Abstract:
The present invention describes a type of inclined bed reactor which permits a small quantity of catalyst to be employed. Application of the reactor to a regenerative reforming process.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a device and a process for converting aromatic compounds, wherein: methyl-substituted aromatic compounds are extracted from a hydrocarbon feedstock (2) comprising aromatic compounds having at least 8 carbon atoms in an extraction unit (1), to produce at least one effluent enriched in methyl-substituted aromatic compounds (3A, 3B) and an effluent depleted in methyl-substituted aromatic compounds (4); and C2+ alkyl chains of the aromatic compounds of the depleted effluent (4) are converted into methyl groups in a hydrogenolysis unit (5) placed downstream of the extraction unit (1), to produce a hydrogenolysis effluent enriched in methyl-substituted aromatic compounds (7).
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a process and a device for the conversion of aromatic compounds, in which the aromatic compounds of a hydrocarbon feedstock (1) comprising aromatic compounds containing 9 carbon atoms are isomerized in an isomerization unit (A) in the presence of a bifunctional isomerization catalyst having a hydro/dehydrogenating function and a hydroisomerizing function, to produce an isomerization effluent (10) enriched in trimethylbenzenes. The present invention also relates to a process and a device for the production of aromatic compounds, comprising the process and the device for the conversion of aromatic compounds.
Abstract:
The present invention concerns a process for the treatment of a hydrocarbon feed containing hydrogen and hydrocarbons including C1 to C4 hydrocarbons, comprising the following steps: separating the hydrocarbon feed into a gaseous phase and a liquid phase containing hydrocarbons; cooling the liquid phase obtained from step a) to a temperature of 45° C. or less using a cooling device; carrying out a first recontacting step on the cooled liquid phase with the gaseous phase in a counter-current column in order to recover a first gaseous effluent which is rich in hydrogen and a first liquid hydrocarbon effluent; in which, before the cooling step b), the liquid phase obtained from step a) is pre-cooled by exchange of heat in an exchanger supplied with the first gaseous effluent and/or the first liquid hydrocarbon effluent obtained from step c).
Abstract:
The invention relates to a selective hydrogenolysis method for treating a feed rich in aromatic compounds having more than 8 carbon atoms, comprising transforming at least one alkyl group with at least two carbon atoms (ethyl, propyl, butyl, isopropyl, etc.) attached to a benzene ring into at least one methyl group. The invention also relates to the integration of the hydrogenolysis unit into an aromatic complex.
Abstract:
The present invention concerns a process for the treatment of a hydrocarbon feed containing hydrogen and hydrocarbons including C1 to C4 hydrocarbons, employing a first and a second recontacting step and in which the gaseous effluent obtained from the second recontacting step is recycled to the first recontacting step. The process is of particular application to the treatment of a hydrocarbon feed obtained from catalytic reforming with a view to recovering hydrogen and C3 and C4 hydrocarbons.
Abstract:
The present invention concerns a process for the treatment of a hydrocarbon feed containing hydrogen and hydrocarbons including C1 to C4 hydrocarbons. The process employs two steps for recontacting gaseous and liquid phases and in which at least one of the recontacting steps is carried out in a column (30, 40) in which the gaseous and liquid streams are brought into counter-current contact.
Abstract:
The present invention concerns a process for the production of light olefins and BTX using a catalytic cracking unit, NCC, processing a naphtha type feed, and an aromatics complex. It can be used to exploit the synergies between these two units. The thermal balance of the NCC, which is intrinsically deficient in coke, is resolved by the optimal use of heat from the reforming furnaces in order to preheat the feed for the NCC, and by introducing at least a portion of the raffinate obtained from the aromatics complex as a mixture with the naphtha.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to the FCC units processing heavy feedstocks enriched with hydrogen, such as for example a highly hydrotreated VGO, or the unconverted part at the end of hydrocracking this same type of VGO feedstock, feedstocks which have the characteristic of cracking to light olefins such as ethylene and propylene. The integration of an FCC with an aromatic complex allows the recovery by the aromatic complex of the BTX formed in the FCC, and the recovery by the FCC from the flow at the bottom of the column, of heavy aromatics from the aromatic complex.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a process for the production of C6-C7 aromatic compounds from a hydrocarbon feedstock of naphtha type comprising a step of fractionating (2) the feedstock in order to obtain an upper stream and a lower stream, a step of catalytic reforming of the upper stream (6) and of the lower stream (9), a step of recombining (15) the reformate effluents obtained, a step of recontacting (16) and a step of stabilizing (19) the stabilized reformate effluents and a step of separating (22) the raffinate in order to recover C6 and C7 hydrocarbon compounds.