METHOD OF CONTINUOUSLY OPERATING A COUNTER-FLOW WASHING COLUMN

• Main Authors: HUNAKOSHI, YOSHIYOUKI, ASANUMA, TADASHI, OOTSUKA, TATSUO
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Korean
• Published: 22.04.1989
• Edition: 4
• Subjects: CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROCESSES, e.g. CATALYSIS OR COLLOIDCHEMISTRY; CHEMISTRY; COMPOSITIONS BASED THEREON; MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS OBTAINED BY REACTIONS ONLY INVOLVINGCARBON-TO-CARBON UNSATURATED BONDS; METALLURGY; ORGANIC MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL; THEIR PREPARATION OR CHEMICAL WORKING-UP; THEIR RELEVANT APPARATUS; TRANSPORTING

The method of continuously operating a counter-flow washing column which is supplied with a slurry of solid polymer particles in a diluent from a continuous polymerization zone and with washing liquid for extracting wash slurry and introducing it into a heat tube to separate the vapor of the washing liquid and the solid polymer particles. The improvement involves controlling the extraction amount of the wash slurry from the column by means of: (i) controlling the quantity of heat added to the heat tube, and further (ii) controlling the amount of liquid to be separately introduced into the heat tube, said controls (i) and (ii) being determined by monitoring the amount of the slurry in the last one of reaction cells in the continuous polymerization zone and, on the basis of the monitored amount, determining the amount of extracted slurry. When larger fluctuations occur in the production of the amount of slurry in the continuous polymerization zone, further controls are made to prevent drastic fluctuations in the ascending viscosity of the washing liquid in the counter-flow washing column, on the basis of the differences between the amount of the vapor separated by the heat tube and the amount of the liquid separately introduced into the heat tube.