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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 27, 2021
Filed:
Mar. 08, 2019
Lyondell Chemical Technology, L.p., Houston, TX (US);
James N. Waguespack, Spring, TX (US);
David S. Mannel, Humble, TX (US);
Larry W. Arndt, Humble, TX (US);
Ha H. Nguyen, Houston, TX (US);
Barbara Kimmich, Houston, TX (US);
Lyondell Chemical Technology, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A method of producing dimethoxymethane oligomers (DMMn), the method comprising: reacting a formaldehyde source and dimethoxymethane monomer (DMM1) in the presence of an acidic catalyst to produce a reaction effluent comprising DMMn and unreacted DMM1; and separating, from the reaction effluent, DMM1-2 including unreacted DMM1 and DMMn having a chain length n equal to 2 (DMM2), dimethoxymethane oligomers having a chain length n in the range of from 2-5 (DMM2-5), dimethoxymethane oligomers having a chain length n of ≥5 (DMM5+), or a combination thereof, wherein the separating comprises distillation in the presence of at least one alcohol, a distillate fuel, or both.