Circular economy for plastic waste to polyethylene via oil refinery with filtering and metal oxide treatment of pyrolysis oil

    公开(公告)号:US11639472B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-05-02

    申请号:US17237592

    申请日:2021-04-22

    发明人: Hye-Kyung Timken

    摘要: Provided in one embodiment is a continuous process for converting waste plastic comprising polyethylene and/or polypropylene into recycle for polyethylene polymerization. The process comprises selecting waste plastics containing polyethylene, polypropylene, or a mixture thereof, and passing the waste plastics through a pyrolysis reactor to thermally crack at least a portion of the polyolefin waste and produce a pyrolyzed effluent. The pyrolyzed effluent is separated into offgas, a pyrolysis oil comprising a naphtha, diesel and heavy fractions, and char. The pyrolysis oil, or at least a fraction, is passed to a filtration/metal oxide treatment, with the treated product passed to a refinery FCC unit. A liquid petroleum gas C3 olefin/paraffin mixture fraction is recovered from the FCC unit, as well as a C4 olefin/paraffin mixture fraction. The liquid petroleum gas C3 olefin/paraffin mixture fraction is passed to a steam cracker for ethylene production.

    Circular economy for plastic waste to polyethylene via refinery FCC feed pretreater and FCC units

    公开(公告)号:US11566182B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-01-31

    申请号:US17131928

    申请日:2020-12-23

    摘要: Provided in one embodiment is a continuous process for converting waste plastic into recycle for polyethylene polymerization. The process comprises selecting waste plastics containing polyethylene and/or polypropylene, and passing the waste plastics through a pyrolysis reactor to thermally crack at least a portion of the polyolefin waste and produce a pyrolyzed effluent. The pyrolyzed effluent is separated into offgas, a pyrolysis oil and optionally pyrolysis wax comprising a naphtha/diesel fraction and heavy fraction, and char. The pyrolysis oil and wax is passed to a refinery FCC feed pretreater unit. A heavy fraction is recovered and sent to a refinery FCC unit, from which a C3 olefin/paraffin mixture fraction is recovered, which is passed to a steam cracker for ethylene production. In another embodiment, a propane fraction (C3) is recovered from a propane/propylene splitter and passed to the steam cracker.

    Process for the conversion of plastics into olefins

    公开(公告)号:US11459507B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-10-04

    申请号:US17273394

    申请日:2019-08-09

    申请人: NEXTCHEM S.P.A.

    摘要: Process for the conversion of plastics to olefins comprising the following steps: A) gasification of the plastics to synthesis gas by reaction of the plastics with pure oxygen; B) catalytic conversion of the synthesis gas produced in stage A) to methane in at least three successive stages, in each of which hydrogen is added; C) catalytic conversion of the methane produced in stage B) into olefins by the oxidative coupling reaction of methane; and D) separation of the olefins produced in stage C) from other compounds present in the reaction mixture of said stage C).

    Circular economy for plastic waste to polyethylene via refinery FCC or FCC/alkylation units

    公开(公告)号:US11306253B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-04-19

    申请号:US17131910

    申请日:2020-12-23

    摘要: Provided in one embodiment is a continuous process for converting waste plastic into recycle for polyethylene polymerization. The process comprises selecting waste plastics containing polyethylene and/or polypropylene, and passing the waste plastics through a pyrolysis reactor to thermally crack at least a portion of the polyolefin waste and produce a pyrolyzed effluent. The pyrolyzed effluent is separated into offgas, a pyrolysis oil and optionally wax comprising a naphtha/diesel and heavy fraction, and char. The pyrolysis oil is passed to a refinery FCC unit from which a liquid petroleum gas C3 olefin/paraffin mixture fraction is recovered, as well as a C4 olefin/paraffin mixture fraction. The liquid petroleum gas C3 olefin/paraffin mixture fraction is passed to a steam cracker for ethylene production. The C4 olefin/paraffin mixture fraction is passed to a refinery alkylation unit, from which a n-butane and naphtha feed for a stream cracker to produce ethylene is recovered.

    PROCESS FOR THE PREPARATION OF POLYETHYLENES FROM WASTE PLASTIC FEEDSTOCKS

    公开(公告)号:US20220073826A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-03-10

    申请号:US17424560

    申请日:2020-01-24

    摘要: The present invention relates to a process for the production of ethylene-based polymers from waste plastics feedstocks comprising the steps in this order of: (a) providing a hydrocarbon stream A obtained by treatment of a waste plastics feedstock; (b) providing a hydrocarbon stream B; (c) supplying a feed C comprising a fraction of the hydrocarbon stream A and a fraction of the hydrocarbon stream B to a thermal cracker furnace comprising cracking coil(s); (d) performing a thermal cracking operation in the presence of steam to obtain a cracked hydrocarbon stream D; (e) supplying the cracked hydrocarbon stream D to a separation unit; (f) performing a separation operation in the separation unit to obtain a product stream E comprising ethylene; (g) supplying the product stream E to a polymerisation reactor; and (h) performing a polymerisation reaction in the polymerisation reactor to obtain an ethylene-based polymer; wherein in step (d): ⋅the coil outlet temperature is ≥800 and ≤870° C., preferably ≥820 and ≤870° C.; and ⋅the weight ratio of steam to feed C is >0.3 and

    PROCESS FOR THE CONVERSION OF PLASTICS INTO OLEFINS

    公开(公告)号:US20210340446A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-11-04

    申请号:US17273394

    申请日:2019-08-09

    申请人: NEXTCHEM S.P.A.

    IPC分类号: C10B53/07 C10G57/02 C10G47/02

    摘要: Process for the conversion of plastics to olefins comprising the following steps: A) gasification of the plastics to synthesis gas by reaction of the plastics with pure oxygen; B) catalytic conversion of the synthesis gas produced in stage A) to methane in at least three successive stages, in each of which hydrogen is added; C) catalytic conversion of the methane produced in stage B) into olefins by the oxidative coupling reaction of methane; and D) separation of the olefins produced in stage C) from other compounds present in the reaction mixture of said stage C).