ADVANTAGES

THERMOCHEMICALLY PROCESS

ELECTROLYTIC PROCESS

Produce only chlorine gas as product

Many researcher doing an invention on this process for improvement so they can be operated economical Pressure for this process is low which is only 1 atm

The side product is demand on the types of cell used. Mercury cell will produce chlorine and hydrogen gas. Membrane cell and diaphragm cell will produce large quantity of sodium hydroxide and chlorine which are two high demand industrial chemicals One electrochemical method developed by Yoshizawa et al. employs a free molten salt electrolyte to prevent corrosion problem and increase the electrical efficiencies. Chlorine can be effectively removed from hydrogen chloride gas at reasonable voltages resulting in high conversion efficiency. Use of the brine. The basic raw material for the mercury cell and membrane cell processes is usually solid salt. This may be obtained from three sources: rock salt, solar salt, or vacuumevaporated salt from purifying and evaporating solution-mined brine. In the United States and Europe, rock salt is most commonly used. Electrolysis can produce very pure production of chlorine The process of membrane cell have negligible disadvantage

Use of pure oxygen instead of air will produce high content in product gas

The purity of the production depends on the oxygen/ air being used.

Can be simulate trough Aspen Plus and Hysys

The simulation may be run using Mathlab

DISADVANTAGES

THERMOCHEMICALLY PROCESS

ELECTROLYTIC PROCESS

Use large quantity of catalyst to produce commercial yield of chlorine Rapidly loses of catalyst activity due to the high temperature of process which is 4000C to 6000C They cannot be operated economically

The cost of the electrodes may be expensive

The mercury cell is very dangerous since it is not an environmental friendly that can cause health problem. Electrochemical technology is the second largest consumer of electricity. Among these three types of cell membrane consume lowest electrical energy. Operation is not simple

Its prefer to use oxygen amount exceeding theoretical amount but more problems would occur with oxygen if use of pure oxygen widespread in the chemical industry Too low oxygen amount will decrease hydrogen chloride conversion and too high oxygen may cause difficulties to separate formed chlorine from unreacted oxygen Oxygen pure is costly, so they choose to use air instead of oxygen pure To produce high yield of chlorine, copper based catalyst need to be add with rare earth metal such as ruthenium,zirconium,etc. The thermal catalytic oxidation require additional separation of reaction component to achieve product purity

The diaphragm deterioration can cause lower yield and requires replacement for every 2-3 years.