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Chlorine recovery process

US4128409A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateFeb 8, 1977
Grant dateDec 5, 1978
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Expiry dateFeb 8, 1997

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10S62/921
  • WIPO fieldMaterials, metallurgy
  • WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

Process for the recovery of chlorine from chlorine-containing gas mixtures in a multi-stream heat exchanger wherein the chlorine-containing mixtures are separated from other gases which would solidify or liquify in the process, either before or after compression of the mixture, and is then cooled below the dew-point of chlorine in one stream of the heat exchanger; the liquid and gaseous phases thus produced are then separated and re-passed separately through the heat exchanger, the chlorine passing to recovery and the gas phase to re-cooling before being re-passed once more through the heat exchanger prior to discharge and wherein a predetermined mixture of gaseous and liquid phases is also recycled separately through the heat exchanger before re-compression and return via the heat exchanger to the phase-separation apparatus.

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