Process for the manufacture of 1,2-dichloroethane

US7667084B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• SOLVAY (Société Anonyme) · BE

Inventors

• Michel Strebelle · Brussels, BE
• Dominique Balthasart · Brussels, BE

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 21, 2005
• Grant date: Feb 23, 2010
• Expiry date: Jun 11, 2026

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02P20/582
• WIPO field: Organic fine chemistry
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

Process for the manufacture of 1,2-dichloroethane starting with a hydrocarbon source according to which: a) the hydrocarbon source is subjected to a first cracking step, namely a pyrolysis step performed in a cracking oven, thus producing a mixture of cracking products; b) the said mixture of cracking products is subjected to a succession of treatment steps ending with a drying step which makes it possible to obtain a mixture of products containing ethylene and other constituents; c) the said mixture of products containing ethylene derived from step b) is separated into at least one fraction containing ethylene and into a heavy fraction; d) the fraction(s) containing the ethylene is (are) conveyed to a chlorination reactor and/or to an oxychlorination reactor, in which reactors most of the ethylene present is converted to 1,2-dichloroethane; e) the 1,2-dichloroethane obtained is separated from the streams of products derived from the chlorination and oxychlorination reactors; the process being characterized in that a step for hydrogenating the acetylene is carried out upstream of the drying step ending the succession of treatment steps constituting step b) and/or on at least one of…