Process for manufacturing aliphatic chlorides

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AN INTEGRATED PROCESS FOR PREPARING AND SEPARATING VINYL CHLORIDE AND SATURATED ALIPHATIC CHLORIDES FROM STARTING MATERIALS CONSISTING OF CHLORINE AND A MIXTURE OF ACETYLENE, HYDROGEN, AND OTHER HYDROCARBONS, WHICH COMPRISES MIXING A GASEOUS MIXTURE OF ACETYLENE, HYDROGEN, AND OTHER GASEOUS MIXTURE OF ACETYLENE, HYDROSATURATED ALIPHATIC CHLORIDES AND HYDROGEN CHLORIDE PRODUCED IN A SUBSEQUENT REACTION STEP, IN A REACTION ZONE IN THE PRESENCE OF A CATATLYST AND UNDER CONDITIONS OF TEMPERATURE AND PRESSURE TO INDUCE THE REACTION OF HYDROGEN CHLORIDE AND ACETYLENE TO FORM VINYL CHLORIDE, SEPARATING HYDROGEN AND UNREACTED HYDROCARBONS IN A SEPARATE ABSORBING ZONE, WITHDRAWING THE EFFLUENT HYDROGEN AND UNREACTED HYDROCARBONS TO A SEPARATE REACTION ZONE AND REACTING THE SAME WITH CHLORINE TO PRODUCE A MIXTURE OF HYDROGEN CHLORIDE AND SATURATED ALIPHATIC CHLORIDES, RECYCLING THE HYDROGEN CHLORIDE AND SATURATED ALIPHATIC CHLORIDES TO THE FIRST REACTION STEP, WITHDRAWING ABSORBENT FROM THE ABSORBING ZONE TO A DESORBING ZONE, AND FRACTIONALLY DESORBING AND RECOVERING VINYL CHLORIDE AND THE SATURATED ALIPHATIC CHLORIDES.