Patent RU-2330014-C2 (RU)
Inventor: LIN ROBERT
IPC: C07C63/26
Filed: 2003-10-09
Granted: 2008-07-27
Abstract: FIELD: chemistry. 
     SUBSTANCE: invention relates to an improved method, by which the carboxylic acid/diol mixture, that is suitable as the initial substance for the manufacture of polyester, obtained from the decolourised solution of carboxylic acid without actually isolating the solid dry carboxylic acid. More specifically, the invention relates to the method of manufacturing a mixture of carboxylic acid/diol, where the said method includes the addition of diol to the decolourised solution of carboxylic acid, which includes carboxylic acid and water, in the zone of the reactor etherification, where diol is located at a temperature sufficient for evaporating part of the water in order to become the basic suspending liquid with the formation of the specified carboxylic acid/diol mixture; where the said carboxylic acid and diol enter into a reaction in the zone of etherification with the formation of a flow of a complex hydroxyalkyl ether. The invention also relates to the following variants of the method: the method of manufacture of the carboxylic acid/diol mixture, where the said method includes the following stages: (a) mixing of the powder of damp carboxylic acid with water in the zone for mixing with the formation of the solution of damp carboxylic acid; where the said carboxylic acid is selected from the group, which includes terephthalic acid, isophthatic acid, naphthalenedicarboxylic acid and their mixtures; (b) discolourisation of aforesaid solution of damp carboxylic acid in the zone for reaction obtaining the decolourised solution of carboxylic acid; (c) not necessarily, instantaneous evaporation of the said decolourised solution of carboxylic acid in the zone of instantaneous evaporation for the removal of part of the water from the decolourised solution of carboxylic acid; and (d) addition of diol to the decolourised solution of carboxylic acid in the zone of the reactor of the etherification, where the said diol is located at a temperature, sufficient for the evaporation of part of the water in order to become the basic suspending liquid with the formation of the carboxylic acid/diol mixture; where the aforesaid carboxylic acid and diol then enter the zone of etherification with the formation of the flow of complex hydroxyalkyl ether; and relates to the method of manufacture of carboxylic acid/diol, where the said method includes the following stages: (a) the mixing of the powder of damp carboxylic acid with water in the zone for mixing with the formation of the solution of carboxylic acid; (b) discolourisation of the said solution of damp carboxylic acid in the reactor core with the formation of the decolourised solution of carboxylic acid; (c) crystallisation of the said decolourised solution of carboxylic acid in the zone of crystallisation with the formation of an aqueous suspension; and (d) removal of part of the contaminated water in the aforesaid aqueous solution and addition of diol into the zone of the removal of liquid with the obtaining of the said carboxylic acid/diol mixture, where diol is located at a temperature sufficient for evaporating part of the contaminated water from the said aqueous suspension in order to become the basic suspending liquid. 
     EFFECT: obtaining mixture of carboxylic acid/diol. 
     29 cl, 4 dwg