Patent 7449590 was granted and assigned to Sumitomo Chemical on November, 2008 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A process for producing propylene oxide, which comprises the following steps below, and a step for removing alcohols of the carbon number of 2 to 3, cyclohexanol and/or isopropylcyclohexane outside of the reaction system in at least one place of the steps or between which the steps are connected: