US3654135A - Process for obtaining aromatic hydrocarbons from oils and/or their residues rich in aromatic hydrocarbons and having a high content of unsaturated compounds - Google Patents

Process for obtaining aromatic hydrocarbons from oils and/or their residues rich in aromatic hydrocarbons and having a high content of unsaturated compounds Download PDF

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US3654135A
US3654135A US883591A US3654135DA US3654135A US 3654135 A US3654135 A US 3654135A US 883591 A US883591 A US 883591A US 3654135D A US3654135D A US 3654135DA US 3654135 A US3654135 A US 3654135A
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Otto Wegener
Rudolf Oberkobusch
Gerd Collin
Maximilian Zander
Herbert Buffleb
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    • C10PETROLEUM, GAS OR COKE INDUSTRIES; TECHNICAL GASES CONTAINING CARBON MONOXIDE; FUELS; LUBRICANTS; PEAT
    • C10GCRACKING HYDROCARBON OILS; PRODUCTION OF LIQUID HYDROCARBON MIXTURES, e.g. BY DESTRUCTIVE HYDROGENATION, OLIGOMERISATION, POLYMERISATION; RECOVERY OF HYDROCARBON OILS FROM OIL-SHALE, OIL-SAND, OR GASES; REFINING MIXTURES MAINLY CONSISTING OF HYDROCARBONS; REFORMING OF NAPHTHA; MINERAL WAXES
    • C10G31/00Refining of hydrocarbon oils, in the absence of hydrogen, by methods not otherwise provided for
    • C10G31/06Refining of hydrocarbon oils, in the absence of hydrogen, by methods not otherwise provided for by heating, cooling, or pressure treatment

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  • Aromatic compounds e.g., naphthalene, phenanthrene, anthracene, durene, are obtained in increased yields from oils and/or residues rich in aromatic compounds and having a high content of unsaturated compounds, by pretreating said oils or residues by a thermal treatment at increased temperature in the range of 300-500 C. and at an excess pressure of 4-30 atmospheres, subjecting the pretreated material to fractional distillation and recovering the aromatic hydrocarbons from their fractions by cooling and crystallization.
  • these oils and residues differ from coal tar, among other respects, by their relatively high content of unsaturated, olefinic and aromatic-olefinic compounds. These unsaturated components make the recovery of aromatic compounds from said oils according to conventional methods rather difi'icult, or prevent it entirely, essentially for the following reasons:
  • Said oils and residues rich in aromatic compounds contain said unsaturated compounds in addition to the compounds found in coal tar and they are, therefore, with respect to hydrocarbons, more complex mixtures than coal tar.
  • the unsaturated components have an excellent dissolving power for aromatic hydrocarbons, due to which the separation of crystalline material from the respective fractions is made difiicult and in some cases entirely prevented.
  • nents form polymers, the presence of whichin contrast to the presence of monomersdoes not adversely influonce processing.
  • said polymers remain in the sump product and can be easily separated from the hydrocarbons to be isolated.
  • the hot sump product is immediately drawn off from the distillation column, because the polymers formed would be in part depolymerized again under the existing conditions of temperature and pressure. Said depolymerization is preferably permitted to take place subsequently in a separate equipment.
  • the thermal polymerization of the unsaturated compounds present in oils and residues of varying origin can be carried out at temperatures between 300 and 500 C., preferably 350 to 400 C. and a pressure of 4 to 30 atmospheres.
  • the reaction periods are relatively short. In most cases, the process is already completed after 10 to 60 minutes. Disturbing attendant phenomena, e.g., clogging of the apparatus by the polymeric ingredients formed, do not occur.
  • the monomers polymerized by the thermal pre-treatment can be partially recovered from the pitch withdrawn from the distillation column, namely as unsaturated compounds, compounds saturated by addition of hydrogen or as compounds formed by cracking reactions.
  • the pitch flows with a temperature of 300 to 320 C. through a waste pipe into a storage vessel provided with a vapor condenser.
  • the polymers formed by the pressure and heat treatment and present in the pitch are here depolymerized at a pressure of 1 atmosphere and the secondary light oil distills off without additional sup ply of heat.
  • the distillate is obtained in an amount of 1 to 2%, based on the crude residual oil and has the following composition:
  • EXAMPLE 2 The naphthalene oil obtained from an oil residue treated at 380 C., has a crystallization point of 71 C. and the following composition:
  • the naphthalene oil obtained from said oil residue treated at 280-290 C. only has a crystallization point of 60 C. and the following composition:
  • Percent Phenanthrene 22 From said crystallized product phenanthrene and a n thracene can be isolated by conventional methods. For example, by two recrystallizations from the fourfold to fivefold amount of pyridine, anthracene is obtained in a yield of with a degree of purity of 98% (according to Montecatini). 13y redistillation of the mother liquor, the phenanthrene present therein is obtained with a degree of purity of (determined by gas-chromatography). The yield can be further increased by subjecting the anthracene oil once again to rectification, prior to crystallization.
  • EXAMPLE 4 500 parts of a naphthalene-containing oil which has been obtained from a residual oil rich in aromatic compounds as filtrate oil, are treated under superatmospheric pressure at 350 C. for 40 minutes. Prior to the thermal treatment, the oil has the following compositions:
  • composition is as follows:
  • the oil, thermally pretreated in this manner, is distilled under normal atmospheric pres sure. From the fraction boiling between to 220 C., by centrifuging at ordinary room temperature, e.g., 18- 25 C., 49.5 parts by weight of durene having a melting point of 79 C. are obtained. This corresponds to a yield of 55%, based on the durene present in the material treated.
  • the recitation oil residue rich in aromatic compounds derived from pyrolysis of benzine to ethylene is used to denote an oil residue obtained by pyrolysis of crude benzine, at temperatures of 750-1000 C. to form ethylene, propylene and other gaseous hydrocarbons, pyrolysis benzine boiling up to about 180 C. and a residual oil boiling above 180 C. and rich in aromatic compounds.
  • K.S. stands for Kraemer-Sarnow whose method for measuring the softening point is Well known in the art, see e.g. DIN 1995, February 1960, p. 18.
  • the vacuum distillation can be carried out in the range of 50 to 760 torr. The parts and percent are by weight, it not otherwise stated.
  • the starting material, used in the above Examples 2-5, is a residue obtained in cracking and processing hydrocarbon oils rich in aromatic compounds, and having a high content of unsaturated olefinic and aromatic-olefinic compounds.
  • any hydrocarbon oil or its residue rich in aromatic compounds, and having a high content of unsaturated olefinic and/or aromatic-olefinic compounds can be used as starting material in carrying out the invention.
  • a process for obtaining aromatic hydrocarbons from a starting material selected from the group consisting of oils and residues of oils, rich in aromatic hydrocarbons and having a high content of unsaturated olefinic and aromatic-olefinic compounds consisting in subjecting said starting material to a non-catalytic heat treatment at temperatures in the range of 300 to 500 C., under a pressure of 4 to 30 atmospheres during to 60 minutes in order to convert the unsaturated compounds into polymers; causing the material thus treated in direct sequence by release of the pressure to evaporate from said polymers and separating the polymers formed; distilling and con- 6 densing the rest of the material and recovering the aromatic hydrocarbons by cooling and crystallization from the condensed fractions.

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