Abstract: Process and apparatus for reducing organic content of brine comprising subjecting a brine solution to at least two purification treatments selected from electrochemical treatment, chlorinolysis, or other chemical oxidation treatment, carbon adsorption, extraction, biological treatment and chrystallizing treatment; wherein the organic content of purified brine is sufficiently low to enable sense of the purified brine in an industrial process.

Abstract: Process for purifying brine including providing an aqueous brine solution comprising one or more inorganic salts, one or more organic compounds, and optionally one or more microbial nutrients other than microbial nutrients comprised in the one or more inorganic salts and the one or more organic compounds and conducting at least one unit operation for removing organic compounds from the aqueous brine solution provided in step (1) to obtain a first purified brine solution, wherein the at least one unit operation comprises contacting the aqueous brine solution with living microbes capable of oxidizing the organic compounds in the presence of oxygen.

Abstract: Process and apparatus for reducing organic content of brine comprising subjecting a brine solution to at least two purification treatments selected from electrochemical treatment, chlorinolysis, or other chemical oxidation treatment, carbon adsorption, extraction, biological treatment and chrystallizing treatment; wherein the organic content of purified brine is sufficiently low to enable sense of the purified brine in an industrial process.

Abstract: Process of reducing organic content of brine which includes subjecting a brine solution containing an organic content to an electrochemical process for a sufficient period of time and at a sufficient voltage to reduce the organic content of the brine to obtain a reduced organic content brine. Also provided is a process for reducing organic contamination of brine in a chemical process comprising subjecting a brine stream of the chemical process to electrochemical oxidation to obtain a reduced organic content brine stream.

Abstract: A plurality of stages is employed to reduce the total organic carbon (TOC) content of a brine by-product stream to produce a recyclable brine stream having a TOC content of less than about 10 ppm. In a first stage treatment, a brine by-product stream may be subjected to chlorinolysis at a temperature of less than about 125 0C to obtain a chlorinolysis product having a TOC content of less than about 100 ppm, which may be treated in a second stage with activated carbon to obtain a TOC content of less than about 10 ppm. The chlorinolysis may be a reaction with sodium hypochlorite, which may be produced in situ by treatment of the brine by-product stream with chlorine gas and sodium hydroxide. The brine by-product stream may contain a high amount of difficult to remove glycerin, such as a brine by-product stream from the production of epichlorohydrin from glycerin.

Abstract: A halogenated compound (I) containing one or more >C.dbd.O, olefinic and/or aromatic >C.dbd.C< groups is hydrogenated for producing a halogenated compound (II) having no or a decreased level of >C.dbd.O, olefinic and/or aromatic >C.dbd.C< groups. In the hydrogenation process a liquid feed stream comprising one or more of these compounds (I) is contacted with a hydrogen-rich gaseous stream and a liquid recycle stream comprising one or more of these compounds (II) in the presence of a catalyst.

Abstract: A saturation process for essentially completely saturating unsaturated halogenated hydrocarbonaceous materials in a feedstock containing such unsaturated materials, employing a first recycle reactor for accomplishing the bulk of the saturation and a second, single pass, plug flow-type polishing reactor in combination.