PROCESS FOR PURIFYING HYDROCARBONS

摘要

A process for washing hydrocarbons said process comprising: (I) distilling a crude acetone mixture preferably obtained from the cleavage of cumene hydroperoxide and containing hydrocarbons and water so as to form a bottoms fraction containing said hydrocarbons in an organic phase and an aqueous phase; (II) contacting at least a part of said bottoms fraction with an aqueous metal hydroxide solution so as to provide a concentration of 0.1 to 5 wt% MOH, where M is an alkali metal, in the aqueous phase; (III) separating the aqueous phase and the organic phase; (IV) contacting at least a part the organic phase from step (III) with an aqueous metal hydroxide solution so as to provide a concentration of 6 to 20 wt% MOH in the aqueous phase; (V) separating the organic phase and aqueous phase formed in step (IV); (VI) washing at least a part of the organic phase of step (V) with water.