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WO2024089256A1 PCT/EP2023/080096 EP2023080096W WO2024089256A1 WO 2024089256 A1 WO2024089256 A1 WO 2024089256A1 EP 2023080096 W EP2023080096 W EP 2023080096W WO 2024089256 A1 WO2024089256 A1 WO 2024089256A1
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  • the present invention relates to a process for the manufacture of isononanol from renewably-sourced ethanol.
  • Isononanol is an example of an oxo-alcohol which is in high demand worldwide.
  • INA is used essentially in the production of plasticizers. There is a trend towards ‘green’ products which are naturally sourced or renewably sourced.
  • Ethylene is a cornerstone of the modern petrochemical industries.
  • Important ethylene derivatives include (meth)acrylic acid, (meth)acrylic esters, isononanol, ethylhexanol, and ethylene glycols.
  • One of the problems faced by the manufacture of chemicals and intermediates from ethylene is that the starting raw materials are from fossil fuels, such as natural gas or crude oil, which are non-renewable feedstocks.
  • Steam cracking which employs petroleum fractions and natural gas liquids as feedstocks, is the dominant method for large-scale ethylene production worldwide.
  • Lower olefins such as isobutylene or propylene
  • Isobutylene also known as isobutene or 2-methylpropene
  • is a hydrocarbon of significant interest that is widely used as an intermediate in the production of industrially important products, including para-xylene, jet fuel blendstocks, gasoline oxygenates, isooctane, methacrolein, methyl methacrylate, and butyl rubber.
  • Propylene is a hydrocarbon of significant interest that is widely used as an intermediate in the production of acrylic acid.
  • lower olefins have been obtained through the catalytic or steam cracking of fossil fuel feedstocks.
  • Applicants have realized that the production of ethylene and ethylene derivatives compounds would benefit from the replacement of at least a part of the carbonaceous raw materials of fossil origin by renewable resources, such as carbonaceous matter derived from biomass.
  • renewable resources such as carbonaceous matter derived from biomass.
  • ethanol feedstock which is produced from renewable resources.
  • Such renewably-sourced ethanol also referred to as “bioethanol” or “hydrous fuel alcohol” can be prepared in large quantities from organic waste or biomass via fermentation.
  • the different feedstocks for producing ethanol may be sucrose-containing feedstocks, e.g., sugarcane, starchy materials, e.g., corn, starch, wheat, cassava, lignocellulosic biomass, e.g., switchgrass, and/or agricultural waste.
  • the purification or isolation of bioethanol is frequently carried out by complicated, multistage distillation.
  • Bioethanol impurities may include oxygen-containing organics, for example other alcohols such as isopropanol, n-propanol, and isobutanol, and/or aldehydes such as acetaldehyde.
  • Bioethanol impurities may further include sulfur-containing impurities, such as inorganic sulfur compounds dialkyl sulfides, dialkyl sulfoxides, alkyl mercaptans, 3-methylthio-1- propanol, and/or sulfur-containing amino acids.
  • US 2008/0312485 discloses a method for continuously producing propylene by dehydrating ethanol obtained from biomass to obtain ethylene and reacting ethylene with n-butene in a metathesis reaction.
  • the n-butene is made by dimerization of ethylene which is obtained from biomass-derived ethanol [0033] and [0061].
  • WO 2010/066830 discloses the transformation of bioethanol to ethylene.
  • the bioethanol is produced by fermentation of carbohydrates or from synthesis gas made by gasification of biomass.
  • the ethylene is subsequently dimerized or oligomerized to, e.g., 1 -butene and/or 1 -hexene.
  • the dimeric or oligomeric alpha-olefins are transformed into internal olefins that are subsequently subjected to metathesis with ethylene.
  • WO 2011/085223 discloses an integrated process to prepare renewable hydrocarbons.
  • the process includes dehydrating renewable isobutanol to form a mixture of linear butenes and isobutene and dehydrating renewable ethanol to ethylene. Subsequently the butene mixture and the ethylene are reacted to form one or more renewable C3-C16 olefins.
  • EP 3067340 A discloses a process comprising fermenting a renewable source of carbon for the production of a mixture of alcohols comprising ethanol, isopropanol and 1 -butanol; joint dehydration of the alcohols to produce a mixture of olefins comprising chiefly ethylene, propylene and linear butenes, the linear butenes being a mixture of 1 -butene and 2-butenes (cis- and trans-isomers), besides water and by-products; removal of water, oxygenated compounds and other by-products from the mixture of olefins, to generate a mixture of olefin comprising chiefly ethylene, propylene and linear butenes; and passing the mixture of olefins through an isomerization bed so that 1 -butene is isomerized to 2-butene and subsequently passing the mixture of olefins comprising chiefly ethylene, propylene and 2-butenes through a metathesis bed,
  • WO 2009/098268 discloses a process for the dehydration of an alcohol to make an olefin.
  • the alcohol may be ethanol that can be obtained from carbohydrates.
  • a stream comprising the ethanol and an inert component is contacted with a catalyst to give ethylene.
  • the ethylene can be used for dimerization to butene and then isomerization to isobutene, dimerization to 1 -butene, which is isomerized to 2- butene and further converted by metathesis with ethylene to propylene, or conversion to ethylene oxide and glycol.
  • Experimental details are provided only for ethanol dehydration. A similar process is disclosed in WO 2011/089235.
  • WO 2009/098269 discloses a process for conversion of ethanol that can be obtained from carbohydrates to propylene. The ethanol is dehydrated to ethylene which is reacted with olefins having four carbon atoms or more to give propylene.
  • WO 2009/098267 discloses a similar process.
  • WO 2021/067294 discloses a process for simultaneously dehydrating, dimerizing and metathesizing a C2-C5 alcohol which can be from biobased processes in one reactor to produce a C2-C7 olefin.
  • WO 2009/070858 discloses an integrated process for the production of ethylenebutylene copolymers.
  • the ethylene is obtained by dehydration of ethanol that is produced by the fermentation of sugars.
  • One method of obtaining 1 -butylene used for the polymerization is indicated to be dimerization of ethylene produced by dehydration of ethanol that is produced by the fermentation of sugars. No details as to the dimerization are given.
  • the invention seeks to advise a reaction scheme that provides renewably-sourced light olefins, such as ethylene, butenes and isobutene, which partially or fully replace the light olefins output from a steam cracker.
  • renewably-sourced light olefins such as ethylene, butenes and isobutene
  • These light olefins are used as building blocks for producing a variety of chemicals of interest. It is desirable that the renewably-sourced light olefins can be blended or used interchangeably with a fossil- derived intermediate of the same chemical structure without necessitating adjustments in downstream processes.
  • the present invention relates to a process for the manufacture of isononanol, said process comprising the steps of: a) subjecting a feedstock comprising a renewably-sourced ethanol to dehydration to produce a renewably-sourced ethylene stream; b) subjecting the renewably-sourced ethylene stream to an olefin-interconversion to obtain a renewably-sourced C4-olefin stream, the renewably-sourced C4-olefin stream comprising n-butenes, isobutene or a mixture of n-butenes and isobutene; the olefin-interconversion comprising (i) and, where required, (ii), or (ii) and (iii):
  • isononanol is understood to relate to a mixture of isomeric nonyl alcohols such as n-nonanol and single- and/or multi-branched nonanols such as 3,5,5-trimethylhexan-1-ol and methyl octanol.
  • the process of the invention is preferably a continuous process in the sense that at least the upstream steps of a reaction route leading to a chemical of interest, including at least step a) and any of steps b-(i) through (iii) as far as they are involved in the reaction route, are carried out continuously. In a still more preferred embodiment all steps of a reaction route leading to a chemical of interest are carried out continuously. This does not preclude the presence of buffer volumes between subsequent reaction steps in a reaction route.
  • the present invention is based on the idea of eliminating impurities that are inherently present in renewably-sourced ethanol during the ethylene manufacturing process itself.
  • the renewably-sourced ethylene, or the renewably-sourced C4-olefin stream produced therefrom can be blended or used interchangeably with a fossil-derived intermediate of the same chemical structure without necessitating adjustments in downstream processes.
  • the renewably-sourced olefins involved in the process according to the invention may be blended with complementary olefins from other sources. This can ensure the efficient utilization of downstream processes, e.g., for transitional periods when supply of renewably-sourced olefin is limited.
  • These complementary olefins including complementary ethylene, complementary isobutene and complementary n-butenes, may be fossil-based, partially renewably-sourced or renewably-sourced by another production route.
  • the process comprises: blending the renewably-sourced ethylene with complementary ethylene prior to step b), the complementary ethylene not being obtained from renewably-sourced ethanol in accordance with step a); and/or blending the renewably-sourced n-butenes with complementary n-butenes prior to step b-(ii), b-(iii) or c), the complementary n-butenes not being obtained from renewably- sourced n-butenes in accordance with steps a) and b-(i); and/or blending the renewably-sourced isobutene with complementary isobutene prior to step b-(iii) or c), the complementary isobutene not being obtained from renewably-sourced n-butenes in accordance with steps a), b-(i) and b-(ii).
  • Examples for complementary ethylenes are ethylenes obtained by steam cracking of fossil based feeds, like naphtha, natural gas or crude oil.
  • Examples for complementary n-butenes are n-butenes obtained by steam cracking of fossil based feeds, like naphtha, natural gas or crude oil.
  • Examples for complementary isobutenes are isobutenes obtained by steam cracking of fossil based feeds, like naphtha, natural gas or crude oil.
  • the invention also relates to a process for enhancing the environmental sustainability of isononanol by blending or replacing a fossil-derived C-4- olefin stream comprising n-butenes, isobutene or a mixture of n-butenes and isobutene with a renewably-sourced C4-olefin stream of the same composition to obtain a sustainability-enhanced C4-olefin stream and subjecting the sustainability-enhanced C4- olefin stream to a sequence of chemical conversions to obtain isononanol, wherein the renewably-sourced C4-olefin stream is obtained by a) subjecting a feedstock comprising a renewably-sourced ethanol to dehydration to produce the renewably-sourced ethylene stream; and b) subjecting the renewably-sourced ethylene stream to an olefin-interconversion, to obtain the renewably-sourced C-4-olefin stream; the olefin-interconversion
  • the key advantage of the process according to the present invention is that it can be easily integrated into an existing production site in which one or more chemicals of interest are manufactured based on a fossil feedstock, in particular naphtha.
  • a fossil feedstock in particular naphtha.
  • fossil-based ethylene and C4-olefins can be fully or partially substituted by respective renewably-sourced ethylene and C4-olefins.
  • a respective chemical of interest the carbon atoms of which are fully or partially based on a renewable-sourced carbon (so-called “green” carbon).
  • the various species present may undergo a host of side reactions, which generate color forming species, oligomers, and various decomposition products or the like. These are generally removed during work-up, e.g., by distillation, yielding light boiler and/or high boiler fractions in addition to the desired product.
  • the light boiler or high boiler fractions are conventionally used for their calorific value, i.e. combusted as fuel, or exploited as hydrocarbon source, e.g. as steam cracker feed. It should be appreciated that full or partial replacement of fossil ethylene and C4- olefins by their renewably-sourced counterparts at the beginning of the processing chain reduces the emission of fossil-based carbon dioxide resulting from the combustion of downstream side-products.
  • the expressions “renewable” or “renewably-sourced” in relation to a chemical compound are used synonymously and mean a chemical compound comprising a quantity of renewable carbon, i.e., having a reduced or no carbon content of fossil origin.
  • Renewable carbon entails all carbon sources that avoid or substitute the use of any additional fossil carbon from the geosphere.
  • Renewable carbon can come from the biosphere, atmosphere or technosphere - but not from the geosphere.
  • the expression “renewable” or “renewably-sourced” includes, in particular, biomass-derived chemical compounds. It also includes compounds derived from waste such as polymer residues, or from waste streams of chemical production processes.
  • chemical of interest collectively refers to any desired compound appearing in a value chain starting out from and including ethylene.
  • the expression includes any intermediates and final products.
  • a chemical compound can be an intermediate and final product at the same time.
  • isobutene can be the final product of a value chain and yet can be an intermediate when it is further processed, if desired.
  • Bioethanol is a preferred form of renewably-sourced ethanol, although the scope of the invention is not limited to the use of bioethanol.
  • bioethanol refers to the ethanol obtained from a biomass feedstock, such as plant or non-crop feedstock containing a carbon source that is convertible to ethanol, for example by microbial metabolism.
  • a biomass feedstock such as plant or non-crop feedstock containing a carbon source that is convertible to ethanol, for example by microbial metabolism.
  • Typical carbon source examples are starch, sugars like pentoses or hexoses, such as glucose, fructose, sucrose, xylose, arabinose, or degradation products of plants, hydrolysis products of cellulose or juice of sugar canes, beet and the like containing large amounts of the above components.
  • Biomass feedstock can originate from several sources. Bioethanol production may be based on food crop feedstocks such as corn and sugar cane, sugarcane bagasse, cassava (first generation biofeedstock).
  • biomass feedstock is lignocellulosic materials from agricultural crops (second-generation biofeedstock).
  • Potential feedstocks include agricultural residue byproducts such as rice, straw (such as wheat, oat and barley straw), rice husk, and corn stover.
  • Biomass feedstock may also be waste material from the forest products industry (wood waste) and saw dust or produced on purpose as an ethanol crop. Switchgrass and napier grass may be used as on-purpose crops for conversion to ethanol.
  • the first-generation bioethanol is produced in four basic steps:
  • Second-generation feedstocks are considered as renewable and sustainable carbon source.
  • Pretreatment of this feedstock is an essential prerequisite before it is subjected to enzymatic hydrolysis, fermentation, distillation, and dehydration.
  • Pretreatment involves milling and exposure to acid and heat to reduce the size of the plant fibers and hydrolyze a portion of the material to yield fermentable sugars. Saccharification utilizes enzymes to hydrolyze another portion to sugar.
  • fermentation by bioengineered microorganisms converts the various sugars (pentoses and hexoses) to ethanol.
  • the production of bioethanol is well-known and carried out on an industrial large scale.
  • Renewably-sourced ethanol can also be obtained from carbon-containing waste materials like waste products from the chemical industry, garbage and sewage sludge.
  • the production of ethanol from waste materials can be done by gasification to syngas and catalytic conversion thereof the ethanol, see for example Recent Advances in Thermo-Chemical Conversion of Biomass, 2015, Pages 213-250, https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-444-63289-0.00008-9, and Nat Commun 11 , 827 (2020), https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14672-8.
  • the invention involves the dehydration of renewably-sourced ethanol.
  • the production of ethylene by catalytic dehydration of ethanol is a well-known process.
  • the reaction is commonly carried out at 300 to 400 °C and moderate pressure in the presence of a catalyst.
  • Catalytic effects are reviewed in Ind & Eng Chem Research, 52, 28, 9505- 9514 (2013), Materials 6, 101-115 (2013) and ACS Omega, 2, 4287-4296 (2017).
  • catalysts are activated alumina or silica, phosphoric acid impregnated on coke, heteropoly acids (HPA salts), silica-alumina, molecular sieves such as zeoliths of the ZSM-5 type or SAPO-11 type, other zeolites or modified zeolites of various molecular structures with zeoliths and HPA salts being preferred.
  • HPA salts heteropoly acids
  • silica-alumina molecular sieves
  • zeoliths of the ZSM-5 type or SAPO-11 type other zeolites or modified zeolites of various molecular structures with zeoliths and HPA salts being preferred.
  • Ethanol dehydration is, for example described in WO 2009/098268, WO 2010/066830, WO 2009/070858 and the prior art discussed therein, WO 2011/085223 and the prior art discussed therein, US 4,234,752, US 4,396,789, US 4,529,827 and WO 2004/078336.
  • the ethanol dehydration reaction is in general carried out in the vapor phase in contact with a heterogeneous catalyst bed using either fixed bed or fluidized bed reactors.
  • the operation can be either isothermal (with external heating system) or adiabatic (in the presence of a heat carrying fluid).
  • the feedstock is vaporized and heated to the desired reaction temperature; the temperature drops as the reaction proceeds in the reactor.
  • Multiple reactor beds are usually used in series to maintain the temperature drop in each bed to a manageable range.
  • the cooled effluent from each bed is further heated to bring it to the desired inlet temperature of the subsequent beds.
  • a portion of the water is recirculated along with fresh and unreacted ethanol. The presence of water helps in moderating the temperature decrease in each bed.
  • the renewably-sourced ethanol feedstock may be sent to a pretreatment section to remove mineral contaminants, which would otherwise be detrimental to the downstream catalytic reaction.
  • the pretreatment may involve contacting the renewably-sourced ethanol feedstock with cation and/or anion exchange resins.
  • the resins may be regenerated by passing a regenerant solution through the resin bed(s) to restore their ion exchange capacity.
  • Two sets of beds are preferably operated in parallel to maintain continuous operation. One set of resin beds is suitably regenerated while the other set is being used for pretreatment.
  • the catalyst is placed inside the tubes of multitubular fixed-bed reactors which arranged vertically and surrounded by a shell (tube and shell design).
  • a heat transfer medium such as molten salts or oil, is circulated inside the shell to provide the required heat.
  • Baffles may be provided on the shell side to facilitate heat transfer.
  • the cooled heating medium is heated externally and is recirculated.
  • the temperature drop on the process side can be reduced as compared to the adiabatic reactor.
  • a better control on the temperature results in increased selectivity for the ethylene formation and reduction in the amount of undesireable by-products.
  • the temperature is maintained at approximately constant levels within the range of 300° to 350°C.
  • Ethanol conversion is between 98 and 99%, and the selectivity to ethylene is between 94 and 97 mol%. Because of the rate of coke deposition, the catalyst must be regenerated frequently. Depending on the type of catalyst used, the cycle life is between 3 weeks and 4 months, followed by regeneration, for example for 3 days.
  • the endothermic heat of reaction is supplied by a preheated inert diluent such as steam.
  • a preheated inert diluent such as steam.
  • Three fixed-bed reactors may typically be used, with intermediate furnaces to reheat the ethanol/ steam mixed feed stream to each reactor. Feeding steam with ethanol results in less coke formation, longer catalyst activity, and higher yields.
  • a further process is a fluidized-bed process.
  • the fluidized-bed system offers excellent temperature control in the reactor, thereby minimizing by-product formation.
  • the heat distribution rate of the fluidized bed operation approaches isothermal conditions.
  • the endothermic heat of reaction is supplied by the hot recycled silica-alumina catalyst returning from the catalyst regenerator. Thus, external heating of the reactor is not necessary.
  • the reaction mixture is subjected to a separation step.
  • the general separation scheme consists of quickly cooling the reaction gas, for example in a water quench tower, which separates most of the by-product water and the unreacted ethanol from ethylene and other light components which, for example exit from the top of the quench tower.
  • the water-washed ethylene stream is immediately caustic-washed, for example in a column, to remove traces of CO2.
  • the gaseous stream may enter a compressor directly or pass to a surge gas holder first and then to a gas compressor.
  • the gas After compression, the gas is cooled with refrigeration and then passed through an adsorber with, for example activated carbon, to remove traces of heavy components, (e.g., C4s), if they are present.
  • the adsorber is followed by a desiccant drying and dust filtering step before the ethylene product leaves the plant. This separation scheme produces 99%+ purity ethylene. If desired, the ethylene is further purified by caustic washing and desiccant-drying, and fractionated in a low-temperature column to obtain the final product.
  • Syndol catalysts with the main components of AhOs-MgO/SiC , are employed in this process that was developed by American Halcon Scientific Design, Inc. in the 1980s.
  • the adiabatic reactor feed is diluted with steam to a large extent.
  • the reactor operates at 180 to 600 °C, preferably 300 to 500 °C, and at 1.9 to 19.6 bar.
  • An alumina or silica-alumina catalyst is used.
  • the Braskem process is described in more detail in US 4,232,179. A process control in accordance with the Braskem process is particularly preferred.
  • the process of the invention involves an ethylene-dimerization to obtain n-butenes in accordance with step b)-(i). Any known method can be used for ethylene dimerization to produce n-butenes. A review on dimerization and oligomerization chemistry and technology is given in Catalysis Today, vol. 14(no. 1), April 10, 1992.
  • step b)-(i) comprises:
  • the dimerization catalyst may be homogeneous or heterogeneous.
  • Typical dimerization catalysts are titanium or nickel compounds activated with alkyl aluminium compounds.
  • the Ti(IV) valency is stabilized by selecting the appropriate ligands, alkyl aluminium compound, the solvent polarity and the Al/Ti ratio.
  • Nickel compounds that can catalyse the selective production of butenes are typically based on cationic nickel salts stabilised with phosphine and activated with alkyl aluminium compounds.
  • the oligomerization of ethylene is implemented in the presence of a catalytic system in the liquid phase comprising a nickel compound and an aluminum compound.
  • a catalytic system in the liquid phase comprising a nickel compound and an aluminum compound.
  • Such catalytic systems are described in the documents FR 2 443 877 and FR 2794 038.
  • the Dimersol E TM process is based on this technology and leads to the industrial production of olefins.
  • the oligomerization of ethylene is implemented in the presence of a catalytic system comprising: i) at least one bivalent nickel compound, ii) at least one hydrocarbyl aluminum dihalide of formula AIRX2, in which R is a hydrocarbyl radical comprising 1 to 12 carbon atoms, such as alkyl, aryl, aralkyl, alkaryl or cycloalkyl, X is a chlorine or bromine atom, and iii) optionally a Bronsted organic acid.
  • a catalytic system comprising: i) at least one bivalent nickel compound, ii) at least one hydrocarbyl aluminum dihalide of formula AIRX2, in which R is a hydrocarbyl radical comprising 1 to 12 carbon atoms, such as alkyl, aryl, aralkyl, alkaryl or cycloalkyl, X is a chlorine or bromine atom, and iii) optionally a Bronsted organic acid.
  • nickel carboxylates of general formula (R 1 COO)2Ni are preferably used, where R 1 is an optionally substituted hydrocarbyl radical, for example alkyl, cycloalkyl, alkenyl, aryl, aralkyl, or alkaryl, containing up to 20 carbon atoms, preferably a hydrocarbyl radical of 5 to 20 carbon atoms, preferably 6 to 18 carbon atoms.
  • Suitable bivalent nickel compounds include: chloride, bromide, carboxylates such as octoate, 2-ethylhexanoate, decanoate, oleate, salicylate, hydroxydecanoate, stearate, phenates, naphthenates, and acetyl acetonates.
  • Nickel 2-ethylhexanoate is preferably used.
  • the hydrocarbyl aluminum dihalide compound corresponds to the formula AIRX2, in which R is a hydrocarbyl radical comprising 1 to 12 carbon atoms, such as alkyl, aryl, aralkyl, alkaryl or cycloalkyl, and X is a chlorine or bromine atom.
  • R is a hydrocarbyl radical comprising 1 to 12 carbon atoms, such as alkyl, aryl, aralkyl, alkaryl or cycloalkyl
  • X is a chlorine or bromine atom.
  • ethylaluminum sesquichloride dichloroethyl aluminum, dichloroisobutyl aluminum, chlorodiethyl aluminum or mixtures thereof.
  • a Bronsted organic acid is used.
  • the Bronsted acid compound corresponds to the formula HY, where Y is an organic anion, for example carboxylic, sulfonic or phenolic.
  • Halocarboxylic acids of formula R 2 COOH in which R 2 is a halogenated alkyl radical are preferred, in particular those that contain at least one alpha-halogen atom of the group — COOH with 2 to 10 carbon atoms in all.
  • a haloacetic acid of formula CX P H3 P — COOH is used, in which X is fluorine, chlorine, bromine or iodine, with p being an integer from 1 to 3.
  • Trifluoroacetic acid is preferably used.
  • the three components of the catalytic formula can be mixed in any order. However, it is preferable first to mix the nickel compound with the Bronsted organic acid, and then next to introduce the aluminum compound.
  • the molar ratio of the hydrocarbyl aluminum dihalide to the nickel compound, expressed by the Al/Ni ratio, is 2/1 to 50/1 , and preferably 2/1 to 20/1.
  • the molar ratio of the Bronsted acid to the nickel compound is 0.25/1 to 10/1 , and preferably 0.25/1 to 5/1.
  • the hydrocarbyl aluminum dihalide can be enriched with an aluminum trihalide, the mixture of the two compounds then corresponding to the formula AIR n X3- n , in which R is a hydrocarbyl radical comprising 1 to 12 carbon atoms, such as alkyl, aryl, aralkyl, alkaryl or cycloalkyl, X is a chlorine or bromine atom, and n is a number between 0 and 1.
  • Suitable mixtures include: dichloroethyl aluminum enriched with aluminum chloride, the mixture having a formula AIEto.gCh.i; dichloroisobutyl aluminum enriched with aluminum chloride, the mixture having a formula AliBuo 9CI2 -1 ; and dibromoethyl aluminum enriched with aluminum bromide, the mixture having a formula AIEto.9Br2.-1.
  • the reaction for oligomerization of ethylene can be implemented at a temperature of -20 to 80 °C, preferably 40 to 60 °C, under pressure conditions such that the reagents are kept at least for the most part in the liquid phase or in the condensed phase.
  • the pressure is generally between 0.5 and 5 MPa, preferably between 0.5 MPa and 3.5 MPa.
  • the time of contact is generally between 0.5 and 20 hours, preferably between 1 and 15 hours.
  • the oligomerization stage can be implemented in a reactor with one or more reaction stages in a series, with the ethylene feedstock and/or the catalytic composition that is preferably pre-conditioned in advance being introduced continuously, either in the first stage, or in the first stage and any other one of the stages.
  • the catalyst can be deactivated, for example by injection of ammonia and/or an aqueous solution of soda and/or an aqueous solution of sulfuric acid.
  • the unconverted olefins and alkanes that are optionally present in the feedstock are then separated from the oligomers by a separation stage, for example by distillation or washing cycles by means of caustic soda and/or water.
  • the conversion per pass is generally 85 to 98%.
  • the selectivity of n-butenes that are formed is generally between 50 and 80%.
  • the n-butenes consist of butene-2 (cis- and trans-) and butene-1 .
  • the effluent generally contains less than 0.2% by weight of isobutene, or even less than 0.1 % by weight of isobutene.
  • the effluent that is obtained by dimerization of ethylene may be subjected to a separation stage in such a way as to obtain an n-butene-enriched fraction.
  • the separation can be carried out by evaporation, distillation, extractive distillation, extraction by solvent or else by a combination of these techniques. These processes are known by one skilled in the art.
  • a separation of the effluent that is obtained by oligomerization of ethylene is carried out by distillation.
  • the effluent of the oligomerization is sent into a distillation column system comprising one or more columns that makes it possible to separate, on the one hand, n-butenes from ethylene, which can be returned to the oligomerization reactor, and heavier olefins with 5 carbon atoms and more.
  • the higher olefins may be subjected to hydrogenation so as to obtain renewably-sourced naphtha.
  • "Renewably-sourced naphtha” shall mean naphtha produced from renewable sources. It is a hydrocarbon composition, consisting of mainly paraffins. The molecular weight of this renewably-sourced naphtha may range from hydrocarbons having 5 to 8 carbon atoms. Renewably-sourced naphtha can be used as a feedstock in steamcracking to produce renewably-sourced light olefins, dienes and aromatics.
  • step b)-(i) comprises:
  • the process of the invention involves isomerization of n-butenes obtained according to b)-(i) to obtain isobutene in accordance with step b)-(ii).
  • step b)-(ii) comprise:
  • a suitable recovery scheme utilizes the reaction of isobutene with alkanol to produce alkyl tertiary butyl ether.
  • the etherification reaction is selective with respect to isobutene, while n-butenes are unreactive in the reaction. The reaction therefore can be utilized as a method to separate n-butenes and isobutene.
  • isobutene may be recovered from the mixture of n-butenes and isobutene by the following steps:
  • step (d) distilling the mixture of isobutene and isobutanol produced in step (c) in a second distillation unit to obtain a top product stream consisting essentially of isobutene, and a bottom product comprising isobutanol;
  • step (e) recycling the bottom product of step (d) to step (a).
  • Skeletal isomerization generally requires acidic catalysts.
  • Known skeletal isomerization catalysts include aluminas and halogenated aluminas, particularly F- or Cl-promoted aluminas.
  • zeolites have been shown to be highly effective in skeletal isomerization of normal olefins. Such zeolites include those selected from the group consisting of zeolites having the framework structure of ZSM-22, ZSM-23, and ZSM-35.
  • a particularly preferred catalyst is ferrierite.
  • the typical elemental composition of ferrierite zeolite is Na2Mg 2 [AI 6 Si3o072]-18H 2 0 as, for example, disclosed in US 6323384.
  • Spent catalysts can be regenerated by heating in an oxygen-containing gas, such as air, at temperatures ranging from about 200° C to about 700° C.
  • an oxygen-containing gas such as air
  • Skeletal isomerization of n-butenes to isobutene is an equilibrium controlled process where equilibrium conversion decreases with increasing temperature.
  • the skeletal isomerization is carried out by contacting the feed with the catalyst, using any suitable contacting techniques, at temperatures at which skeletal isomerization of the feed of n-butenes occurs.
  • the feed is preferably maintained in the vapor phase during contacting.
  • the reactor temperature is preferably in the range of about 300° to about 650° C, more preferably about 400° to about 580° C.
  • the weight hourly space velocity (WHSV) is not narrowly critical but will generally be within the range of about 0.1 to about 40 hr 1 , preferably from about 1 to about 20 hr 1 .
  • Any convenient pressure can be used, with the lowest practical pressure preferred in order to minimize side reactions such as polymerization.
  • Preferred pressures are within the range of about 0.1 to about 10 atmospheres, more preferably about 1 to about 4 atmospheres.
  • the equilibrium may not be achieved in the case of a single contact of the feed with the catalyst.
  • the product stream leaving the catalyst bed can be divided up, and only one part is directly conveyed to the working-up process, while the other part is again conducted over the catalyst bed.
  • n-butene isomerization Several commercial processes for n-butene isomerization are known.
  • the n-butene feedstock is vaporized, in general by heat exchange with reactor effluent, and further heated to reaction temperature.
  • vapor reacts with up to 44% of n-butenes converted to isobutylene with greater than 86% selectivity.
  • two reactors are cyclically operated: one in reaction mode, the other in regeneration mode. Reactor effluent is cooled, compressed and fractionated. Heavy ends are separated and removed as bottoms from the overhead isobutylene product.
  • the invention involves a renewably sourced C4-olefin stream that is suitable for being subjected to olefin oligomerization.
  • the C4-olefin stream may comprise either n-butenes as the substantially only C4-olefin, or isobutene as the substantially only C4-olefin, or a mixture of n-butenes and isobutene.
  • a C4-olefin stream comprising a mixture of n-butenes and isobutene is obtained by blending n-butenes obtained according to (i) with isobutene obtained according to (ii) above.
  • di-n-butenes i.e., isomeric Cs-olefins, which are prepared from mixtures of 1 -butene and/or 2-butenes and so-called diisobutenes, which are obtained by dimerization of isobutene and which exhibit a higher degree of branching.
  • Di-n-butenes are generally considerd to be better suited for the preparation of highly linear oxo-alcohols useful in preparing plasticizers than diisobutenes, since their degree of branching is much lower.
  • the isomeric distribution of isononanols or the degree of branching directly affects the properties of the plasticizer produced therefrom by esterification.
  • Esterification with carboxylic acids, in particular phthalic acid is well known.
  • alcohol mixtures are esterified with phthalic acid or phthalic anhydride.
  • the product, diisononyl phthalate (DINP) is used as a plasticizer.
  • the structure of the alcohol in turn, depends significantly on the structure of the parent olefin.
  • Effects of increased branching include adverse effects of increased viscosity, increased vapor pressure (which is associated with higher volatility), lower plasticization efficacy and lower thermal and light stability.
  • the invention allows for obtaining a desired degree of branching in accordance with the intended use, by adjusting the concentration of isobutene in the C4-olefin stream. Also, the invention allows to mimic the butene composition in a butenes stream from a steam cracking unit.
  • the butene composition in the renewably sourced C4-olefin stream can be made to resemble that of a butenes stream from a steam cracking unit.
  • the renewably sourced C4-olefin stream comprises 0.2 to 8 % by weight of isobutene, preferably 0.5 to 6 % by weight of isobutene or 0.5 to 3 % by weight of isobutene, relative to the total concentration of C4-olefins in the C4-olefin stream.
  • the renewably sourced C4-olefin stream may be mixed with inert diluents, e.g., saturated hydrocarbons such as butanes, before being directed to the oligomerization unit.
  • inert diluents e.g., saturated hydrocarbons such as butanes
  • the olefin content of a butenes stream from a steam cracking unit is typically about 60% by weight, with the remainder being saturated hydrocarbons such as butanes.
  • butanes are not removed from the butenes stream because a once through or low recycle oligomerization process is used. Instead, butanes are separated from the higher olefin product, which is a much easier and less costly separation.
  • the process of the invention provides a C4-olefin stream with a high olefin content. This enables a high recycle, low conversion per pass oligomerization process.
  • the high olefin content allows to maintain the olefin concentration in the feed at an acceptable level.
  • the low conversion per pass process results in a higher selectivity to the more desirable alpha-olefins.
  • Alpha-olefins are olefins that contain the carbon-carbon double bond between the first and second carbon.
  • Step c) comprises an oligomerization reaction of the renewably-sourced C4-olefin stream to produce dibutenes.
  • olefins with eight carbon atoms Cs-olefins, “dibutenes”
  • olefins with twelve carbon atoms Ci2-olefins, “tributenes”
  • olefins containing more than twelve carbon atoms Ci2+-olefins
  • the oligomerization of the C4-olefin stream may be carried out by means of a fixed-bed catalyst, at superatmospheric pressure and at room temperature or elevated temperatures.
  • the oligomerization is preferably carried out under supercritical conditions with respect to the starting material.
  • reaction temperatures from 20 to 280 °C are preferred, more preferably above 160 °C and in particular from 180 to 210 °C.
  • the reaction pressure is, in general, from 20 to 300 bar, in particular from 60 to 80 bar.
  • the oligomerization is carried out at a pressure from 60 to 300 bar, in particular from 60 to 80 bar, and at a temperature from 160 to 280 °C, in particular from 180 to 210 °C.
  • the oligomerization is carried out at a pressure from 10 to 30 bar, in particular from 15 to 25 bar, and at a temperature from 20 to 140 °C, in particular from 40 to 120 °C.
  • the catalyst used typically contains, as active components, after deduction of the loss on ignition following heating at 900 °C, from 10 to 70% by weight of nickel oxide, calculated as NiO, from 5 to 30% by weight of titanium dioxide or zirconium dioxide, from 0 to 20% by weight of alumina, from 20 to 40% by weight of silica and from 0.01 to 1 wt.-% of an alkali metal oxide, wherein the contents of the individual components in the catalyst add up to 100 wt.-%.
  • Hydroformylation or the oxo process is an important large-scale industrial process for preparing aldehydes from olefins, carbon monoxide and hydrogen. These aldehydes can optionally be hydrogenated with hydrogen in the same operation or subsequently in a separate hydrogenation step, to produce the corresponding alcohols.
  • hydroformylation is carried out in the presence of catalysts which are homogeneously dissolved in the reaction medium.
  • Catalysts used are generally the carbonyl complexes of metals of transition group VIII, in particular Co, Rh, Ir, Pd, Pt or Ru, which may be unmodified or modified with, for example, amine-containing or phosphine-containing ligands.
  • Co-catalysts are preferred for hydroformylation of dibutenes and tributenes. If alcohols having a very low degree of branching are desired, the hydroformylation reaction may preferably be carried out using unmodified cobalt catalysts.
  • a summarizing account of the processes practiced on a large scale in industry is found in J. Falbe, “New Syntheses with Carbon Monoxide”, Springer Verlag 1980, p. 162 ff. Further details may be taken from US 9,115,069, WO 2001/014297, WO 2021/197953 and US 6,015,928.
  • Hydroformylation of dibutenes can be carried out at temperatures in the range of 120 °C to 240 °C, preferably 160 °C to 200 °C.
  • the synthesis gas pressure is typically in the range of 150 to 400 bar, in particular from 250 to 350 bar.
  • the molar ratio of hydrogen to carbon monoxide in the synthesis gas mixture used is preferably in the range from 70:30 to 50:50, in particular from 65:35 to 55:45.
  • the hydroformylation reaction is conducted at a low pressure, e.g., a pressure in the range of 0.05 to 50 MPa (absolute), and preferably in the range of about 0.1 MPa to 30 MPa, most preferably at a pressure below 5 MPa.
  • a pressure in the range of 0.05 to 50 MPa (absolute) e.g., 0.05 to 50 MPa (absolute)
  • preferably in the range of about 0.1 MPa to 30 MPa most preferably at a pressure below 5 MPa.
  • the partial pressure of carbon monoxide is not greater than 50% of the total pressure.
  • the proportions of carbon monoxide, hydrogen, and dibutenes in the hydroformylation reaction medium can be selected within a wide range.
  • CO is from about 1 to 50 mol-%, preferably about 1 to 35 mol-%
  • H 2 is from about 1 to 98 mol-%, preferably about 10 to 90 mol-%
  • dibutenes are from about 0.1 to 35 mol-%, preferably about 1 to 35 mol-%.
  • the hydroformylation reaction preferably takes place in the presence of both liquid and gas phases.
  • the reactants generally are in the gas phase.
  • the catalyst typically is in the liquid phase. Because the reactants are gaseous compounds, a high contact surface area between the gas and liquid phases is desirable to enhance good mass transfer. A high contact surface area between the catalyst solution and the gas phase may be provided in any suitable manner.
  • the batch contents are thoroughly mixed during the course of the reaction.
  • the reactor feed gas can be contacted with the catalyst solution in, for example, a continuous-flow stirred autoclave where the gas is introduced and dispersed at the bottom of the vessel, preferably through a perforated inlet (e.g., a sparger).
  • High contact between the catalyst and the gas feed may also be provided by dispersing the solution of the Rh catalyst on a high surface area support, a technique well known in the art as supported liquid phase catalysis, or providing the Rh as part of a permeable gel.
  • the reaction may be conducted either in a batch mode or, preferably, on a continuous basis.
  • One or more reactors may be used in continuous modes to carry out the reaction in one or more stages.
  • the syngas used in the hydroformylation reaction of step (3) may be obtained by:
  • the feedstock for the gasifier is selected from the group comprising biomass, municipal solid waste (MSW), shredder residues such as car shredder residues, textiles, plastic waste, packaging waste, and mixtures thereof.
  • Such feedstocks can also be mixed with fossil feedstocks such as coal, oil, and natural gas.
  • the amount of fossil feedstocks is typically not more than 10 wt.-%, preferably not more than 5 wt.-%.
  • biomass includes but is not limited to wood, wood pellets, wood chips, straw, lignocellulosic biomass, energy crops, algae, biobased-oils, biobased-fats, and mixtures thereof.
  • waste comprises fossil-based waste, biogenic waste, and mixtures thereof.
  • waste suitable as a feedstock are agricultural/farming residues such as wood processing residues, waste wood, logging residues, switch grass, discarded seed corn, corn stover and other crop residues, municipal solid waste (MSW), textiles, industrial waste, sewage sludge, plastic waste, packaging waste, shredder residues such as car shredder residues and mixtures thereof.
  • MSW municipal solid waste
  • shredder residues such as car shredder residues and mixtures thereof.
  • the feedstock is pre-treated before entering the gasifier.
  • a suitable pretreatment method or combination of pre-treatment methods in a pre-treatment unit should provide a sufficiently homogeneous carbon-based feedstock to the gasification reaction and likewise enable the continuous production of syngas by gasification of a feedstock.
  • a pre-treatment method or a combination of more than one pre-treatment methods in a pre-treatment unit preferably results in a homogenization of the physical and/or chemical properties of the first feedstock and/or the second feedstock and/or the requirement(s) for a specific type of gasifier and/or the requirements for the optional at least one further chemical production unit for producing a chemical compound or mixture of chemical compounds.
  • the pre-treatment method for the first feedstock and/or the second feedstock is preferably selected from the group comprising drying, comminution, classification, sorting, agglomeration, thermochemical methods, and biological methods.
  • Suitable gasifiers comprise counter-current fixed bed reactors, co-current-fixed bed reactors, bubbling fluidized bed reactors, circulation fluidized bed reactors, and downdraft or updraft entrained flow reactors.
  • the selection of size and reactor type depends on several parameters, including the composition of the (carbonaceous) feedstock, demand of products, moisture content and availability of the (carbonaceous) feedstock.
  • the gasifier is anticianoxygen blown" gasifier, i.e., oxygen is preferably used as the oxidant in suitable gasifiers listed above.
  • the gasification reaction in a gasifier is typically carried out at a temperature of greater than 700 °C in the presence of a sub-stoichiometric amount of an oxidant such as oxygen, air, steam, supercritical water, CO2, or a mixture of the aforementioned.
  • an oxidant such as oxygen, air, steam, supercritical water, CO2, or a mixture of the aforementioned.
  • the gasification is carried out at a temperature in the range of greater than 700 to 1500 °C, more preferably, 850 to 1400 °C, even more preferably 1100 to 1500 °C.
  • the gasification is conducted at an absolute pressure of greater than 1 bar.
  • it is conducted at an absolute pressure in the range from 2 to 80 bar, more preferably 2 to 50 bar.
  • Oxygen is the most common oxidant used for gasification because of its easy availability and low cost.
  • the H 2 : CO ratio depends on the composition of the feedstock and the amount of steam used in the gasification.
  • CO ratio is to separate CO from the syngas.
  • CO can be separated from the syngas in a syngas separation unit which is downstream of and fluidly connected to the syngas producing unit comprising at least one gasifier.
  • CO can be separated from syngas by cryogenic separation methods, commonly referred to as a “cold box” which makes use of the different boiling points of CO and H 2 .
  • H 2 can be separated using H 2 -selective membranes thorough which H 2 permeates and is thereby separated from a syngas stream. It is also possible to fully separate CO and H 2 via cryogenic separation. The resulting CO and H 2 can be used to create a syngas having the desired ratio.
  • the syngas When steam acts as oxidant, the syngas has a higher molar ratio H2 : CO than when air is used as oxidant.
  • a typical molar ratio of “air : combined feedstock” ranges from 0.3 to less than 1 .
  • syngas which consists primarily of H2, CO, CO2, methane, other hydrocarbons, and impurities.
  • Said syngas has a dedicated molar ratio H2 : CO when leaving the gasifier which ranges from about 0.1 : 1 to about 3 : 1 and depends on the type of solid and/or liquid feedstocks used, the oxidant and other reaction conditions applied such as temperature and/or residence time of the reactants in the gasifier.
  • Typical impurities in the raw syngas obtained from the gasification reaction in a gasifier comprise chlorides, sulfur-containing organic compounds such as sulfur dioxide, trace heavy metals (e.g., as respective salts) and particulate residues.
  • Various chemical and/or physical methods for removal of such impurities from said raw syngas such as filtration, scrubbing, hydrotreatment and ab-/adsorption are known and can be chosen and adapted according to the type and respective concentration of the impurities in said raw syngas and the tolerance to such impurities in the successive process steps. Some selected methods for removal of impurities from said raw syngas will be discussed in more detail.
  • One or more of said methods can also be implemented into the at least one syngas purification unit of the syngas producing unit comprising at least one gasifier. However, this selection of methods is not limiting the scope of the present invention.
  • Bulk particulate impurities can be removed from the raw syngas by a cyclone and/or filters, fine particles, and chlorides by wet scrubbing, trace heavy metals, catalytic hydrolysis for converting sulfur-containing organic compounds to H2S and acid gas removal for extracting sulfur-containing gases such as H2S.
  • Bulky and fine particles in the syngas may also be removed with a quench in a soot water washing unit.
  • a gasification reaction usually results in further reaction products such as solid and/or highly viscous carbonaceous residues (e.g., char and/or tar) which can be further treated in separate steps not relevant for the systems and methods according to the present invention.
  • reaction products such as solid and/or highly viscous carbonaceous residues (e.g., char and/or tar) which can be further treated in separate steps not relevant for the systems and methods according to the present invention.
  • Hydrogenation of the isononanal yields isononanol.
  • the hydrogenation of the isononanal to isononanol is a well-known reaction and can be conducted by any suitable known process.
  • the hydrogenation is carried out with hydrogen in the liquid or gas phase in the presence of a hydrogenation catalyst.
  • Homogeneous or heterogeneous catalysts can be used. Copper catalysts have proved to be the most suitable.
  • the reaction is carried out in the liquid phase on fixed-bed catalysts at 50 to 250 °C and pressures of up to 300 bar. Hydrogenation in the gas phase is preferably carried out continuously.
  • the desired isononanol fraction in the reaction discharge obtained during the hydrogenation can be separated off by fractional distillation from the Cs hydrocarbons and higher-boiling products. Further details can be taken from Ullmann’s Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry, 5 th edition, vol. A1 , 1984.
  • the present invention further provides a process for producing a diester of adipic acid or phthalic acid, comprising subjecting adipic acid, phthalic acid, or a derivative thereof to an esterification reaction with an isononanol obtained according to any one of the preceding claims.
  • Diesters obtained from isononanol and adipic acid or phthalic acid are generally known and are important, for example, as plasticizers for preparing thermoplastic molding compositions.
  • Adipic acid and phthalic acid can be esterified with isononanol in a conventional manner to produce the desired diester.
  • the phthalates according to the invention are preferably prepared using phthalic anhydride.
  • Isononanol obtained as described above is preferably reacted in excess with the adipic acid, phthalic acid, or derivative thereof, in particular in a molar excess of 5 to 30%, preferably in the presence of an acylation catalyst, such as a dialkyl titanate, e.g. isopropyl butyl titanate, or of an acid, such as methanesulfonic acid or sulfuric acid.
  • an acylation catalyst such as a dialkyl titanate, e.g. isopropyl butyl titanate
  • an acid such as methanesulfonic acid or sulfuric acid.
  • the reaction with the adipic acid, phthalic acid, or derivative thereof generally takes place at temperatures of from 150 to 300 °C., preferably from 200 to 250 °C.
  • an inert gas such as nitrogen
  • diesters of adipic or phthalic acid are isolated from the reaction mixture, by, for example, distilling off excess isononanol in vacuo, neutralizing the crude diester with an aqueous alkali, such as aqueous sodium hydroxide, forming a two-phase mixture, separating off the aqueous phase, and washing the organic phase.
  • the neutralized and washed diester is preferably stripped using steam at elevated temperature in vacuo.
  • the purified diester may then be dried at elevated temperature in vacuo by passing a nitrogen stream through the mixture, and, if desired, further purified by being brought into contact with an adsorbant, such as activated carbon or bleaching earth.
  • the diisononyl adipates according to the invention prepared in this way have a density of from 0.900 to 0.940 g/cm 3 , preferably from 0.910 to 0.930 g/cm 3 , in particular from 0.918 to 0.922 g/cm 3 , a viscosity of from 15.0 to 25.0 mPa-s, preferably from 16.0 to 22.0 mPa-s, particularly preferably from 17.0 to 20.0 mPa-s, and a refractive index no 20 of from 1 .445 to 1 .455, preferably from 1 .447 to 1 .453, particularly preferably from 1 .448 to 1.452.
  • the diisononyl phthalates according to the invention prepared in this way generally have a density of from 0.950 to 0.990 g/cm 3 , preferably from 0.960 to 0.980 g/cm 3 , in particular from 0.967 to 0.973 g/cm 3 , a viscosity of from 60.0 to 110.0 mPa-s, preferably from 63.0 to 80.0 mPa-s, in particular from 65.0 to 75.0 mPa-s, and a refractive index no 20 of from 1 .470 to 1 .495, preferably from 1 .476 to 1 .490, in particular from 1 .480 to 1 .486.

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L'invention concerne un procédé de fabrication d'isononanol, comprenant la soumission d'une charge d'alimentation comprenant de l'éthanol d'origine renouvelable à une déshydratation pour produire un flux d'éthylène d'origine renouvelable. Le flux d'éthylène d'origine renouvelable est soumis à une interconversion d'oléfine pour obtenir un flux d'oléfine en C4 d'origine renouvelable, le flux d'oléfine en C4 d'origine renouvelable comprenant des n-butènes, de l'isobutène ou un mélange de n-butènes et d'isobutène. L'interconversion d'oléfine comprend (i) et, le cas échéant, (ii), ou (ii) et (iii) : (i) la dimérisation de l'éthylène pour obtenir des n-butènes ; (ii) l'isomérisation de n-butènes obtenus selon (i) pour obtenir de l'isobutène ; (iii) le mélange de n-butènes obtenus selon (i) avec de l'isobutène obtenu selon (ii). Le flux d'oléfine en C4 d'origine renouvelable est soumis à une séquence de conversions chimiques pour obtenir de l'isononanol, comprenant : l'oligomérisation du flux d'oléfine en C4-oléfine d'origine renouvelable pour produire des dibutènes ; la soumission des dibutènes à une réaction d'hydroformylation avec du gaz de synthèse pour obtenir de l'isononanal ; et l'hydrogénation de l'isononanal pour produire de l'isononanol. Le procédé fournit un schéma de réaction pour l'isononanol d'origine renouvelable.
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