Method of producing alcohols

A method for the production of alcohols comprising:

• contacting an alkane gas with an aqueous halide saturated solution to strip the halide from the solution to form a product mixture of an alkane and a halide;
• reacting a halogen gas with the alkane halide mixture to form an alkyl halide, an alkyl di halide, an alkyl tri halide, and a hydrogen halide gasses;
• neutralizing the alkyl di halide, the alkyl tri halide, and the hydrogen halide gasses but not the alkyl halide gas with a suspension of magnesium hydroxide;
• cooling the gasses from the neutralizing step to a temperature to liquefy at least a portion of the gasses to form liquefied gasses;
• mixing the liquefied gasses with a magnesium benzoate or butyrate solution to form an aqueous solution of benzoate or butyrate ethyl esters;
• separating the benzoate or butyrate ethyl esters in the aqueous solution, which are water insoluble, to form an ester insoluble layer comprising benzoate or butyrate ethyl esters and a water layer comprising water and magnesium halide;
• contacting the ester insoluble layer comprising benzoate or butyrate ethyl esters with a suspension of magnesium hydroxide to form an alcohol.

A method of making alcohol comprising the steps of:

• reacting, in a fluo solids reactor, solids comprising a metal and a halogen forming a halogen gas and a metal oxide;
• condensing the halogen gas to form a liquid halogen and a gas comprising trace halogen;
• feeding the liquid halogen to a brominator;
• recovering the trace halogen from the gas by absorbing the trace halogen in water and extracting the trace halogen from the water with an alkane forming an alkane halide;
• absorbing the trace halogen from the gas comprising trace halogen with water;
• feeding the alkane halide to the brominator;
• reacting, in the brominator, the halogen and the alkane to form halogenated alkanes;
• reacting the metal oxide, formed in fluo solids reactor, with water forming a metal hydroxide;
• neutralizing at least a portion of the halogenated alkanes with the metal hydroxide, forming neutralized gasses and liquids;
• feeding the neutralized liquids to the fluo solids reactor;
• condensing a portion of the neutralized gasses and feeding the gas portion to the brominator;
• feeding the liquid portion of the condensed neutralized gasses to an intensive mixer;
• mixing the liquid portion of the condensed neutralized gasses with metal benzoate or butyrate, fed from a distiller/reactor, and reacting, forming a reacted liquid;
• decanting the reacted liquid into a first liquid phase and a second liquid phase;
• feeding the first liquid phase, comprising a metal halogen and water, to the fluo solids reactor;
• distilling and reacting the second liquid phase, in the distiller/reactor, removing alcohol therefrom;
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• feeding the metal benzoate or butyrate, from the distiller/reactor, to the intensive mixer.