Water separation process

Water present in a hot gaseous product stream from a reactor system A.B (FIG. 1) containing hydrogen fluoride is separated from the stream in order to eliminate a potentially corrosive combination of water and HF. The water is removed by contacting the gaseous product stream with liquid HF in a dist...

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Main Authors FORSYTH; JAMES MALCOLM, ADAMS; STEPHEN JOHN, BLAKE; CHARLES BRIAN, ROBERTS; JANE ANDREA EILEEN, BRIERLEY; ROWLAND JOHN PORTER, LIOW; ANN SAN, DOY; RALPH JONES, SCHOFIELD; BRIAN, SHILLING; NEIL DAVID
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
Published 15.08.2000
Edition7
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ACYCLIC OR CARBOCYCLIC COMPOUNDS
APPARATUS THEREFOR
CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROCESSES, e.g. CATALYSIS OR COLLOIDCHEMISTRY
CHEMISTRY
GENERAL METHODS OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY
METALLURGY
ORGANIC CHEMISTRY
PERFORMING OPERATIONS
PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL
SEPARATION
THEIR RELEVANT APPARATUS
TRANSPORTING
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Summary:Water present in a hot gaseous product stream from a reactor system A.B (FIG. 1) containing hydrogen fluoride is separated from the stream in order to eliminate a potentially corrosive combination of water and HF. The water is removed by contacting the gaseous product stream with liquid HF in a distillation column so as to obtain a bottoms product containing liquid HF and water and a top product containing dry HF and the product to be recovered. The invention encompasses the separation process, a vessel for carrying out the process (FIGS. 2 to 4), a control system for the liquid HF supply to the distillation column (FIGS. 5 and 6) and a recovery system for recovering HF employed during operation of the reactor system in different regimes employing HF as a fluorination agent, as a diluent during catalyst regeneration and/or catalyst prefluorination (FIG. 7).
Bibliography:Application Number: US19940235927