Separating a polyarylene ether solution

The invention relates to a method for producing polyarylene ether beads from a polyarylene ether solution, having the steps of i) separating the polyarylene ether solution into drops and ii) transporting the drops into a precipitation bath, thereby forming polyarylene ether beads in the precipitation bath. The precipitation bath (A) contains at least one aprotic solvent (component (1)) and at least one protic solvent (component (2)), (B) has a temperature of 0 DEG C to Tc, the critical temperature Tc in [ DEG C] being determined by the numerical equation Tc = (77 - c)/0.58, in which c is the concentration of the component (1) in the precipitation bath in [wt.%], and (C) has the component (1) in concentrations of 5 wt.% to cc, the critical concentration cc in [wt.%] being determined by the numerical equation cc = 77 - 0.58 * T, in which T is the temperature in the precipitation bath in DEG C, wherein the wt.% in each case is based on the sum of the wt.% of the component (1) and the component (2) in the precipi