Find out how Specac can aid your industrial process adding continuous monitoring to your flow reaction with an NIR Process Cell.
Acetic Acid is an important intermediate chemical for the manufacturing of solvents like ethyl acetate and for key ingredients in paints like vinyl acetate monomer. It can also be used for the production of acyl chloride, which is widely used in the synthesis of pharmaceuticals and pesticides and acetic anhydride via the Ketene route.
The annual production of an acetic acid is about 1.2m tons [2]. If the throughput of the plants can be increased by just 1%, then at an average price of about $500 per ton of acetic acid, extra product worth more than $6m can be produced each year if the plant runs continuously. As a result, any installation to monitor the process in real time would pay itself back within months rather than years.
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Related Application Notes
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(Process Cells) AN24-03: Optimising process NIR analysis with the tuneable-pathlength Spyder™ process flow cell
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(Process Cells) AN24-02: Continuous Industrial Acetic Acid Production Process Monitoring using the Vortex™ process flow cell
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(Process Cells) AN24-01: Monitoring Tall Oil Distillation using a Vortex™ process flow cell
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