A process for separating secondary-butanol impurity from ethyl acetate (EtAc) by feeding the impure EtAc to a distillation column operating at a pressure of less than 1 bar absolute to provide (1) a stream comprising EtAc as a major component and (2) a residue or a second stream comprising at least some sec-butanol from said impure EtAc. The process can be applied to purifying EtAc derived from (a) catalytic reaction of ethylene with acetic acid followed by (b) a hydrogenation step. The 2-butanone impurity produced in step (a) is difficult to separate from EtAc, and step (b) converts it to sec-butanol which can be separated by the reduced pressure fractionation of the invention.
一种从
醋酸乙酯(EtAc)中分离
仲丁醇杂质的工艺,方法是将不纯的 EtAc 喂入在低于 1 巴绝对压力下操作的蒸馏塔,以提供 (1) 包含作为主要成分的 EtAc 的液流和 (2) 从所述不纯 EtAc 中包含至少一些
仲丁醇的残留物或第二液流。该工艺可用于提纯由(a)
乙烯与
乙酸的催化反应和(b)氢化步骤产生的 EtAc。步骤(a)中产生的 2-
丁酮杂质很难从 EtAc 中分离出来,步骤(b)将其转化为
仲丁醇,可通过本发明的减压分馏分离出来。