Celanese International Corporation

Jeffrey R Kirkpatrick

Kenneth Allen Windhorst

John C McCall

Benjamin A Gilbert

A process for separating water from methanol in an aqueous methanol initial mixture, including subjecting said mixture to azeotropic distillation in the presence of sufficient added methyl acrylate to form an azeotrope with most of the methanol in said initial mixture such that a substantial proportion of methanol in the initial mixture is removed as an azeotrope of methanol and methyl acrylate in the overhead vapors resulting from said distillation and a major proportion of water in said initial mixture is removed in the liquid residue of said distillation.

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Pampa, TX, United States of America

Jeffrey R Kirkpatrick