Abstract: Acetic acid is produced while efficiently inhibiting condensation of hydrogen iodide in a distillation column (second distillation column) for purifying crude acetic acid by further distillation.

Abstract: A process for producing acetic acid by: a reaction step for continuously allowing methanol to react with carbon monoxide in the presence of a catalyst system comprising a metal catalyst, an ionic iodide, and methyl iodide in a carbonylation reactor, a flash distillation step for continuously feeding a flasher with a reaction mixture from the reactor and evaporating a volatile component at least containing product acetic acid, methyl acetate, and methyl iodide by flash distillation to separate the volatile component and a liquid catalyst mixture at least containing the metal catalyst and the ionic iodide, and an acetic acid collection step for separating a stream containing acetic acid from the volatile component to collect acetic acid; wherein, in the flash distillation step, the flash distillation is conducted under the condition that the concentration of methyl acetate in the liquid catalyst mixture is not less than 0.6% by weight.

Abstract: A patch material which includes a backing material having a water-vapor permeability of 3,000 g/m2·day or more and an adhesive layer having a water-vapor permeability of 5,000 g/m2·day or more, wherein the adhesive layer comprises a polyurethane adhesive obtained by reacting (i) an active hydrogen compound having a number-average molecular weight of 5,000 or more and an average number of functional groups of 2 or more, and having a polyoxyalkylene structure, (ii) an active hydrogen compound having a number-average molecular weight of 1,500 to 5,000 and an average number of functional groups of 1, and having a polyoxyalkylene structure, and (iii) an organic polyisocyanate, wherein an average number of functional groups of all active hydrogen compounds used for obtaining the adhesive is 2 to 2.6, and the content of ethylene oxide units of all active hydrogen compounds in the adhesive is 3 to 8% by weight.