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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 04, 1992
Filed:
Sep. 13, 1991
Applicant:
Inventors:
Anne M Gaffney, West Chester, PA (US);
William J Piel, Media, PA (US);
Assignee:
Arco Chemical Technology, L.P., Wilmington, DE (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C07C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
568697 ;
Abstract
A low value C.sub.5 feedstock is efficiently upgraded by a series of process steps involving reacting branched tertiary olefins in the feed and from subsequent isomerization with methanol and/or water to form TAME and/or TAA, separating isopentene by distillation from the reaction mixture, separating product TAME and/or TAA by distillation from linear C.sub.5 hydrocarbons, and converting the linear C.sub.5 hydrocarbons by skeletal isomerization to branched C.sub.5 hydrocarbons which are recycled to said reaction with methanol and/or water.