ABSTRACT
The current production of petroleum chemicals is based on feedstock mainly obtained from natural gas and petroleum fractions. The technology for producing major olefins is based on processes of thermal destruction of hydrocarbons incorporated in the hydrocarbon stock. The plasmachemical technology is more intensive than thermal techniques such as thermal cracking, pyrolisis. Electrical energy consumption to produce acetylene amounted to 7.8 kWh/kg, to yield acetylene plus ethylene – to 5.7 kWh/kg. Using plasmachemical technology feedstock consumption per a unit of product is from 2.2 to 2.8 times lower with by-products yield decreased. Pyrolising organic-chlorine and organic waste in hydrogen plasma yields both gas and carbon black. The gases comprise acetylene, methane and hydrogen including hydrogen chloride. Acetylene and hydrogen chloride are a feedstock to produce vinyl chloride whereas ethylene and hydrogen chloride may be synthesized to form ethyl chloride. Plasmachemically obtained carbon black is in quality competitive to thermal carbon black.
