EP4543839A1 - Procede de valorisation de sous-produits lourds issus de la fabrication d'acide acrylique - Google Patents
Procede de valorisation de sous-produits lourds issus de la fabrication d'acide acryliqueInfo
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- EP4543839A1 EP4543839A1 EP23748092.6A EP23748092A EP4543839A1 EP 4543839 A1 EP4543839 A1 EP 4543839A1 EP 23748092 A EP23748092 A EP 23748092A EP 4543839 A1 EP4543839 A1 EP 4543839A1
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- C07C51/00—Preparation of carboxylic acids or their salts, halides or anhydrides
- C07C51/09—Preparation of carboxylic acids or their salts, halides or anhydrides from carboxylic acid esters or lactones
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- C07—ORGANIC CHEMISTRY
- C07C—ACYCLIC OR CARBOCYCLIC COMPOUNDS
- C07C51/00—Preparation of carboxylic acids or their salts, halides or anhydrides
- C07C51/42—Separation; Purification; Stabilisation; Use of additives
- C07C51/50—Use of additives, e.g. for stabilisation
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- C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
- C07—ORGANIC CHEMISTRY
- C07C—ACYCLIC OR CARBOCYCLIC COMPOUNDS
- C07C57/00—Unsaturated compounds having carboxyl groups bound to acyclic carbon atoms
- C07C57/02—Unsaturated compounds having carboxyl groups bound to acyclic carbon atoms with only carbon-to-carbon double bonds as unsaturation
- C07C57/03—Monocarboxylic acids
- C07C57/04—Acrylic acid; Methacrylic acid
Definitions
- the present invention relates to a process for the regeneration, by thermal cracking, of acrylic acid (AA), from heavy by-products (residues called LAA) resulting from an AA production unit, with a view to their recycling in the acrylic acid production workshop.
- This process consists of two stages: hydrolysis and cracking, carried out in batches in the same reactor, and improves the current performance of cracking installations.
- 3-acryloxypropionic acid also called "dimeric acrylic acid” or "AA dimer”;
- the rectification plates of the distillation column cause the effective separation of the polymerization inhibitors entrained in the gas mixture, which flow back towards the bottom of the column, and therefore, it is necessary to introduce fresh polymerization inhibitors in column head, to avoid the formation of polymers in the upper part of the column. Therefore, we must separate the reaction stages, carried out under higher pressure, and the distillation stages, carried out under reduced pressure.
- the installation for carrying out the process must therefore be equipped with a reactor and a condenser at the top, operated at the same pressure, and a distillation column operated at reduced pressure, supplied with the condensed product, and comprising a boiler at the bottom, and at the top a condenser, reflux equipment and a supply of inhibitors. This device is complicated and expensive.
- the AA heavies are thermally cracked discontinuously without adding ester heavies and generate an extremely viscous residue, which limits the performance of this cracking and causes problems in terms of storage and processing. transfer of residues.
- EP 3255030 teaches the addition of higher alcohols during cleavage of the residue, the maleic anhydride present in the residue being converted to maleic acid esters which are less susceptible to polymerization.
- WO 2021/224044 describes a process for decomposing Michael adducts of acrylic acid, by dilution in a solvent 1 having a boiling point at 1013 hPa of at least 170°C and a solubility in water at 25°C of at least 20 g per 100 g of water, said solvent being chosen from alcohols such as ethylene glycol, propylene glycol, diethylene glycol, triethylene glycol and 2-ethoxyethanol, carboxamides such as N,N-dimethylacetamide, N-methylacetamide and N,N-dimethylformamide, sulfoxides such as dimethylsulfoxide, and sulfones such as sulfolane.
- alcohols such as ethylene glycol, propylene glycol, diethylene glycol, triethylene glycol and 2-ethoxyethanol
- carboxamides such as N,N-dimethylacetamide, N-methylacetamide and N,N-dimethylformamide
- sulfoxides such as
- the invention relates to a process for regenerating a mixture of heavy by-products from an acrylic acid (LAA) production unit, said process comprising the following steps: i. introducing said heavy by-products into a reactor; ii. heat the heavy ones to a temperature between 80°C and 200°C; iii. add water simultaneously or at the final temperature until reaching a water/heavy AA ratio of 0.1 to 1.3 (limits included) progressively for a period of 1 to 10 hours, preferably 1 to 5 hours , leading to obtaining a mixture of hydrolyzed products, iv.
- LAA acrylic acid
- said method comprises the following characters, where appropriate combined.
- the pressure in the reactor is at atmospheric pressure or under light pressure (pressure which can reach 2 MPa).
- the temperature at which the water is added varies between 80 and 200°C, preferably between 100 and 150°C.
- the cracking temperature is between 140 and 260°C, preferably between 160 and 210°C.
- the residence time of the reaction mixture in the cracking reactor is between 0.5h and 1Oh, preferably between 1h and 4h.
- the thermal cracking reaction takes place at atmospheric pressure or under light pressure (maximum 0.2 MPa).
- said gaseous overhead stream containing acrylic acid and water is injected into a condenser.
- the reactor bottom flow (residue) obtained at the end of the thermal cracking operation has a dynamic viscosity less than 1 Pa.s, measured at a temperature of 100°C for example at using a Brookfield “CAP 1000+” cone-plane type viscometer.
- the thermal cracking reaction takes place in the absence of catalyst.
- the present invention makes it possible to overcome the disadvantages of the state of the art. It makes it possible to recover the maximum amount of AA per cracking operation, while managing the viscosity of the residue formed without being dependent on another production unit. This is accomplished through the combination of a pretreatment step by hydrolysis of heavy by-products coming from an acrylic acid production unit, and continuous addition of water, followed by a thermal cracking step in batch of hydrolyzed products, the two stages being carried out in the same reactor.
- Figure 1 schematically represents an embodiment of an installation according to the invention. DESCRIPTION OF MODES OF CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION
- the invention is based on a batch thermal cracking process, coupled with a batch hydrolysis operation carried out beforehand on the heavy by-products coming from an AA production unit, the two stages taking place in the same reactor.
- This can be a conventional stirred type reactor, or a heat exchanger.
- Hydrolysis in batch mode is carried out under a pressure ranging from 0.1 to 2 MPa.
- TRU AA mass recovered / Heavy AA cracker feed the cracking rate or yield: this is the quantity of acrylic acid recovered after cracking reduced to the sum of the recoverable compounds in the cracker feed (acrylic acid (AA) , acrylic acid dimers (AA2) and hydroxypropionic acid (AHP)).
- the flow coming from the acrylic acid production workshop is introduced into the reactor R.
- the contents of the reactor are heated to the required temperature.
- Water is added progressively simultaneously with heating or at the final temperature for a defined period of time to reach the desired water/heavy AA ratio.
- the reactor is heated to the temperature required to crack the Michael addition derivatives into lighter compounds which are extracted in the form of a gas mixture (2) at the reactor head.
- At least one polymerization inhibitor is introduced at the level of the EL condenser.
- These inhibitors are chosen from polymerization inhibitors known to those skilled in the art: phenolic derivatives such as hydroquinone and its derivatives such as hydroquinone.
- the residue flow recovered at the bottom of the reactor (4) is cooled, then eliminated in the form of a liquid of moderate viscosity, so that it can
- the exhaustion rate is defined by the ratio of distillate mass/heavy mass. In the case of adding water, this rate becomes the “corrected exhaustion rate” by subtracting this mass of water from the quantity of distillate.
- Example 1 Hydrolysis and cracking in the same batch reactor (according to the invention)
- a known mass of heavy AA is directly introduced into a glass reactor with a total volume of 500 cm 3 , heated by recirculation of oil through its double wall.
- the reactor is equipped with a stirrer, a temperature probe immersed in the liquid phase, a vertical pipe in the upper part, for the extraction of vapors, and a condenser.
- the liquid (distillate) is collected in a receiving flask and analyzed.
- Viscosity 0.068 Pa.s
- the comparative examples make it possible to show that carrying out the cracking after a hydrolysis step can be carried out at a temperature lower than that necessary for the cracking of a stream which has not undergone the hydrolysis step.
- the maximum temperature is 183°C and the cracking rate is equal to 4.5% compared to 52% for example 1 where the maximum temperature is 178°C.
- Increasing the cracking temperature to 199°C made it possible to obtain a cracking rate of 44%.
- the viscosity of the residue is 5 times higher.
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| FR2206334A FR3137090B1 (fr) | 2022-06-24 | 2022-06-24 | Procede de valorisation de sous-produits lourds issus de la fabrication d’acide acrylique |
| PCT/FR2023/050915 WO2023247887A1 (fr) | 2022-06-24 | 2023-06-20 | Procede de valorisation de sous-produits lourds issus de la fabrication d'acide acrylique |
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| EP4543839A1 true EP4543839A1 (fr) | 2025-04-30 |
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| EP23748092.6A Pending EP4543839A1 (fr) | 2022-06-24 | 2023-06-20 | Procede de valorisation de sous-produits lourds issus de la fabrication d'acide acrylique |
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| EP (1) | EP4543839A1 (fr) |
| JP (1) | JP2025519956A (fr) |
| KR (1) | KR20250027521A (fr) |
| CN (1) | CN119421868A (fr) |
| FR (1) | FR3137090B1 (fr) |
| WO (1) | WO2023247887A1 (fr) |
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| US4317926A (en) * | 1978-01-19 | 1982-03-02 | Nippon Shokubai Kagaku Kogyo Co., Ltd. | Process for preparing and recovering acrylic acid |
| FR2727964B1 (fr) | 1994-12-12 | 1997-01-24 | Atochem Elf Sa | Procede de recuperation des produits nobles legers contenus dans les residus de distillation des procedes de fabrication de l'acide acrylique et de ses esters |
| SG81213A1 (en) * | 1995-12-15 | 2001-06-19 | Rohm & Haas | Process for producing butyle acrylate |
| JP4260976B2 (ja) | 1999-04-05 | 2009-04-30 | 株式会社日本触媒 | 廃油の取扱い方法 |
| JP6290460B2 (ja) | 2015-02-05 | 2018-03-07 | 株式会社日本触媒 | アクリル酸の製造方法 |
| JP7703571B2 (ja) | 2020-05-04 | 2025-07-07 | ベーアーエスエフ・エスエー | 流体fに含有され、アクリル酸の調製の際に形成されたマイケル付加物を再解離する方法 |
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- 2023-06-20 JP JP2024575803A patent/JP2025519956A/ja active Pending
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| KR20250027521A (ko) | 2025-02-26 |
| FR3137090A1 (fr) | 2023-12-29 |
| WO2023247887A1 (fr) | 2023-12-28 |
| JP2025519956A (ja) | 2025-06-26 |
| CN119421868A (zh) | 2025-02-11 |
| FR3137090B1 (fr) | 2024-05-10 |
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