African Plastics Industry

African Plastics Industry Offering plastics industry profiles of several African nations, plus information on trade associations and links to data on Africa s chemical and other industries, http //mbendi.co.za/indy/ chem/plasaf htm... 

Acetic acid is having a great demand in plastics, textiles, paper, paints, and adhesives industries. At present, it is the produced by the Monsanto process. Alternative route for the synthesis of aeetie acid is by using CO and methane. A South African patent by Freund and Wambach [309] claimed that with one or more metals of group VIA, VIIA, and VIIIA on alumina, the direet synthesis of acetic acid from CO and CH at 100-600°C and 0.1-20 MPa, a selectivity of 70-95% is obtained. Cu-Co oxides [310] and Pd or Pt-based eatalysts [311] are foimd to be effective for the activation of C-H bond in methane. Introduction of oxygen to the reactant system is another way to overeome thermodynamic limitations. Huang et al. [312] explored the eatalytie aetivity of VjOj-PdCyAl OjOn the direct synthesis of acetic acid from CH and CO in the presence of and showed the water-vapor effect on the rate of formation of acetic acid. 

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