✦ LIBER ✦
5602298 Method and apparatus for converting organic material into hydrogen and carbon by photodecomposition: Levin George Pittsburgh, PA, United States assigned to Advanced Waste Treatment Technology Inc
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1997
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 126 KB
- Volume
- 5
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0959-6526
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✦ Synopsis
from the recycle during the manufacture of acetic acid by the carbonylation of methanol. The improvement comprises partitioning the residues by the addition of water obtained from aqueous streams containing up to 50 wt. % acetic acid and which have been treated in a catalytic distillation unit to react the acetic acid with methanol to form recyclable methyl acetate and water and wherein the water is separated from the organics by distillation.