公开(公告)号：US20200078778A1

公开(公告)日：2020-03-12

申请号：US16469533

申请日：2017-12-13

Applicant: SHELL OIL COMPANY

Inventor： Ann Marie LAURITZEN ,  Ye-Mon CHEN ,  Chi Chiang LEE

IPC: B01J29/90 ,  B01J29/44 ,  B01J37/00 ,  B01J37/18 ,  B01J37/08 ,  B01J38/10 ,  B01J38/12 ,  C07C2/76

Abstract: A process for the production of benzene and ethylene from an alkane-containing gas stream. The alkane-containing gas stream may be contacted, in a reaction zone of a reactor under alkane aromatization conditions, with an aromatization catalyst including any combination of fresh, spent, and regenerated catalyst to produce an outlet stream including (i) spent catalyst and (ii) a product mixture including benzene and ethylene. The spent catalyst may be regenerated in a regeneration zone under regeneration conditions to produce the regenerated catalyst. A selected amount of fresh catalyst may be added to the regeneration zone to produce the mixture of fresh catalyst and regenerated catalyst, which may be recycled to the reaction zone. A ratio of benzene to ethylene in the product mixture may be controlled by modifying the alkane aromatization conditions, the regeneration conditions, and/or the selected amount of fresh catalyst added to the regeneration zone.