METHOD OF PRODUCTION OF THE PURIFIED TEREPHTHALIC ACID

FIELD: chemical industry; methods of production of the purified crystalline terephthalic acid. ^ SUBSTANCE: the invention is pertaining to the improved method of production and separation of the crystalline terephthalic acid containing less than 150 mass ppm of the p-toluene acid in terms of the mass of the terephthalic acid. The method provides for the following stages: (1) loading of (i) para- xylene, (ii) the water reactionary acetic-acidic medium containing the resolved in it components of the oxidation catalyst, and (iii) the gas containing oxygen fed under pressure in the first zone of oxidation, in which the liquid-phase exothermal oxidization of the para-xylene takes place, in which the temperature and the pressure inside the first being under pressure reactor of the oxidization are maintained at from 150° up to 180° and from 3.5 up to 13 absolute bars; (2) removal from the reactor upper part of the steam containing the evaporated reactionary acetic-acidic medium and the gas depleted by the oxygen including carbon dioxide, the inertial components and less than 9 volumetric percents of oxygen in terms of the non-condensable components of the steam; (3) removal from the lower part of the first reactor of the oxidized product including (i) the solid and dissolved terephthalic acid and (ii) the products of the non-complete oxidation and (ii) the water reactionary acetic-acidic medium containing the dissolved oxidation catalyst; (4) loading of (i) the oxidized product from the stage (3) and (ii) the gas containing oxygen, into the second being under pressure zone of the oxidation in which the liquid-phase exothermal oxidization of the products of the non-complete oxidization takes place; at that the temperature and the pressure in the second being under pressure reactor of the oxidization are maintained from 185° up to 230° and from 4.5 up to 18.3 absolute bar; (5) removal from the upper part of the second steam reactor containing the evaporated water reactionary acetic-acidic medium and gas depleted by the oxygen, including carbon dioxide, the inertial components and less, than 5 volumetric percents of oxygen in terms of the non-condensable components of the steam; (6) removal from the lower part of the second reactor of the second oxidized product including (i) the solid and dissolved terephthalic acid and the products of the non-complete oxidation and (ii) the water reactionary acetic-acidic medium containing the dissolved oxidation catalyst; (7) sep