Abstract:
The invention provides a process for preparing olefins, comprising: (a) reacting an oxygenate and/or olefinic feed in a first reactor in the presence of a molecular sieve catalyst to form a first effluent comprising olefins; (b) fractionating at least part of the first effluent into an olefinic product fraction comprising ethylene and propylene and an olefinic product fraction comprising olefins containing 4 or more carbon atoms; (c) subjecting a paraffin-containing hydrocarbon feedstock in a second reactor to a steam cracking process to form a second effluent comprising olefins including butadiene; (d) fractionating the second effluent into an olefinic product fraction comprising ethylene and/or propylene and an olefinic product fraction comprising mono-olefins containing 4 or more carbon atoms; and (e) recycling the olefinic product fraction comprising at least part of the ethylene and/or propylene as obtained in step (d) to the reactor in step (a).
Abstract:
A process for the preparation of an olefin product, which process comprises the steps of: a) converting an oxygenate feedstock in an oxygenate-to-olefins conversion system, comprising a reaction zone in which an oxygenate feedstock is contacted with an oxygenate conversion catalyst under oxygenate conversion conditions, to obtain a conversion effluent comprising ethylene and/or propylene; b) separating at least a portion of the ethylene from the conversion effluent to form an ethylene stream; c) feeding the ethylene stream to an oligomerization step to produce higher molecular weight olefins; d) recycling at least a portion of the olefins as a recycle higher molecular weight olefins stream to step a).
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a process for the rejuvenation of a spent molecular sieve, comprising at least the steps of: (a) treating the spent molecular sieve catalyst with an aqueous solution comprising at least one acid to provide a rejuvenated molecular sieve catalyst and a spent aqueous solution; (b) removing spent aqueous solution from the rejuvenated molecular sieve catalyst to provide the rejuvenated molecular sieve catalyst.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a process for converting an alkyl tert-alkyl ether into an alkanol and an iso-alkane wherein the alkyl tert-alkyl ether is contacted with a hydrocracking catalyst in the presence of hydrogen under hydrocracking process conditions.
Abstract:
The invention provides a process for the preparation of an olefinic product comprising ethylene and/or propylene comprising: a) steam cracking a paraffinic feedstock to obtain an effluent comprising olefins; b) converting an oxygenate to obtain a gaseous effluent comprising olefins; c) subjecting both effluents to water removal and compression steps, wherein the effluents are combined before the water removal step, between the water removal and the compression steps or after the compression step to obtain a combined gaseous effluent; d) removing acid gas from the combined gaseous effluent obtained in step c), wherein the combined gaseous effluent is treated with a caustic solution in a caustic tower and a non-aqueous liquid stream comprising one or more aromatic C7+ hydrocarbons is added to the caustic solution to control the formation of red oil, to obtain a treated gaseous effluent; and e) separating the olefinic product from the treated gaseous effluent.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a process for removing dimethylether from an olefin stream comprising dimethylether, comprising: (a) providing to an oxygenate recovery zone the olefin stream comprising dimethylether and a methanol-comprising solvent, treating the olefin stream comprising dimethylether with the methanol comprising solvent, and retrieving at least a dimethylether-depleted, methanol-comprising olefin stream; and (b) providing to the oxygenate recovery zone a non-aqueous C2 to C4 alcohol solvent and treating the dimethylether-depleted, methanol-comprising olefin stream with the non-aqueous C2 to C4 alcohol solvent, and retrieving from the oxygenate recovery zone at least an olefinic product that is depleted in dimethylether and methanol and a spent solvent comprising at least one C2 to C4 alcohol and methanol.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a process for removing oxygenate from an olefin stream comprising oxygenate, comprising providing to an oxygenate recovery zone the olefin stream comprising oxygenate and a solvent comprising propanol, treating the olefin stream comprising oxygenate with the solvent, and retrieving from the oxygenate recovery zone at least one oxygenate-depleted olefinic product stream comprising olefin and a spent solvent comprising at least part of the oxygenate.
Abstract:
A process for the preparation of an olefin product comprising ethylene, which process comprises the steps of: a) converting an oxygenate feedstock in an oxygenate-to-olefins conversion system, comprising a reaction zone in which an oxygenate feedstock is contacted with an oxygenate conversion catalyst under oxygenate conversion conditions, to obtain a conversion effluent comprising ethylene and/or propylene; b) separating at least a portion of the propylene from the conversion effluent to form a propylene stream; c) separating the remainder of the olefins from the conversion effluent; and d) recycling at least a portion of the propylene stream to step a).
Abstract:
The invention relates to a process for preparing lower olefins from an oxygenate, the process comprising: subjecting C4 hydrocarbons obtained in an oxygenate-to-olefins conversion step to extractive distillation to an etherification step to convert isobutene into an alkyl tertiary butyl ether to obtain an isobutene-depleted C4 hydrocarbon stream and alkyl tertiary-butyl ether;subjecting the isobutene-depleted C4 hydrocarbon stream to extractive distillation to obtain a stream enriched in unsaturated C4 hydrocarbons and a stream enriched in saturated C4 hydrocarbons; and recycling at least part of the stream enriched in unsaturated C4 hydrocarbons and/or at least part of the alkyl tertiary-butyl ether to the oxygenate-to-olefins conversion step.
Abstract:
A process for the preparation of an olefin product comprising ethylene, comprising a) cracking a cracker feedstock to obtain a cracker effluent comprising olefins; b) converting an oxygenate feedstock in an oxygenate-to-olefins conversion system, comprising a reaction zone in which an oxygenate feedstock is contacted a catalyst to obtain a conversion effluent comprising ethylene and/or propylene; c) combining at least part of the cracker effluent and at least part of the conversion effluent to obtain a combined effluent wherein the combined effluent comprises a C4 portion and a C3 portion; d) separating at least a part of the propylene from the combined effluent to form a combined propylene stream; e) separating at least a part of the C4 portion from the combined effluent to form a C4 stream; and f) recycling at least a part of the combined propylene stream as recycled propylene to step b).