Mineral oils: processes and products – Chemical conversion of hydrocarbons – Cracking
Reexamination Certificate
1998-10-15
2001-04-03
Myers, Helane E. (Department: 1764)
Mineral oils: processes and products
Chemical conversion of hydrocarbons
Cracking
C208S114000, C208S113000, C208S120010, C208S120050, C585S648000, C585S650000, C585S651000, C585S652000, C585S653000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06210562
ABSTRACT:
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a catalytic pyrolysis process of heavy hydrocarbons, and mole particularly to a process for producing light olefins, especially ethylene and propylene, by catalytic pyrolysis of heavy hydrocarbons using catalyst in the presence of steam.
DESCRIPTION OF THE PRIOR ART
The conventional ethylene production technology is the known tubular furnace steam cracking, which requires light hydrocarbons as feedstock, such as ethane, propane, butane, natural gas, naphtha or light gas oil.
As crude oils are becoming heavier, and the supply of light hydrocarbons is limited, great attention has been paid to developing new technologies for directly converting heavy hydrocarbons into ethylene. For example, heavy hydrocarbon thermal cracking using coke particles or quartz as a heat carrier, heavy hydrocarbon thermo-catalytic cracking using alkaline metal oxides or alkaline-earth metal oxides as catalyst, etc. These methods all need reaction temperatures higher than 800° C.
Recently, some methods using solid acidic catalysts in certain types of reactors under certain operating conditions for converting heavy hydrocarbons to light olefins have been introduced and reported in various patents. For example, DD 152,356A discloses a method for producing light olefins using amorphous aluminosilicate catalyst and a fixed or moving bed reactor, when using VGO as feedstock, 13.5 wt % ethylene and 6.3 wt % propylene are obtained under a reaction temperature of 700° C. and a steam to feedstock weight ratio of 4.7. JP 60-222,428 discloses a process using ZSM-5 zeolite as active component of the catalyst and C
5
~C
25
paraffin hydrocarbons as feedstock, the total yield of ethylene, propylene and butene reaches about 30 wt % at a temperature of 600° C. to 750° C. and a weight hourly space velocity of 20 to 300 h
−1
. U.S. Pat. No. 4,980,053 discloses a process for production of propylene and butene in a fluidized or moving bed reactor using solid acidic catalyst at a temperature of 500° C. to 650° C., with a weight hourly space velocity of 0.2 to 20 h
−1
and the catalyst to feedstock weight ratio of 2:1 to 12:1, 5.9 wt % ethylene, 21.9 wt % propylene and 15.6 wt % butylene are obtained at a reaction temperature of 580° C. using VGO as feedstock and a catalyst with ZSM-5 zeolite as active component and kaolin as matrix. CN1069016A discloses a process for the production of C
2
=
as well as C
3
=
and C
4
=
by converting heavy hydrocarbons in a fluidized bed or piston flow reactor under the main reaction conditions: at a temperature of 650~900 ° C., a pressure of 0.13~0.28 MPa, a catalyst/oil ratio of 5~35, a contact time of 0.1~3 sec., the yield of C
2
=
reaches 17-27 wt %, with the total yield of C
2
=
~C
4
=
up to 30~40 wt %.
In CN1083092A, molecular sieve catalyst containing a pillared interlayered clay and /or a high silica zeolite catalyst containing rare earth are/is used for cracking heavy hydrocarbons under the conditions of at 680~780° C., 1.5~4.0×Mpa, a reaction time of 0.1~3.0 sec., with a water/oil ratio of 0.2-2.0, and a catalyst/oil ratio of 5~40, a yield of 23 wt % C
2
=
is obtained, with the yield of C
2
=
~C
4
=
being 50 wt %.
OBJECTS OF THE INVENTION
The object of the present invention is to provide a novel process for producing light olefins, especially ethylene and propylene, from heavy hydrocarbons in a riser or downfow transfer line reactor. Other objects of the present invention can be learned from the content of the specification of the present invention including the clam.
The object of the present invention is achieved by the technical solution described below.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
In the process of the present invention, heavy hydrocarbons are contacted with hot pillared interlayered clay molecular sieve and/or phosphorus and aluminum or magnesium or calcium modified high silica zeolite having a structure of pentasil containing catalysts in a riser or downflow transfer line reactor and catalytically pyrolysed under given operating conditions. The reaction effluent, steam and spent catalyst are separated by a rapid gas-solid separation system, the reaction effluent is separated to obtain ethylene and propylene containing gaseous products and liquid products, and the spent catalyst is further removed to a stripper. After stripped by steam, the spent catalyst is removed to a regenerator where it is contacted with an oxygen containing gas and is regenerated, the hot regenerated catalyst is stripped and then recycled to the reactor for reuse.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
The process provided by the present invention comprises the following steps: the preheated heavy hydrocarbons are contacted with hot pillared interlayered clay molecular sieve and/or phosphorus and aluminum or magnesium or calcium modified high silica zeolite having a structure of pentasil containing catalysts in a riser or downflow transfer line reactor and catalytically pyrolysed at a temperature of 650° C. to 750° C. and a pressure of 0.15 to 0.4 MPa, for a contact time of 0.2 to 5 seconds, a weight ratio of catalyst to feedstock of 15:1 to 40:1 and, a weight ratio of steam to feedstock of 0.3:1 to 1:1. The reaction effluent, steam and spent catalyst are separated by rapid gas-solid separation system, the reaction effluent removed from the reactor is quenched by light hydrocarbons and further separated to obtain ethylene and propylene containing gaseous products and liquid products, and the spent catalyst is further removed to the stripper. After stripped by steam, hydrocarbon products adsorbed on the catalyst are stripped out. The spent catalyst with coke deposited thereon is then removed to a regenerator, in which the regeneration is carried out by contacting the catalyst with hot oxygen-containing gas, such as air for coke burning-off. The regenerated catalyst is stripped by steam and/or other inert gases, to desorb the carried non-hydrocarbon impurities, and then recycled to the reactor for reuse. The hot regenerated catalyst provides the reaction heat for catalytic pyrolysis of heavy hydrocarbons, whereas the heat released by the spent catalyst under regeneration in the regenerator is absorbed by the regenerated catalyst which, when recycling back to the reactor, provides the heavy hydrocarbon feedstocks with the absorbed heat for carrying on the catalytic pyrolysis reaction.
The catalyst used in the process of the present invention comprises 1~70% by weight of clay, 5~85% by weight of inorganic oxides and 10~70% by weight of active component, wherein said clay is selected from kaolin and/or kaolin polyhydrate, said inorganic oxide is selected from amorphous aluminosilicate, silica or alumina, said active component is selected from pillared interlayered clay molecular sieve and/or phosphorus and aluminum or magnesium or calcium modified high silica zeolite having a structure of pentasil.
One of the active components used in the present invention is pillared interlayered clay molecular sieve, which is aluminum pillared natural or synthetic clay material with regularly interstratified or monostratified mineral clay structure using aluminum containing chemical component as pillaring agent, a quite good one among them is aluminum pillared interlayered rectorite or aluminum pillared interlayered montmorillonite, the preferable one is aluminum pillared interlayered rectorite. The structural characteristics of the rectorite and the preparations of aluminum pillared interlayered rectorite and aluminum pillared interlayered rectorite containing catalysts can be referred to prior art, for example, U.S. Pat. No. 4,757,040.
Another active components used in the present invention is phosphorus and aluminum or magnesium or calcium modified high silica zeolite having a structure of pentasil, which is a 2~8 wt % phosphorus and 0.3~3.0 wt % aluminum or magnesium or calcium (based on zeolite weight, calculated as oxides) contained high silica zeolite having the structure of ZSM-5
Li Zaiting
Shi Wenyuan
Wang Xieqing
Xie Chaogang
Birch & Stewart Kolasch & Birch, LLP
China Petro-chemical Corporation
Myers Helane E.
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