Terephthalate plasticizer based on a by-product of the production of dimethyl terephthalate and waste production of butyl alcohols

For the synthesis of plasticizer as raw materials are used:

a by-product of the production of dimethyl terephthalate (BPDMTP) produced by “Mogilevkhimvolokno” OJSC, which is a mixture of dimethyl terephthalate and dimethyl isophthalate (71.0-95.0%) mixed with dimethyl phthalate (1.0-4.0%).
distillation residues of butyl alcohols (DRBA) - large-tonnage waste of production of butyl alcohols by “Gazprom Neftekhim Salavat” LLC (TU 2421-101-05766575-2001), which are a complex mixture of alcohols (mainly C7-C8), ethers and esters, acetals and other impurities, while the content of 2-ethylhexanol in the mixture can reach 50%. There are also unsaturated alcohols In DRBA - isomeric ethylhexenols in the amount of 8-25%.

BPDMTP is used without preliminary processing.

An alcohol fraction containing a mixture of 2-ethylhexanol and ethylhexenols and used to produce a plasticizer is recovered from DRBA by fractional distillation.

The resulting plasticizer has a high flash point, low crystallization temperature, good plasticizing and improved solvating properties.

1.1. Terephthalate plasticizer based on a by-product of the production of dimethyl terephthalate and waste production of butyl alcohols

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