An oxidation reactor includes a reactor body, a manhole nozzle projecting
from the reactor body, and a partition plate separating an inside of the
manhole nozzle and an inside of the reactor body from each other. In an
oxidation reactor including the reactor body and a nozzle projecting from
the reactor body, there is provided a means for feeding an inert gas into
the nozzle. In a process for producing (meth)acrylic acids by subjecting
propane, propylene or isobutylene to catalytic gas-phase oxidation
reaction in an oxidation reactor for producing (meth)acrolein or
(meth)acrylic acid, the above oxidation reactor is used as the oxidation
reactor. In a method for analyzing an easily-polymerizable compound by
introducing a gas containing the easily-polymerizable compound into an
analyzing apparatus through a sampling tube, a double tube is used as the
sampling tube, and a heating medium is fed into an outer tube of the
double tube. According to these methods, the oxidation reaction can be
stably conducted, and the reaction product gas can be prevented from
being condensed and polymerized in the sampling tube, so that an on-line
analysis can be performed at a high accuracy for a long period of time.