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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 25, 2026
Filed:
Jan. 28, 2021
Sumitomo Chemical Company, Limited, Tokyo, JP;
Hirofumi Koike, Sodegaura, JP;
Shuhei Yoshida, Tokyo, JP;
Kazunori Oda, Ichihara, JP;
Shoko Ikeda, Ichihara, JP;
SUMITOMO CHEMICAL COMPANY, LIMITED, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Provided is a propylene oxide production apparatus including a switching mechanism that is capable of switching a state of each reactor between an operating state where reaction raw materials are supplied and an epoxidation reaction is performed and a non-operating state where the supply of the reaction raw materials is shut off. The propylene oxide production apparatus is capable of changing a reactor in the non-operating state one by one, and performs switching in such a way that only reactors in the operating state are connected fluidically in series or in parallel, thereby enabling supplying the reaction raw materials to the reactors in the operating state. A sampling mechanism is also provided that samples part of the reaction mixture from each discharge line that is connected to each reactor.