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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 10, 2015
Filed:
Mar. 15, 2013
Applicant:
Celanese International Corporation, Irving, TX (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
Celanese International Corporation, Irving, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C07C 27/04 (2006.01); C07C 29/149 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C07C 29/149 (2013.01);
Abstract
The process involves esterifying ethanol and acetic acid to produce an esterification product that is in a single phase that is directly reduced, by hydrogenolysis, to produce ethanol. The single phase is not capable of separating. Feeding a single phase feed stream reduces the separation of the esterification product. Hydrogen may be fed to the esterification reactor that operates at a high pressure that is substantially similar to or greater than the hydrogenolysis reactor.