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Anyone familiar with carbide based PVC production

Thread starter zzznook
Start date Jul 13, 2006

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Jul 13, 2006

zzznook

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Dear all. As China becomes industrialized, their need of PVC has increased and they are having trouble finding petroleum . So carbide based production of PVC is something thats hot over there. Does anyone knows this process? In what ways does it differ from the usual
ethylene+choride - EDC - VCM - PVC process?