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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 20, 2016
Filed:
May. 17, 2007
Rainer Weber, Odenthal, DE;
Jürgen Kintrup, Leverkusen, DE;
Andreas Bulan, Langenfeld, DE;
Friedhelm Kämper, Krefeld, DE;
Rainer Weber, Odenthal, DE;
Jürgen Kintrup, Leverkusen, DE;
Andreas Bulan, Langenfeld, DE;
Friedhelm Kämper, Krefeld, DE;
Covestro Deutschland AG, , DE;
Abstract
Processes for the production of chlorine by multi-stage oxidation, for example, by thermal reaction of hydrogen chloride with oxygen using catalysts or by non-thermal activated reaction of hydrogen chloride with oxygen, in which the gas mixture formed in the reaction, comprising the target products chlorine and water, unreacted hydrogen chloride and oxygen, and possibly other secondary constituents, such as carbon dioxide and nitrogen, (a) is cooled to condense hydrochloric acid as an aqueous solution of hydrogen chloride and (b) the aqueous solution of hydrogen chloride formed is separated from the gas mixture, characterised in that (c) the separated aqueous solution of hydrogen chloride is fed at least partially to an electrochemical oxidation in which at least part of the hydrogen chloride is oxidised to chlorine, (d) the chlorine gas occurring in step d) is optionally added to the gas mixture occurring in step c), (e) the residues of water present in the gas mixture from steps c) and e), in particular by washing with sulfuric acid, are removed, (f) the chlorine-rich gas mixture forming is freed of oxygen and optionally of secondary constituents.