Patents Represented by Attorney Bayer Material Science LLC
  • Patent number: 7112703
    Abstract: A process for the production of bisphenol-A having low concentration of sulphur is disclosed. The process comprise a) reacting phenol with acetone in the presence of a sulfonic acid ion exchanger to form a product mixture containing water, bisphenol-A/phenol adduct, phenol and sulfurous particles, and b) filtering the product mixture to separate the sulfurous particles to obtain a purified product mixture that contains water, phenol and bisphenol-A/phenol adduct. In one embodiment of the process further comprise distilling the purified product mixture to remove the water to obtain a first material system that contains said adduct and phenol, crystallizing the adduct, and removing the phenol by filtration using a filtering apparatus to obtain crystalline adduct.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2006
    Assignee: Bayer MaterialScience AG
    Inventors: Rainer Neumann, Ulrich Blaschke, Stefan Westernacher