Lg Chem, Ltd

Jong-Ku Lee

Eun-Jung Joo

Dae-Young Shin

Mi-Kyung Kim

Joon-Ho Shin

Dong-Kwon Lee

Sung-Kyu Lee

Jeong-Seok Lee

Sung-Ho Chun

Seung Young Park

Sung-Cheol Yoon

Yong Hee An

Hyun Ju Cho

Sung-Don Hong

Dong Kwon Lee

Jun Wye Lee

In-Su Lee

Woo Sung Hwang

Kwang Hyon Kim

Jae-Ik Lee

Eun-Kyo Kim

Chang-Hoe Heo

Seung-Young Park

The present invention relates to a production method of polyalkylene carbonate particles capable of precipitating and separating resin particles from a polyalkylene carbonate suspension obtained through polymerization of an epoxide and carbon dioxide. According to the present invention, the production method is capable of obtaining a polyalkylene carbonate resin having excellent workability with a high yield and a low energy cost while reducing a scale of a facility, a processing time, and a wastewater amount, as compared to conventional methods such as a flash separation method.

Production method of poly(alkylene carbonate) particles

The present invention relates to energy saving method and apparatus for preparing styrene and alpha-methylstyrene concurrently, by which economic feasibility may be improved by reusing energy during preparing styrene and alpha-methylstyrene concurrently.

Energy saving method and apparatus for preparing styrene and alpha-methylstyrene concurrently

Disclosed is a method of separating an ethylene oligomerization effluent, in which, during the separation and purification of a product obtained through ethylene oligomerization, the temperature of the reaction product is adjusted and used, thus improving energy efficiency.

Method of separating ethylene oligomerization reactor effluent

The present invention relates to a dividing wall distillation column for producing high-purity n-butanol, and a method for the production of high-purity n-butanol by fractional distillation. More particularly, the present invention relates to a method which provides a dividing wall distillation column with crude n-butanol as a feed to perform a fractional distillation of n-butanol, and an apparatus thereof. The dividing wall distillation column of the present invention exhibits the effects of a two distillation column from only one distillation column, thereby reducing energy and the costs of installing the apparatus as compared to conventional distillation systems.

Divided wall distillation column for producing high purity normal butanol, and normal butanol distillation method

A SCC (Spinning Cone Column) includes a housing having a rotation axis, a supply part of at least one reactant formed inside of the housing, at least two spinning cones that are installed so as to have a constant gradient from the upper part to the lower part to the rotation axis, move reactants supplied through the reactant supply part, and rotate around the rotation axis, a fixed cone that is fixed and formed on the inner side of the housing, and provides a pathway for sequentially moving reactant from a spinning cone at the upper part to a spinning cone at the lower part, a product collection part for collecting reactants moved through the spinning cone and the fixed cone, and a driving part for rotating the spinning cone.

SCC with improvied mobility of material to be removed

The present invention provides a method for removing unreacted monomer in polymer using a SCC comprising a housing having a rotation axis; a supply part of at least one polymer formed inside of the housing; at least two spinning cones that are installed so as to have a constant gradient from the upper part to the lower part to the rotation axis, move polymer supplied through the polymer supply part, and rotate around the rotation axis; a fixed cone that is fixed and formed on the inner side of the housing, and provides a pathway for sequentially moving polymer from a spinning cone at the upper part to a spinning cone at the lower part; a product collection part for collecting polymer moved through the spinning cone and the fixed cone; and a driving part for rotating the spinning cone. The method for removing unreacted monomers in polymer using SCC according to the present invention may control polymer residence time and thus does not lower polymer stability even under high temperature condition, and has high area density and thus has excellent unreacted monomer removal efficiency without using steam and the like, or with a small amount of steam, and the like.

Method for removing unreacted monomers in polymer using SCC

The present invention provides a SCC (Spinning Cone Column) equipped with a foam removal unit comprising: a housing having a rotation axis; a supply part of at least one reactant formed inside of the housing; at least two spinning cones that are installed so as to have a constant gradient from the upper part to the lower part to the rotation axis, move supplied reactants through the reactant supply part, and rotate around the rotation axis; a fixed cone that is fixed and formed on the inner side of the housing, and provides a pathway for sequentially moving reactant from a spinning cone at the upper part to a spinning cone at the lower part; a product collection part for collecting reactants moved through the spinning cone and the fixed cone; and a driving part for rotating the spinning cone, wherein a foam removal unit is installed on one side of the housing. The SCC according to the present invention solves the problems that foam is generated when separating material to be removed to decrease removal yield and lower stability of the product, and may improve removal yield and product stability because a foam removal unit is for removing generated foam is installed.

SCC equipped with foam removal unit

A dividing wall distillation column for producing high-purity n-butanol and a method for the production of high-purity n-butanol by fractional distillation are disclosed. More particularly, the method which provides a dividing wall distillation column with crude n-butanol as a feed to perform a fractional distillation of n-butanol and an apparatus thereof are disclosed. The dividing wall distillation column exhibits the effects of a two distillation column from only one distillation column, thereby reducing energy and the costs of installing the apparatus as compared to conventional distillation systems.

The present invention provides an apparatus for recovering a polymer from polymer solution, and a method of recovering a polymer using the apparatus. The apparatus includes a polymer solution-storage tank for storing a polymer solution; a polymer solution feeding pump for pumping the polymer solution from the polymer solution storage tank; an antisolvent storage tank for storing an antisolvent; an antisolvent feeding pump for pumping the antisolvent from the antisolvent storage tank; a reaction chamber to which the polymer solution pumped by the polymer solution feeding pump and the antisolvent pumped by the antisolvent feeding pump are supplied; a high-speed mixer that is rotated in the reaction chamber at a speed range of 1000 to 30000 rpm, mixes the polymer solution with the antisolvent under a shearing force corresponding to a tip speed of 5 to 30 m/sec, and precipitates a polymer; and a precipitate storage tank for storing the precipitation mixture of the polymer and the solvent/antisolvent.

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Daejeon, South Korea

Jong-Ku Lee