Increase MeOAc conversion in PVA production by replacing the fixed bed reactor with a catalytic distillation column

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 56, Issue 23, 2001, Pages 6553-6562

  Xiao, Jian ^a,c   Liu, Jiaqi ^a   Li, Juntai ^a   Jiang, Xinghua ^b   Zhang, Zhibing ^c  

^a TIANJIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Second Chemical Engineering Plant of Shijiazhuang   (China)

^c NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Catalytic distillation; Distillation; Fixed bed reactor; Hydrolysis; Methyl acetate; Polyvinyl alcohol

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID; CATALYSTS; CHEMICAL REACTORS; HYDROLYSIS; POLYVINYL ALCOHOLS; WATER;

CATALYTIC DISTILLATION (CD);

DISTILLATION;

CATALYST; DISTILLATION COLUMN; FIXED BED; HYDROLYSIS; POLYVINYL ALCOHOL;

EID: 0035976945     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0009-2509(01)00305-0     Document Type: Article

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