PROCESS FOR THE PRODUCTION OF METHANOL USING INERT LIQUID COOLANT

摘要

Process for the production of methanol by (1) reacting CO with H2 in the liquid phase in the presence of a nickel salt and an alcoholate of an alkali or alkaline earth metal, injecting an inert liquid coolant into said liquid phase, which coolant is sufficiently low boiling so as to allow substantially complete vaporization thereof upon contact with the liquid phase and which liquid is substantially immiscible with methanol, (2) withdrawing a gaseous mixture of methanol and vaporized coolant from (1), (3) condensing the gaseous mixture from (2), and (4) separating the condensate from (3) into a liquid methanol phase and a liquid coolant phase.