Sumitomo Chemical Company, Limited

Masanori Moriwaki

Tadashi Abe

Yukio Yasunori

Toshiki Doi

Michio Kato

Masami Ayano

Masao Sada

Michio Katoh

A plastic molded article excellent in transparency, antistatic property and abrasion resistance is produced by providing on the surface of a base material comprising a transparent plastic molded article an electrically conductive coat layer comprising 60-80% by weight of an electrically conductive powder mainly composed of tin oxide and 20-40% by weight of a resin component and further providing thereon a topcoat layer comprising 0-50% by weight of an electrically conductive powder mainly composed of tin oxide and 50-100% by weight of a resin component.

Transparent electrically conductive plastic molded articles

A process for separation of methacrylic acid from a methacrylic acid-containing, gaseous reaction mixture obtained by subjecting methacrolein or a compound which can afford methacrolein under reaction conditions and molecular oxygen to gas phase reaction in the presence of a catalyst for oxidation under the coexistence of an inert gas for dilution which comprises (a) cooling the gaseous reaction mixture from a reactor wherein the gas phase reaction has been effected to separate into condensable components including methacrylic acid, acetic acid and water vapor as a condensed liquor and non-condensable components including methacrolein as a non-condensed gaseous mixture, (b) eliminating contaminating methacrolein from the condensed liquor and (c) contacting the resulting condensed liquor with an organic solvent to extract methacrylic acid, followed by separation into an organic solvent solution including methacrylic acid and an aqueous solution as waste water, characterized in that (1) the inert gas for dilution is a non-condensable gas or its mixture with water vapor and (2) the aqueous solution ultimately separated is evaporated and the evolved vapor is subjected to catalytic combustion with molecular oxygen, whereby the amount of waste water to be discharged is much suppressed.

Waste water treatment in the production of methacrylic acid

A process for preparing an acrylic or methacrylic acid ester comprising esterifying the acrylic or methacrylic acid with an alcohol in a water-insoluble and non-reactive organic solvent in the presence of an acid catalyst, the volume ratio of the organic solvent phase to an aqueous solution phase of the acid catalyst being as small as 0.1 to 1.0, whereby a reactor is allowed to be small-sized and a conversion of the esterification is kept high. The acrylic or methacrylic acid ester is useful as a starting material of an acrylic resin or acrylic resin coating, an adhesive or the like.

Process for preparing an acrylic or methacrylic acid ester

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