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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 09, 1986
Filed:
Feb. 12, 1986
Applicant:
Inventors:
Leo W Bonnell, Macungie, PA (US);
Joseph M Pietrantonio, Allentown, PA (US);
Assignee:
Air Products and Chemicals, Inc., Allentown, PA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C07C / ; C07C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
518700 ; 518704 ; 518706 ; 518707 ;
Abstract
The present invention is a process for increasing the capacity of a gas phase synthesis loop for the production of methanol from a syngas feed. The syngas feed is initially passed to a liquid phase methanol reactor to convert a portion of the syngas to methanol or methanol and higher aliphatic alcohols. The mixture is subsequently cooled to condense and recover the methanol and/or higher alcohols. The unreacted syngas is passed to a gas phase synthesis loop for further conversion and recovery of methanol.