Abstract:
PROCESS FOR OBTAINING IMPROVED REFRIGERATION RESULTS IN SULFURIC ACID ALKYLATION UTILIZING TWO ALKYLATION REACTOR: THE EMULSION OF ACID AND HYDROCARBON FROM ONE REACTOR IS FLASHED AND THE RESULTING MIXTURE IS SEPARATED INTO A COLD ACID PHASE AND A COLD HYDROCARBON PHASE. THE ACID PHASE IS USED TO COOL THIS REACTOR WHILE THE HYDROCARBON PAHSE IS COMBINED WITH THE REACTION MIXTURE FRM THE OTHER REACTOR TO PROVIDE TEMPERATURE REDUCTION. THE REACTION MIXTURE OF THIS REACTOR IS SEPARATED INTO ACID AND HYDROCARBON PHASES, THE ACID PHASE RETURNED TO SAID REACTOR AND PORTIONS OF THE HYDROCARBON PHASE IS PASSED THROUGH THE TUBE BUNDLES IN EACH REACTOR. PRESSURE REDUCTION PROVIDES EFFLUENT COOLING IN ONE OF THE REACTORS.
Abstract:
METHOD FOR REFRIGERATION OF A SULFURIC ACID ALKYLATION PROCESS OPERATED IN CONJUNCTION WITH AN ASSOCIATED ACID RECOVERY PROCESS INVOLVING REACTING USED ACID WITH OLEFIN FEED IN AN ABSORBER, EXTRACTING RESULTING DIALKYL SULFATES, ACID TREATING THE EXTRACT SOLUTION AND PASSING THE TREATED SOLUTION TO ALKYLATION. THE ACID TREATED EXTRACT SOLUTION IS VAPORIZED AND PASSED IN INDIRECT EXCHANGE WITH CONTENTS OF ABSORBER AND ALKYLATION REACTOR. VAPORIZED ISOBUTANE MAY BE SEPARATED, RECOMPRESSED, COOLED AND RETURNED AS A LIQUID FOR COMBINATION WITH THE ACID TREATED EXTRACT STREAM FOR ADDITIONAL COOLING CAPACITY.
Abstract:
Facilitating and expediting separation of oil/water emulsions by passing the emulsion as a surface film on a rotating pick-up roller into a bight formed by a closely spaced parallel rollers to coalesce the oil particles, break the emulsion and liberate free oil.
Abstract:
Good yields of high-quality motor fuel and jet fuel are obtained by solvent extracting a gas oil to produce a paraffin-rich raffinate and an aromatic-rich extract, hydrocracking the raffinate using a catalyst having an amorphous support, separately hydrocracking the extract using a catalyst containing a crystalline zeolitic support and recovering jet and motor fuels from the respective hydrocracker effluents.