Processes for Producing Acrylic Acids and Acrylates with Liquid Product Dilution

In one embodiment, the invention is to a process for producing an acrylate product. The process comprises the step of providing a crude acrylate product comprising the acrylate product and an alkylenating agent. The process further comprises the steps of removing inert and/or reactive gases from the crude product to form a liquid acrylate stream, diluting the liquid acrylate stream with a diluent to form a diluted liquid acrylate stream, and then separating at least a portion of the diluted liquid acrylate stream to form an alkylenating agent stream and an intermediate product stream. The alkylenating agent stream comprises at least 1 wt. % alkylenating agent and the intermediate product stream comprises acrylate product.