Patent ID: 9102582
Filing Date: 2015-08-11
Classification: C07C

Abstract:
1. A method of making alcohol comprising the steps of: reacting, in a fluo solids reactor, solids comprising a metal and a halogen forming a halogen gas and a metal oxide; condensing the halogen gas to form a liquid halogen and a gas comprising trace halogen; feeding the liquid halogen to a brominator; recovering the trace halogen from the gas by absorbing the trace halogen in water and extracting the trace halogen from the water with an alkane forming an alkane halide; absorbing the trace halogen from the gas comprising trace halogen with water; feeding the alkane halide to the brominator; reacting, in the brominator, the halogen and the alkane to form halogenated alkanes; reacting the metal oxide, formed in fluo solids reactor, with water forming a metal hydroxide; neutralizing at least a portion of the halogenated alkanes with the metal hydroxide, forming neutralized gasses and liquids; feeding the neutralized liquids to the fluo solids reactor; condensing a portion of the neutralized gasses and feeding the gas portion to the brominator; feeding the liquid portion of the condensed neutralized gasses to an intensive mixer; mixing the liquid portion of the condensed neutralized gasses with metal benzoate or butyrate, fed from a distiller/reactor, and reacting, forming a reacted liquid; decanting the reacted liquid into a first liquid phase and a second liquid phase; feeding the first liquid phase, comprising a metal halogen and water, to the fluo solids reactor; distilling and reacting the second liquid phase, in the distiller/reactor, removing alcohol therefrom; and feeding the metal benzoate or butyrate, from the distiller/reactor, to the intensive mixer.