US 7,601,791 B2
Process for processing mixtures in the presence of fluorinated vinyl polymer packings
Stephan Beutlhauser, Mehring (Germany); Helmut Enthammer, Braunau (Austria); and Klaus Kaeppler, Burghausen (Germany)
Assigned to Wacker Chemie AG, Munich (Germany)
Filed on Jul. 05, 2006, as Appl. No. 11/481,113.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2005 032 947 (DE), filed on Jul. 14, 2005.
Prior Publication US 2007/0015891 A1, Jan. 18, 2007
Int. Cl. C08G 77/06 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 528—12  [556/450; 556/452] 17 Claims
 
1. In a process for the preparation and processing of organopolysiloxanes wherein organochiorosilanes are hydrolyzed with water in the presence of hydrochloric acid to produce a crude hydrolysate comprising chlorine-containing polyorganosiloxanes and gaseous HCl or in a process for processing to recovering alcohol from acidic HCl, alcohol, and water mixtures containing siloxanes by distillation, the improvement comprising conducting one or more steps in the process in a column containing packings comprising fluorinated vinyl polymers at a temperature of 70° C. to 200° C.