摘要:
Metaxylene is recovered from admixture with other C.sub.8 aromatic hydrocarbons including orthoxylene by liquid phase adsorptive separation using a sodium exchanged Y zeolite as the adsorbent. Performance is improved by maintaining the adsorbent in a narrow range of temperature and hydration. These conditions allow the metaxylene to be recovered in a single raffinate process without costly prefractionation for orthoxylene removal. A novel desorbent, indane, is also disclosed.
摘要:
The cost of separating para-xylene from other xylene isomers and C.sub.9 aromatics by adsorption on zeolitic molecular sieves is reduced by the use of 1,4 diisopropylbenzene as a relatively high boiling desorbent. The desorbent has surprisingly high strength and selectivity characteristics with the preferred desorbent. The preferred adsorbent is an X zeolite containing barium or both barium and potassium ions at exchangeable cationic sites. The para-xylene components are selectively adsorbed onto the adsorbent. The non-adsorbed feed is then removed from the adsorbent and the para-xylene recovered by desorption.
摘要:
A process for removing sulfur containing compounds from various hydrocarbon streams is disclosed and claimed. The process involves contacting the feedstream with an adsorbent such as nickel exchanged zeolite X or Y, or a smectite layered clay having a surface area of at least 150 m.sup.2 /g, thereby adsorbing the sulfur compounds onto the adsorbent.
摘要:
The present invention is a process for separating at least a first component from a second component of at least a first stream within a single vessel having at least one distillation zone and an adsorption zone. The invention may be applied to separates an alcohol from a mixture of the alcohol and water, such as separating isopropyl alcohol from a mixture of isopropyl alcohol and water. The invention may be applied to more complex systems such as separating isopropyl alcohol and separating diisopropyl ether from the effluents of each reactor of a two-stage diisopropyl ether production process. The benefit of the invention is a high purity separation process at reduced capital equipment costs.
摘要:
Glucose is separated from mixtures with mannose and other saccharides by adsorption on low aluminum Y-type zeolites, i.e., having up to about 50 atoms of aluminum per unit cell and desorbing the adsorbate with water. Glucose is removed from the adsorption process in the raffinate.
摘要:
A fluid feed mixture, either liquid or gaseous in nature, may be subjected to a gas enrichment separation process. The process is effected by contacting the mixture with the upstream face of a mixed matrix membrane which comprises an organic polymer having a solid particulate adsorbent incorporated therein, the permeability coefficient of the organic polymer being compatible with the permeability coefficient of the adsorbent. The permeate which emanates from the downstream face of the membrane comprises a fluid product mixture in which the proportion of the first fluid component of the feed mixture, which possesses a greater steady state permeability in relation to the second fluid component, is greater than the proportion present in the original fluid feed mixture.
摘要:
A process for separating isoprene from isobutylene, isopentane, and pentene-1. The process uses an adsorbent comprising activated carbon or molecular sieve carbon to selectively adsorb isoprene from the other hydrocarbons. High purity isoprene is recovered by desorption using desorbent materials which include olefinic hydrocarbons. The process is particularly suited for a simulated moving bed apparatus.
摘要:
A process for separating an unsaponifiable compound from a feed mixture including fatty acids. The process comprises: (a) forming an emulsion with the feed mixture, an organic solvent in which the feed mixture is soluble and an emulsifying liquid capable of forming an emulsion with the feedstock and organic solvent, the polarity index of the emulsifying liquid being at least 2.4 higher than the polarity index of the organic solvent; (b) effecting the formation of three phases from the emulsion, an organic solvent phase containing the major portion of the fatty acids, an emulsifying liquid phase and a semi-solid sludge phase containing the major portion of the unsaponifiable compound; and (c) separating the three phases.
摘要:
A process for separating a normal paraffin hydrocarbon from a mixture of the same with a cyclic and/or branched chain paraffin hydrocarbon. The process comprises contacting the mixture at a temperature of from about 120.degree. C. to about 140.degree. C. with a zeolite free molecular sieve comprising silicalite. The normal paraffin hydrocarbon is selectively retained and will preferably be recovered from the molecular sieve by displacement with a displacement material.
摘要:
A process for the separation of the para-isomer from a hydrocarbon feed mixture comprising at least two bi-alkyl substituted monocyclic aromatic isomers, including the para-isomer, said isomers having from 8 to about 18 carbon atoms per molecule, which process employs an adsorbent comprising a zeolite which has been contacted at pyrolyzing conditions with a pyrolyzing agent to preferentially adsorb the para-isomer. The para-isomer thereafter is removed from the adsorbent by contacting it with a desorbent material and is recovered as a product stream. In a preferred embodiment the process uses a simulated moving-bed countercurrent flow system.