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Manufacture of Styrene

Styrene is produced through the Friedel-Craft alkylation of benzene with ethylene. Key steps involve drying benzene to remove water, reacting it with ethylene and ethyl chloride in the presence of aluminum chloride as a catalyst. The product polyethylbenzene is then dealkylated and purified through distillation to obtain styrene. Styrene's main uses are in producing synthetic rubber, plastic toys, and model kits.

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Manufacture of Styrene

Styrene is produced through the Friedel-Craft alkylation of benzene with ethylene. Key steps involve drying benzene to remove water, reacting it with ethylene and ethyl chloride in the presence of aluminum chloride as a catalyst. The product polyethylbenzene is then dealkylated and purified through distillation to obtain styrene. Styrene's main uses are in producing synthetic rubber, plastic toys, and model kits.

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Manufacture of Styrene

Physical Properties:
Mol wt. = 104.1
MP = -30.6 C
BP = 145.2 C
Density @ 20 C = 0.903

Use
Styrene is mainly used for making synthetic rubber (SBR), plastic toys and model kits.

Reactions Involved:
AlCl3
C6H6 + C2H4 φ – C2H5
C2H5Cl

SnO, FeO
φ – C2H5 φ – CH=CH2
Azeotropic  To remove water
Wet C6H6
Dryer  To avoid unnecessary reactions
C2H4 + C2H5Cl
Alkylator  Friedel-Craft reaction
AlCl3
 Op. temp = 95 C
50% NaoH  Op. Pressure = 1 atm
 AlCl3 as catalyst
 C2H5Cl serves as source of H2
Settling Tank  Operation must be done under very
dry conditions

Stripper Residue  Dealkylator operates at 200 C to


Caustic wash breakdown the polyethyl benzene to
C6H6 and φ – C2H5
Polyalkyl still
 50 % NaOH is used to remove acidic
Benzene column impurities

Ethyl benzene
column
20% NaoH
Dryer Dry φ – C2H5
Cat dehydration  Op temp = 800 C
Dry φ – C2H5
unit  Vapor phase reaction
 SnO or FeO as catalyst
Steam Quench tower  35 – 40 % conversion with 90% yield

C6H6 Water
column
C6H6 &
C6H5CH3
C6H5Cl
to recovery
column

Finishing column

Batch tar still

Colling Styrene

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