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US 3,944,548 AGranted
Process for recovery of cyanuric acid from chlorinator mother liquor
AssigneeFMC Corporation
InventorsJames L. Manganaro, Richard W. Cummins, Raymond A. Olson
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Abstract
A process for recovering cyanuric acid values and chlorine from the effluent mother liquor occurring in the preparation of an alkali metal or alkaline earth metal salts of dichloroisocyanurate or dichloroisocyanuric acid or trichloroisocyanuric acid, the foregoing recovery process comprising reacting dichloroisocyanurate acid or trichloroisocyanuric acid present in the foregoing effluent with a strong mineral acid.
Claims7
In a process which comprises
- contacting a strong mineral acid with an aqueous effluent mother liquor resulting from chlorination of isocyanuric acid or salts thereof selected from the group alkali metal isocyanurates and alkaline earth metal isocyanurates, and complexes and mixtures thereof, in an aqueous medium maintained at a pH of from about 2 to about 8.5 and from which the resulting chlorinated isocyanurate product has been removed in crystalline form,
- the improvement comprising adding concentrated strong mineral acid from the group hydrochloric and sulfuric in amounts sufficient to induce rapidly a pH of about 0.2 to about 1.2 in said mother liquor, thereby to convert soluble chlorinated isocyanuric acid values to cyanuric acid values, and to remove available chlorine from solution, and to form a slurry containing as a solid therein, cyanuric acid precipitated from solution in said mother liquor,
- said operation being carried out at a temperature in the range of 5.degree.C to 100.degree.C for a period of at least 0.2 hour.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.