Drying of hydrocarbon/hydrochloric acid/water admixtures
US5436378A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Jun 21, 1994 |
| Grant date | Jul 25, 1995 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jun 21, 2014 |
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- Technology area (CPC C)Chemistry; Metallurgy
- CPC primaryC07C17/38
- WIPO fieldOrganic fine chemistry
- WIPO sectorChemistry
Abstract
Water-containing mixtures of at least one hydrocarbon/halocarbon and hydrochloric acid, e.g., the methyl chloride feedstream in conventional process for the synthesis of chloromethanes, are desiccated by intimately contacting such mixtures with an effective drying amount of an essentially anhydrous drying agent that includes (i) a metal sulfate, chloride or perchlorate, or (ii) phosphorus pentoxide.
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