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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 01, 2015
Filed:
Jun. 27, 2013
Celanese International Corporation, Irving, TX (US);
Craig J. Peterson, Houston, TX (US);
Elizabeth Bowden, Houston, TX (US);
Josefina T. Chapman, Houston, TX (US);
Sean Mueller, Pasadena, TX (US);
Dick Nagaki, The Woodlands, TX (US);
Tianshu Pan, Houston, TX (US);
Himanshu Lodha, Houston, TX (US);
Celanese International Corporation, Irving, TX (US);
Abstract
The invention relates to a process for producing an acrylate product comprising the step of reacting a reaction gas mixture A comprising methanol and oxygen to form a product gas mixture A. The process may further comprise the step of combining at least a portion of the product gas mixture A and acetic acid to form a reaction gas mixture B. The process may further comprise the step of reacting at least a portion of the acetic acid in the reaction gas input mixture B with at least a portion of the formaldehyde in the reaction gas input mixture B to form a product gas mixture B. The process may further comprise the step of separating at least a portion of the product gas mixture B to form an alkylenating agent stream comprising at least 1 wt % alkylenating agent and an intermediate acrylate product stream comprising acrylate product.