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Solvay

Patrick Gilbeau

Philippe Krafft

Dominique Balthasart

Valentine Smets

Michel Strebelle

Ivan De Andolenko

Noel Boulos

Freddy Gielen

Frederic Gillin

Jean-Pierre Catinat

Christian Franck

Maurizio Paganin

Benoît Gosselin

Sara Claessens

Bruno Jestin

Ward Blancke

Andre Daene

Frédéric Gillin

Fangzheng Su

Philippe Kraft

Process for producing epichlorohydrin comprising subjecting to a dehydrochlorination operation, dichloropropanol produced from glycerol comprising aldehydes.

Process for producing epichlorohydrin

Derivative of epichlorohydrin of natural origin, selected from the group consisting of glycidyl ethers presenting an epoxide equivalent weight higher than or equal to 50 g/equivalent and lower than or equal to 15000 g/equivalent, of glycidyl esters, of glycidyl amides, of glycidyl imides, of glycidyl amines, and of any mixture thereof, and of which theC mass content is such that the ratioC/C is higher than 0.7 10.

Derivative of epichlorohydrin of natural origin

Process for degrading organic substances in an aqueous composition comprising a step (a) wherein, in a liquid reaction medium, said aqueous composition is reacted with at least one composition comprising hydroxide ions (OH) and hypochlorite in a molar ratio between hydroxide and hypochlorite higher than or equal to 0.001 and lower than 1.5, in order to oxidize said organic substances.

Process for degrading organic substances in an aqueous composition

Process for the manufacture of 1,2-epoxy-3-chloropropane by reaction between allyl chloride and hydrogen peroxide in the presence of a solid catalyst and in the possible presence of at least one solvent in an epoxidation medium comprising at least two liquid phases under the conditions of reaction, comprising feeding continuously a reaction zone comprising the catalyst with at least allyl chloride, hydrogen peroxide and possibly at least one solvent at a total liquid linear velocity higher than or equal to 0.01 m/s and lower than or equal to 1 m/s, wherein the pressure drop across the reaction zone is lower than or equal to 25 kPa/m.

Process for the manufacture of 1,2-epoxy-3-chloropropane

Process for the manufacture of 1,2-epoxy-3-chloropropane by reaction between allyl chloride and hydrogen peroxide in the presence of a solid catalyst and in the possible presence of at least one solvent in an epoxidation medium comprising at least two liquid phases under the conditions of reaction, wherein the catalyst exhibits an external surface to volume ratio lower than to 2.4 10m.

Continuous process for producing a chlorohydrin, wherein a polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon, an ester of a polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon or a mixture thereof is reacted with a chlorinating agent and an organic acid in a liquid reaction medium whose steady-state composition comprises the polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon and esters of the polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon whose sum content, expressed as moles of polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon, is greater than 1.1 mol % and less than or equal to 30 mol %, the percentage being based on the organic part of the liquid reaction medium.

Continuous process for preparing chlorohydrins

Process for purifying hydrogen chloride, comprising at least one step of bringing said hydrogen chloride into contact with a scrubbing agent containing at least one chlorohydrin.

Process for purifying hydrogen chloride

A mixture of compounds containing 1,3-dichloropropan-2-ol, 2,3-dichloropropan-1-ol, and a halogenated ketone, where the halogenated ketone content of the mixture is at least 0.0001% by weight and less than or equal to 0.1% by weight relative to the 1,3-dichloropropan-2-ol and 2,3-dichloropropan-1-ol.

Method for making an epoxide

A composition comprising glycerol and at least one cyclic oligomer of glycerol, a process for obtaining the composition, and its use in the manufacture of dichloropropanol and of derived products such as epichlorohydrin and epoxy resins.

Composition comprising glycerol, process for obtaining same and use thereof in the manufacture of dichloropropanol

Process for manufacturing dichloropropanol according to which, a) in a liquid reaction medium containing water, which is in contact with a gaseous phase, glycerol is reacted with hydrogen chloride under a partial pressure of hydrogen chloride in the gaseous phase greater than 0.2 bar absolute, and b) at least part of the liquid reaction medium and optionally part of the gaseous phase from step a) is (are) subjected to at least one separation operation and, prior to said separation operation, the part of the liquid reaction medium and the part of the gaseous phase from step a) is (are) subjected to bi) at least one treatment for reducing the weight ratio between the hydrogen chloride and the water in the part of the liquid reaction medium so as to attain a ratio less than or equal to the weight ratio between the hydrogen chloride and the water in the binary azeotropic hydrogen chloride/water composition at total pressure of the separation operation, and/or bii) at least one treatment for reducing the weight ratio between the water and the dichloropropanol in the part of the liquid reaction medium so as to attain a ratio less than or equal to the weight ratio between the water and the dichloropropanol in the ternary water/dichloropropanol/hydrogen chloride azeotrope at total pressure of the separation operation.

Process for the manufacture of dichloropropanol

Process for producing a chlorohydrin by reaction between a multihydroxylated-aliphatic hydrocarbon, an ester of a multihydroxylated-aliphatic hydrocarbon, or a mixture thereof, and a chlorinating agent, according to which the multihydroxylated-aliphatic hydrocarbon, the ester of a multihydroxylated-aliphatic hydrocarbon, or the mixture thereof used contains at least one solid or dissolved metal salt, the process comprising a separation operation to remove at least part of the metal salt.

Process for producing an organic compound

A process for producing dichloropropanol by subjecting glycerol to a reaction with a chlorinating agent in the presence of a carboxylic acid catalyst to produce dichloropropanol, where the carboxylic acid is selected from mono carboxylic acids containing 5 or 6 carbon atoms, dicarboxylic acids selected from glutaric acid and adipic acid, and poly carboxylic acids selected from tri- and tetra-carboxylic acids.

Process for producing dichloropropanol from glycerol, the glycerol coming eventually from the conversion of animal fats in the manufacture of biodiesel

Product containing epichlorohydrin, wherein the amount of trichloropropane is of less than 0.01 g of trichloropropane per kg of product, a process for manufacturing the product and its use in various applications.

Epichlorohydrin, manufacturing process and use

Continuous method for making chlorhydrines

Product containing epichlorohydrin and at least one alkyl glycidyl ether in an amount of less than 0.1 g/kg of product. Use of the product containing epichlorohydrin in the manufacture of epoxy resins, of glycidyl ethers, of glycidyl esters, of glycidyl amides, of glycidyl imides, of products that will be used in food and drink applications, of cationization agents, and of flame retardants, of products which will be used as detergent ingredient and of epichlorohydrin oligomers.

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