Patent ID: 8157969

Claim:
A method for minimizing accumulation of polymer on equipment to be used with process apparatus to operate a process which comprises polymerizable material and at least one process fluid comprising a moving liquid phase fluid, wherein said process apparatus has at least one wall forming an interior space for retaining the at least one process fluid therein, and wherein said equipment comprises a safety device and is at least intermittently in contact with said polymerizable material, said method consisting essentially of: (a) locating a wetted region in which said moving liquid phase fluid is in motion in said interior space of said process apparatus, during operation of the process; (b) positioning and affixing said equipment to said wall of said process apparatus, in fluid communication with said interior space, and proximate to said wetted region whereby said moving liquid phase fluid at least intermittently contacts at least a portion of said equipment; (c) operating the process, whereby said moving liquid phase fluid washes one or more of accumulated polymerizable material, condensate comprising same, and polymer, off of said equipment, wherein said process is a process for producing polymerizable material which comprises polymerizable monomers.