separating apparatus by stripping, distillation, evaporation, extraction and filtration.
• high pressure is meant a pressure which is greater than 3 bar absolute, often greater than or equal to 5 bar and more particularly greater than or equal to 7 bar This high pressure is generally less than or equal to 50 bar absolute, frequently less than or equal to at 20 bar and more preferably less than or equal to 10 bar.
• Equipment used at high pressure are, for example, the reactors in which the chlorination reaction of the polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon is carried out, separation apparatuses by stripping, distillation, evaporation and filtration.
• the equipment may be covered with or made of chlorine-resistant material under the operating conditions of such equipment.
• the choice of the type of protection, by covering with or by realization in a material resistant to chlorinating agents depends on many factors related to the chlorinating agent, the nature and the method of implementation of the material resistant to chlorinating agents and the characteristics of the equipment to be protected.
• the factors related to the chlorinating agent are, for example, its chemical nature (chlorine, hydrogen chloride), its physical state (liquid, gas, in aqueous solution) and its purity (presence of water).
• Equipment factors are, for example, shape, size, complexity and access to the surfaces of the equipment to be protected.
• Suitable materials include, for example, metallic materials and non-metallic materials.
• Metallic materials include tantalum and tantalum alloys, zirconium and zirconium alloys, titanium and titanium alloys, platinum and platinum group metals, silver and alloys. silver-gold - palladium with a minimum of 30% gold, gold and gold-silver alloys and gold-platinum alloys, molybdenum and molybdenum alloys, nickel-molybdenum alloys, nickel-chromium-molybdenum alloys, copper (Silicon-bronze) alloys, copper-tantalum and copper-niobium alloys, tin-antimony alloys containing 5% antimony, tin-nickel alloys, niobium and niobium-tantalum alloys.
• platinum group metals include rhodium, iridium, ruthenium, palladium and osmium.
• metals and their alloys can be used either in the mass or in the form of a clade or by any method of recovery.
• non-metallic materials mention may be made of high-density polyethylene, elastomers based on fluoroelastomers, thermoplastics based on polypropylene, fluoropolymers, copolymers ABS (acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene), acrylonitrile copolymer (40% ) -vinylchloride (60%), polysulfones, polyphenylene sulfides and polyphenylsulfones, glass-resin laminates based on polyester resins, phenolic resins, furan resins, epoxy resins and vinylester resins, based on ceramics alumina and corundum, metallo-ceramic materials based on hafnium carbide and titanium alloy, refractory materials based on silicon carbide, silica, aluminum silicates (with high silica content), zirconium silicate, zirconium oxide and sillimanite (AliO 3 -SiO
• Impregnated graphite polytetrafluoroethylene
• carbon, glass, quartz, enamel, porcelain, sandstone and anti-acid brick may also be suitable as non-metallic materials.
• Enamel can be used as the steel covering material, and the chlorinator resistant material is enamelled steel.
• polymers polyolefins such as high density polyethylene and polypropylene and in particular thermoplastics based on fluorinated polymers, polymers comprising sulfur such as polysulfones or polysulfides, in particular aromatic, graphite and impregnated graphite are well suited .
• thermoplastics based on fluoropolymers polyvinylidene fluoride, polytetrafluoroethylene, perfluoroalkoxyalkanes, ethylene-terafluoroethylene copolymers, tetrafluoroethylene-perfluoromethylvinylether copolymers and tetrafluoroethylenehexafluoropropylene copolymers are suitable.
• the polymers can be used in the mass state or reinforced with an envelope (steel, hooping).
• those based on epoxy resins or phenolic resins are particularly suitable.
• those based on epoxy resins or phenolic resins are particularly suitable.
• heat exchangers and pumps, graphite, impregnated or not, is particularly well suited.
• heat exchangers for heating or evaporation of the process fluids the impregnation with polytetrafluoroethylene is particularly well suited.
• Enamelled steel, tantalum, gold and perfluorinated polymers are well suited for the recovery or production of equipment operating at high temperatures.
• Polyolefins, fluoropolymers and metal alloys are well suited for the recovery or production of equipment operating at low temperatures.
• the polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon is preferably glycerol and the chlorohydrin is preferably dichloropropanol.
• chlorohydrin is dichloropropanol
• the process according to the invention can be followed by the manufacture of epichlorohydrin by dehydrochlorination of dichloropropanol and epichlorohydrin can be used in the manufacture of epoxy resins.
• Example 1 (not in accordance with the invention) Corrugated samples of Ti Gr 261 and Monel 400 were placed at 120 ° C. and for 90 days in a glycerol liquid hydrochlorination reaction medium constituted by 20% of dichloropropanol, 18% of glycerol monochlorohydrin and 2% of glycerol. 6% mono and polychlorinated glycerol oligomers, 6% water, 0.8% HCl, the remainder being the carboxylic acid catalyst and its esters. The test pieces were completely dissolved in the reaction medium.

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