Butadiene purification with simultaneous prefractionation and vinylacetylene rejection
US4090923A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Apr 6, 1977 |
| Grant date | May 23, 1978 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Apr 6, 1997 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC C)Chemistry; Metallurgy
- CPC primaryC07C7/08
- WIPO fieldOrganic fine chemistry
- WIPO sectorChemistry
Abstract
A C.sub.4 -hydrocarbon feedstream containing butenes, butadiene, and vinylacetylene is subjected to a first extractive distillation with a selective solvent to remove butenes and a first portion of vinylacetylene as the extract; by the extraction with a minor quantity of methylethyl ketone in the selective solvent in this step, it has been found that a major portion of the vinylacetylene can be rejected, together with the butenes in the rich extract and that simultaneously the quantity of butadiene extracted could be considerably reduced; in a second extractive distillation the butadiene-rich raffinate of the first extractive distillation is further purified by extractive distillation using a mixture of sulfolane and methylethyl ketone as the solvent; after solvent stripping, the butadiene stream is finally purified in a fractionation step, wherein further vinylacetylene is removed.
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