Mobil-Badger technologies for benzene reduction in gasoline

Miscellaneous · Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1993

OSTI ID:7074614

Goelzer, A R; Ram, S; Hernandez, A ^[1]; Chin, A A; Harandi, M N; Smith, C M ^[2]

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1. Badger Engineers, Inc., Cambridge, MA (United States)
2. Mobil Research and Development Corp., Princeton, NJ (United States) Mobil Research and Development Corp., Paulsboro, NJ (United States)

Many refiners will need to reduce the barrels per day of benzene entering the motor gasoline pool. Mobil and Badger have developed and now jointly license three potential refinery alternatives to conventional benzene hydrosaturation to achieve this: Mobil Benzene Reduction, Ethylbenzene and Cumene. The Mobil Benzene Reduction Process (MBR) uses dilute olefins in FCC offgas to extensively alkylate dilute benzene as found in light reformate, light FCC gasoline, or cyclic C[sub 6] naphtha. MBR raises octanes and lowers C[sub 5]+ olefins. MBR does not involve costly hydrogen addition. The refinery-based Mobil/Badger Ethylbenzene Process reacts chemical-grade benzene extracted from light reformate with dilute ethylene found in treated FCC offgas to make high-purity ethylbenzene. EB is the principal feedstock for the production of styrene. The Mobil/Badger Cumene Process alkylates FCC-derived dilute propylene and extracted benzene to selectively yield isopropyl benzene (cumene). Cumene is the principal feedstock for the production of phenol. All three processes use Mobil developed catalysts.

• OSTI ID: 7074614
• Resource Relation: Other Information: Paper AM-93-19
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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