Absorption of chlorine gas

Details Absorption of chlorine gas Absorption of chlorine gas

1976-09-17

1978-04-04

Andrews, R. L.

Chemistry: electrical and wave energy

Processes and products

Electrostatic field or electrical discharge

55 37, C25B 126

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040826317

ABSTRACT:
A process for the absorption of chlorine from a chlorine-containing gas, comprising contacting the chlorine-containing gas with an aqueous solution containing about 1 to 400 g/l of iron(II) chloride and at least one of copper (I) and copper(II) ions, the chlorine being adsorbed with conversion of the iron(II) chloride into iron(III) chloride, thereafter electrolyzing the iron(III) chloride to form chlorine and iron(II) chloride and recycling the iron(II) chloride for the absorption of additional chlorine. Advantageously the chlorine-containing gas has a chlorine content of from about 10 to 20% by volume, the iron(II) chloride solution contains about 0.1 to 10 g/l of at least one of CuCl.sub.2 and CuCl, and the contact of the chlorine-containing gas with the iron(II) chloride soluton is carried out at a temperature of from about 40.degree. to 50.degree. C and under a pressure of the order of about 1 bar. The electrolytic reaction of the iron(III) chloride is desirably carried out using a cathode of graphite and an anode of activated titanium at a current of about 25 A and at a voltage of about 7V, the cathode compartment and the anode compartment being separated from one another by a membrane of a fluorine plastic with grafted-on sulphonic acid groups.

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"Recovery of Cl, from Waste Gas-Fundamentals", by Hine et al., J. E.C.S., 8/1972, pp. 1057-1060.
Gmelin's Handbuch der Anorganischen Chemie, 8th ed., Fe, Part B, #59; p. 271, 1932.

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