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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 18, 2003
Filed:
Jul. 10, 2000
Richard William Wegman, South Charleston, WV (US);
David McNeill Somerville, Hurricane, WV (US);
Barry Brent Fish, Nitro, WV (US);
Raymond Edwin Rooks, Cross Lanes, WV (US);
Chinsoo Stephen Lee, Charleston, WV (US);
Paul Frank Bryan, Mt. Vernon, WV (US);
William J. Bartley, Charleston, WV (US);
David Michael Anthony Minahan, Nitro, WV (US);
Fungau Ho, Charleston, WV (US);
Union Carbide Chemicals & Plastics Technology Corporation, Danbury, CT (US);
Abstract
This invention relates in part to a processes for the conversion of a feedstock stream comprising carbon monoxide and hydrogen to a product stream comprising at least one of an ester, acid, acid anhydride and mixtures thereof. This invention also relates in part to processes for converting an alcohol and/or ether feedstock to oxygenated products, e.g., esters, acids, acid anhydrides and mixtures thereof. The processes and catalysts are especially suitable for the production of acetic acid and methyl acetate from a synthesis gas feedstock or from an alcohol and/or ether feedstock.