SYSTEMS AND PROCESSES FOR EFFICIENT PRODUCTION OF ONE OR MORE FUEL ADDITIVES

    公开(公告)号:US20210246088A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-08-12

    申请号:US17264430

    申请日:2019-09-16

    Abstract: A method for the production of a fuel additive includes passing a hydrocarbon stream comprising crude mixed C4 hydrocarbons through a first hydrogenation unit to produce a first product stream; passing the first product stream from the first hydrogenation unit to a methyl tert-butyl ether synthesis unit forming methyl tert-butyl ether and a byproduct stream; passing the byproduct stream through a first distillation unit to separate the byproduct stream into a first 1-butene stream, an isobutane stream, and a 2-butene and n-butane stream; forming a second product stream by passing the 2-butene and n-butane stream to a selective conversion unit; passing the second product stream into a second distillation unit to form an n-butane stream and a second 1-butene stream; passing the second 1-butene stream to a fuel additive production unit; and passing the first 1-butene stream to the fuel additive production unit to form the fuel additive.

    Programmable logic controller in dehydrogenation process

    公开(公告)号:US11370729B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-06-28

    申请号:US16604215

    申请日:2018-05-01

    Abstract: Systems and methods of dehydrogenating a hydrocarbon in a fixed bed dehydrogenation unit. A method for dehydrogenating a hydrocarbon is applied to a fixed bed reactor. The hydrocarbon flows to a fixed bed reactor to be dehydrogenated in presence of a catalyst in the fixed bed reactor. The catalyst in the fixed bed reactor is then regenerated. The period for dehydrogenation, the period for catalyst regeneration and the period for total slack time are controlled such that total slack time is less than both half of the period for dehydrogenation and half of the period for regeneration. One of the advantages of the process comes from optimization of the slack time, thereby increasing the catalyst utilization rate and number of reactors concurrently online.

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