摘要:
A process for the recovery of a carbonylation product from a liquid reaction composition of an iridium-catalysed carbonylation reaction of a carbonylatable reactant comprises subjecting the composition to a vapourisation with or without the addition of heat to produce a vapour-fraction and a liquid fraction, the vapour fraction comprises carbonylation product and the liquid fraction has a water concentration of at least 0.5% by weight to stabilise the iridium catalyst.
摘要:
A process for removing higher organic iodides, including hexyl iodide, from an acetic acid product obtained by carbonylating methanol and/or a reactive derivative thereof in the presence of a finite concentration of water, Group VIII noble metal catalyst, methyl iodide as co-catalyst, and optionally a catalyst promoter, which process includes the step of subjecting an aqueous composition comprising acetic acid and at least one higher organic iodide to distillation in a column, or section of a column, separating water overhead from a dry acetic acid fraction, wherein the water concentration on the feed tray of the column, or section of the column, is greater than 8% by weight and the water concentration in the head of the column, and/or section of the column, is greater than 70% by weight.
摘要:
A process for reacting carbon monoxide with a carbonylatable reactant and/or an ester derivative thereof in a liquid reaction composition comprising an iridium carbonylation catalyst, a hydrocarbyl halide carbonylation promoter, water and carbonylation reaction product, characterised in that the liquid reaction composition comprises water at a concentration about 2 to 8% by weight, hydrocarbyl halide carbonylation promoter at a concentration in the range 1 to 20% by weight and ester derivative of the carbonylatable reactant at a concentration in the range 1.0 to 60% by weight.
摘要:
In a process for production of acetic acid from methanol and/or a reactive derivative thereof and carbon monoxide in a carbonylation reactor in which there is maintained a liquid reaction composition comprising an iridium catalyst, methyl iodide co-catalyst, a finite amount of water, methyl acetate and optionally one or more promoters, the inventory of the liquid reaction composition in the reactor is maintained by recycling to the reactor at least a portion of an acetic acid-rich stream or streams recovered from the acetic acid product recovery distillation zone.