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| 585302000 | With blending of products from two parallel reactions | 48 |
| 20100152508 | Process for Producing Para-Xylene - A process for producing a PX-rich product, the process comprising: (a) providing a PX-depleted stream; (b) isomerizing at least a portion of the PX-depleted stream to produce an isomerized stream having a PX concentration greater than the PX-depleted stream and a benzene concentration of less than 1,000 ppm and a C | 06-17-2010 |
| 20100268005 | Renewable Engine Fuel And Method Of Producing Same - The present invention provides non-petroleum high-octane fuel derived from biomass sources, and a method of producing same. The method of production involves reducing the biomass feedstocks to sugars, fermenting the sugars using microorganisms or mutagens thereof to produce ethanol or acetic acid, converting the acetic acid or ethanol to acetone, and converting the acetone to mesitylene and isopentane, the major components of the renewable engine fuel. Trimerization of acetone can be carried out in the presence of a catalyst containing at least one metal selected from the group consisting of niobium, iron and manganese. The ethanol can be converted to mesitylene in a dehydration reaction in the presence of a catalyst of zinc oxide/calcium oxide, and unreacted ethanol and water separated from mesitylene by distillation. These ethanol-based, biomass-derived fuels are fully renewable, may be formulated to have a wide range of octane values and energy, and may effectively be used to replace 100 LL aviation fuel (known as AvGas), as well as high-octane, rocket, diesel, turbine engine fuels, as well as two-cycle, spark-ignited engine fuels. | 10-21-2010 |
| 20110112344 | PROCESS AND INTEGRATED SYSTEM FOR THE PREPARATION OF A LOWER OLEFIN PRODUCT - A process for the preparation of an olefin product comprising ethylene and/or propylene, which process comprises the steps of
| 05-12-2011 |
| 20110112345 | PROCESS FOR THE PREPARATION OF A LOWER OLEFIN PRODUCT - A process for the preparation of an olefin product comprising ethylene and/or propylene, which process comprises the steps of | 05-12-2011 |
| 20110230692 | Process for producing high quality gasoline blending components in two modes - We provide a process for producing high quality gasoline blending components, comprising: a) operating an alkylation reactor in an alkylate mode wherein a gasoline blending component is made having a RON of 90 or higher; and b) operating the alkylation reactor in a distillate mode wherein a second gasoline blending component and a distillate product is made, and wherein the second gasoline blending component has a RON of 85 or higher. Also, we provide an alkylation process unit, comprising: a control system connected to an alkylation reactor, that enables the alkylation reactor to operate in both an alkylate mode that produces a gasoline blending component having a RON of 90 or higher and in a distillate mode that produces a second gasoline blending component having a RON of 85 or higher. | 09-22-2011 |
| 20120059205 | Biogenic Fuel And Method Of Making Same - A method of producing from a biomass mesitylene-isopentane fuel is provided. A biomass may be fermented to form acetone. The acetone is converted in a catalytic reactor to mesitylene and mesityl oxide. The mesitylene is separated in a phase separator and the organic face containing mesityl oxide is sent to a dehydration reactor, then to a demethylation reactor, and finally to a hydrogenation reactor from which isopentane is recovered. This isopentane is then mixed with the mesitylene to form the final mesitylene-isopentane fuel. The catalytic reaction with acetone employs catalysts of either niobium, vanadium or tantalum. | 03-08-2012 |
| 20120172643 | PRODUCTION OF RENEWABLE BIOFUELS - A process and system for separating and upgrading bio-oil into renewable fuels is provided. The process comprises separating bio-oil into a light fraction, an optional intermediate fraction, and heavy fraction based on their boiling points. The light fraction and optional intermediate fraction can be upgraded via hydrotreatment to produce a renewable gasoline and a renewable diesel, which may be combined with their petroleum-derived counterparts. The heavy fraction may be subjected to cracking and further separated into light, intermediate, and heavy fractions in order to increase the yield of renewable gasoline and renewable diesel. | 07-05-2012 |
| 20120277505 | PROCESS FOR INCREASING BENZENE AND TOLUENE PRODUCTION - A process for reforming a hydrocarbon stream is presented. The process involves splitting a naphtha feedstream to at least two feedstreams and passing each feedstream to separation reformers. The reformers are operated under different conditions to utilize the differences in the reaction properties of the different hydrocarbon components. The process utilizes a common catalyst, and common downstream processes for recovering the desired aromatic compounds generated. | 11-01-2012 |
| 20120277506 | PROCESS FOR INCREASING BENZENE AND TOLUENE PRODUCTION - A process for reforming a hydrocarbon stream is presented. The process involves splitting a naphtha feedstream to at least two feedstreams and passing each feedstream to separation reformers. The reformers are operated under different conditions to utilize the differences in the reaction properties of the different hydrocarbon components. The process utilizes a common catalyst, and common downstream processes for recovering the desired aromatic compounds generated. | 11-01-2012 |
| 20130006028 | CATALYTIC CRACKING APPARATUS AND PROCESS - The present invention discloses catalytic cracking apparatus and process, which are useful for catalytic cracking of heavy oils with a high heavy oil conversion, a high propylene yield and low dry gas and coke yields. | 01-03-2013 |
| 20130079569 | FLUID CATALYTIC CRACKING PROCESS - One exemplary embodiment can be a process for fluid catalytic cracking. The process may include providing a first feed having a boiling point of about 180-about 800° C. to a first riser reactor, and providing a second feed having first and second parts to a second reactor. Typically, the first part includes one or more C5-C12 hydrocarbons and a second part includes one or more C4-C5 hydrocarbons. Generally, an effective amount of the second part is combined with the first part to maximize production of propene. | 03-28-2013 |
| 20130102820 | PROCESSES AND SYSTEMS FOR THE STAGED SYNTHESIS OF ALKYL BROMIDES - Processes and systems for synthesizing hydrocarbon products, such as high molecular weight hydrocarbons, olefins or mixtures thereof, from alkyl bromides wherein one or more streams of alkyl bromides may be reacted in sequential or concurrent stages at different temperatures. The catalyst used in the synthesis stages may be the same or different and at least in one instance is chosen to form hydrocarbon products having a significant C | 04-25-2013 |
| 20130158316 | INITIAL HYDROTREATING OF NAPHTHENES WITH SUBSEQUENT HIGH TEMPERATURE REFORMING - A process for the production of aromatics through the reforming of a hydrocarbon stream is presented. The process utilizes the differences in properties of components within the hydrocarbon stream to increase the energy efficiency. The differences in the reactions of different hydrocarbon components in the conversion to aromatics allows for different treatments of the different components to reduce the energy used in reforming process. | 06-20-2013 |
| 20130165715 | COMBINED XYLENE ISOMERIZATION AND TRANSALKYLATION PROCESS UNIT - The xylene isomerization process unit and the transalkylation process units are combined in the present invention. A fractionation column can be shared by the two units, reducing the capital cost of the complex. In some embodiments, a split shell fractionation column and a split separator can be used. | 06-27-2013 |
| 20130165716 | INTEGRATED PROCESS FOR THE PREPARATION OF AN AROMATIC PRODUCT - A process preparing an aromatic product comprising xylene, the process comprising: a) cracking a feedstock to obtain a cracker effluent comprising olefins and aromatics; b) converting an oxygenate feedstock in an oxygenate-to-olefins conversion system, comprising a reaction zone in which an oxygenate feedstock is contacted with a catalyst to obtain a conversion effluent comprising benzene, toluene, xylene and olefins; c) combining at least part of the cracker effluent and at least part of the conversion effluent to obtain a combined effluent, the combined effluent comprising aromatics; d) separating at least a portion of the benzene and/or toluene from the combined effluent to form a benzene and/or toluene stream; e) separating the olefins from the combined effluent; f) separating xylene from the combined effluent to form a xylene stream; and g) recycling at least a part of the benzene and/or toluene streams as recycled aromatics to step b). | 06-27-2013 |
| 20130225886 | PROCESS FOR INCREASING AROMATICS PRODUCTION - Processes for producing aromatics from a naphtha feedstream are provided. An exemplary process includes passing the feedstream to a fractionation unit, thereby generating a first stream including hydrocarbons having less than 8 carbon atoms and a second stream including hydrocarbons having at least 8 carbon atoms. The first stream is passed to a first reformer operated at a first set of reaction conditions to generate a first product stream. The first set of reaction conditions includes a first temperature and a first pressure. The second stream is passed to a second reformer operated at a second set of reaction conditions to generate a second product stream. The second set of reaction conditions includes a second temperature and a second pressure. The first pressure is lower than the second pressure. | 08-29-2013 |
| 20130237730 | PROCESS FOR PRODUCING CUMENE - A process of producing isopropyl benzene which solves the problem of high amount of n-propyl benzene according to the prior art. The process separates the polyisopropyl benzene through a suitable rectification into two streams of relatively lighter and heavier components, wherein the content of diisopropylbenzene in the stream of relatively lighter components is controlled to be at least greater than 95 wt %, and the content of tri-isopropyl benzene in the stream of relatively heavier components is controlled to be at least greater than 0.5 wt %. Such a technical solution subjecting the two streams respectively to the transalkylation solves the problem raised from the prior art, and is useful for the industrial production of isopropyl benzene. | 09-12-2013 |
| 20130281748 | METHOD FOR PREPARING 1,3-BUTADIENE AS HIGH YIELD - Disclosed is a method for producing 1,3-butadiene through oxidative dehydrogenation of normal-butene using a parallel reactor in which catalysts are charged into fixed bed reactors and are not physically mixed. More specifically, disclosed is a method for efficiently producing 1,3-butadiene through oxidative dehydrogenation of normal-butene using the parallel reactor containing multi-component bismuth molybdate-based catalysts exhibiting different activities to oxidative dehydrogenation for normal-butene isomers (1-butene, trans-2-butene and cis-2-butene), and butene separated from a C4 mixture containing normal-butene and normal-butane, as a reactant. | 10-24-2013 |
| 20140012053 | NATURAL GAS PROCESSING AND SYSTEMS - Natural gas and petrochemical processing systems including oxidative coupling of methane reactor systems that integrate process inputs and outputs to cooperatively utilize different inputs and outputs of the various systems in the production of higher hydrocarbons from natural gas and other hydrocarbon feedstocks. | 01-09-2014 |
| 20140128649 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR ISOMERIZATION OF PARAFFINS - Embodiments of methods and apparatuses for isomerization of paraffins are provided. In one example, a method comprises the steps of compressing a C | 05-08-2014 |
| 20140187831 | PROCESS FOR INCREASING BENZENE AND TOLUENE PRODUCTION - A process for reforming a hydrocarbon stream is presented. The process involves splitting a naphtha feedstream to at least two feedstreams and passing each feedstream to separation reformers. The reformers are operated under different conditions to utilize the differences in the reaction properties of the different hydrocarbon components. The process utilizes a common catalyst, and common downstream processes for recovering the desired aromatic compounds generated. | 07-03-2014 |
| 20140221712 | UPGRADING RAW SHALE-DERIVED CRUDE OILS TO HYDROCARBON DISTILLATE FUELS - Integrated processes for upgrading crude shale-derived oils, such as those produced by oil shale retorting or by in situ extraction or combinations thereof. Processes disclosed provide for a split-flow processing scheme to upgrade whole shale oil. The split flow concepts described herein, i.e., naphtha and kerosene hydrotreating in one or more stages and gas oil hydrotreating in one or more stages, requires additional equipment as compared to the alternative approach of whole oil hydrotreating. While contrary to conventional wisdom as requiring more capital equipment to achieve the same final product specifications, the operating efficiency vis a vis on-stream time efficiency and product quality resulting from the split flow concept far exceed in value the somewhat incrementally higher capital expenditure costs. | 08-07-2014 |
| 20140249341 | COMBINED XYLENE ISOMERIZATION AND TRANSALKYLATION PROCESS UNIT - The xylene isomerization process unit and the transalkylation process units are combined in the present invention. A fractionation column can be shared by the two units, reducing the capital cost of the complex. In some embodiments, a split shell fractionation column and a split separator can be used. | 09-04-2014 |
| 20140357912 | PROCESS FOR CATALYTIC CONVERSION OF LOW VALUE HYDROCARBON STREAMS TO LIGHT OLEFINS - A process for catalytic conversion of low value hydrocarbon streams to light olefins in comparatively higher yields is disclosed. Propylene is obtained in amounts higher than 20 wt. % and ethylene higher than 6 wt. %. The process is carried out in a preheated cracking reactor having a single riser and circulating an FCC catalyst. The riser is divided into three temperature zones in which different hydrocarbon feeds are introduced. An oxygenate feed is introduced in the operative top zone in the riser. Heat for the endothermic cracking is obtained by the exothermic reaction of converting the oxygenate feed into gas and/or from a regenerator in which the spent FCC catalyst is burnt. | 12-04-2014 |
| 20150031928 | PROCESSES AND APPARATUSES FOR PREPARING AROMATIC COMPOUNDS - Processes and apparatuses for preparing aromatic compounds are provided herein. In an embodiment, a process for preparing aromatic compounds includes providing a first stream that includes an aromatic component, a non-aromatic component, and a sulfur-containing component. The aromatic component and the sulfur-containing component are separated from the non-aromatic component of the first stream to form a separated aromatic stream and a raffinate stream. The separated aromatic stream includes the aromatic component and the sulfur-containing component. The raffinate stream includes the non-aromatic component. The separated aromatic stream is concurrently transalkylated and desulfurized in the presence of a catalyst that includes acid function and metal function to produce a transalkylated aromatic stream and a sulfur-containing gas stream that is separate from the transalkylated aromatic stream. | 01-29-2015 |
| 20150051430 | Process and Apparatus for the Production of Paraxylene - A process for the production of paraxylene is disclosed, including utilizing a crystallization unit and a selective adsorption unit to produce paraxylene-rich streams comprising 99.7+wt % paraxylene and paraxylene-depleted streams comprising 10 to 15 wt % paraxylene. A portion of the paraxylene-depleted stream from the crystallization unit is passed through a liquid phase isomerization to produce an isomerized product containing xylenes at equilibrium or near-equilibrium concentration of 24 wt %. | 02-19-2015 |
| 20150291484 | PROCESSES FOR THE PREPARATION OF AN OLEFINIC PRODUCT - The invention provides a process for preparing an olefin, comprising:
| 10-15-2015 |
| 20150299067 | PROCESSES FOR THE PREPARATION OF AN OLEFINIC PRODUCT - The invention provides a process for the preparation of an olefinic product, comprising: | 10-22-2015 |
| 20150299584 | FLEXIBLE GASOLINE PROCESS USING MULTIPLE FEEDSTOCKS - A flexible process for gasoline refineries is described. The process can vary depending on the available feedstock and the desired products. At one time, the process can involve disproportionating pentanes to a product mixture including isobutane and isohexane. At other times, by switching the feedstock and operating conditions, the process can convert a mixture of C | 10-22-2015 |
| 20150353439 | PROCESS FOR THE PREPARATION OF AN OLEFINIC PRODUCT COMPRISING ETHYLENE AND/OR PROPYLENE - The invention provides a process for the preparation of an olefinic product comprising ethylene and/or propylene comprising: a) steam cracking a paraffinic feedstock to obtain an effluent comprising olefins; b) converting an oxygenate to obtain a gaseous effluent comprising olefins; c) subjecting both effluents to water removal and compression steps, wherein the effluents are combined before the water removal step, between the water removal and the compression steps or after the compression step to obtain a combined gaseous effluent; d) removing acid gas from the combined gaseous effluent obtained in step c), wherein the combined gaseous effluent is treated with a caustic solution in a caustic tower and a non-aqueous liquid stream comprising one or more aromatic C7 | 12-10-2015 |
| 585303000 | And passage to further reaction | 18 |
| 20100004493 | Integrated Process - The invention relates to the integration of plural processes around a single device. The plural processes are characterized by having at least two separate and distinct feedstreams, two separate and distinct products, or a combination thereof. | 01-07-2010 |
| 20100286459 | REACTION ZONE COMPRISING TWO RISERS IN PARALLEL AND A COMMON GAS-SOLID SEPARATION ZONE, FOR THE PRODUCTION OF PROPYLENE - The present invention describes a reaction zone comprising at least two fluidized reactors, a principal reactor for cracking a heavy hydrocarbon cut, the other, additional, reactor for cracking one or more light cuts, the effluents from the two reactors being treated in a common gas-solid separation and quench zone. Performance is enhanced because the thermal degradation reactions in the reaction zone are controlled in an optimum manner. | 11-11-2010 |
| 20110009681 | Methane Conversion To Higher Hydrocarbons - The present invention provides a process for the manufacture of acetylene and other higher hydrocarbons from methane feed using a reverse-flow reactor system, wherein the reactor system includes (i) a first reactor and (ii) a second reactor, the first and second reactors oriented in a series relationship with respect to each other, the process comprising supplying each of first and second reactant through separate channels in the first reactor bed of a reverse-flow reactor such that both of the first and second reactants serve to quench the first reactor bed, without the first and second reactants substantially reacting with each other until reaching the core of the reactor system. | 01-13-2011 |
| 20110218374 | PROCESSES AND SYSTEMS FOR THE STAGED SYNTHESIS OF ALKYL BROMIDES - Processes and systems for synthesizing hydrocarbon products, such as high molecular weight hydrocarbons, olefins or mixtures thereof, from alkyl bromides wherein one or more streams of alkyl bromides may be reacted in sequential or concurrent stages at different temperatures. The catalyst used in the synthesis stages may be the same or different and at least in one instance is chosen to form hydrocarbon products having a significant C | 09-08-2011 |
| 20130102821 | Processes and Systems for Separate, Parallel Methane and Higher Alkanes' Bromination - Process and systems for alkane bromination and, in one or more embodiments, to separate, parallel methane and higher alkanes bromination in a bromine-based process. An embodiment discloses a bromine-based process for converting alkanes to liquid hydrocarbons that includes alkanes bromination, the process comprising: brominating a methane stream comprising methane and having less than about 2 mol % of ethane to form methane bromination products comprising brominated methane and a first fraction of hydrogen bromide; separately brominating a C2+ alkane stream comprising an alkane having 2 or more carbon atoms to form C2+ methane bromination products comprising brominated alkanes having 2 or more carbon atoms and a second fraction of hydrogen bromide; and catalytically reacting at least a portion of the brominated methane and the brominated alkanes to form higher molecular hydrocarbons. | 04-25-2013 |
| 20130102822 | Process for the Production of Butadiene - Processes are provided for the production of butadiene from C | 04-25-2013 |
| 20130158317 | INITIAL HYDROTREATING OF NAPHTHENES WITH SUBSEQUENT HIGH TEMPERATURE REFORMING - A process for the production of aromatics through the reforming of a hydrocarbon stream is presented. The process utilizes the differences in properties of components within the hydrocarbon stream to increase the energy efficiency. The differences in the reactions of different hydrocarbon components in the conversion to aromatics allows for different treatments of the different components to reduce the energy used in reforming process. | 06-20-2013 |
| 20130217934 | PROCESS FOR PRODUCING AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS AND ETHYLENE - The present invention provides a process for producing aromatic hydrocarbons and ethylene, comprising: a. contacting a lower alkane feed comprising at least one of ethane, propane and butane with an aromatic hydrocarbon conversion catalyst within an alkane-to-aromatic zone to obtain at least hydrogen and aromatic reaction products, including at least benzene; b. converting an oxygenate feedstock in an oxygenate-to-olefin zone to obtain olefins, including at least ethylene; wherein at least part of the oxygenate feedstock is obtained by providing at least part of the hydrogen obtained in step a) and a feed containing carbon monoxide and/or carbon dioxide to an oxygenate synthesis zone and synthesizing oxygenates. In another aspect the invention provides an integrated system for aromatic hydrocarbons and ethylene and the use of hydrogen obtained from a process to convert lower alkanes to benzene to produce an oxygenate feed for an oxygenate-to-olefin process. | 08-22-2013 |
| 20130261359 | PROCESS FOR INCREASING WEIGHT OF OLEFINS - The process converts FCC olefins to heavier compounds. The heavier compounds are more easily separated from the unconverted paraffins. The heavier compounds can be recycled to an FCC unit or delivered to a separate FCC unit. Suitable conversion zones are oligomerization and aromatic alkylation zones. | 10-03-2013 |
| 20130267745 | PROCESS FOR PRODUCTION OF HYDROCARBON CHEMICALS FROM CRUDE OIL - An integrated process comprising to convert crude oil, comprising: converting crude oil ( | 10-10-2013 |
| 20140114104 | PROCESS AND APPARATUS FOR PRODUCING OLEFINS WITH HEAT TRANSFER FROM STEAM CRACKING TO ALCOHOL DEHYDRATION PROCESS - A method of producing ethylene and, optionally, propylene comprising: a) subjecting a feedstock to steam cracking to produce a first olefin containing stream; b) heating an ethanol containing stream with heat from a steam cracker; c) passing the heated ethanol containing stream over a dehydration catalyst at a temperature between 200 C to 500 C preferably 250 C to 450 C to produce a second olefin containing stream; d) combining the first and second olefin containing streams to give an initial product stream comprising ethylene and optionally propylene; and e) subjecting the initial product stream to purification comprising at least i) water content reduction ii) hydrogen content reduction iii) reduction of content of molecules containing 4 or more carbon atoms and iv) ethane content reduction. | 04-24-2014 |
| 20140171704 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR PRODUCING ETHYLENE AND PROPYLENE FROM NAPHTHA FEEDSTOCK - Method and apparatuses for producing ethylene and propylene from naphtha feedstock are provided. The naphtha feedstock includes a first component consisting of hydrocarbons that have less than or equal to five carbon atoms and a second component. The second component consists of at least one of an isoparaffin component having at least six carbon atoms, a naphthene component having at least six carbon atoms, or an aromatic component having at least six carbon atoms. The naphtha feedstock is separated to produce a first separation stream including the first component and a second separation stream including the second component. At least a portion of the second component from the second separation stream is converted to normal paraffins. Normal paraffins from conversion of the second component and at least a portion of the first component or derivative thereof from the first separation stream are steam cracked to produce ethylene and propylene. | 06-19-2014 |
| 20140187832 | PROCESS FOR INCREASING BENZENE AND TOLUENE PRODUCTION - A process for reforming a hydrocarbon stream is presented. The process involves splitting a naphtha feedstream to at least two feedstreams and passing each feedstream to separation reformers. The reformers are operated under different conditions to utilize the differences in the reaction properties of the different hydrocarbon components. The process utilizes a common catalyst, and common downstream processes for recovering the desired aromatic compounds generated. | 07-03-2014 |
| 20140213837 | PROCESS FOR INCREASING WEIGHT OF OLEFINS - The process converts FCC olefins to heavier compounds. The heavier compounds are more easily separated from the unconverted paraffins. The heavier compounds can be recycled to an FCC unit or delivered to a separate FCC unit. Suitable conversion zones are oligomerization and aromatic alkylation zones. | 07-31-2014 |
| 20140275675 | DUAL RISER FLUID BED PROCESS AND REACTOR - Processes and systems for cracking feeds to produce olefins are provided. The process for cracking feeds can include converting a first feed containing at least about 50 wt % methanol in a first riser under a first set of process conditions to produce a first effluent enriched in ethylene, propylene, or a mixture thereof, wherein the first effluent contains at least about 25 wt % dry basis propylene and converting a second feed containing C | 09-18-2014 |
| 20150141719 | PRODUCTION OF HYDROCARBON LIQUIDS - A process to efficiently convert organic feedstock material into liquid non-oxygenated hydrocarbons in the C | 05-21-2015 |
| 20150322355 | APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR CRACKING HYDROCARBONS - Methods and apparatuses are provided for cracking a hydrocarbon. The method includes contacting a first hydrocarbon stream with a first cracking catalyst at a first cracking temperature in a first riser to produce a first riser effluent and a first spent catalyst. A second hydrocarbon stream is contacted with a second cracking catalyst at a second cracking temperature in a second riser to produce a second riser effluent and a second spent catalyst, where the second cracking temperature is less than the first cracking temperature. The first riser effluent and the second riser effluent are combined to produce a mixed riser effluent, and the mixed riser effluent is fractionated in a fractionation zone to produce a light cycle oil. The first spent catalyst and the second spent catalyst are combined in a reactor to produce a mixed spent catalyst. | 11-12-2015 |
| 20160177201 | METHODS FOR CO-PROCESSING RENEWABLE FEEDSTOCK AND PETROLEUM DISTILLATE FEEDSTOCK | 06-23-2016 |
