US3434961A - Production of liquefied petroleum gas from olefin hydrogenation during catalytic reforming - Google Patents

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US3434961A
US3434961A US653454A US3434961DA US3434961A US 3434961 A US3434961 A US 3434961A US 653454 A US653454 A US 653454A US 3434961D A US3434961D A US 3434961DA US 3434961 A US3434961 A US 3434961A
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  • the present invention relates to a method for producing liquefied petroleum gases by injecting normally gaseous olefins directly into a catalytic reformer with a conventional naphtha feed without decreasing the space velocity of the feed.
  • the invention is thus related to the petroleum processing or petroleum refinery field.
  • Hydrofor-ming is a process used to increase the octane number of hydrocarbon fractions boiling in the naphtha boiling range.
  • Hydroforming has been defined as an operation conducted at elevated temperatures and pressures in which the naphtha feed is contacted with a solid catalytic material in the presence of hydrogen. The process is so operated that there is usually a net production of hydrogen. Hydrogen produced may be recycled.
  • hydroforming will be used to refer to the process of catalytic reforming in the presence of hydrogen.
  • fixed bed hydroforming there are two principal methods of hydroforming. These methods are referred to as fixed bed hydroforming and fluid hydroforming.
  • the fixed bed method of hydroforming the usual procedure is to pass a naphtha feed mixed with hydrogen rich gas successively through a bank or group of reactors with reheating of the reaction mixture between each reactor.
  • Such a hydroforming system normally comprises three or four reactors operating in series and the system may be regenerative, semiregenerative, or nonregenerative.
  • the fluid bed method of hydroforming consists of only one reactor zone or vessel and utilizes the fluid solids technique to maintain circulation of the finely divided catalyst particles between the reactor and regenerator. It is to be understood that the present invention may be utilized in either the fixed bed or fluid bed method of hydroforming.
  • the reforming of straight-nun gasolines or naphthas is endothermic, but the degree of endothermicity depends primarily upon the extent of conversion, particularly the relevant amounts of hydrocracking, which is exothermic, and aromatization, which is endothermic.
  • the over-all temperature drop can be as much as 200 F. or more.
  • the object of this invention is to provide a method for producing saturated aliphatic hydrocarbons from normally gaseous olefins by injecting such olefins into a hydroforming zone together with the conventional hydroformer feed.
  • the saturated aliphatic hydrocarbons so produced are suitable for use as liquefied petroleum gas.
  • saturated aliphatic hydrocarbons may be produced by injecting normally gaseous olefins into the hydroformer or hydroforming zone with a conventional naphtha feed without a decrease in space velocity of the feed. Almost complete conversion of the normally gaseous olefins is obtained in this manner. The octane number of the reformate is increased even when the overall space velocity is increased. The heat from hydrogenation of the normally gaseous olefins compensates partly for the temperature drop caused by the dehydrogenation of naphthenes during reforming. Smaller furnaces may thus the used for reheating during the hydroforming process.
  • Singular features of this invention are the use of one conventional hydroforming catalyst to carry out two reactions in the hydroforming zone and the use of normally gaseous olefins, which the prior art taught were undesirable in the hydroformer process, to produce saturated aliphatics for LPG production with an increase in the quantity and quality of the naphtha yield.
  • This process enables a refiner to produce liquefied petroleum gases from normally gaseous olefin streams available in the refinery without large additional capital investment.
  • the great demand for liquefied petroleum gases usually a seasonal demand, can thus be met using existing streams in the refinery without the necessity for constructing special equipment for this process, since hydroforming is a process generally found in refineries today, especially refineries geared to the production of high octane gasolines.
  • This invention is of special utility since an additional product can be produced with existing equipment with an actual increase in the efficiency of the normal hydroforming process.
  • Reactor 7 will be referred to as a fixed bed type reactor, but this in no way limits the scope of the invention.
  • a hydrofined or low sulfur naphtha fraction, boiling in the range of 400 F. is introduced into line 2.
  • hydrogen or hydrogen rich recycle gas is introduced into line 2 by means of line 4, and normally gaeous olefins are introduced into line 2 by means of line 3.
  • This mixture passes through line 2 and enters furnace 5 where it is heated to a temperature of about 900 to about 1000 F.
  • the heated mixture passes through line 6 to reactor 7 wherein the heated mixture contacts a fixed bed of platinum on alumina-based catalyst contained in the reactor.
  • the temperature, pressure and other operating conditions in reactor 7, which will be hereinafter described, are adjusted to secure a hydroforming operation.
  • the hydroformed mixture leaves reactor 7 via line 8 and is cooled and partially condensed in cooler 9. From cooler 9, the hydroformate is introduced into separator 11 via line 10 where hydrogen containing gas which passes out the top is separated from the remaining mixture of liquid product. The hydrogen-containing gas passes out of separator 10 through line 4 and is recycled to line 2.
  • the liquid from separator 11 passes through line 13 to depropanizer 17 where the saturated aliphatic hydrocarbons and lighter materials suitable for liquefied petroleum gas manufacture are withdrawn overhead through line 15.
  • the liquid material remaining in depropanizer 14 is passed via line 16 to debutanizer 17 where butanes are separated and withdrawn via line 18.
  • the debutanized reformate is withdrawn via line 19.
  • the feedstock which is used in the present invention is a naphtha fraction boiling in the range of 140 to 400 F.
  • the naphtha fraction may be virgin naphtha, cracked naphtha or paraffinic naphtha. It is usually preferred that the feedstock be hydrofined or at least that the sulfur content of the feed to the hydroformer be kept at a level which does not poison the hydroformer catalyst.
  • the catalyst used in this invention is a platinum catalyst supported on an acidic alumina base.
  • the acidity of the base of this catalyst is equivalent to from 0 to about 0.5 wt. percent chlorine based on the total catalyst composition.
  • a commonly used composition of a catalyst used in normal hydroforming operation is one containing from 0.001 to 2.0 wt. percent platinum, 0.5 to 1.5 wt. percent chlorine and the remainder an absorptive alumina spacing agent or base.
  • the catalyst may be made by methods known to the art. The process of the present invention may be more fully understood by the following examples illustrating the same.
  • Table II shows a propylene balance for the three operating temperatures assuming that the addition of propylene did not change the C yield from virgin naphtha. About wt. percent of the propylene was recovered as propane. The remainder could be attributed to increase in C C C and C reformate.
  • Table III presents a hydrogen balance. As expected, the addition of propylene reduced the hydrogen yield. The measured decrease in hydrogen yield agreed well with the calculated amount of hydrogen required to saturate the portion of propylene that was recovered as propane.
  • olefins in the C C range are preferred, since the best quality LPGs are most efficiently produced from the saturated aliphatics produced from such olefins.
  • this invention shows a method of converting normally gaseous olefins to saturated aliphatic hydrocarbons which can then be converted to liquefied petroleum gases.
  • This invention requires no additional capital expenditure in the normal refinery and enables desirable liquefied petroleum gas products to be produced without adversely affecting yields of high octane gasoline.
  • olefins such as ethylene and butylenes may be employed.
  • the purity of the gaseous olefin is not critical. Mixtures of olefins which may also contain paraflins can also be processed by this invention.
  • a process for converting normally gaseous olefins to the corresponding saturated aliphatic hydrocarbons which comprises injecting a feedstream comprising said olefins and naphtha into a hydroforming zone under hydroforming conditions in the presence of a hydroforming catalyst to convert the olefins to said saturated aliphatic hydrocarbons, and then separating said saturated aliphatic hydrocarbons from the hydroformate produced in the hydroforming zone.
  • hydroforming conditions comprise a temperature of from about 600 to about 950 F. and a pressure of from about atmospheric to about 1500' p.s.i.g.

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US3156640A (en) * 1960-09-09 1964-11-10 Shell Oil Co Combined hydroisomerization-desulfurization process
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US2865837A (en) * 1956-09-04 1958-12-23 Exxon Research Engineering Co Reforming hydrocarbons for enhanced yields
US3156640A (en) * 1960-09-09 1964-11-10 Shell Oil Co Combined hydroisomerization-desulfurization process
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