Patent 7915434 was granted and assigned to Sumitomo Chemical on March, 2011 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A method for producing propylene oxide comprising a step of reacting hydrogen peroxide with propylene in the presence of an epoxidation catalyst in a liquid phase to produce propylene oxide and a step of recovering a recyclable constituent in a vent gas generated in the above step by absorbing the recyclable constituent in a solvent containing a nitrile.