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(12) PATENT APPLICATION PUBLICATION (21) Application No.6470/DELNP/2008 A
(19) INDIA
(22) Date of filing of Application :24/07/2008 (43) Publication Date : 24/10/2008
(54) Title of the invention : CARBOXYLIC ACID PRODUCTION PROCESS
(51) International classification :C07C 51/265 (71)Name of Applicant :
(31) Priority Document No :60/777,799
1)EASTMAN CHEMICAL COMPANY
(32) Priority Date :01/03/2006
Address of Applicant :200 SOUTH WILCOX DRIVE,
(33) Name of priority country :U.S.A.
KINGSPORT, TENNESSEE 37660, USA U.S.A.
(86) International Application No :PCT/US2007/005114 (72)Name of Inventor :
Filing Date
:27/02/2007
1)GIBSON , PHILIP EDWARD
(87) International Publication No : WO/2007/103066 2)PARKER,KENNY RANDOLPH
(61) Patent of Addition to Application
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(62) Divisional to Application Number :NA
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(57) Abstract :
Disclosed are processes and apparatus for producing a carboxylic acid. The processes employ a concentration section disposed before
and/or after a product isolation section, which allows for oxidation byproducts produced in the process to exit the product isolation
section with the isolated carboxylic acid product and/or to be combined with the isolated carboxylic acid product downstream of the
product isolation section at a rate of at least about 15 percent of the net make rate of the oxidation byproducts in the production
process.
No. of Pages : 48 No. of Claims : 50
The Patent Office Journal 24/10/2008 25924