Acrylic acid production by the acetic acid method
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Hello everyone, let’s discuss the production of acrylic acid via the acetic acid method; it is said to offer considerable benefits
In China, the entity that does this well is probably the Southwest Institute. Setting aside technical maturity for now, the first challenge is the competition between the two routes: producing acrylic acid from propylene and producing acrylic acid through acetylene carbonylation. The route using propylene to produce acrylic acid is a mature process, while the acetylene carbonylation route has just undergone pilot tests on a scale of thousands of tons
It has been learned from secondary sources that the cost of producing acrylic acid using the acidic method is about 1,000 lower than that of the propylene method.
That’s good; currently, acetic acid is in excess.