2. Other industrial processes

Trichloroethylene can also be obtained:

by hydrogenolysis, on a specific catalyst, of perchloroethylene into trichloroethylene and HCl according to the reaction : ${Cl}_{2} C = C C l_{2} + H_{2} \overset{}{\to} {Cl}_{2} C = CHCl + HCl$

Wacker (Germany) developed this process and then shut down its plant in 1994. As the catalyst is fairly expensive, the economic interest of such a process depends more on the market than on the cost of perchloroethylene...

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(1) - ATOFINA - Trichloroéthylène - . Fiche de données de sécurité n° 00598 (V10).
(2) - Solvents digest - . European Chlorinated Solvent Association (ESCA), n° 20 (mai 2001).
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