The actual reaction is highly complex with substitutive chlorination, cracking, Deacon reaction and carbon burning all occurring simultameously. The reactions are carried out in the presence of PPG's relatively inexpensive oxychlorination catalyst.
   In the flowsheet, ethylene dichloride, recycled chlorinated organics, chlorine and oxygen are fed to a fluid bed reactor (1). The reactor operates at moderate pressure and 600-900℉. The catalyst is contained in a vertical bundle of tubes. Reactor temperature is controlled and heat is removed by boiling liquid outside of the tubes within the reactor's jacket. Reaction heat generates a large portion of the process steam requirements.
   The reactor effluent, which contains chlorinated organics, water, a small amount of HCl, carbon dioxide and traces of other inert gases, is desuperheated and condensed in a water-cooled graphite exchanger (2). A refrigerated condenser (3) is used to recover the final traces of organic from the inert gases before they are scrubbed (4) and vented. The recoverd crude product (perchlor plus trichlor) is phase-separated (5). The Deacon reaction water contains some residual HCl, which can be neutrlized or recovered.
   The organic layer is dried by azeotropic distillation (6,7) and fed to a distillation train that splits (8) the organic products into a crude trichlor (9-11) and a crude perchlor stream (12-16). The lights are separated overhead in the trichlor still (9) and recycled to the reactor with commercial trichlor from the still bottom. This product is neutralized (10), washed and dried (11) prior to storage.
   The crude perchlor loses high boilers in the bottom stream (12). These heavies are flashed (13) to remove tar and carbon, and are recycled to the reactor. The overhead is fed to the perchlor still (14) where intermediate boilers concentrate in the overheads and recycle it to the reactor. Bottoms (commercial perchlor) are neutralized (15), washed and dried (16).