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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 17, 2018
Filed:
Jul. 01, 2016
Eastman Chemical Company, Kingsport, TN (US);
Mesfin Ejerssa Janka, Kingsport, TN (US);
Kenny Randolph Parker, Afton, TN (US);
Ashfaq Shahanawaz Shaikh, Kingsport, TN (US);
Lee Reynolds Partin, Kingsport, TN (US);
Charles Edwan Sumner, Jr., Kingsport, TN (US);
Shane Kipley Kirk, Church Hill, TN (US);
EASTMAN CHEMICAL COMPANY, Kingsport, TN (US);
Abstract
A process for purifying a crude furan 2,5-dicarboxylic acid composition (cFDCA) by hydrogenation of a FDCA composition dissolved in a hydrogenation solvent such as water, and hydrogenating under mild conditions, such as at a temperature within a range of 130° C. to 225° C. by contacting the solvated FDCA composition with hydrogen in the presence of a hydrogenation catalyst under a hydrogen partial pressure within a range of 10 psi to 900 psi. A product FDCA composition is produced having a low amount of tetrahydrofuran dicarboxylic acid, a low b*, and a low amount of 5-formyl furan-2-carboxylic acid (FFCA).