Supercritical fluid separation for selective quaternary ammonium salt promoted esterification of terephthalic acid

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 38, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 3622-3627

  Brown, James S ^a   Lesutis, Heather P ^a   Lamb, David R ^a,d   Bush, David ^a   Chandler, Karen ^a,e   West, Barry L ^a,f   Liotta, Charles L ^a   Eckert, Charles A ^a   Schiraldi, David ^b   Hurley, Jeffrey S ^c  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b KoSa   (United States)

^c Buckeye Technologies   (United States)

^d GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY   (United States)

^e EXXONMOBIL UPSTREAM RESEARCH COMPANY   (United States)

^f DuPont   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; CARBOXYLIC ACIDS; CATALYSIS; CATALYSTS; ESTERIFICATION; ESTERS; SALTS; SUPERCRITICAL FLUID EXTRACTION; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

TEREPHTHALIC ACID;

POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATES;

QUATERNARY AMMONIUM DERIVATIVE; TEREPHTHALIC ACID;

ESTER; POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATE; SEPARATION; SUPERCRITICAL FLUID;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; ESTERIFICATION; SUPERCRITICAL FLUID EXTRACTION; SYNTHESIS;

EID: 0033494685     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie990040f     Document Type: Article

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