Carl C Mccurry

US Patent:

7884232, Feb 8, 2011

Filed:

Mar 1, 2006

Appl. No.:

11/365441

Inventors:

Alan George Wonders - Kingsport TN, US
Thomas Young Lightfoot - Kingsport TN, US
Thomas Earl Woodruff - Kingsport TN, US
Charles Helton Hitchcock - Jonesborough TN, US
David Lee Denton - Kingsport TN, US
Carl Norman McCurry - West Columbia SC, US

Assignee:

Eastman Chemical Company - Kingsport TN

International Classification:

C07C 51/16

US Classification:

562412, 562405, 562407, 562408, 562409, 562416

Abstract:

Disclosed is an optimized process and apparatus for more efficiently and economically carrying out the liquid-phase oxidation of an oxidizable compound. Such liquid-phase oxidation is carried out in a bubble column reactor that provides for a highly efficient reaction at relatively low temperatures. When the oxidized compound is para-xylene and the product from the oxidation reaction is crude terephthalic acid (CTA), such CTA product can be purified and separated by more economical techniques than could be employed if the CTA were formed by a conventional high-temperature oxidation process.

US Patent:

20060047148, Mar 2, 2006

Filed:

Jun 16, 2005

Appl. No.:

11/154219

Inventors:

Alan Wonders - Kingsport TN, US
Thomas Lightfoot - Kingsport TN, US
Thomas Woodruff - Kingsport TN, US
Charles Hitchcock - Jonesborough TN, US
David Denton - Kingsport TN, US
Carl McCurry - West Columbia SC, US

International Classification:

C07C 51/265

US Classification:

562414000, 562484000

Abstract:

Disclosed is an optimized process and apparatus for more efficiently and economically carrying out the liquid-phase oxidation of an oxidizable compound. Such liquid-phase oxidation is carried out in a bubble column reactor that provides for a highly efficient reaction at relatively low temperatures. When the oxidized compound is para-xylene and the product from the oxidation reaction is crude terephthalic acid (CTA), such CTA product can be purified and separated by more economical techniques than could be employed if the CTA were formed by a conventional high-temperature oxidation process.

US Patent:

20070293697, Dec 20, 2007

Filed:

Aug 29, 2007

Appl. No.:

11/846811

Inventors:

Alan Wonders - Kingsport TN, US
Thomas Lightfoot - Kingsport TN, US
Thomas Woodruff - Kingsport TN, US
Charles Hitchcock - Jonesborough TN, US
David Denton - Kingsport TN, US
Carl McCurry - West Columbia SC, US

Assignee:

EASTMAN CHEMICAL COMPANY - Kingsport TN

International Classification:

C07C 51/265

US Classification:

562413000

Abstract:

Disclosed is an optimized process and apparatus for more efficiently and economically carrying out the liquid-phase oxidation of an oxidizable compound. Such liquid-phase oxidation is carried out in a bubble column reactor that provides for a highly efficient reaction at relatively low temperatures. When the oxidized compound is para-xylene and the product from the oxidation reaction is crude terephthalic acid (CTA), such CTA product can be purified and separated by more economical techniques than could be employed if the CTA were formed by a conventional high-temperature oxidation process.

US Patent:

20070293699, Dec 20, 2007

Filed:

Aug 29, 2007

Appl. No.:

11/846801

Inventors:

Alan Wonders - Kingsport TN, US
Thomas Lightfoot - Kingsport TN, US
Thomas Woodruff - Kingsport TN, US
Charles Hitchcock - Jonesborough TN, US
David Denton - Kingsport TN, US
Carl McCurry - West Columbia SC, US

Assignee:

EASTMAN CHEMICAL COMPANY - Kingsport TN

International Classification:

C07C 63/26
C07C 53/21
C07C 63/333

US Classification:

562488000, 562405000, 562605000

Abstract:

Disclosed is an optimized process and apparatus for more efficiently and economically carrying out the liquid-phase oxidation of an oxidizable compound. Such liquid-phase oxidation is carried out in a bubble column reactor that provides for a highly efficient reaction at relatively low temperatures. When the oxidized compound is para-xylene and the product from the oxidation reaction is crude terephthalic acid (CTA), such CTA product can be purified and separated by more economical techniques than could be employed if the CTA were formed by a conventional high-temperature oxidation process.