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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 30, 1985
Filed:
Jun. 28, 1983
Alex E Miller, Placentia, CA (US);
Union Oil Company of California, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Abstract
This invention provides a process for recovering alkanolamines, e.g. diisopropanolamine, from their corresponding cyclic reaction products (e.g., oxazolidinones), which products are the result of the reaction of CO.sub.2 and the alkanolamine, a situation commonly encountered in acid gas removal processes employing the alkanolamines alone or in combination with other liquids such as sulfolane (tetrahydrothiophene-1,1-dioxide). The process involves hydrolyzing the oxazolidinones in the presence of a small but catalytically effective amount of an amine, preferably from about 2 to 10 weight percent, based on 2-oxazolidinones. Preferably, the amine is the alkanolamine precursor of the corresponding 2-oxazolidinone.