85 results about "Acetic acid product" patented technology

A process for producing acetic acid comprising the steps of reacting carbon monoxide and at least one of methanol and a methanol derivative in a first reactor under conditions effective to produce a crude acetic acid product; separating the crude acetic acid product into at least one derivative stream, at least one of the at least one derivative stream comprising residual carbon monoxide; and reacting at least a portion of the residual carbon monoxide with at least one of methanol and a methanol derivative over a metal catalyst in a second reactor to produce additional acetic acid.

An improved process is disclosed for producing acetic acid, including the following steps: reacting a carbonylatable reactant such as methanol, methyl acetate, methyl formate or dimethyl ether with carbon monoxide in a reaction medium containing water, methyl iodide, and a catalyst to produce a reaction product that contains acetic acid; separating the reaction product to provide a volatile phase containing acetic acid, water, and methyl iodide and a less volatile phase; distilling the volatile phase to produce a purified acetic acid product and a first overhead containing water, methyl acetate, and methyl iodide; phase separating the first overhead to provide a first liquid phase containing water and a second liquid phase containing methyl iodide; and adding dimethyl ether to the process in an amount effective to enhance separation of the first overhead to form the first and second liquid phases.

The improved acetic acid purifying method includes available technological steps of eliminating light component, dewatering, and eliminating heavy component as well as increased absorption and steam stripping step before the step of eliminating light component. In the absorption and steam stripping step, the initial acetic acid product from flash evaporation and the added absorbing liquid are absorbed and steam stripped to form the gaseous material entering to the light component eliminating tower and liquid material returned to the reaction system. The corresponding apparatus includes one refining system comprising light component eliminating tower, dewatering tower, heavy component eliminating tower and waste acid tower; one gas scrubbing system; one decanter set in the top of the light component eliminating tower; and one increased multifunctional tower. The present invention has high acetic acid synthesizing reaction rate, less side products and lowered power consumption.

This invention relates to a process for producing acroleic acid and esters thereof, concretely to acroleic acid azeotropic refining and acetic acid recovering process, wherein: apply ethyl cyclohexane, toluene, ethyl propionate and toluene derivative as the entrainer during the acroleic acid azeotropic distillation, set up a acroleic acid azeotropic column and an acetic acid removing column to remove the water and acetic acid in the crude acroleic acid solution, set up an organic film and air extraction column and an acetic acid azeotropic column to purify the 2-8% side produced acetic acid to be acetic acid product with concentration more than 85%. This invention is characterized of high dehydration rate and acetic acid removing rate. The byproduct acetic ester can be produced to be acetic acid product, which saves waste water treatment cost and improves the equipment benefits. By applying ethyl cyclohexane, toluene, ethyl propionate and toluene derivative as the entrainer, it can decrease the bottom temperature of the acroleic acid azeotropic column, which can decrease the polymerization tendency of the acroleic acid, improve the conversion rate of propone, decrease the acroleic acid carry-over loss and acroleic acid consumption, improve the product yield, extend the production cycle and improve the economical benefits of the apparatus.

The invention discloses a technique for preparing acetic acid by utilizing tail gas of a calcium carbide furnace, comprising the steps: first, temperature reduction and cooling are carried out on the tail gas of the calcium carbide furnace, then, dust abatement and cooling are carried out on the tail gas of the coolled calcium carbide furnace; after the processes of temperature reduction and dust abatement, the tail gas of the calcium carbide furnace enters an electric detarring precipitator for detarring; after being pressurized, the tail gas is transmitted into a purification apparatus for desulfurization, deoxidation and dehydration; CO2 and other impurities in the purified tail gas of the calcium carbide furnace are removed by a pressure-swing absorption apparatus (SPA), and high purity gas of CO with the purity of 97-99% is obtained; after pressure swing adsorption, the CO is pressurized and sent into a acetic acid synthesizer, and then reacts with methyl alcohol to produce the acetic acid. The technique not only realizes recycling of the tail gas of the calcium carbide furnace and reduces the environmental pollution, but also can produce acetic acid products with high added value, thus improving the economic benefit of the product.

A method for removing iodobenzene compounds from an acetic acid is disclosed. The method comprises contacting an acetic acid with palladium supported on macroreticular ion-exchange resins. A process for producing acetic acid is also disclosed. The process comprises carbonylating methanol in the presence of a carbonylation catalyst and a triphenylphosphine oxide stabilizer to produce acetic acid which contains iodobenzene compounds and removing the iodobenzene compounds by contacting the acetic acid product with palladium.

The present invention is to a process for producing acetic acid comprising the step of reacting a carbon monoxide feed and methanol and/or a methanol derivative in a first reactor to produce a crude acetic acid product. The carbon monoxide may comprise less than 99.5 mol % carbon monoxide. The process further comprises the step of purging a carbon monoxide purge stream comprising a first amount of residual carbon monoxide and one or more impurities. Preferably, the first amount is greater than 20 mol %. The process further comprises the step of separating the crude acetic acid product into at least one derivative stream comprising a second amount of residual carbon monoxide. The process further comprises the step of reacting at least a portion of the second amount of residual carbon monoxide and methanol and/or a methanol derivative in a second reactor to produce additional acetic acid.

The invention relates to a continuous preparation method for synthesizing isobornyl acetate by esterification of camphene and acetic acid. Using camphene and acetic acid as raw materials, using solid acid as a catalyst, and adding a certain amount of polymerization inhibitor and acetic anhydride, the esterification reaction is carried out under certain process conditions in a catalyst bed filled with suspension, and the target product acetic acid is obtained. Isobornyl. The invention has the advantages of mild reaction conditions, long service life of the catalyst, good product quality, high raw material conversion rate, continuous production and simple operation, and can be widely used in large-scale industrial production of isobornyl acetate.

The invention relates to a novel reactive distillation process for separating a methyl acetate hydrolysate by a dividing wall column. A device comprises a reactive distillation tower for generating amethyl acetate hydrolysis reaction and a dividing wall column for separating the methyl acetate hydrolysate. An azeotrope of methyl acetate and methyl alcohol enters the lower part of the reaction section of the reactive distillation tower, and water is added into the upper part of the reaction section. Tower top products of the reactive distillation tower comprise methyl acetate and methyl alcohol, and tower bottom products comprise methyl alcohol, water and acetic acid. A tower bottom product is decompressed and then enters the dividing wall column for separation of the three products including methyl alcohol, water and acetic acid. A high-concentration methyl alcohol product is obtained at the top of the dividing wall column, a high-concentration acetic acid product is obtained at the bottom of the dividing wall column, and water and part of acetic acid are obtained laterally. The process has the advantages that methyl acetate circulates in the reactive distillation tower, the one-way conversion rate is increased, and the tower kettle does not contain methyl acetate. The dividing wall column is used for separating the three products of methyl alcohol, water and acetic acid, so that the energy consumption and the equipment investment cost are reduced.

The invention discloses a purification method for glacial acetic acid. The method uses industrial grade glacial acetic acid as raw material, acetic anhydride and potassium permanganate are added in turn and heated and refluxed, and then tetraacetyl borax for drying and 4A molecular sieve for adsorption purification are added in turn; at last, purified glacial acetic acid is obtained by distillation method. The purity of the glacial acetic acid obtained by the purification method of the invention is greater than 99.8%. Compared with the prior art, the purification process of the method is safe, simple, energy-saving and emission-reducing. The added raw material of purification agent can be recycled after treatment, and the requirements of green chemical industry and environmental protection are met. The glacial acetic acid product obtained by the purification method has the advantages of stable quality and high purity, and has prospect for industrial production.

The invention relates to a process for producing acetic acid by utilizing the tail gas of a calcium carbide furnace. The process is characterized in that after the tail gas of the calcium carbide furnace is treated by dry dedusting, wet dedusting, alkaline wash, coal tar removal and CO purification, a methanol-carbon monoxide low-pressure oxo-synthesis method is adopted to produce acetic acid in aprocess production system. The process places emphasis on purifying the tail gas of calcium carbide and providing CO which is a raw material gas for a production system for producing the acetic acidwith a high added value by recovering, optimizing and utilizing high-concentration CO in the tail gas of the calcium carbide. The invention has the following technical characteristics of opening a newraw material source of acetic acid production, sufficiently recovering and utilizing the CO in the tail gas of the calcium carbide so as to convert the CO into an acetic acid product with a higher added value, reducing the production cost of acetic acid, improving the economic benefit of the product, reducing the pollution treatment cost of the tail gas of the calcium carbide and being beneficialto the establishment of a circulating economic circle in the field.

The invention relates to citric acid and a preparation method, which belongs to the food processing technical field. The invention is characterized in that citric acid uses the fruits of lemon, orange, plum, apricot, peach and the like, and the raw materials are carried out the processes of clearing, filtering, neutralizing, decolouring, concentrating and the like to obtain a citric acid product. The citric acid can be widely utilized in the food processing industry, is an important food organic acidity, and is an additive for beverage, candy and caned food, the market prospect is wide and the citric acid processing is capable of raising the income of the peasants.

The present invention relates to a process for recovering dilute acetic acid through extraction/azeotropic distillation coupling using a mixture of isopropyl acetate and isopropyl alcohol as a solvent. In this method, isopropyl acetate and isopropyl alcohol act as both extractants in an extraction column and azeotropic agent in an azeotropic distillation column. At first, that low-concentration acetic acid waste water and the solvent are contacted in the extraction column in a counter-current to generate liquid-liquid extraction. The extractive phase rich in acetic acid is sent to the azeotropic distillation column to obtain a high purity acetic acid product at the bottom of the azeotropic distillation column. The water-rich raffinate is fed to the top of the solvent recovery column for solvent recovery. The products at the top of azeotropic distillation tower and solvent recovery tower are sent to a phase separator for liquid-liquid phase separation, the organic phase is sent back tothe bottom of extraction tower for circulation, and the aqueous phase is sent to the solvent recovery tower. The invention uses the liquid-liquid extraction method for carrying out the pre-concentration operation, and the energy consumption is greatly reduced; at that same time, isopropyl acetate and isopropyl alcohol are adopted as a mixed solvent to reduce the circulating amount of the solvent,thereby reducing the equipment investment and further reducing the energy consumption. The invention has the characteristics of high separation efficiency and high recovery rate.

The invention relates to a method of using benzene series wastewater to prepare low-class fatty acid, in particular to a method of transforming benzene series wastewater into formic acid and acetic acid. The benzene series material of the invention is the organic matter with the molecular structure containing benzene rings. Benzene series wastewater and oxygen (oxygen gas, air or hydrogen peroxide) are first input into a hydrothermal oxidation reactor; then reaction is carried out under the conditions that: the temperature is 200-450 DEG C; the pressure is 5-20 Mpa; the pH value is 7-14; the addition amount of oxygen is 10-200 percent of the needed oxygen content to oxidize all carbon contained in the benzene series material of wastewater into CO2; reaction time is from 30 s to 30 min. The benzene series material is first oxidized to crack benzene rings, generate muconic acid and other unsaturated diacid; a great amount of formic acid and acetic acid is generated further by controlling the hydrothermal oxidation reaction of unsaturated diacid; finally mixed solution containing a great amount of formic acid and acetic acid is separated to prepare formic acid and acetic acid. Differing from the prior method of realizing mineralization through the thermal oxidative decomposition of wastewater, the invention aims to transform wastewater containing benzene series material into formic acid and acetic acid products which can be utilized, so as to realize the resource utilization of wastes.

The invention belongs to the field of refining chemical products, and particularly discloses a method for de-iodinating and refining acetic acid. The refining method comprises the following steps: absorbing an acetic acid finished product collected from a rectifying tower by an adsorbent or an ion exchange resin; reducing iodine in the acetic acid to below 10PPb; and reducing the content of formic acid to less than or equal to 30PPm. The refined acetic acid product obtained through the refining process meets the requirements of downstream high-end products and the requirements of high-end customers for producing vinyl acetate and the like.

The present invention discloses a method and a system for recovering acetic acid from an acetic acid aqueous solution. The technical scheme of the method comprises that an acetic acid aqueous solution and an extractant enter an extraction tower and liquid-liquid extraction operation is performed; the extraction phase is pre-heated and then enters an extraction phase distillation tower, the tower bottom distillate is an acetic acid product, and the tower top distillate is condensed and then enters a layering device; the raffinate phase is pre-heated and then enters the extraction phase distillation tower, the tower top distillate is condensed and then enters the layering device, and the tower bottom distillate is wastewater; and the heavy phase separated by the layering device is the extractant, one part of the extractant returns to the liquid-liquid extraction process, the other part of the extractant refluxes to the extraction phase distillation process, and the light phase separated by the layering device returns to the raffinate phase distillation process. According to the present invention, the treatment process is simple, the investment cost is low, the reliability is good, the separation effect is good, and the purity of the separated acetic acid is high and meets the industrial raw material acetic acid requirement.

The invention discloses a preparation method of 5-tetrazole-thione acetic acid. Sodium azide, benzyl trimethyl ammonium chloride and water are added into a three-mouth flask of 500mL, and ethyl acetate for an ethyl isothiocyanatoacetate reaction system is dropwise for extraction; organic phases are mixed, and a solvent is spin-dried to obtain a crude 5-tetrazole-thione acetic acid product; the obtained crude 5-tetrazole-thione acetic acid product is heated, dissolved and clarified, and activated carbon is added and stirred; a filter cake is subjected to vacuum drying to obtain the product 5-tetrazole-thione acetic acid. The preparation method has the advantages that a poisonous reagent methyl iodide is omitted in the synthesis of the 5-tetrazole-thione acetic acid and sodium salt thereof according to the above steps, the yield of the whole 5-tetrazole-thione acetic acid synthesis method is as high as 80%, and the single-step yield of the mono-sodium salt and disodium salt of the 5-tetrazole-thione acetic acid is as high as 90%. By adopting the method, the process cost is greatly reduced, and a feasible way is provided for industrialized production of the5-tetrazole-thione acetic acid.

The invention relates to a separation method of an N, N-dimethylacetamide-acetic acid mixed system, which comprises the step of carrying out two-phase multistage counter-current extraction on the N,N-dimethylacetamide-acetic acid mixed system by using an extracting agent group consisting of a hydrophobic phase extracting agent and a hydrophilic phase extracting agent; and feeding the N,N-dimethylacetamide-acetic acid mixed system from the middle of the two-phase multistage counter-current extraction, rectifying an extraction phase and a raffinate phase of the two-phase multi-stage extraction separately, and finally obtaining N,N-dimethylacetamide and acetic acid products separately, so as to realize separation of the mixed system. According to the invention, the two-phase multi-stage counter-current extraction of the selected solvent can effectively break through the restriction of the N,N-dimethylacetamide-acetic acid mixed system, so that the recovery of N,N-dimethylacetamide and acetic acid is realized.

The invention provides a device and method for producing propionic acid through an OXO process. The device comprises a reactor, a flash tank, a light component tower, a drying tower, a heavy componenttower, a stripping tower, an acetic acid removing tower, a propionic acid tower, an ethanol-rich methanol raw material pump, a catalyst mother liquor pump, a light component tower bottom pump, a drying tower bottom pump, a heavy component tower bottom pump, a stripping tower bottom pump and an acetic acid removing tower bottom pump which are connected through pipelines. The method comprises the following steps: adding a carbon monoxide raw material and an ethanol-rich methanol raw material into the reactor, and carrying out an OXO reaction under the action of a catalyst to generate a mixed solution of acetic acid and propionic acid; rectifying the mixed solution in an acetic acid rectifying area and a propionic acid rectifying area to obtain an acetic acid product and a propionic acid product respectively; pumping the catalyst into the reactor for recycling through the catalyst mother liquor pump in the flash tank,; and pumping light components such as methyl acetate, methyl iodide and water rectified from each tower top back into the reactor from the tower tops for recycling. According to the method, an ethanol-rich methanol product is used for producing acetic acid and propionicacid through the OXO process, so good economic benefits are obtained.