A continuous process for the manufacture of a polyamide, the process comprising the steps of: (i) flowing a stream A comprising a molten dicarboxylic acid, or a molten dicarboxylic acid-rich mixture comprising a dicarboxylic acid and a diamine, through a first stage and at least one more reaction stage of a vertical multistage reactor, wherein the first stage is at the top of the reactor; (ii) counter-currently flowing a stream B comprising a diamine as either a vapor or a diamine-rich liquid through at least one of the stages below the first reaction stage of said vertical multistage reactor; (iii) accumulating a liquid phase material P comprising polyamide at and/or below the final stage of said reactor; wherein said reactor is equipped with internal features suitable for effecting contact between counter-currently flowing streams A and B; and wherein said process further comprises the step of agitating said liquid phase material P by injecting a gaseous stream C comprising steam, or at least one inert gas, or a mixture of steam and at least one inert gas into the reactor at or below the final stage of the reactor. The invention further provides a vertical multistage reactor configured to implement said process.

Disclosed is an oxidation process to produce a crude carboxylic acid product carboxylic acid product. The process comprises oxidizing a feed stream comprising at least one oxidizable compound to generate a crude carboxylic acid slurry comprising furan-2,5-dicarboxylic acid (FDCA) and compositions thereof. Also disclosed is a process to produce a dry purified carboxylic acid product by utilizing various purification methods on the crude carboxylic acid.

The disclosure provides a flushing process for removing polymer fouling from a reactor including a gas distributor proximal to the bottom thereof and an internal condenser proximal to the top thereof, the method including, for a first flushing time period, injecting a flushing solvent into the reactor and withdrawing the flushing solvent from a reactor outlet proximal to the internal condenser to induce an upward movement of flushing solvent, the withdrawn flushing solvent containing a first polymer content. After the first flushing time period is complete, for a second flushing time period, the process includes injecting a flushing solvent into the reactor and withdrawing the flushing solvent from a reactor outlet proximal to the gas distributor to induce a downward movement of flushing solvent, the withdrawn flushing solvent containing a second polymer content.

A pressurized carbonation reaction apparatus and method thereof are provided. The apparatus comprises: an atomizing gas tank, a plurality of compressors, a plurality of buffer tanks, a plurality of pre-heaters, a pressurized liquid tank, a nozzle, a raw material tank, a carbon dioxide tank, a high-pressure reactor, a raw product tank, a feed pump, a plurality of pressure display gauges, a plurality of temperature controllers with display gauges and a plurality of back pressure valves. The method comprises: dissolving a solid material in a solvent, and storing a resulting liquid material in the raw material tank; introducing gas in the carbon dioxide tank to the high-pressure reactor, controlling temperatures of the high-pressure reactor and the pressurized liquid tank, and pumping, by the feed pump, the liquid material into the pressurized liquid tank to ensure a pressure difference between the pressurized liquid tank and the high-pressure reactor; opening a second check valve, and ensuring that the liquid material reacts with a carbon dioxide atmosphere in the high-pressure reactor after being atomized via the nozzle under a stable pressure difference between the high-pressure reactor and the pressurized liquid tank; and ensuring that when the liquid material in the high-pressure reactor is at a corresponding liquid level, a fifth check valve is opened and discharge continues to obtain a reaction product.

An apparatus for preparing lithium sulfide includes a reaction chamber that has a reaction space for generating lithium sulfide and is provided to move a supplied lithium raw material in a predetermined direction; a lithium raw material supply unit provided to continuously supply the lithium raw material to an upstream side of the reaction chamber in the predetermined direction; a hydrogen sulfide supply unit provided to supply hydrogen sulfide to the reaction chamber; a heating unit; a lithium sulfide recovery unit provided on a downstream side of the reaction chamber in the predetermined direction and provided to recover lithium sulfide that is generated by a reaction between the hydrogen sulfide and the lithium raw material in the reaction chamber; an inert gas supply unit provided to supply an inert gas to the upstream side of the reaction chamber in the predetermined direction; and a moisture removal unit.

The invention provides a microdroplet- or bubble-producing device that does not require separate through-holes for different liquid droplet/air bubble-producing flow channels. The droplet-producing flow channels are configured in a three-dimensional manner unlike in a conventional device where they are configured in a two-dimensional plane, and therefore the flow channels can be provided in a more high-density configuration than the prior art. In the microdroplet/bubble-producing device comprising slit(s) and the row of the plurality of microflow channels, the slit(s) is/are a continuous phase supply slit, a dispersion phase supply slit and a discharge slit, the plurality of microflow channels are configured so that the ends of the slit(s) and the two supply ports on both sides or the supply port and discharge port on either side are mutually connected, and at the sites of connection between the microflow channels and the slit(s), the dispersion phase undergoes shear with the continuous phase flow as the driving force, producing droplets or air bubbles of the dispersion phase, which are recovered from the discharge port.

An apparatus for oxidation of a C.sub.8-C.sub.12 alkylbenzene reactant to a C.sub.8-C.sub.12 alkylbenzene hydroperoxide product, the re-actor can comprise: a flow reactor comprising a reactant inlet, an oxidate product outlet, wherein the reactor is configured to provide a liquid flow from the reactant inlet to the product outlet, a gas inlet configured to introduce an oxygen-containing gas into the reactor and an inlet sparger configured to flow gas bubbles comprising the oxygen-containing gas within the liquid flow, and wherein: the inlet sparger is configured to flow the gas bubbles having a diameter of 1.0 mm to 5.0 mm over a gas bubble residence time from 1 to 200 seconds, and/or the inlet sparger configured to flow the gas bubbles such that greater than or equal to 80% of the gas bubbles do not coalesce into larger bubbles over a gas bubble residence time of 1 to 200 seconds.

The invention provides a method of reducing a gaseous carbon oxide to carbon, the method comprising mixing a gas comprising a gaseous carbon oxide with a liquid metallic composition by producing a dynamic interface between the gas and the liquid metallic composition, wherein the liquid metallic composition is not dispersed as droplets in a liquid carrier during the mixing and wherein the gaseous carbon oxide reacts stoichiometrically with at least one metal in the liquid metallic composition to form carbon and metal oxide.

The invention relates to a device for the continuous homogeneous catalytic reaction of a liquid with a gas and optionally a further fluid, wherein the device comprises at least one jet loop reactor having an external liquid circuit driven by at least one pump, and wherein the device has at least one membrane separation unit, preferably retaining the homogeneous catalyst, which membrane separation unit is arranged in the external liquid circuit of the jet loop reactor. The object thereof is to reduce the costs of the device. This is achieved by providing an additional apparatus, namely a gas separator, which is arranged in the external liquid circuit of the jet loop reactor and is installed for separating off gas from the external liquid circuit and feeding it back into the jet loop reactor.

A gas diffusion system configured to feed a gas stream, in particular a passivating gas stream, into an apparatus, in particular a decomposer, of a urea plant; the system extends along an axis and has a gas feed conduit having an outlet from which the gas flows substantially parallel to the axis, and a diffuser assembly configured to diffuse the gas supply from the conduit; the diffuser assembly is shaped so as to intercept the gas stream flowing axially from the outlet, and divert the gas stream substantially radially with respect to the axis and uniformly about the axis.