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Definitions

• the invention relates to a novel, thermally stable catalyst, a process for its preparation and its use in processes for heterogeneously catalyzed oxidation of hydrogen chloride to chlorine.
• a reaction of great industrial interest is the process of catalytic hydrogen chloride oxidation with oxygen developed by Deacon in 1868.
• the Deacon process is of high economic interest, particularly in view of the world's growing demand for chlorine in view of the less strong demand for caustic soda, which is the major by-product of chlor-alkali electrolysis.
• the catalytic oxidation of hydrogen chloride to chlorine is an equilibrium reaction.
• the position of the equilibrium shifts with increasing temperature to the detriment of the desired end product chlorine.
• WO 2007/134726 discloses that catalysts based on ruthenium, palladium, platinum, osmium, iridium, silver, copper or rhenium are suitable for this purpose.
• the method according to WO 2007/134726 is preferably carried out in temperature ranges from 200 0 C to 450 0 C.
• the catalyst disclosed in DE 10 2007 047 434.4 consists of nanoparticulate palladium around which there is a porous zirconium oxide layer.
• the catalyst disclosed therein is intended for use in hydrogenation and dehydrogenation. It is not disclosed that the catalyst would be useful for the heterogeneously catalyzed oxidation of hydrogen chloride to chlorine.
• the process for preparing the catalyst disclosed in DE 10 2007 047 434.4 comprises the steps of preparation of palladium nanoparticles, coating of the palladium Nanoparticles with SiO 2 , applying a porous zirconium oxide layer on the Pd / SiO ⁇ balls and washing the SiCV layer with a base.
• a use of ruthenium or ruthenium compounds in the process of DE 102007 047 434.4 is not disclosed. Although in other technical fields the basic possibility of nanoparticle coating is known, such coatings are disclosed here around semiconducting particles.
• cadmium selenite / zinc sulfide nanoparticles can be formed into silica layers by adding tetradecyl orthosilicate (TEOS) to the emulsion in an emulsion process in "Single Qunatum Dots in Süica Spheres by Microemulsion Synthesis" Nanoparticles is applied and then by bringing the TEOS by adding ammonia water on the surface of the nanoparticles for polymerization.
• TEOS tetradecyl orthosilicate
• the resulting silicate layer is dissolved, or a further zirconium oxide layer is applied to this silicate layer.
• Naito et al. Disclose a transfer of this method of preparation of coated nanoparticles to catalyst materials.
• Preparation of hollow silica-Rh, Ir, and Rh / Ir-bimetallic nanocomposites by reverse micelle technique and their unique adsorption and catalytic behavior Scientific Bases for the Preparation of Heterogenous Catalysts, ed. EM Gaigneaux, 2006: 63- 70.
• non-hollow (nh) particles are obtained which consist of a core of ruthenium and a silicate layer immediately adjacent thereto.
• Rhenium chloride on the other hand, hollow particles (h) are obtained, which consist of a nanoparticle of the
• Rhenium as well as a surrounding silicate layer in which the nanoparticles can move freely. That The rhenium nanoparticle is not fixed mechanically or by chemical bonding at a fixed location within the disclosed hollow bulk particle.
• Nanoparticles are suitable as catalysts and that these particles, depending on whether they are hollow or non-hollow particles, distinguished by different Adsorptionseigetischaften with respect to the gases hydrogen and carbon monoxide. Naito et al. further reveal that by these properties of the resulting catalyst materials for hydrogenations or dehydrogenations particularly advantageous properties result.
• Zirconium oxide layer is applied to this silicate layer. Further, Naito et al. no use of the catalysts for oxidation reactions and in particular not for the oxidation of hydrogen chloride to chlorine. Since the adsorption behavior of molecules on
• Catalyst surfaces also depends on the radii of the atoms of the molecules and there in particular
• Chlorine atoms have a significantly larger atomic radius than those in Naito et al. revealed
• a catalyst for the heterogeneous catalytic oxidation in the presence of hydrogen chloride and / or chlorine characterized in that it contains a nanoparticulate core consisting of a ruthenium compound and a surrounding gas and liquid permeable shell of zirconium oxide or titanium oxide is able to solve this task.
• nanoparticulate in the context of the present invention denotes particles having an average particle size distribution (d 50 ) of 0.1 to 100 nm. Such particles preferably have an average particle size distribution (d 50 ) of 0.3 to 70 nm, more preferably from 0.5 to 40 nm.
• ruthenium compound refers to the substances selected from the list consisting of ruthenium, ruthenium oxides and ruthenium oxychlorides.
• Preferred ruthenium compounds are ruthenium oxides and ruthenium oxychlorides.
• the aforementioned core consisting of a nanoparticulate ruthenium compound
• hollow casings of zirconium oxide or titanium oxide are usually present, in which the nanoparticulate core, consisting of a ruthenium compound, is freely movable. That is, the nanoparticulate core is fixed neither mechanically nor by a chemical bond at a fixed location within the hollow shell.
• Such a catalyst according to the invention is particularly advantageous because the shell of zirconium oxide or titanium oxide prevents sintering of the nanoparticulate core consisting of a ruthenium compound with other nanoparticulate cores consisting of a ruthenium compound, but at the same time the entire surface of the nanoparticulate core, consisting of a Ruthenium, but as Adsoptionsober Design for the compound to be oxidized in terms of a heterogeneously catalyzed oxidation is available without active centers of the nanoparticulate core, consisting of a ruthenium compound, are not accessible by binding sites with the shell material. Thus, all active centers of the nucleus, consisting of a nanoparticulate ruthenium compound, are fully accessible.
• such a catalyst also prevents or retards the above-discussed conversion of ruthenium into volatile components, because inside the zirconia or titania shell, through mass transfer resistances, an increased partial pressure of such volatile components will form as they are formed. This leads at least to an inhibition or prevention of further formation of such volatile components, so that the catalyst of the invention is characterized by a particularly advantageous stability at high temperatures, as prevail in about the heterogeneously catalyzed oxidation of hydrogen chloride to chlorine.
• the abovementioned mass transport resistances frequently differ from those of the reactants, for example the heterogeneously catalyzed oxidation of hydrogen chloride to chlorine, in that the mass transport resistance through the zirconia or titanium oxide shell has no significant negative influence on the Turnover has about chlorine.
• ruthenium has an atomic radius of 130 pm and oxygen has an atomic radius of 60 pm, so that approximately one molecular radius, e.g. the volatile component ruthenium tetroxide, assuming a tetrahedral arrangement of oxygen around the ruthenium atom, of at least 250 pm can be assumed.
• chlorine for example, has an atomic radius of only about 100 pm.
• the outer diameter of the shell of titanium oxide or zirconium oxide is usually from 10 to 1000 nm, preferably from 15 to 500 nm and particularly preferably from 20 to 300 nm, and the nanoparticulate core, consisting of a ruthenium compound, has a significantly smaller diameter than the outer diameter.
• the layer thickness of the sheath is usually in the range from 10 to 100 nm, preferably from 15 to 80 nm, particularly preferably from 15 to 40 nm.
• the layer thickness of the sheath of zirconium oxide or titanium oxide should not be too low so as not to impair its physical stability but should not be significantly larger than that D - the maximum layer thicknesses indicated above, in order not to make the mass transportation of the reactants of the heterogeneously catalyzed oxidation reaction, for example from hydrogen chloride to chlorine, significant.
• titanium oxide or zirconium oxide casing according to the invention exhibits less tendency to react with hydrogen chloride and thus to form volatile chlorides.
• the heterogeneous catalytic oxidation in the presence of hydrogen chloride and / or chlorine is thus preferably the heterogeneous catalytic oxidation of hydrogen chloride to chlorine, according to the method disclosed in this invention.
• it is a catalyst for the heterogeneous catalytic oxidation of hydrogen chloride to chlorine, characterized in that it comprises a nanoparticulate core consisting of a ruthenium compound and a surrounding gas and liquid-permeable shell of zirconium oxide or titanium oxide , contains.
• Reactions may cause damage to the catalyst, such as by occluding the pouches of the shell via coking or even loss of the shell, which is less likely to occur with the zirconium oxide or titanium oxide shell materials of this invention.
• the catalyst according to the invention can also have a multiplicity of nanoparticulate cores consisting of a ruthenium compound and these respectively surrounding gas and liquid-permeable sheaths of zirconium oxide or titanium oxide.
• the catalyst may be in the form of a shaped body comprising many of the aforementioned nanoparticulate cores consisting of a ruthenium compound surrounded by gas-permeable and liquid-permeable sheaths of zirconium oxide or titanium oxide.
• Another object of the present invention is a process for the preparation of a catalyst for heterogeneously catalyzed oxidation reactions in the presence of hydrogen chloride and / or chlorine, comprising at least the steps. a) producing nanoparticulate cores consisting of a ruthenium compound, b) wrapping the nanoparticulate ruthenium nuclei prepared from step a) with a silicate layer, c) further wrapping the particles obtained from step b) with a shell of porous zirconium oxide or titanium oxide, d) removing the silicate layer from the particles obtained from step c) below Use of a lye.
• ruthenium compounds such as those selected from the list consisting of ruthenium oxides, ruthenium-carbonyl complexes, ruthenium salts of inorganic acids, ruthenium-nitrosyl Complexes, ruthenium-amine complexes and the mixed forms.
• Non-exhaustive examples of ruthenium-carbonyl complexes are, for example, those selected from the list consisting of Ru (CO) 5 , Ru 2 (CO) 9 and Ru 3 (CO) i 2 .
• Non-exhaustive examples of ruthenium salts of inorganic acids are, for example, those selected from the list consisting of ruthenium chloride, ruthenium bromide, sodium chlororuthenate (Na 3 [RuCl 6 ]), potassium chlororuthenate hydrate K 2 [RuCl 2 (H 2 O) 4 ] and ruthenium oxychloride ( RuOCl 2, Ru 2 OCl 4 ).
• Non-exhaustive examples of ruthenium-nitrosyl complexes include those selected from the list consisting of K 2 [RuCl 5 (NO)] and [Ru (NHj) 5 (NO)] Cl 3 , non-exhaustive examples of ruthenium-amine complexes
• those selected from the list include ruthenium hexamin chloride ([Ru (NH 3 ) 6 ] Cl 2 , [Ru (NH 3 ) 3 ] Cl 3 ) and ruthenium chloropentamine chloride ([Ru (NH 3 ) 5 Cl] Cl 2 ).
• nanoparticulate cores consisting of a ruthenium compound, according to step a) of the process according to the invention, is usually carried out by reduction of the soluble ruthenium compound.
• Such a reduction can be carried out chemically and / or electrochemically. Preferably, it is chemically.
• active hydrogen reducing compounds such as e.g. Hydrogen, methanol, ethanol, propanol and long-chain alcohols, ethanediol, glycol, 1,3-propanediol, glycerol and polyols used.
• Such "active hydrogen" reducing compounds according to the most preferred reduction are particularly advantageous because they act both as a solvent of the soluble ruthenium compound and as a reducing agent.
• the ratio of soluble ruthenium compound and reducing agent can be used to influence the particle size and particle size distribution.
• the reduction of the soluble ruthenium compound is usually carried out at temperatures of 0 to 250 0 C, preferably from 10 to 200 0 C and particularly preferably at temperatures of 15 to 150 0 C.
• the reduction of the soluble ruthenium compound can take place both without and with a surface-active stabilizer (also called stabilizers or surfactants).
• a surface-active stabilizer also called stabilizers or surfactants.
• the production of nanoparticulate cores consisting of a ruthenium compound according to step a) of the process according to the invention takes place in the sense of the abovementioned reduction, however, using stabilizers which prevent and control the agglomeration of the formed nanoparticulate cores consisting of a ruthenium compound Adjust the particle size and morphology of the nanoparticulate cores consisting of a ruthenium compound.
• Stabilizers such as polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP), alcohol-polyethylene glycol ethers (e.g., Marlipal®), polyacrylates, polyols, long chain n-alkyl acids, long chain n-alkyl esters, long chain n-alkyl alcohols, and ionic surfactants (e.g., AOT, CTAB) are preferred.
• PVP polyvinylpyrrolidone
• alcohol-polyethylene glycol ethers e.g., Marlipal®
• polyacrylates polyols
• long chain n-alkyl acids long chain n-alkyl esters
• long chain n-alkyl alcohols e.g., AOT, CTAB
• ionic surfactants e.g., AOT, CTAB
• the mixing of soluble ruthenium compound and stabilizer with the reducing compound can be semi-batch or continuous.
• thermostatically controlled reactors for example stirred tank reactor, static mixer with static mixing internals, microreactors.
• nanoparticulate cores consisting of a ruthenium compound can also be dissolved in the drop volume of liquid-liquid emulsions (eg miniemulsions or microemulsions) and then reacted by mixing both emulsion solutions.
• the nanoparticulate cores obtained by one of the methods described, consisting of a ruthenium compound have an advantageous narrow distribution of the particle size, the mean value of the particle size distribution (d 50 ) being advantageously obtained in the range of the size ranges preferred for the catalyst according to the invention.
• the nanoparticulate cores consisting of a ruthenium compound
• a suitable solvent Preference is given to using a solvent which is suitable for coating with a silicate layer according to step b) of the process according to the invention.
• solvents are for example those selected from the list containing water, methanol, ethanol and other alcohols.
• the coating with a silicate layer according to step b) of the process according to the invention can be carried out by hydrolysis or precipitation of a silicate layer precursor substance.
• Preferred silicate layer precursors are those selected from the list consisting of tetramethyl orthosilicate (TMOS), tetraethyl orthosilicate (TEOS), tetrapropyl orthosilicate (TPOS), and similar orthosilicates.
• TMOS tetramethyl orthosilicate
• TEOS tetraethyl orthosilicate
• TPOS tetrapropyl orthosilicate
• the coating according to step b) of the process according to the invention is preferably carried out by hydrolysis of at least one of the aforementioned silicate layer precursors. It is particularly preferably carried out by hydrolysis of at least one of the abovementioned silicate layer precursor substances in a liquid comprising ammonia solution.
• the liquid may also comprise methanol, ethanol, propanol, isopropanol, butanol, 1,3-propanediol and / or glycerol.
• the hydrolysis can be carried out at room temperature (20 ° C.) up to the boiling point of the hydrolysis liquid. Preferably, the hydrolysis is carried out at room temperature.
• the diameter of the particles obtained from the coating according to step b) of the process according to the invention is usually from 10 to 1000 nm, preferably from 15 to 500 nm and particularly preferably from 20 to 300 nm.
• the particles thus obtained from step b) of the process according to the invention thus advantageously have an outer diameter which corresponds to the preferred inner diameters of the casings of zirconium oxide or titanium oxide of the catalysts according to the invention.
• the particles obtained from step b) of the process according to the invention can be purified by cycles of separation, by, for example, sedimentation, centrifugation or evaporation and washing with washing liquids.
• the further encapsulation according to step c) of the process according to the invention is usually carried out by hydrolysis or precipitation of a zirconium oxide shell precursor substance or a titanium oxide shell precursor substance.
• Preferred zirconia shell precursors are zirconium alkoxides or zirconium halides.
• Preferred or titania shell precursors are titanium alkoxides or titanium halides.
• Preferred zirconium alkoxides are those selected from the list consisting of zirconium methoxide, zirconium ethoxide, zirconium n-propoxide and zirconium n-butoxide.
• Preferred titanium alkoxides are those selected from the list consisting of titanium methoxide, titanium ethoxide, titanium n-propoxide, titanium t-butoxide and titanium n-butoxide.
• Preferred zirconium halides are those selected from the list consisting of zirconium chloride (ZrCl 4 ), zirconium bromide (ZrBr 4 ) and zirconium iodide (ZTI 4 ).
• TiCl 4 titanium chloride
• TiBr 4 titanium bromide
• TiI 4 titanium iodide
• the further coating according to step c) of the process according to the invention is preferably carried out by hydrolysis of at least one of the abovementioned zirconia shell precursor substances or titanium oxide shell precursor substances.
• the further coating according to step c) of the process according to the invention is carried out by hydrolysis of at least one of the abovementioned zirconia shell precursor substances or titanium oxide shell precursor substances in a liquid comprising water, methanol, ethanol, propanol and / or glycerol.
• the further coating in the form of a hydrolysis according to step c) of the process according to the invention is very preferably carried out in the presence of stabilizers, as already disclosed in connection with step a) of the process according to the invention.
• the further enveloping according to step c) of the inventive method can be carried out at temperatures of 0 to 200 0 C. It is preferably carried out at temperatures of 10 to 100 0 C.
• zirconium oxide shell precursor material or titanium oxide shell precursor substance used makes it possible to advantageously adjust the layer thickness of the shell of zirconium oxide or titanium oxide to the values disclosed in connection with the catalyst according to the invention.
• step c) of the process according to the invention after the further wrapping, an "aging" of the particles obtained is carried out over a period of one hour to five days.
• Aging in the context of the present invention means that the suspension of particles obtained in step c) of the process according to the invention is allowed to stand with stirring for the aforementioned period at room temperature (20 ° C.) and ambient pressure (1013 hPa).
• step d) of the process according to the invention is carried out, the particles obtained from step c) according to the invention or its preferred development are passed through conventional technical methods such as centrifugation, sedimentation, filtration, etc. - separated from the solvent, dried and then calcined.
• Drying may be carried out separately from calcining in two separate steps or by ramping the temperature from room temperature to calcination temperature. Accordingly, drying and calcining differ only in the temperature at which the individual steps are carried out.
• Drying in the context of the present invention is understood to mean a step carried out in a temperature range of 100 to 250 ° C., while a step carried out at temperatures of 250 to 900 ° C. is referred to as calcination.
• Such calcination is advantageous because it converts any zirconia shell precursors or titania shell precursors that may still be present to the desired oxidic form having the properties desired in the catalyst of the present invention.
• the removal of the silicate layer according to step d) of the method according to the invention is carried out by dissolving the silicate layer with an alkali.
• Suitable alkalis are all alkali and alkaline earth hydroxides such as solutions of NaOH, KOH, LiOH, Mg (OH) 2 , Ca (OH) 2 , etc.
• the solution may be aqueous or alcoholic.
• the removal of the silicate layer according to step d) of the method according to the invention is usually carried out at temperatures of 0 to 250 0 C and preferably at temperatures of 10 to 100 0 C.
• the action of the liquor takes place until the complete dissolution of the silicate layer, which can be determined by generally known methods. Such a method is about the transmission electron microscopic observation of samples of the particles from the solution.
• step d) with fresh liquor.
• step d) of the process according to the invention the catalyst particles obtained are usually separated off and dried.
• the separation can in turn be carried out by well-known methods. However, preference is given to the methods of centrifugation, filtration or sedimentation.
• the drying is preferably carried out in an air stream. Alternatively, the drying can also be carried out under protective gas or hydrogen.
• the catalyst initially present in powder form from step d) of the process according to the invention is further processed into shaped bodies.
• Moldings in the form of spheres, rings, stars (trilobes or tetralobes), tablets, cylinders or carriage wheels are preferably produced.
• the dimensions of these moldings are preferably in the range from 0.2 to 10 mm, particularly preferably from 0.5 to 7 mm.
• the further processing is carried out by known methods such as pressing, spray drying and extrusion, in particular in the presence of a binder.
• the catalyst initially present in powder form from step d) of the process according to the invention can be applied as washcoat to structured catalysts (monoliths).
• Another object of the invention is the use of the catalyst according to the invention or one of its preferred embodiments and further developments or the use of the substances prepared by the process according to the invention as a catalyst for the heterogeneously catalyzed oxidation of hydrogen chloride to chlorine.
• a final object of the present invention is a process for the production of chlorine from hydrogen chloride, which comprises reacting in the presence of a catalyst comprising a nanoparticulate core consisting of a ruthenium compound and a gas and liquid-permeable shell of zirconium oxide or titanium oxide surrounding the same , is performed.
• the process is carried out at temperatures above 250 ° C., more preferably above 350 ° C., most preferably above 450 ° C.
• Figure 1 shows the schematic structure of KataVysatorpumbles invention (d), consisting of a nanoparticulate core of a ruthenium compound 1 and a shell of zirconia 2, while between the two a cavity exists, since the outer diameter of the nanoparticulate core of a ruthenium compound 1 is less than the inner diameter of Sheath made of zirconium oxide 2.
• Fig. 1 shows schematically the intermediate steps of the method according to the invention.
• a nanoparticulate core of a ruthenium compound 1 is in (a) according to which, after step b) of the method according to the invention, it is coated with a silicate layer 3 (b).
• a shell made of zirconium oxide 2 is formed around the silicate layer 3 so that initially a particle (c) consisting of a nanoparticulate core of a ruthenium compound 1, a first silicate shell 3 and a further shell of zirconium oxide 2 is formed. Subsequently, by dissolving the silica shell 3, the catalyst particle (d) of the present invention is obtained.

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