Abstract: A process for the preparation of 1,2-dichloroethane that is very pure with respect to chloral or/and chloral hydrate and carbon dioxide is described herein. The process comprises oxychlorination of ethylene, using hydrogen chloride and an oxygen-containing gas, and alkali treatment of the 1,2-dichloroethane produced. In the process, the carbon dioxide present in the 1,2-dichloroethane-containing organic phase is, in accordance with the invention, substantially separated out from the 1,2-dichloroethane-containing organic phase before the alkali treatment.

Abstract: A process for the preparation of 1,2-dichloroethane that is very pure with respect to chloral or/and chloral hydrate and carbon dioxide is described herein. The process comprises oxychlorination of ethylene, using hydrogen chloride and an oxygen-containing gas, and alkali treatment of the 1,2-dichloroethane produced. In the process, the carbon dioxide present in the 1,2-dichloroethane-containing organic phase is, in accordance with the invention, substantially separated out from the 1,2-dichloroethane-containing organic phase before the alkali treatment.

Abstract: A process for the preparation of 1,2-dichloroethane that is very pure with respect to chloral or/and chloral hydrate and carbon dioxide is described herein. The process comprises oxychlorination of ethylene, using hydrogen chloride and an oxygen-containing gas, and alkali treatment of the 1,2-dichloroethane produced. In the process, the carbon dioxide present in the 1,2-dichloroethane-containing organic phase is, in accordance with the invention, substantially separated out from the 1,2-dichloroethane-containing organic phase before the alkali treatment.

Abstract: Alcohol is suitable for the extraction of salt from biomass-containing suspensions, in particular from the salt-containing lower phase of an aqueous 2-phase extraction of intracellular proteins after cell disruption, with the formation of a salt-containing alcoholic upper phase. It is possible to use ethanol, propanol, isopropanol or tert.-butanol, but especially ethanol, as the alcohol. The upper phase is separated from the lower phase by disk separators or decanters. The extraction is carried out, in particular, as a countercurrent extraction in at least three stages, and uses 10 to 30% by weight salt-containing suspension or liquid with 30 to 50% by weight alcohol, in particular ethanol, remainder water. The alcohol is removed from the resulting salt-rich upper phase by evaporation, and the salt solution is recycled where appropriate after further concentration to obtain proteins.