Process for the extraction of nitrous oxide substance pentoxide, from a mixture with nitric acid.

摘要

PCT No. PCT/GB91/01249 Sec. 371 Date Apr. 16, 1992 Sec. 102(e) Date Apr. 16, 1992 PCT Filed Jul. 15, 1991 PCT Pub. No. WO92/02451 PCT Pub. Date Feb. 20, 1992.Method of extracting dinitrogen pentoxide (N2O5) from its mixture in nitric acid, which consists of providing a solution of the mixture in an inert organic solvent, stripping out the N2O5 from solution in a carrier gas stream containing ozone, and subsequently condensing the N2O5 out of the gas stream by contact with further inert organic solvent. The presence of ozone suppresses the dissociation of the N2O5 transferred to the gas stream into dinitrogen tetroxide (N2O4). In a preferred embodiment the stripping and absorbing steps take place continuously in adjacent stripping and absorbing columns respectively having organic solvent recirculating through each.