Chlorine manufacture from hydrogen chloride

BPR [By-Product Recycle] A process for recycling the chlorine-containing by products from the manufacture of vinyl chloride, 1,2-dichloroethane, and other chlorinated hydrocarbons. Combustion with oxygen converts 90 percent of the chlorine to anhydrous hydrogen chloride, and 10 percent to aqueous hydrochloric acid. Developed by BASF and licensed by European Vinyl Corp. 

Chlorine (Cl), 6 130-211 9 280. See also Inorganic chlorine XeCl laser addition to fullerene, 12 240-241 analytical methods, 6 202 bleaching agent, 4 50 capacities of facilities, 6 193-198t catalyst poison, 5 257t chemical properties, 6 133-138 diffusion coefficient for dilute gas in water at 20° C, l 67t diffusion coefficient in air at 0° C, l 70t for disinfection, 8 605 economic aspects, 6 188-202 electrolytic preparation/production of, 12 759 16 40 end uses, 6 134-135 in fused quartz manufacture, 22 413 generating from hydrogen chloride, 13 833... 

Non-Electrolytic Processes for the Manufacture of Chlorine from Hydrogen Chloride... 

The non-electrolytic processes for the manufacture of chlorine from hydrogen chloride (Deacon, air oxidation of hydrogen chloride Weldon, manganese dioxide oxidation of hydrogen chloride) which marked the beginning of industrial chlorine chemistry, are currently of only minor importance. 

This review is a survey of the applications and properties of supported liquid phase catalysts (SLP). By a supported liquid phase catalyst is meant the distribution of a catalytically active liquid on an inert porous support and the behaviour of such systems raises many interesting questions on catalyst chemistry, mass transfer in catalysts and reactor design. It is noteworthy thou that such systems have been employed in the chemical industry for many decades - indeed for over a century in the Deacon process for obtaining chlorine from hydrogen chloride - and of almost equally respectable antiquity are the vanadium based catalyst systems used for sulfuric acid manufacture but the recognition of SLP catalysts as possessing features of their own is much more recent. 

Hydrogen chloride is produced by the direct reaction of hydrogen and chlorine, by reaction of metal chlorides and acids, and as a by-product from many chemical manufacturing processes such as chlorinated hydrocarbons. 

Hydrogen Chloride as By-Product from Chemical Processes. Over 90% of the hydrogen chloride produced in the United States is a by-product from various chemical processes. The cmde HCl generated in these processes is generally contaminated with impurities such as unreacted chlorine, organics, chlorinated organics, and entrained catalyst particles. A wide variety of techniques are employed to treat these HCl streams to obtain either anhydrous HCl or hydrochloric acid. Some of the processes in which HCl is produced as a by-product are the manufacture of chlorofluorohydrocarbons, manufacture of aUphatic and aromatic hydrocarbons, production of high surface area siUca (qv), and the manufacture of phosphoric acid [7664-38-2] and esters of phosphoric acid (see Phosphoric acid and phosphates). 

Commercially, hydrogen chloride is obtained either as a by-product in the manufacture of salt cake from sodium chloride, or by allowing chlorine produced as a by-product in electrolytic processes to react with hydrogen in the presence of activated charcoal. It is also formed as a byproduct in the manufacture of phenol. 

Hydrocarbon sulfonates, 23 531 Hydrocarbon surfactants, 24 133 Hydrocarbon waxes, 26 220 Hydrocarbyl complexes of thorium, 24 773 of uranium, 25 441-442 Hydrochloric acid, 13 808-809, 821-822. See also Hydrogen chloride in ascorbic acid manufacture, 25 757 chlorine from, 6 172-175 constant boiling, 13 814t density and concentration of, 13 808t end use of chlorine, 6 135t for fermentation, 11 38... 

Remember not to confuse hydrogen chloride, a colorless, poisonous gas with a pungent odor and a bp of -35°C, with hydrochloric acid, an aqueous solution of HCl typically with 24-36% HCl by weight. The principal manufacture of hydrochloric acid is as a by-product from the chlorination of... 

Uses of the halide acids.—The hydrochloric acid formed as a by-product in tne manufacture of sodium sulphate from sodium chloride is sufficient to meet commercial requirements, and accordingly the acid is cheap. The largest amount of hydrochloric acid or hydrogen chloride is used in the manufacture of chlorine and chlorine products—hypochlorites, bleaching powder, and chlorates. It is also used in the manufacture of many of the metal chlorides—zinc, tin, etc. This acid is also used for general purposes in laboratories, in analytical and metallurgical work, in the manufacture of colours. Smaller quantities are used medicinally. Hydro-bromic acid or the bromides and hydriodic acid or the iodides are used medicinally, in photography, and in analytical chemistry. Hydriodic acid is an important... 

POLYVINYL CHLORIDE (PVC). [CAS 9002-86-2], The manufacture of polyvinyl chloride resins commences with the monomer, vinyl chloride, which is a gas, shipped and stored under pressure to keep it in a liquid state bp —14°C, fp —160°C, density (20°C), 0.91. The monomer is produced by the reaction of hydrochloric acid with acetylene. This reaction can be carried out in eidier a liquid or gaseous state. In another technique, ethylene is reacted with chlorine to produce ethylene dichloride. This is then cataiytically dehydrohalogcnatcd to produce vinyl chloride. The byproduct is hydrogen chloride. A later process, oxychlorination, permits the regeneration of chlorine from HC1 for recycle to the process. 

Unused reactants can be recycled and off-specification product reprocessed. Integrated processes can be selected the waste from one process becoming the raw material for another. For example, the otherwise waste hydrogen chloride produced in a chlorination process can be used for chlorination using a different reaction as in the balanced, chlorination-oxyhydrochlorination process for vinyl chloride production. It may be possible to sell waste to another company, for use as raw material in their manufacturing... 

These problems do not arise in the Resting (Munich) process in which the solution produced by the electrolytic manufacture of sodium chlorate is immediately reacted with hydrochloric acid and the chlorinedioxide-chlorine mixture formed blown off from the solution into a column. After separation the chlorine is reacted with hydrogen from the electrolysis to hydrogen chloride, which is fed back into the process. The only starting material in this process is thus chlorine, which is present in the chlorine dioxide obtained and in the hydrochloric acid which is fed back into the process. 

Derivation (1) By-product of soap manufacture (2) from propylene and chlorine to form allyl chloride, which is converted to the dichlorohydrin with hypo-chlorous acid this is then saponified to glycerol with caustic solution (3) isomerization of propylene oxide to allyl alcohol, which is reacted with peracetic acid, (the resulting glycidol is hydrolyzed to glycerol) (4) hydrogenation of carbohydrates with nickel catalyst (5) from acrolein and hydrogen peroxide. 

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