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US 5,210,223 AGranted
Elevated pressure phthalic anhydride process
AssigneeAir Products and Chemicals, Inc.
InventorsMichael S. Chen, Philip J. Cook, Harold H. Gunardson, Melinda B. Ulrich
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Abstract
The present invention is an improvement to the conventional process for the production of phthalic anhydride. In particular, the present invention enables the crude phthalic anhydride product to be recovered in a more efficient manner.
Claims2
In a process for the production of phthalic anhydride comprising the consecutive steps of:
- (a) introducing a feed stream comprising oxygen and either o-xylene or naphthalene into a reactor to produce a gaseous reactor effluent comprising the phthalic anhydride;
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- (b) cooling the reactor effluent in order to condense a crude phthalic anhydride product from the reactor effluent wherein at least a portion of the crude phthalic anhydride product is condensed as a solid;
- the improvement comprising operating the reactor in step (a) at a pressure greater than 200 psia in order to condense the crude phthalic anhydride product from the reactor effluent in step (b) exclusively as a liquid.
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