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2. Other industrial processes
Trichloroethylene can also be obtained:
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by hydrogenolysis, on a specific catalyst, of perchloroethylene into trichloroethylene and HCl according to the reaction :
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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