Process for In Situ Water Removal from an Oxidative Esterification Reaction Using a Coupled Reactor-Distillation System

    公开(公告)号:US20170247312A1

    公开(公告)日:2017-08-31

    申请号:US15521785

    申请日:2015-10-02

    Abstract: A process for continuously removing water in situ from an oxidative esterification reaction includes (a) conducting a first oxidative esterification reaction in a first reactor or reaction zone, wherein the total number of reactors or reaction zones is n and n is at least 2; (b) removing a crude product stream from the first reactor or reaction zone; (c) introducing the crude product stream to a distillation column to generate a column overheads stream and a column bottoms stream; (d) passing at least a portion of the columns bottoms stream to the product recovery zone; and (e) passing at least a portion of the column overheads stream to a subsequent reactor or reaction zone; and (f) repeating steps (a)-(e) for each subsequent reactor or reaction zone such that the number of distillation columns less than n, and wherein the at least a portion of the column overheads stream contains less than 1 weight percent (wt %) water based on the total weight of the at least a portion of the column overheads stream.

    METHODS AND SYSTEMS TO SEPARATE HYDROCARBON MIXTURES SUCH AS NATURAL GAS INTO LIGHT AND HEAVY COMPONENTS

    公开(公告)号:US20200002622A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-01-02

    申请号:US16451821

    申请日:2019-06-25

    Abstract: The present invention provides strategies to integrate adsorption and liquefaction techniques to separate hydrocarbon feed mixtures into purified light and heavy components, respectively. Initially, the hydrocarbon stream is separated into a light and heavy stream. The light stream can be integrated into a natural gas product. The heavy stream is partially liquefied. A first gas liquid separation of the partially liquefied heavy stream at an elevated pressure separates the liquid heavy stream from a methane-containing gas. The rejected methane component, which generally will include some rejected C2 and C3+ material, can be recycled to be combined with the feed mixture for re-processing. A further aspect of the strategy is then to practice at least one additional gas-liquid separation of the separated liquid heavy stream at a lower pressure effective to help further resolve the liquid heavy stream from C2-containing gas. The rejected C2 component, which generally will include some rejected C1 and C3+ material, can then be recycled back into the feed mixture for reprocessing or used as all or a portion of a light hydrocarbon product.

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