Abstract: A process for the preparation of a color stable C6-12 saturated aliphatic carboxylic acid in which (1) the corresponding aldehyde is oxidized with molecular oxygen to obtain the crude saturated aliphatic carboxylic acid in a liquid mixture, (2) molecular oxygen removed from the crude saturated aliphatic carboxylic acid mixture, and (3) the saturated aliphatic carboxylic acid separated from the molecular oxygen depleted mixture by distillation as a color stable product.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for working up water containing 4,4?-dichlorodiphenyl sulfoxide and/or 4,4?-dichlorodiphenyl sulfone as impurities, comprising: (a) mixing the water containing 4,4?-dichlorodiphenyl sulfoxide and/or 4,4?-dichlorodiphenyl sulfone as impurities with an organic solvent in which 4,4?-dichlorodiphenyl sulfoxide and/or 4,4?-dichlorodiphenyl sulfone have a solubility of at least 0.5 wt % based on the amount of 4,4?-dichlorodiphenyl sulfoxide and/or 4, 4?-dichlorodiphenyl sulfone and organic solvent at 20° C., which forms a two-phase system with water and which can be stripped from water with a stripping gas and subsequently separating the obtained mixture into an aqueous phase and an organic phase, and (b) stripping the organic solvent from the aqueous phase with a stripping gas.

Abstract: A method for depleting aromatic hydrocarbon from a crude gas stream, comprising the use of an absorption medium comprising one or more compounds of the general formula (I): wherein R1a and R1b are each independently C7 to C12-alkyl and/or one or more compounds of the general formula (II): wherein R2a and R2b are each independently C7 to C12-alkyl.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for producing butadiene from n-butenes, comprising the steps of: A) providing an n-butenes-comprising input gas stream a1, B) feeding the n-butenes-comprising input gas stream al, an oxygenous gas and an oxygenous cycle gas stream a2 into at least one oxidative dehydrogenation zone and oxidatively dehydrogenating n-butenes to butadiene to obtain a product gas stream b comprising butadiene, unconverted n-butenes, steam, oxygen, low-boiling hydrocarbons, high-boiling secondary components, possibly carbon oxides and possibly inert gases, Ca) cooling down the product gas stream b and optionally at least partially removing high-boiling secondary components and steam to obtain a product gas stream b?, Cb) compressing and cooling the product gas stream b? in at least one compression and cooling stage to obtain at least one aqueous condensate stream c1 and one gas stream c2 comprising butadiene, n-butenes, steam, oxygen, low-boiling hydrocarbons, possibly carbon oxides and possibl