Eastman Chemical Company

Grupo Petrotemex S.a. De C.v.

David Allen Sliger

Bruce Roger DeBruin

Michael Paul Ekart

Larry Cates Windes

Thomas Lloyd Yount

Thomas Lloyd Yout

The disclosure describes a reactor operable to facilitate a chemical reaction in a reaction medium flowing therethrough. The reactor can include a horizontally elongated reactor segment containing a horizontally elongated tubular member and a tray disposed within the tubular member. The reaction medium can flow through the reactor segment on the tray and on the bottom of the tubular member in generally opposite directions. The reactor also can include a header and multiple horizontally elongated reactor segments coupled to the header and spaced vertically apart from one another. The reactor can be used to produce polyesters.

Multi-level tubular reactor with internal tray

A multi-level tubular reactor operable to facilitate a chemical reaction in a reaction medium flowing therethrough. The tubular reactor can include a plurality of horizontally elongated and vertically spaced reactor segments coupled to and extending outwardly from a common header. One or more of the reactor segments can contain a tray that divides the internal volume of the reactor segment into upper and lower chambers. The reaction medium can flow away from the header in the upper chambers and back to the header in the lower chambers.

Multi-level tubular reactor with vertically spaced segments

A multi-level tubular reactor operable to facilitate a chemical reaction in a reaction medium flowing therethrough. The tubular reactor can include a plurality of horizontally elongated and vertically spaced tubular members coupled to and extending between a pair of horizontally spaced and vertically elongated headers.

Multi-level tubular reactor with dual headers

Multi-level tubular reactor with oppositely extending segments

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Gray, TN, United States of America

David Allen Sliger