Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for purifying acrylic acid or methacrylic acid, whereby high purity and a high yield of the acid are achieved. SOLUTION: (a) A mixture comprising the acrylic acid or methacrylic acid is subjected to a stringently defined separation treatment essentially in the absence of an organic solvent, this phase is then taken off, (b) at least a part of a residual phase from step (a) is subjected to a less stringently defined separation treatment, and (c) one of phases formed in step (b) is fed to the stringently defined separation treatment in step (a). This method offers a possibility that the overall economical efficiency of the treatment is increased through circulation and that the economical efficiency is improved even when static crystallization is omitted. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
A PROCESS FOR RECTIFICATIVELY SEPARATING FLUIDS COMPRISING (METH)ACRYLIC MONOMERS IN A RECTIFICATION COLUMN BY DIRECTLY COOLING THE VAPOR COMPRISING (METH)ACRYLIC MONOMERS RISING TO THE TOP OF THE RECTIFICATION COLUMN TO FORM TOP CONDENSATE COMPRISING (METH)ACRYLIC MONOMERS, THE CONDENSATION SPACE AT THE TOP OF THE COLUMN BEING SEPARATED FROM THE REGION OF THE RECTIFICATION COLUMN CONTAINING THE SEPARATING INTERNALS ONLY BY AT LEAST ONE CHIMNEY TRAY FROM WHICH THE TOP CONDENSATE FORMED IS REMOVED FROM THE RECTIFICATION COLUMN, WHICH COMPRISES EFFECTING THE DIRECT COOLING OF THE VAPOR IN THE CONDENSATION SPACE IN AT LEAST TWO SPRAY ZONES WHICH ARE SPATIALLY SUCCESSIVE AND ARE FLOWED THROUGH BY VAPOR BY SPRAYING SUPERCOOLED TOP CONDENSATE COMPRISING ADDED POLYMERIZATION INHIBITOR, AND THE TEMPERATURE OF THE SPRAYED SUPERCOOLED TOP CONDENSATE BECOMING LOWER FROM SPRAY ZONE TO SPRAY ZONE IN THE FLOW DIRECTION OF THE VAPOR.
Abstract:
In the recovery of (meth)acrylic acid from a mixture containing a higher boiling solvent by distillation in a column connected with evaporators, the column is an enhancer column, the mixture is fed to evaporators and (meth)acrylic acid is discharged at the side of the column.
Abstract:
The continuous prodn. of alkyl(meth)acrylates (I) by the reaction of (meth)acrylic acid (II) and 1-8C monohydric alcohols (III) in homogeneous liq. phase at elevated temp. in the absence of solvent and in presence of an acid esterification catalyst (IV). The process comprises (a) feeding (II), (III) and (IV) continuously into a reaction zone (RZ), (b) removing (I) after a residence time in the form of an azeotrope contg. water or water and (III) in addn. to (I) at the top of a rectifier column (RC) mounted over the RZ, (c) separating the distillate into an organic phase contg. (I) and aq. phase(s) contg. water, (d) recycling part of the organic phase via the top of the column and opt. returning water to the RZ, (e) separating (I) from the rest of the organic phase and removing part of the reaction mixt. continuously from the RZ. The RZ consists of a cascade of at least two reactors in series, and the outflow from one reactor provides the input flow for the next reactor. Also claimed is an appts. for this process.
Abstract:
IN A THERMAL SEPARATING PROCESS BETWEEN AT LEAST ONE GASEOUS AND AT LEAST ONE LIQUID STREAM, OF WHICH AT LEAST ONE COMPRISES (METH) ACRYLIC MONOMERS, IN A SEPARATING COLUMN CONTAINING SIEVE TRAYS AS SEPARATING INTERNALS, AT LEAST SOME OF THE SIEVE TRAYS ARE OPERATED ABOVE AN ENTRAINMENT FRACTION OF 10% BY WEIGHT.
Abstract:
In the production process for acrylic acid through catalytic vapour-phase oxidation of propene, acrylic acid is separated from the vapour-phase oxidation reaction mixture by means of an absorbing agent containing diphenyl, diphenyl ether or dimethyl phthalate and is also extracted from the vapour-phase oxidation acidic water by means of a solvent containing diphenyl, diphenyl ether or dimethyl phthalate.
Abstract:
A process for purifying (meth)acrylic acid by phase separation techniques comprises the following steps: (a) a mixture containing (meth)acrylic acid is separated into distinct phases in the presence of an organic solvent, with the composition of the (meth)acrylic acid-rich phase remaining essentially unchanged, and this acid-rich phase is separated; (b) the remaining phase from step (a) is separated into indistinct phases; and (c) one of the phases from step (b) is returned to step (a). Also claimed is preparation of (meth)acrylic acid. Preferably in step (c) the acid-rich phase is returned to step (a). 1-100 (100) wt.% of the phase remaining from step (a) is used in step (b). Pure end product is added to steps (a) and (b). Step (a) involves crystallisation, freezing or sublimation, preferably static and/or dynamic crystallisation, and most preferably a combined static and dynamic crystallisation in which the residue from the dynamic crystallisation is added to the static crystallisation step and the crystallised product from the static crystallisation is returned to the dynamic crystallisation.