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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.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 18, 2007

Filed:

Mar. 02, 2004
Applicants:

David A. Trueba, Webster, TX (US);

Shrikant Kulkarni, Houston, TX (US);

Inventors:

David A. Trueba, Webster, TX (US);

Shrikant Kulkarni, Houston, TX (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C07C 47/00 (2006.01); C07C 45/00 (2006.01); C07C 51/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

Disclosed is a method of controlling a separation process for removing permanganate reducing compounds from a process stream in the methanol carbonylation process for making acetic acid, where the method includes the steps of measuring the density of a stream containing acetaldehyde and methyl iodide, optionally calculating the relative concentrations of acetaldehyde and methyl iodide in the stream, and adjusting distillation or extraction process parameters based on the measured density or one or more relative concentrations calculated therefrom.


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