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AssigneeDegussa AG
InventorsManfred Spindler, Herbert Tanner, Friedhelm Geiger, Friedrich Bittner, Jurgen Martens
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Aqueous sodium methioninate solutions having a low content of sodium carbonate can be recovered from the crude hydrolysis mixture resulting from the saponification of 5-(.beta.-methylmercaptoethyl)-hydantoin with 1.1 to 6 equivalents of sodium hydroxide and/or sodium carbonate by distilling off the water from the crude hydrolysis mixture until the sodium methioninate content is 40 to 65 weight percent, and after cooling to at most room temperature separating off the precipitated sodium carbonate.
A process for the production of an aqueous sodium methioninate solution having a low content of sodium carbonate comprising forming a crude aqueous hydrolysis mixture by the saponification of 5-(.beta.-methylmercaptoethyl)-hydantoin with 1.1 to 6 equivalents of sodium hydroxide, sodium carbonate, or a mixture of sodium hydroxide and sodium carbonate, distilling off water from the crude hydrolysis mixture until the sodium methioninate content is 40 to 65 weight percent, cooling to a temperature which is at most room temperature and then separating off the precipitated sodium carbonate.
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