摘要:
Improved product stripping in a catalytic hydrodesulfurization (CHD) product stream is obtained by employing off-gas from the unit as a stripping medium. The compressed off-gas is introduced into the stripper below the stripper feed level. The stripper may be operated at pressures higher than those previously employed in CHD product strippers and this permits LPG recovery to be maximized with lower product sulfur levels and reduced load in the off-gas compressor.
摘要:
A multi-stage catalytic olefin upgrading technique for converting lower olefinic feedstock to heavier liquid hydrocarbon product. The invention provides a fluid bed continuous primary stage reaction zone with shape selective medium pore zeolite oligomerization catalyst particles to convert at least a portion of the lower olefinic components to intermediate olefinic hydrocarbons containing olefinic and aromatic components; cooling primary stage reaction effluent to condense at least a portion of the intermediate hydrocarbons; feeding a second olefinic stream to a serially arranged multi-reactor secondary stage for upgrading lower olefins; quenching partially upgraded secondary stage olefins with primary stage liquid; and further contacting the quenched mixture including aromatics from the primary stage with shape selective medium pore zeolite olgiomerization catalyst in a high pressure fix bed secondary stage distillate mode catalytic reactor at elevated temperature and high prssure to provide a heavier hydrocarbon effluent stream comprising distillate hydrocarbons.
摘要:
A process for converting crude aqueous methanol feedstock to liquid hydrocarbons in contact witha medium pore shape selective crystalline acid zeolite catalyst, such as HZSM-5. In a preferred embodiment, the novel technique comprises the steps of: (a) contacting a crude methanol feedstock containing a minor amount of water with a liquid hydrocarbon extraction stream under extraction conditions favorable to selective extraction of the methanol, thereby providing an extract liquid stream rich in methanol and an aqueous raffinate stream lean in methanol; (b) charging the extracted methanol substantially free of water to said reaction zone under process conditions to convert substantially all methanol to hydrocarbons; (c) cooling reaction effluent to recover aqueous liquid byproduct stream, gas rich in C.sub.2.sup.- hydrocarbons, liquid rich in C.sub.3 -C.sub.4 and C.sub.5.sup.+ hydrocarbons; and (d) contacting crude methanol feedstock with at least a portion of the liquid hydrocarbons employed as extraction liquid.
摘要:
An improved process is disclosed for the acid catalyzed production of DIPE from propene and water feedstreams that eliminates the propene recycle stream to the olefin hydration reactor and achieves high propene conversion. The accomplishment is achieved by carrying out the hydration and etherification reactions in two stages wherein the first stage comprises a zeolite catalyzed hydration and etherification of propene employing a minimum of water feed. The second stage converts unconverted propene from the first stage reactor by hydration and etherification to DIPE in contact with an acidic catalyst, preferably acidic resin, and an excess of water. Isopropanol (IPA) from both the first and second stage reactor is recovered as an aqueous azeotrope by a combination of distillation and extraction steps and the azeotrope is recycled to the first stage reactor. In this way, IPA rather than propene is recycled and the advantageous capabilities of the first stage zeolite catalyst for IPA etherification to DIPE are more fully utilized in that reactor.
摘要:
Methods for the fluidized catalytic cracking of plural hydrocarbon feedstocks in a riser reactor are disclosed. The processes generally comprises contacting a relatively light hydrocarbon feedstock in a first reaction zone with a first catalyst stream comprising spent catalyst, contacting a relatively heavy hydrocarbon feedstock in a second reaction zone with a second catalyst stream comprising freshly regenerated catalyst, and introducing at least a portion of the effluent from the first reaction zone into the second reaction zone. The first reaction zone and the second reaction zone preferably comprise first and second riser reaction zones, respectively.
摘要:
In the diisopropyl ether production process, the distallation step for the separation of aqueous IPA recovered from the DIPE extraction operations is modified to avoid carrying out the distillation under conditions that yield IPA-water azeotrope providing lower overall process cost. The determination has been made that the overhead and bottom streams form an aqueous IPA fractionation process operated under off-azeotrope conditions in DIPE production can be recycled, respectively, to the DIPE reactor and extractor operations. Recycling the water and IPA overhead mixture eliminates the requirement for adding fresh water to the DIPE reactor. Returning the water and IPA bottom stream to the extractor reduces the requirement for distilled water addition to the extraction step. As a consequence, a less complex and costly aqueous IPA separation process is implemented.
摘要:
The invention comprises the discovery has been made that the reactivation of spent medium pore, shape selective metallosilicate catalyst particles can be enhanced by carrying out the removal of deactivating coke and carbonaceous deposits on the surface and within the pores of the catalyst using hydrogen in a two stage process. The first stage consists of reactivation with hydrogen at elevated temperature and relatively high pressure to crack, strip and remove the more volatile deactivating coke and carbonaceous components on the catalyst surface. The second stage of the reactivation process is carried out at low pressure and elevated temperature, leading to the stripping of the deactivating carbonaceous residue of low volatility on the catalyst surface and pores. The effect of the two stage regeneration process is to improve the removal of coke and carbonaceous materials from the catalyst surface, pores and voids providing a more effective reactivated catalyst.
摘要:
In the instant invention the effluent from the DIPE reactor is separated in a novel separation process that includes, in one embodiment, two extraction steps serially combined to initially separate IPA from the reaction products by extraction with water. The aqueous IPA extract is separated in a second extraction step carried out using the C.sub.3 hydrocarbon feedstream to the process as extractor. To effectuate the separation of aqueous IPA, the second extraction is carried out at a temperature higher than that of the first extraction step. The organic phase from the first extraction containing DIPE, C.sub.3 hydrocarbons and water is separated in a splitter to provide dry DIPE as product. In another embodiment dry DIPE is produced by an initial aqueous extraction of the reaction effluent followed by distillation to separate C.sub.3 hydrocarbons and water overhead and DIPE as a bottom stream.
摘要:
The present invention provides a process for decreasing the energy consumption of a catalytic cracking process product recovery section while improving gasoline yield by integrating multistage vapor compression and product recovery with deacidification and conversion of C.sub.2 -C.sub.4 aliphatics to C.sub.5 + normally liquid hydrocarbons.
摘要:
A process is disclosed for integrating etherification to produce diisopropyl ether (DIPE) with processes to convert oxygenates and hydrocarbons to gasoline boiling range hydrocarbons in a manner which eliminates the requirement to recycle unreacted C.sub.3 hydrocarbons to the DIPE etherification zone. In the novel integrated process the unreacted C.sub.3 hydrocarbons are separated as vapor and passed to a conversion zone in contact with acidic metallosilicate catalyst. Depending on the conversion conditions the unreacted C.sub.3 hydrocarbons are converted to gasoline, distillate and/or aromatics, preferably in conjunction with additional feedstock containing lower oxygenates, olefins or paraffins. Also, isopropanol (IPA) and minor by-product dimers and trimers of propene from the DIPE reaction are separated and passed as a feedstream to the oxygenates and hydrocarbon conversion zone. In one embodiment, the water feedstream for the DIPE reactor is first passed to the DIPE effluent high pressure separator where it serves to extract a portion of the IPA in the effluent stream. The aqueous effluent from the high pressure separator is then introduced into the etherification zone for hydration of propene and etherification to form DIPE.