Process and apparatus for producing chlorohydrin

A process for producing chlorohydrin comprising;

• (a) reacting (i) a multihydroxylated-aliphatic hydrocarbon-containing stream with (ii) a stream comprising a first effluent exiting from a hydrochlorination reactor;
• said reaction of step (a) carried out in at least one vessel;
• wherein the at least one vessel exhibits a plug flow residence time characteristic, and wherein at least a portion of any unreacted hydrochloric acid component present in the first effluent is depleted by a reaction with the multihydroxylated-aliphatic hydrocarbon present in the multihydroxylated-aliphatic hydrocarbon-containing stream to form an amount of monochlorohydrin in a stream comprising a second effluent exiting from the at least one vessel;
• (b) recovering the second effluent from the at least one vessel;
• and
• (c) optionally passing the second effluent from the at least one vessel to a subsequent processing step;
• and optionally wherein streams (i) and (ii) are liquid.