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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:
Jan. 30, 2001
Filed:
Jan. 14, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Fu-Ming Lee, Katy, TX (US);
Ronald G. Gualy, Houston, TX (US);
Assignee:
HFM International, Inc., Houston, TX (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C07C 5/142 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C07C 5/142 ;
Abstract
Disclosed is a method for recovering acrylic acid from process or waste water streams in which the stream is vaporized and contacted with a liquid high boiling solvent for acrylic acid, thereby absorbing acrylic acid into the solvent. Mixed trialkylphosphine oxides are a preferred solvent. Acrylic acid is stripped from the solvent with heat and, optionally, stripping gas. It may be separated from any accompanying materials to produce acrylic acid of high purity.