Catalyst – solid sorbent – or support therefor: product or process – Regenerating or rehabilitating catalyst or sorbent – Gas or vapor treating
Patent
1989-11-16
1990-12-11
Konopka, Paul E.
Catalyst, solid sorbent, or support therefor: product or process
Regenerating or rehabilitating catalyst or sorbent
Gas or vapor treating
208140, 502 37, B01J 3824, B01J 2732, B01J 2396, C10G 3512
Patent
active
049771191
ABSTRACT:
Method and apparatus for effecting treatment needed to regenerate spent hydrocarbon conversion catalyst. The invention may be termed a variable gas flow catalyst bed. Catalyst particles in a vertically-elongated movable bed are contacted with a hot oxygen-containing gas stream in order to remove, by means of combustion, coke which accumulated on the catalyst particles while they were used in a hydrocarbon conversion zone. The catalyst particles are confined in the bed by means of catalyst retention screens. The catalyst retention screens are configured such that gas flow through the bed varies from a maximum at the top of the bed to a minimum at the bottom of the bed. The variation in gas flow is accomplished by varying the size of gas flow apertures in the retention screens from a maximum at the top of the bed to a minimum at the bottom of the bed. The varying gas flow pattern results in the delivery of oxygen in a manner which more closely matches the oxygen requirement for combustion at each point in the bed, thus increasing the coke burning capacity of the bed. Catalyst reforming is an example of a hydrocarbon conversion process in which the invention may be advantageously employed.
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Konopka Paul E.
McBride Thomas K.
Tolomei John G.
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