Carbonyl Dihalide Reactant (e.g., Phosgene, Etc.) Patents (Class 560/347)
  • Publication number: 20100298596
    Abstract: Isocyanates, preferably diisocyanates and polyisocyanates of the diphenylmethane series (MDI), are produced by reaction of amines dissolved in a solvent with phosgene in the same solvent to form the corresponding isocyanates. Hydrogen chloride and excess phosgene are subsequently removed from the reaction mixture to obtain a crude isocyanate-containing solution. Subsequently, the crude isocyanate-containing solution is separated by distillation into isocyanates and solvent. The solvent is recycled and used for the production of solutions of the amines and of phosgene. The solvent being recycled is treated to reduce the phosgene and diisocyanate contents before being used for the production of the solution of the amine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2010
    Publication date: November 25, 2010
    Applicant: Bayer MaterialScience AG
    Inventors: Berthold Keggenhoff, Heinrich Lokum, Matthias Böhm
  • Publication number: 20100285964
    Abstract: The present invention relates to salts of 2-iodo-N-[(4-methoxy-6-methyl-1,3,5-triazin-2-yl)carbamoyl]benzenesulfonamide, to processes for their preparation and to their use as herbicides, in particular as herbicides for the selective control of unwanted harmful plants in crops of useful plants, permanent crops or on non-crop land, and also as plant growth regulators, on their own or with safeners and/or in combination with other herbicides, to their use for controlling unwanted harmful plants (such as, for example, broad-leaved/weed grasses) in specific crop plants or as crop protection regulators, for simultaneous and/or sequential application, either as a readymix or as a tank mix.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2008
    Publication date: November 11, 2010
    Applicant: BayerCropScience AG
    Inventors: Christian Waldraff, Klaus-Helmut Mueller, Ernst Rudolf Gesing, Jan Dittgen, Dieter Feucht, Hansjoerg Kraehmer, Jeffrey Martin Hills, Georg Bonfig-Picard, Martin Hess, Dominique Schreiber, Hugh Christopher Rosinger
  • Patent number: 7813839
    Abstract: A production process such as an isocyanate production process, conducted with a production facility having (a) at least two incoming streams, b) at least one exit stream and c) at least one inner recycling stream is controlled by adjusting at least one incoming stream amount by means of regulating controls to control the exit stream concentration and/or amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2010
    Assignee: Bayer MaterialScience AG
    Inventors: Jochen Mahrenholtz, Stefan Wershofen, Gerhard Then, Sabine Pegel, Jun Wang, Erman Sevinc, Richard H. Guhl
  • Publication number: 20100217035
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing diisocyanates from diamines and phosgene in the gas phase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2008
    Publication date: August 26, 2010
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Carsten Knoesche, Andreas Woelfert, Torsten Mattke, Eckhard Stroefer, Heinrich-Josef Blankertz, Bernhard Geissler
  • Publication number: 20100210870
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing isocyanates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2008
    Publication date: August 19, 2010
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Gerhard Olbert, Torsten Mattke, Carsten Knoesche, Andreas Daiss, Jens Denecke
  • Publication number: 20100209380
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to biocompatible components useful for forming compositions for use as medical/surgical synthetic adhesives and sealants. Biocompatible components of the present disclosure may include a polymeric polyol core, which may be treated with a nitroaryl compound to form a nitro ester. The resulting nitro ester groups may be reduced to form amino groups which, in turn, may be treated to form isocyanate groups. The resulting isocyanate may then be reacted with a second component to form adhesive and/or sealant compositions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2010
    Publication date: August 19, 2010
    Inventors: Mbiya Kapiamba, Jack Kennedy, Roland Ostapoff
  • Publication number: 20100204510
    Abstract: Process for the production of di- and poly(diamino diphenyl methane) comprising the steps of (a) reacting aniline and formaldehyde in the presence of an acid catalyst to produce a reaction mixture containing di- and polyamines; (b) neutralising the reaction mixture containing di- and polyamines; (c) separating the neutralised reaction mixture into an organic phase containing di- and polyamines and an aqueous phase; (d) further treating the organic phase separated off in step (c) by (d1) washing with water followed by (d2) separating the washed mixture into an organic phase and an aqueous phase and (d3) further fractionation of the organic phase to produce purified di- and polyamines on the one hand and aniline/water on the other hand; (e) further treating the aqueous phase separated off in step (c) by (e1) washing with aniline followed by (e2) separating the washed mixture into an aqueous phase and an organic phase and (e3) further treatment of the aqueous phase to remove the aniline thereby leaving an efflue
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2008
    Publication date: August 12, 2010
    Inventors: Robert Henry Carr, Johannes Lodewijk Koole, Willem Van Der Borden
  • Patent number: 7767160
    Abstract: An apparatus for continuously producing polyisocyanate is provided for quickly contacting polyamine and carbonyl chloride in order to suppress an undesirable reaction between polyamine and polyisocyanate so that a by-product can be reduced and the yield of polyisocyanate can be improved. In a circulatory line 7, a material-mixing portion 8, a high-shear pump 3, a reactor 4, a liquid-feeding pump 5 and a cooler 6 are interposed in series along the direction of the flow of a reaction solution, thereby forming a closed line. In this apparatus 1, after polyamine and carbonyl chloride are supplied in the material-mixing portion 8, the reaction solution is sheared by the high-shear pump 3 in a state where the contact of the polyamine with the reaction solution is minimized. Thus, the formation of a urea compound as a by-product can be suppressed and the yield of polyisocyanate can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2010
    Assignee: Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.
    Inventors: Masaaki Sasaki, Kouji Maeba, Mitsunaga Douzaki, Hirofumi Takahashi, Osamu Hososaka
  • Patent number: 7754915
    Abstract: A process for preparing isocyanates in the gas phase, in which the mixing of the reactants and thus the reaction conditions are significantly improved by means of hydrodynamic measures such as increasing the turbulence of the feed stream in the central nozzle. As a consequence, the necessary residence time in the reactor and thus the length of the reactor are reduced and the formation of polymeric by-products which lead to caking in the reactor and a shortening of the operating period of the reactors is avoided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2010
    Assignee: Bayer MaterialScience AG
    Inventors: Heiko Herold, Volker Michele, Werner König
  • Publication number: 20100160673
    Abstract: Primary isocyanates are produced by reacting the corresponding primary amine(s) with phosgene at a temperature above the boiling temperature of the amine(s) in a tube reactor with a reaction space. In this tube reactor, at least one educt stream P containing phosgene and at least one educt stream A containing the amine(s) are fed to the reaction space via a nozzle arrangement. The nozzle arrangement includes a number of n?1 nozzles aligned parallel to the axis of rotation of the tube reactor and a free space surrounding the nozzles. One of the educt streams A or P is fed to the reaction space via the nozzles and the other educt stream is fed to the reaction space via the free space surrounding the nozzles. The reaction space contains at least one moving mixing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2009
    Publication date: June 24, 2010
    Applicant: Bayer MaterialScience AG
    Inventors: Rainer Bruns, Fritz Pohl, Friedhelm Steffens, Volker Michele
  • Publication number: 20100160674
    Abstract: Meta-toluene-diisocyanate is produced by reacting meta-toluenediamine with phosgene in the gas phase. The meta-toluenediamine to be vaporized for use in this phosgenation process must contain less than 0.5 wt. % of toluenediamine residue, a total of less than 0.2 wt. % of ammonia and cycloaliphatic amines, and less than 20 ppm of heavy metals. At least 0.1 wt. % of the liquid meta-toluenediamine being to be vaporized must not be vaporized. This non-vaporized content of the meta-toluenediamine must not be fed to the phosgenation reactor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2009
    Publication date: June 24, 2010
    Applicant: Bayer MaterialScience AG
    Inventors: Klaus Biskup, Rainer Bruns, Wolfgang Lorenz, Lars Padeken, Bernd Pennemann, Fritz Pohl, Andreas Rausch, Friedhelm Steffens
  • Publication number: 20100152484
    Abstract: Aromatic isocyanates are produced by reacting one or more aromatic primary amines with phosgene in the gas phase. The phosgene and primary aromatic amine(s) are reacted at a temperature above the boiling temperature of the amine(s) in a reactor having a reaction space which is essentially rotationally symmetric to the direction of flow. The flow fate, averaged over the cross-section, of the reaction mixture along the axis of the essentially rotationally symmetric reaction space in the section of the reaction space in which the conversion of the amine groups into isocyanate groups is between 4 and 80 % is not more than 8 m/sec. The flow rate averaged over the cross-section of the reaction mixture along the axis of the essentially rotationally symmetric reaction space in the section of the reaction space in which the conversion of the amine groups into isocyanate groups is 4 to 80 % is always below the flow rate averaged over the cross-section at the start of this section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2009
    Publication date: June 17, 2010
    Applicant: Bayer MaterialScience AG
    Inventors: Klaus Biskup, Rainer Bruns, Wolfgang Lorenz, Fritz Pohl, Friedhelm Steffens, Volker Michele
  • Publication number: 20100137634
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a hole-jetting type reactor and its applications, in particular to a process for the production of isocyanates by the phosgenation of aliphatic or aromatic diamines or triamines in the gas phase using this reactor. The present invention achieves a good mixing and reacting result of the gas-phase phosgenation reaction at a high temperature by improving the mixing of reactants in the reactor to reduce the possibility of forming swirls and eliminate negative pressure produced at a local jet area, which can finally reduce back-mixing and formation of solid by-products.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2007
    Publication date: June 3, 2010
    Inventors: Jiansheng Ding, Yong hua Shang, Deqiang Ma, Jingquan Hao, Peicheng Luo, Shuang Hu
  • Publication number: 20100130772
    Abstract: An apparatus for mixing at least first and second fluid, comprising: (a) a first nozzle comprising a first flow duct defining a first flow chamber, and having a first nozzle tip having a first discharge opening; and (b) a second nozzle comprising a second flow duct defining a second flow chamber, and having a second nozzle tip having a second discharge opening; wherein said first flow duct and said second flow duct are spirally wrapped each over the other. The invention also provides a process for mixing fluids, especially adapted for the production of isocyanates, and that is notably carried out in the apparatus of the invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2006
    Publication date: May 27, 2010
    Applicant: Huntsman International LLC
    Inventors: Neal Anthony Grob, James Laverme Allbright
  • Patent number: 7709679
    Abstract: The invention provides a process for the simultaneous preparation of 4,4?-diphenylmethanediamine and also diphenylmethane diisocyanate and polyphenylenepolymethylene polyisocyanates, which comprises the steps a) preparation of a mixture of diphenylmethanediamine and polyphenylenepolymethylenepolyamines by acid condensation of aniline and formaldehyde and subsequent work-up of the mixture, b) splitting-off of part of the mixture prepared in step a), c) distillation of the mixture separated off in step b) in a column, d) recirculation of the bottom product from step c) to the end product from step a) and condensation of the overhead product from step c), e) distillation of the overhead product from step c) in a column, f) recirculation of the overhead product from step e) to the end product from step a), g) isolation of the 4,4?-diphenylmethanediamine obtained as bottom product in step e), h) reaction of the mixture from step a) with phosgene and subsequent work-up of the reaction product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2010
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Michael Bock, Hans-Juergen Pallasch, Filip Deberdt, Johnny Moors
  • Publication number: 20100076218
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for preparing isocyanates in the gas phase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2007
    Publication date: March 25, 2010
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Andreas Daiss, Andreas Woelfert, Carsten Knoesche, Eckhard Stroefer
  • Publication number: 20100056822
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for preparing isocyanates in the gas phase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2007
    Publication date: March 4, 2010
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Andreas Daiss, Andreas Woelfert, Carsten Knoesche, Eckhard Stroefer
  • Publication number: 20100048942
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing isocyanates in particular apparatuses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2007
    Publication date: February 25, 2010
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Carsten Knoesche, Torsten Mattke
  • Publication number: 20100041914
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing isocyanates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2007
    Publication date: February 18, 2010
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Andreas Woelfert, Andreas Daiss, Torsten Mattke
  • Publication number: 20100041915
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing diisocyanates from diamines and phosgene in the gas phase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2007
    Publication date: February 18, 2010
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Andreas Woelfert, Carsten Knoesche, Torsten Mattke, Eckhard Stroefer
  • Publication number: 20100010257
    Abstract: Isocyanates are produced in the gas phase and by-products such as ammonium halides are selectively separated from the gas phase by desublimation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2009
    Publication date: January 14, 2010
    Applicant: Bayer MaterialScience AG
    Inventors: Sven Michael Hansen, Ralf Schneider, Bernd Schwethelm, Rolf Schiefer, Jurgen Dreher
  • Patent number: 7645900
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of isocyanates by reacting the appropriate amines with phosgene, condensing the gas mixture thereby obtained, stripping the liquid phase thereby obtained and returning the solvent so retained in liquid form to the reaction stage. The gaseous constituents are then purified further in an absorption process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2010
    Assignee: Bayer MaterialScience AG
    Inventors: Wolfgang Lorenz, Matthias Boehm, Richard Adamson, Friedhelm Steffens, Anke Hielscher
  • Publication number: 20090292100
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing pentamethylene 1,5-diisocyanate, to pentamethylene 1,5-diisocyanate prepared in this way and to the use thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2007
    Publication date: November 26, 2009
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Martin Fiene, Eckhard Stroefer, Wolfgang Siegel, Stephan Freyer, Oskar Zelder, Gerhard Schulz
  • Publication number: 20090281350
    Abstract: The invention provides a process for preparing isocyanates by reacting amines with phosgene, wherein the amine or a mixture of amine and a solvent is mixed in the form of an aerosol with gaseous phosgene and the amine is subsequently reacted with phosgene.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2007
    Publication date: November 12, 2009
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Carsten Knoesche, Eckhard Stroefer, Dieter Stuetzer, Bernd Sachweh, Markus Lisenbuehler, Andreas Woelfert
  • Patent number: 7615662
    Abstract: Isocyanates are produced by reaction of primary amines with phosgene in the gas phase. In this process, the reaction is terminated by guiding the reaction mixture from the reaction chamber through a cooling stretch into which liquids are injected. Direct cooling takes place in the cooling stretch in one stage in two or more cooling zones connected in series.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2009
    Assignee: Bayer MaterialScience AG
    Inventors: Fritz Pohl, Klaus Biskup, Rainer Bruns, Friedhelm Steffens, Herbert Stutz
  • Publication number: 20090240076
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for preparing methylenediphenyl diisocyanates which comprises at least the steps: A) reaction of aniline with formaldehyde in the presence of hydrochloric acid as catalyst to give a mixture of diamines and polyamines of the diphenylmethane series (MDA) and subsequent at least partial neutralization of the hydrochloric acid by means of alkali metal hydroxide, B) reaction of the mixture of diamines and polyamines of the diphenylmethane series obtained in step A) with phosgene to give a mixture of diisocyanates and polyisocyanates of the diphenylmethane series (MDI) and hydrogen chloride, wherein C) the hydrochloric acid which has been neutralized in step A) is separated off in the form of a solution containing alkali metal chloride and is subsequently at least partly fed to an electrochemical oxidation to form chlorine, alkali metal hydroxide and optionally hydrogen and D) at least part of the chlorine produced in step C) is used for preparing the phosgene used in step B).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2009
    Publication date: September 24, 2009
    Applicant: Bayer MaterialScience AG
    Inventors: Fritz Pohl, Andreas Bulan, Rainer Weber, Richard Adamson, Matthias Bohm, Christian Six
  • Publication number: 20090240077
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for producing diamines and polyamines of the diphenylmethane series (MDA) by reacting aniline and formaldehyde in the presence of an acid catalyst, wherein the aniline contains in total less than 0.5 wt. %, based on the total weight of aniline, of one or more compounds which contain at least one carbonyl group or of one or more compounds that are formed by reaction of these compounds which contain at least one carbonyl group with aniline.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2009
    Publication date: September 24, 2009
    Applicant: Bayer MaterialScience AG
    Inventors: Stefan Wershofen, Heinz-Herbert Muller, Richard Adamson, Fritz Pohl, Knut Sommer
  • Patent number: 7584629
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the partial or complete separation of a mixture comprising hydrogen chloride and phosgene, possibly solvents and possibly low boilers and inerts as are typically obtained in the preparation of isocyanates by reaction of amines with phosgene, which comprises firstly carrying out a partial or complete condensation of phosgene, then a distillation or stripping step in a column to remove the hydrogen chloride from the bottom product phosgene and subsequently a scrub of the top product hydrogen chloride by means of the process solvent to absorb the phosgene in the process solvent. An after-purification by means of adsorption on activated carbon or by another suitable method can subsequently be carried out to remove solvent residues.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2009
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Martin Sohn, Eckhard Stroefer, Filip Nevejans, Ulrich Penzel, Hans-Juergen Pallasch, Peter Van Den Abeel, Filip Deberdt, Jan D. Jacobs, Wolfgang Mackenroth
  • Publication number: 20090221846
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing isocyanates and an apparatus suitable for this purpose, and also its use.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2006
    Publication date: September 3, 2009
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Andreas Wölfert, Carsten Knösche, Andreas Daiss, Tsung-Chieh Cheng, Torsten Mattke, Eckhard Stroefer
  • Publication number: 20090209784
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of isocyanates by reacting the appropriate amines with phosgene, condensing the gas mixture thereby obtained, stripping the liquid phase thereby obtained and returning the solvent so retained in liquid form to the reaction stage. The gaseous constituents are then purified further in an absorption process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2009
    Publication date: August 20, 2009
    Applicant: Bayer MaterialScience AG
    Inventors: Wolfgang Lorenz, Matthias Boehm, Richard Adamson, Friedhelm Steffens, Anke Hielscher
  • Publication number: 20090175121
    Abstract: The invention relates to a mixer reactor of the rotor-stator type. This mixer reactor comprises a substantially rotationally symmetric housing which has a distributing chamber, a mixing chamber, a front plate that modifies the cross-section of the housing between these two chambers, and there are separate inlets into the mixing chamber for at least two substances and an outlet for removing the mixed material or product. The inlet for the first substance is provided in the axis of rotation of the mixing chamber. Two or more channels are aligned radially outward from this inlet, and the first substance is transported through these channels and into the mixing chamber. The inlet for the at least second substance is constructed in the form of a plurality of openings in the front plate, these inlet openings being are arranged rotationally symmetrically to the axis of rotation. Each of these inlet openings for the at least second substance has a corresponding pin which can be displaced in the axial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2008
    Publication date: July 9, 2009
    Inventors: Andreas Rausch, Christian Steffens, Dietmar Wastian, Manfred Keller-Killewald, Matthias Bohm, Joachim Ritter, Marcus Grunewald
  • Patent number: 7547801
    Abstract: Isocyanates are produced by reacting an organic amine with phosgene in process which includes at least three stages. The first stage is carried out in a dynamic mixer. The second stage is carried out in at least one reactor. The third stage is carried out in at least one material separating apparatus. The pressure in the reactor of the second stage must be greater than or equal to the pressure in the dynamic mixer. The pressure in the third stage material separating apparatus must be lower than the pressure in the second stage reactor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2009
    Assignees: Bayer MaterialScience LLC, Bayer MaterialScience AG
    Inventors: Fritz Pohl, Ricardo Serra, Matthias Ehlers, Jeffrey S. Bolton, Gary B. Solak, Kirk J. Bourgeois, Gregory L. McCullough, Amber R. Hicks, Richard G. Hillman, James E. Sager, Xiaoyan Wang, Spotswood Miller, Ralf Ochel, Sara DeLucia
  • Publication number: 20090149672
    Abstract: Aromatic diisocyanates are produced by reacting in the gas phase the corresponding primary aromatic diamine with phosgene. The phosgene and the primary aromatic diamine are reacted within a mean residence time of from 0.05 to 15 seconds. The aromatic diamine used contains less than 0.05 mole % overall of aliphatic amine containing no keto groups, per mole of primary amino groups.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2008
    Publication date: June 11, 2009
    Inventors: Fritz Pohl, Klaus Biskup, Rainer Bruns, Friedhelm Steffens, Lars Padeken
  • Publication number: 20090149671
    Abstract: The invention relates to the preparation of isocyanates by phosgenation of amines in the gas phase, with these isocyanates having a comparatively low proportion of color-imparting compounds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2008
    Publication date: June 11, 2009
    Inventors: Herbert Stutz, Reinhard Halpaap, Tilak Suren Lewkebandara
  • Patent number: 7541487
    Abstract: An isocyanate is produced by reacting a primary amine with phosgene in the gas phase above the boiling point of the amine over an average contact time of 0.05 to 15 seconds under adiabatic conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2009
    Assignee: Bayer MaterialScience AG
    Inventors: Fritz Pohl, Klaus Biskup, Rainer Bruns, Friedhelm Steffens, Herbert Stutz
  • Publication number: 20090112017
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for preparing polyisocyanates by reacting primary amines with phosgene in the presence of a solvent, wherein ionic liquids are used as solvents.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2005
    Publication date: April 30, 2009
    Applicant: BASF Aktiengessellschaft
    Inventors: Martin Sesing, Thorsten Rohde, Eckhard Stroefer, Jochem Henkelmann
  • Publication number: 20090112018
    Abstract: The invention provides a process for preparing isocyanates by reacting the corresponding amines with phosgene in the presence of solvents, wherein compounds which form salt melts with hydrogen chloride are used as solvents.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2005
    Publication date: April 30, 2009
    Applicant: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Martin Sesing, Hartwig Voss, Eckhard Stroefer, Thorsten Rohde, Andreas Wolfert
  • Patent number: 7524405
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for preparing isocyanates by reaction of amines with phosgene in the presence of inert organic solvents in a reactor and subsequent work-up of the reaction mixture leaving the reactor, wherein the solvent is separated off in a two-stage or multistage, preferably two-stage, distillation process in which the solvent is separated off at a pressure of 0.1-15 bar in a first apparatus and at 1-900 mbar in a second apparatus or further apparatuses, with the heat of condensation of the solvent vapor from the first apparatus being used for partial or complete vaporization of solvent in the second apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2009
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Martin Sohn, Eckhard Stroefer, Filip Nevejans, Ulrich Penzel, Hans-Juergen Pallasch, Peter Van Den Abeel, Filip Deberdt, Jan D. Jacobs, Wolfgang Mackenroth
  • Publication number: 20090054684
    Abstract: Processes comprising providing an amine reactant, and reacting the amine reactant with a stream of phosgene in a reaction zone to form a product comprising a corresponding isocyanate, wherein the phosgene stream has a CO content of 0.5% by weight or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2008
    Publication date: February 26, 2009
    Applicant: Bayer MaterialScience AG
    Inventors: Herbert Stutz, Frank Diehl, Alexander Schwarz, Rainer Bruns
  • Patent number: 7495124
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the production of MDI fractions containing 2,4?-MDI, and in which the 2,2?-MDI component from the MDA production is largely removed from the isomer mixture. Highly reactive monomeric MDI products can be produced in this way. These MDI products are characterised in their processing by significantly reduced emissions of MDI monomers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2009
    Assignee: Bayer MaterialScience AG
    Inventors: Hans-Georg Pirkl, Jeffrey Bolton, Walter Meckel, Ulrich Wolf, Matthias Wintermantel, Jochen Mahrenholtz
  • Patent number: 7488842
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for preparing isocyanates by reacting amines with phosgene in the gas phase in a reaction zone, with the reaction mixture being passed through a zone into which a liquid is sprayed to stop the reaction, wherein the reaction mixture is passed through a zone having a reduced flow cross section between the reaction zone and the zone into which the liquid is sprayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2009
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Carsten Knoesche, Andreas Woelfert, Andreas Daiss
  • Patent number: 7482481
    Abstract: In a process for preparing isocyanates by reacting the corresponding primary amines with phosgene in an inert solvent, use is made of from 0.01 to 50 mol % of a phosphine oxide, based on the total amount of primary amine and isocyanate formed in the reaction solution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2009
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Thorsten Rohde, Armin Stamm, Jochem Henkelmann
  • Publication number: 20080275269
    Abstract: 4,4?-diphenylmethane diisocyanate is produced at two different sites by a) reacting aniline and formaldehyde in the presence of an acid catalyst to produce a mixture of diamines and polyamines of the diphenylmethane series at a first production site, b) these diamines and polyamines are then reacted with phosgene to give the corresponding diisocyanates and polyisocyanates of the diphenylmethane series, which may optionally be separated by distillation to give a mixture of diisocyanates and polyisocyanates containing from 50 to 80 wt. % of 4,4?-diphenylmethane diisocyanate, from 1 to 12 wt. % of 2,4?- and/or 2,2?-diphenylmethane diisocyanate taken together, and from 10 to 45 wt.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2006
    Publication date: November 6, 2008
    Inventors: Berthold Keggenhoff, Ralf Echterhoff, Ricardo-Burel Serra
  • Publication number: 20080200721
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for preparing isocyanates, which comprises the (1) preparation of a crude MDA mixture by reaction of aniline with formaldehyde, (2) separation of the crude MDA mixture into MMDA and PMDA, (3a) phosgenation of the PMDA separated off in step 2 in the liquid phase to form PMDI and (3b) phosgenation of the MMDA separated off in step 2 in the gas phase to form MMDI.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2006
    Publication date: August 21, 2008
    Applicant: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Christian Muller, Eckhard Stroefer
  • Publication number: 20080200722
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing diisocyanates from diamines and phosgene in the gas phase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2006
    Publication date: August 21, 2008
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Andreas Wolfert, Carsten Knosche, Manfred Heilig, Eckhard Stroefer
  • Publication number: 20080171894
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for preparing isocyanates, which comprises the steps (1) preparation of a crude MDA mixture by reaction of aniline with formaldehyde, with the reaction conditions being selected so that the resulting crude MDA can be converted completely into the gas phase, (2) conversion of the crude MDA mixture from step (1) into the gas phase and (3) phosgenation of crude MDA in the gas phase to give MMDI and PMDI.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2006
    Publication date: July 17, 2008
    Applicant: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Christian Muller, Eckhard Stroefer
  • Publication number: 20080167490
    Abstract: Isocyanates are produced by reaction of primary amines with phosgene in the gas phase. In this process, the reaction is terminated by guiding the reaction mixture from the reaction chamber through a cooling stretch into which liquids are injected. Direct cooling takes place in the cooling stretch in one stage in two or more cooling zones connected in series.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2007
    Publication date: July 10, 2008
    Inventors: Fritz Pohl, Klaus Biskup, Rainer Bruns, Friedhelm Steffens, Herbert Stutz
  • Publication number: 20080146834
    Abstract: An isocyanate is produced by reacting a primary amine with phosgene in the gas phase above the boiling point of the amine over an average contact time of 0.05 to 15 seconds under adiabatic conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2007
    Publication date: June 19, 2008
    Inventors: Fritz Pohl, Klaus Biskup, Rainer Bruns, Friedhelm Steffens, Herbert Stutz
  • Publication number: 20080146835
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of toluene-diisocyanate. In this process, toluenediamine is reacted with phosgene to give crude toluene-diisocyanate, the crude toluene-diisocyanate is purified by distillation, the distillation residue formed during the distillation is hydrolysed at temperatures of less than 230° C. under absolute pressures of less than 30 bar, and the toluenediamine formed by this process is subsequently recycled into the reaction of toluenediamine and phosgene.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2007
    Publication date: June 19, 2008
    Inventors: Wolfgang Lorenz, Lars Padeken, Bernd Pennemann, Friedhelm Steffens, Lothar Weismantel
  • Patent number: 7368595
    Abstract: The invention relates to an improved process for the production of isocyanates by the reaction of an amine or a mixture of two or more amines with phosgene, the improvement involving the phosgene containing less than about 100 ppm of sulfur in elemental or bound form. The inventive process yields light-colored isocyanates that are suitable for the production of polyurethanes or their precursors (e.g. prepolymers) without the treatment processes heretofore required.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2008
    Assignee: Bayer MaterialScience AG
    Inventors: Stefan Wershofen, Torsten Hagen, Christian Steffens, Jeffrey Bolton