METHOD OF OBTAINING ACROLEIN OR ACRYLIC ACID OR MIXTURE THEREOF FROM PROPANE Russian patent published in 2010 - IPC C07C51/25 C07C51/235 C07C57/05 C07C57/55 C07B61/00 C07C45/35 C07C47/22 

FIELD: chemistry.

SUBSTANCE: in accordance with the method A) at least two propane-containing gas supply streams are fed into the first reaction zone A, where at least one of the said streams contains fresh propane, and propane fed into this reaction zone undergoes heterogeneous catalytic dehydrogenation with a fixed bed catalyst, obtaining a propane- and propylene-containing gaseous mixture of products A, B) which is extracted from reaction zone A, in the first separation zone, A is separated from at least a portion of components contained in it, which are different from propane and propylene, and the remaining gaseous mixture of products A' which contains propane and propylene C) is used in the second reaction zone B for supplying at least one oxidation reactor, and propylene contained in the gaseous mixture of products A' in at least one oxidation reactor undergoes heterogeneous catalytic two-step gas-phase partial oxidation with molecular oxygen to acrylic acid or a mixture of acrolein and acrylic acid as an end product, as well as to an excess molecular oxygen-containing gaseous mixture of products B, D) which is extracted from the reaction zone B, in the second separation zone B, the end product contained in it is extracted through absorption or fractional condensation, and at least a portion of the remaining residual gas which contains unconverted propane, molecular oxygen, and also if necessary, unconverted propylene are recycled into the reaction zone A as at least one of two propane-containing supply streams, where the said recycling into the reaction zone A is done along the path of the heterogeneous catalysed dehydrogation of propane in that reaction zone such that, at the point for feeding the recycled gas into reaction zone A at least 5 mol % of propane has already undergone dehydrogenation, where the said propane is fed into this reaction zone with other supply streams, where molar ratio of the propylene contained in the reaction gaseous mixture to molecular hydrogen contained in the said mixture within the reaction zone A does not exceed 10.

EFFECT: design of an improved method of obtaining acrolein, acrylic acid or their mixture from propane.

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