Chemistry of hydrocarbon compounds – Purification – separation – or recovery – By plural serial diverse separations
Patent
1998-07-15
2000-01-18
Griffin, Walter D.
Chemistry of hydrocarbon compounds
Purification, separation, or recovery
By plural serial diverse separations
585264, 585802, 585809, 585833, C07C 700, C07O 710
Patent
active
060159332
ABSTRACT:
A process to remove polymeric by-products from the product of an acetylene selective hydrogenation reactor has been developed. The product is generated by introducing hydrogen and a liquid hydrocarbon stream containing largely butadiene and some acetylenes to a reactor containing a catalyst effective for the selective hydrogenation of acetylenes. The product contains at least hydrogen, butadiene, and polymeric by-products. The pressure of the product is reduced and the product cooled. The cooled product is conducted to a low pressure flash drum to produce a hydrogen enriched stream and a butadiene and polymeric by-product-enriched stream. The hydrogen-enriched stream is removed. The butadiene and polymeric by-product is passed to a knockout drum to produce a stream enriched in butadiene and polymeric by-products having less than about 12 carbon atoms and a stream enriched in polymeric by-products having about 12 or more carbon atoms. The stream enriched in polymeric by-products having about 12 or more carbon atoms is removed from the process. Polymeric by-products containing less than about 12 carbon atoms may be removed from the remaining stream by conducting a solvent and the stream enriched in butadiene and polymeric by-products containing less than about 12 carbon atoms to an extractive distillation column. In the extractive distillation column, the butadiene and polymeric by-products containing less than about 12 carbon atoms are carried with the solvent and removed in a bottoms stream as an extract mixture while the butanes and butenes are removed in an extractive distillation overhead stream. The bottoms extract stream is conducted to a stripper column where the solvent and the polymeric by-products are separated from the butadiene.
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Abrevaya Hayim
Vora Bipin V.
Griffin Walter D.
Maas Maryann
McBride Thomas K.
Molinaro Frank S.
Nguyen Tam M.
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