FIELD: chemistry.
SUBSTANCE: invention pertains to the perfection of the method of regulating quantities of dissolved iron in liquid streams during the process of obtaining aromatic carboxylic acids or in the process of cleaning technical aromatic carboxylic acids, characterised by that, to at least, part of the liquid stream for regulating the quantity of dissolved iron in it, at least one peroxide with formula R1-O-O-R2 is added. Here R1 and R2 can be the same or different. They represent hydrogen or a hydrocarbon group, in quantities sufficient for precipitation of the dissolved iron from the liquid. The invention also relates to the perfection of the method of obtaining an aromatic carboxylic acid, through the following stages: A) contacting the crude aromatic material which can be oxidised, with molecular oxygen in the presence of an oxidising catalyst, containing at least, one metal with atomic number from 21 to 82, and a solvent in the form of C2-C5 aliphatic carboxylic acid in a liquid phase reaction mixture in a reactor under conditions of oxidation with formation of a solid product. The product contains technical aromatic carboxylic acid, liquid, containing a solvent and water, and an off-gas, containing water vapour and vapour of the solvent; B) separation of the solid product, containing technical aromatic carboxylic acid from the liquid; C) distillation of at least part of the off gas in a distillation column, equipped with reflux, for separating vapour of the solvent from water vapour. A liquid then forms, containing the solvent, and in the upper distillation cut, containing water vapour; D) returning of at least, part of the liquid from stage B into the reactor; E) dissolution of at least, part of the separated solid product, containing technical aromatic carboxylic acid, in a solvent from the cleaning stage with obtaining of a liquid solution of the cleaning stage; F) contacting the solution from the cleaning stage with hydrogen in the presence of a hydrogenation catalyst and under hydrogenation conditions, sufficient for formation of a solution, containing cleaned aromatic carboxylic acid, and liquid, containing a cleaning solvent; G) separation of the cleaned aromatic carboxylic acid from the solution, containing the cleaning solvent, which is obtained from stage E, with obtaining of solid cleaned aromatic carboxylic acid and a stock solution from the cleaning stage; H) retuning of at least, part of the stock solution from the cleaning stage, to at least, one of the stages B and E; I) addition of at least, one peroxide with formula R1-O-O-R2, where R1 and R2 can be the same or different, and represent hydrogen or a hydrocarbon group, in a liquid from at least one of the other stages, or obtained as a result from at least one of these stages, to which the peroxide is added, in a quantity sufficient for precipitation of iron from the liquid.
EFFECT: controlled reduction of the formation of suspension of iron oxide during production of technical aromatic acid.
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