Process for producing chlorine from HCL

US8158099B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Bayer MaterialScience AG · DE

Inventors

• Ole Brettschneider · Berlin, DE
• Knud Werner · Krefeld, DE
• Jun Wang · Nanjing, CN
• Carsten Welz · Leverkusen, DE
• Annette Conrad · Kempten, DE
• Karsten-Ulrich Klatt · Leverkusen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 14, 2008
• Grant date: Apr 17, 2012
• Expiry date: Apr 14, 2028

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C01B7/075
• WIPO field: Materials, metallurgy
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

A process is described for the production of chlorine by a catalysed gas-phase oxidation of hydrogen chloride with an oxygen-containing gas stream.