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WO1991010637A1
WO1991010637A1 PCT/FI1991/000007 FI9100007W WO9110637A1 WO 1991010637 A1 WO1991010637 A1 WO 1991010637A1 FI 9100007 W FI9100007 W FI 9100007W WO 9110637 A1 WO9110637 A1 WO 9110637A1
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dialkyl oxalate
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Antti Ilmari Vuori
Tapio Mattila
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  • the present invention relates to a process for preparing oxalic acid from dialkyl oxalate, process in which a dialkyl oxalate and an aqueous liquid are fed into a hydrolysis reactor in order to hydrolyze the dialkyl oxalate, the released alcohol is removed from the hydrolyzed mixture obtained, and the remaining aqueous solution, which contains oxalic acid, is directed to a crystallizer in order to separate the obtained oxalic acid in the form of a crystalline dihydrate.
  • Oxalic acid is used, for example, as a component in dyes, as a raw material for technochemical products, in metallurgy, and as an analytical reagent. Oxalic acid has been prepared, for ex ⁇ ample, by heating sodium formate to form sodium oxalate and by treating the latter with sulfuric acid in order to release oxalic acid.
  • the preparation process is implemented in such a way that the hydrolysis yields an organic phase and an aqueous phase, which are separated from each other.
  • the organic phase which contains the ester which has not been completely hydrolyzed and alcohol, is returned to the hydrolysis step, whereas the aqueous phase is directed to a crystallizer, in which the formed oxalic acid separates as a crystalline dihydrate.
  • part of the aqueous phase is separated and fed into a distillation column, in which alcohol produced in the hydrolysis is separated and from which the distillation residue is returned to the solution introduced into the crystallizer.
  • alcohol may be recovered directly from a reaction mixture portion separated from the hydrolysis reactor.
  • the prior-art process referred to above is based on higher oxalic acid esters, in the hydrolysis of which the reaction mixture is divided into separate phases.
  • the object of the present invention is to simplify the process based on hydrol ⁇ ysis so that the said separation of the phases from each other is rendered unnecessary.
  • the invention is characterized in that a dialkyl oxalate soluble in the mixture to be hydrolyzed is used in the process so that the hydrolysis will yield a sub ⁇ stantially homogeneous aqueous solution, the alcohol released from the solution being removed by transferring it to a gas phase, whereafter the solution is transferred to a crystal ⁇ lizer.
  • the essential advantage of the invention is that it is possible to separate alcohol from the mixture obtained from the hydrol ⁇ ysis step and thereafter to separate the obtained oxalic acid, without the necessity of carrying out a division of the mix ⁇ ture, a phase separation, and a recycling of the organic phase to the hydrolysis reactor. In this manner the substantial dete ⁇ rioration of the volume yield of the reaction, due to the re ⁇ cycling, is avoided.
  • the separation of the alcohol by evapora ⁇ tion or by distillation can be carried out in one step, the evaporation or distillation residue constituting as such a substantially completely hydrolyzed mixture fraction, which is transferred to the crystallization of oxalic acid.
  • the dialkyl oxalate used in the process according to the inven ⁇ tion is preferably dimethyl oxalate which, having a small mole ⁇ cule size, dissolves well in the mixture to be hydrolyzed and from which methanol is released in the hydrolysis. Owing to its low boiling point, methanol is easy to separate by distillation from the aqueous reaction mixture.
  • the mother liquor from the oxalic acid crystallization step con ⁇ taining both water and uncrystallized oxalic acid, is recycled to the hydrolysis reactor as the liquid phase for the dialkyl oxalate hydrolysis.
  • pure water is added to the mother liquor, the water substituting for the water removed from the process along with the oxalic acid dihy ⁇ drate.
  • the recycling of the mother liquor improves the yield of oxalic acid and enables the process to be implemented as a continuous process.
  • the temperature of the hydrolysis reactor is preferably at minimum 30 °C, at which dimethyl oxalate is sufficiently solu ⁇ ble, and at maximum approx. 100 °C, at which an aqueous solu ⁇ tion boils.
  • the most preferable temperature range is 50-80 °c
  • the reactor temperature is preferably at minimum 54 °C, which is the melt ⁇ ing point of dimethyl oxalate.
  • the average retention time of the reaction mixture in the hy ⁇ drolysis reactor must be at minimum 15 minutes.
  • the amount of dialkyl oxalate fed into the hydrolysis reactor is preferably such that the concentration of oxalic acid in the solution entering the crystallizer will be within the range 20-60 %, preferably 30-50 %.
  • the apparatus according to the drawing for the preparation of oxalic acid comprises a hydrolysis reactor 1, an evaporator 2, a crystallizer 3, and a crystal separator 4, which are coupled in series, in the said order.
  • a hydrolysis reactor 1 there are introduced an aqueous mother liquor which is recycled in the process from tube 5, dimethyl oxalate from tube 6, and water, which is added from tube 7 to the recycling tube 5.
  • the dimethyl oxalate and water react which each other, forming oxalic acid and methanol.
  • a homogeneous aqueous solution which travels from the reactor 1 along tube 8 to the evaporator 2.
  • the evaporator 2 separates from the solu ⁇ tion methanol, which according to the drawing passes into tube 9, and the aqueous solution obtained as the evaporation residue passes along tube 10 to the crystallizer 3.
  • oxalic acid separates out from the solution as a crystalline dihydrate, which is. separated from the remaining mother liquor, for example, by filtering in a separator 4, to which the mix ⁇ ture has passed along tube 11.
  • the separated oxalic acid dihydrate passes into tube 12, the mother liquor returning via the recycling tube 5 to the hydrolysis step.
  • Dimethyl oxalate at 590 g/h and water at 1380 g/h were fed simultaneously at a temperature of 60 °C to a well agitated 2500-ml reaction vessel. From the said reaction vessel the said mixture was further fed at an even rate into a distillation apparatus, from which a methanol distillate was recovered on average at 325 g/h and a mixture of oxalic acid and water as an underflow at an average rate of 1640 g/h.
  • the oxalic acid was allowed to crystallize out from the said mixture at 25 °C, whereupon a 98.6 weight-% oxalic acid dihydrate was recovered as a filtered product at an average rate of 482 g/h. This gives 75.4 % of the dimethyl oxalate as the average oxalic acid yield in the separated product.
  • the concentration of oxalic acid in the filtrate was on average 11.1 % by weight.
  • the oxalic acid was allowed to crystallize out from the said mixture at 25 °C, whereupon a 99.1 weight-% oxalic acid dihydrate was recovered as a filtered product at an average rate of 630 g/h. This gives 99.0 % of the dimethyl oxalate as the average oxalic acid yield in the separated prod ⁇ uct.
  • the concentration of oxalic acid in the filtrate was on average 11.2 % by weight.

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Abstract

L'invention se rapporte à un procédé qui permet de préparer de l'acide oxalique à partir d'oxalate dialkyle. La préparation de cet acide s'effectue par hydrolyse d'un oxalate dialkyle, ce qui entraîne la formation d'alcool, retiré de la solution obtenue à la suite de l'hydrolyse et d'acide oxalique, séparé par cristallisation de la solution obtenue. L'idée de base du procédé de la présente invention consiste à utiliser un oxalate dialkyle soluble dans le mélange à hydrolyser de façon à ce que, comme résultat de l'hydrolyse, on obtienne une solution aqueuse sensiblement homogène, l'alcool libéré par la solution étant retiré par évaporation ou par distillation, puis à transférer la solution dans un cristallisateur. Le procédé de la présente invention utilise de préférence de l'oxalate diméthyle, auquel cas un produit méthanol est obtenu en plus de l'acide oxalique. La préparation de cet acide peut être effectuée selon un processus en continu, dans lequel la liqueur-mère qui reste après l'étape de cristallisation est recyclée dans l'étape d'hydrolyse pour former la phase liquide aqueuse.
PCT/FI1991/000007 1990-01-09 1991-01-08 Procede de preparation d'acide oxalique Ceased WO1991010637A1 (fr)

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FI900107A FI87191C (fi) 1990-01-09 1990-01-09 Foerfarande foer framstaellning av oxalsyra
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CHEMICAL ABSTRACTS, Volume 83, No. 22, 1 December 1975, (Columbus, Ohio, US), M.E. ANTHONEY et al.: "Solution of dimethyl oxalate and oxalic acid in water and alkali. Standard enthalpy of formation of dimethyl oxalate", see page 347, Abstract 184426m, & Thermochim. Acta 1975, 12(4), 427- 431. *
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