Method for producing chlorine

Abstract

An object of the present invention is to provide a novel method for producing chlorine, by which it is possible to remove impurities contained with hydrogen chloride in a raw material gas and further to recover unreacted hydrogen chloride after an oxidation reaction efficiently in a method for producing chlorine by oxidizing hydrogen chloride. The method of the present invention for producing chlorine includes [1] an oxidation step of oxidizing hydrogen chloride in a raw material gas containing the hydrogen chloride and impurities with a gas containing oxygen, thereby obtaining a gas containing chlorine, water, unreacted hydrogen chloride, and unreacted oxygen; [2] an absorption step of bringing the gas containing chlorine, water, unreacted hydrogen chloride, and unreacted oxygen obtained in the oxidation step into contact with an absorbent liquid including water or aqueous hydrochloric acid or cooling the gas, thereby recovering unreacted hydrogen chloride in the form of a solution containing hydrogen chloride and water as main components and simultaneously obtaining a gas containing chlorine and unreacted oxygen as main components; and [3] a stripping step of distilling the solution obtained in the absorption step, thereby obtaining a gas containing hydrogen chloride as a main component, wherein the gas obtained in the stripping step, which contains hydrogen chloride as a main component and contains 5 to 50% by volume of water, is recovered and mixed with the raw material gas.

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