FCC Tail Gas olefins conversion to gasoline via catalytic distillation with aromatics

Conference · Fri Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1988

OSTI ID:5628898

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1. Brown and Root U.S.A., Inc., Houston, TX (US)

The goal of every refiner is to continually improve profitability by such means as increasing gasoline production, increasing gasoline octane pool and in cases where fuel balance becomes a problem, decreasing refinery fuel gas production. A new refinery process is currently being developed which accomplish these goals. Chemical Research and Licensing Company (CR and L) developed Catalytic Distillation technology in 1978 to produce MTBE. They have since used the Catalytic Distillation technique to produce cumene. CR and L has further developed this technology to convert olefin gases currently consumed as refinery fuel, to high octane gasoline components. The process, known as CATSTILL, alkylates olefin gases such as ethylene, propylene and butylene, present in FCC Tail Gas with light aromatics such as benzene, toluene and xylene, present in reformate, to produce additional quantities of high octane gasoline components. A portable CATSTILL demonstration plant has been constructed by Brown and Root U.S.A., under an agreement with CR and L, for placement in a refinery to further develop data necessary to design commercial plants. This paper presents current data relative to the CATSTILL development.

• OSTI ID: 5628898
• Report Number(s): CONF-880348--
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

02 PETROLEUM
020400* -- Petroleum-- Processing
ALKENES
ALKYLATED AROMATICS
AROMATICS
BENZENE
CATALYTIC CRACKING
CHEMICAL REACTIONS
CRACKING
DECOMPOSITION
DISTILLATION
ETHYLENE
FUELS
GASOLINE
HYDROCARBONS
LIQUID FUELS
ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
PETROLEUM PRODUCTS
PRODUCTION
PROPYLENE
PYROLYSIS
SEPARATION PROCESSES
THERMOCHEMICAL PROCESSES
TOLUENE
XYLENES