Industrial processes Tennessee-Eastman

Today acetic acid is produced mainly from methanol and carbon monoxide. This process, along with the Tennessee Eastman acetic anhydride plant using syn gas, are the current standards in the industry when considering new expansion regardless of the price of ethylene. The vinyl acetate process described here may achieve this stature if its commercial development is permitted to occur. 

The publication of an actual industrial plant-wide control problem, the Tennessee Eastman challenge process (Downs and Vogel 1993) generated several... 

As a group, many other researchers were working on new processes for prepg RDX both in the USA (Refs 24, 27,28,30,32,34,36,37, 38, 42 601 and in Canada (Refs 78,86.87,88,89,90,92 and others). The Bachmann process was applied industrially during WWII at one plant in Canada and later in the US by the Tennessee-Eastman Co (Holston Ordnance Works, Kingsport, Term). It not only made the manuf of RDX more economical... 

Banerjee, A., and Arkun, Y. Control Configuration Design Applied to the Tennessee Eastman Plantwide Control Problem, Comput. Chen. Eng., 19, 453 -480 < 1995), Downs, J. J.. and Vogel, E. F. A Plant-Wide Industrial Process Control Problem," Comput. Chem. Eng.. 17, 245-255 (1993). 

This development began to reduce steadily the capacities of acetaldehyde which previously had been made by oxidation of ethylene (Wacker-Hoechst process cf. Section 2.4.1) and converted to acetic acid (cf. Section 2.4.4). Moreover, the Monsanto process, the second-generation process for methanol carbonylation is now being followed by the third generation of highly efficient carbonylation processes, enabling acetic anhydride as well as acetic acid to be produced (cf Scheme 2 Tennessee-Eastman [36] and BP [37] processes). The most advanced process (Hoechst [40]) has so far not been implemented industrially because of neglects... 

Several large-scale industrial processes use homogeneous catalysts [e.g., hydrofor-mylation, hydrocyanation (DuPont), ethene-oligomerization (SHOP), acetic add (Eastman Kodak), acetic acid anhydride (Tennessee-Eastman), acetaldehyde (Wacker) and terephthalic acid (Amoco)] as well as smaller scale applications [e.g., metolachlor (Novartis), citronellal (Takasago), indenoxide (Merck) and glycidol (ARCO, SIPSY)]. 

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