WO2008136829A1 - Process for selective aromatics disproportionation with increased conversion - Google Patents
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- This invention relates to an improved process for the conversion of aromatic hydrocarbons, such as conversion of toluene into para-xylene. More specifically, the present invention concerns selectivation and operation of a disproportionation process at low levels of hydrogen to permit favorable coke formation and aromatics conversion.
- the xylene isomers are produced in large volumes from petroleum as feedstocks for a variety of important industrial chemicals.
- the most important of the xylene isomers is para- xylene, the principal feedstock for polyester which continues to enjoy a high growth rate from large base demand.
- Ortho-xylene is used to produce phthalic anhydride, which has high- volume but mature markets.
- Meta-xylene is used in lesser but growing volumes for such products as plasticizers, azo dyes and wood preservers.
- Ethylbenzene generally is present in xylene mixtures and is occasionally recovered for styrene production, but usually is considered a less-desirable component of C 8 aromatics.
- a current objective of many petrochemical and aromatics complexes is to increase the yield of xylenes and to de-emphasize benzene production.
- Demand is growing faster for xylene derivatives than for benzene derivatives.
- Refinery modifications are being effected to reduce the benzene content of gasoline in industrialized countries, which will increase the supply of benzene available to meet demand.
- a higher yield of xylenes at the expense of benzene thus is a favorable objective, and processes to convert toluene have been commercialized to obtain high xylene yields.
- US 4,016,219 discloses a process for toluene disproportionation using a catalyst comprising a zeolite which has been modified by the addition of phosphorus in an amount of at least 0.5 mass-%. The crystals of the zeolite are contacted with a phosphorus compound to effect reaction of the zeolite and phosphorus compound. The modified zeolite then may be incorporated into indicated matrix materials.
- US 4,097,543 discloses toluene disproportionation for the selective production of para-xylene using a zeolite which has undergone controlled pre-coking.
- the zeolite may be ion-exchanged with a variety of elements from Group IB to VIII, and composited with a variety of clays and other porous matrix materials.
- US 4,182,923 discloses a process for toluene disproportionation with a high conversion of the toluene to benzene and para-xylene by use of an aluminosilicate zeolite of silica to alumina ratio above 12 and which has been modified by treatment with ammonium hydrogen phosphate to deposit phosphorus.
- US 4,629,717 discloses a phosphorus-modified alumina hydrogel formed by gelation of a homogeneous hydrosol. The composite has a relatively high surface area of 140 to 450 m 2 /g and high activity and selectivity in 1-heptene conversion tests.
- US 6,114,592 discloses an improved process combination for the selective disproportionation of toluene.
- the combination comprises selective hydrogenation of a toluene feedstock followed by a zeolitic catalyst.
- US 6,359,185 discloses an oil-dropped zeolitic catalyst in an amorphous aluminum phosphate binder that enhances selectivity.
- US 6, 191,331 discloses a pre-coking method that avoids a large temperature rise by using a low pressure in the presence of nitrogen and a low ratio of hydrogen-to-hydrocarbon.
- US 6,429,347 discloses that running a process at a hydrogen-to-hydrocarbon ratio between 0.2 and 0.5 improves the selectivity of para-xylene and decreases the selectivity of benzene.
- Workers in the field of aromatics disproportionation continue to seek processes and catalysts having exceptionally high conversion to para-xylene from toluene combined with favorable selectivity and stability.
- a specific objective is to obtain a maximally high yield of xylenes by selective toluene disproportionation.
- This invention is based on the unexpected finding that operation at low levels of hydrogen-to-hydrocarbon promotes increased yields of para-xylene by permitting operation at higher conversion of toluene than used previously. Low levels of hydrogen also improve the selective pre-coking and conditioning of zeolitic catalysts when combined with a nitrogen diluent prior to use in the high conversion process.
- the present invention is directed to a process for the production of xylene comprising a selective disproportionation zone at conditions comprising a toluene conversion level greater than 30 wt-% and hydrogen-to-hydrocarbon ratio from 0.1 to 1.0.
- the stream is contacted with a disproportionation catalyst at disproportionation conditions.
- the disproportionation catalyst is rejuvenated by increasing the hydrogen-to-hydrocarbon ratio by at least 0.5.
- the disproportionation catalyst preferably comprises a pentasil zeolitic aluminosilicate, most preferably MFI. This catalyst is subjected to a pre-coking step prior to its use in the disproportionation zone in order to increase its selectivity to para-xylene in the product beyond its equilibrium concentration.
- FIG. 1 shows the yields of para-xylene at various hydrogen-to-hydrocarbon ratios as toluene conversion increases over a selectively pre-coked catalyst.
- FIG. 2 shows the yields of benzene at various hydrogen-to-hydrocarbon ratios as toluene conversion increases over a selectively pre-coked catalyst.
- a broad embodiment of the present invention is a selective toluene disproportionation process operating at low hydrogen-to-hydrocarbon ratio for increased selectivity to para-xylene.
- one necessary element of the process is a zeolitic catalyst which has been subjected to a pre-coking step, prior to its use for disproportionation, in order to deposit a controlled concentration of carbon on the catalyst and increase para-xylene selectivity.
- the para-xylene content of the para-xylene- rich product from disproportionation of the present invention is in excess of its equilibrium concentration at disproportionation conditions.
- the selective disproportionation process zone of the present invention comprises a molecular sieve and a refractory inorganic oxide.
- the preferred molecular sieves are zeolitic aluminosilicates, or zeolites, which may be any of those which have a SiO 2 ZAl 2 O 3 ratio greater than 10, preferably greater than 20, and a pore diameter of 5 to 8 Angstroms (A).
- zeolites which can be used are the MFI, MEL, EUO, FER, MFS, MTT, MTW, TON, MOR and FAU types of zeolites.
- Pentasil zeolites MFI, MEL, MTW and TON are preferred, and MFI-type zeolite, often designated ZSM-5, is especially preferred.
- the preparation of the preferred MFI-type zeolite is well known in the art.
- the zeolite preferably is prepared by crystallizing a mixture containing an alumina source, a silica source, an alkali metal source, water and an alkyl ammonium compound or its precursor.
- a refractory binder or matrix is utilized to facilitate fabrication of the disproportionation catalyst, provide strength and reduce fabrication costs.
- the binder should be uniform in composition and relatively refractory to the conditions used in the process.
- Suitable binders include inorganic oxides such as one or more of alumina, magnesia, zirconia, chromia, titania, boria, thoria, phosphorus oxide, zinc oxide and silica.
- Alumina and/or silica are preferred binders.
- the amount of zeolite present in the bound catalyst can vary considerably but usually is present in an amount from 30 to 90 mass-% and preferably from 50 to 80 mass-% of the catalyst.
- a preferred binder or matrix component is a phosphorus-containing alumina (hereinafter referred to as aluminum phosphate) component.
- the phosphorus may be composited with the alumina in any acceptable manner known in the art.
- the zeolite and aluminum phosphate binder are mixed and formed into particles by means well known in the art such as gellation, pilling, nodulizing, marumerizing, spray drying, extrusion or any combination of these techniques.
- a preferred method of preparing the zeolite/aluminum phosphate support involves adding the zeolite either to an alumina sol or a phosphorus compound, forming a mixture of the alumina sol/zeolite/phosphorus compound into particles by employing an oil-drop method as described herein below and calcining the spherical particles.
- the relative amount of phosphorus and aluminum expressed in molar ratios ranges from 10:1 to 1 :100, respectively, on an elemental basis.
- the zeolite is added to the aluminum phosphate hydrosol and the mixture is gelled.
- One method of gelling this mixture involves combining a gelling agent with the mixture and then dispersing the resultant combined into an oil bath or tower which has been heated to elevated temperatures such that gellation occurs with the formation of spheroidal particles.
- the gelling agents which may be used in this process are hexamethylene tetraamine, urea or mixtures thereof. The gelling agents release ammonia at the elevated temperatures which sets or converts the hydrosol spheres into hydrogel spheres.
- the combined mixture preferably is dispersed into the oil bath in the form of droplets from a nozzle, orifice or rotating disk.
- the spheres are then continuously withdrawn from the oil bath and typically subjected to specific aging and drying treatments in oil and in ammoniacal solution to further improve their physical characteristics.
- the resulting aged and gelled particles are then washed and dried at a relatively low temperature of 100° to 150 0 C and subjected to a calcination procedure at a temperature of 450° to 700 0 C for a period of 1 to 20 hours.
- the particles may be formed by spray-drying the mixture.
- conditions and equipment should be selected to obtain small spherical particles; the particles preferably should have an average diameter of less than 1.0 mm, more preferably from 0.2 to 0.8 mm, and optimally from 0.3 to 0.8 mm.
- the amount of phosphorus-containing alumina component present (as the oxide) in the catalyst can range from 10 to 70 mass-% and preferably from 20 to 50 mass-%.
- the aluminum phosphate binder/matrix optionally may contain lesser proportions of other inorganic oxides including, but not limited to, magnesia, beryllia, boria, silica, germania, tin oxide, zinc oxide, titania, zirconia, vanadia, iron oxide, chromia, cobalt oxide and the like which can be added to the hydrosol prior to dropping.
- magnesia beryllia, boria, silica, germania, tin oxide, zinc oxide, titania, zirconia, vanadia, iron oxide, chromia, cobalt oxide and the like which can be added to the hydrosol prior to dropping.
- the aluminum-phosphate binder generally is amorphous, i.e., the binder material is essentially of amorphous character. Preferably less than 10 mass-% of the binder pore volume is micropore volume, characteristic of crystalline material, and the micropore volume more preferably is less than 5% and optimally less than 2% of the pore volume.
- Crystalline aluminophosphate generally is an unsuitable binder material for preparing a strong, crush- resistant catalyst. Material that is not in an amorphous phase generally is present as gamma- alumina; as the phosphorus content of amorphous aluminum phosphate is decreased, therefore, the proportion of crystalline material is increased.
- the average bulk density of the spheres also varies with the phosphorus content, as a higher proportion of phosphorus decreases the average bulk density.
- Surface area also is controlled by phosphorus content: gamma-alumina oil- dropped spherical particles typically have surface areas up to 250 m 2 /g, while spheroidal particles of aluminum phosphate may have surface areas of up to 450 m Ig.
- Al/P atomic ratios of the binder/matrix generally range from 1/10 to 100/1, more typically from 1/5 to 20/1, and often between 1:1 and 5:1.
- the catalyst may contain a metal component, preferably selected from components of the group consisting of gallium, rhenium and bismuth.
- the catalyst consists essentially of a zeolitic aluminosilicate having a pore diameter from 5 to 8 A and an aluminum phosphate binder.
- the zeolitic catalyst is subjected to selective pre-coking to increase the proportion of para-xylene in the para-xylene-rich product above equilibrium levels at disproportionation conditions.
- the proportion of para-xylene in the product above equilibrium levels at disproportionation conditions is generally at least 80 mass-% and preferably 90 mass-% or more of the C 8 aromatics.
- Pre-coking is effected on a fresh or regenerated catalyst, prior to its use for disproportionation, for a time ranging from 0.5 hours to 10 days.
- the catalyst may be subjected to pre-coking either in-situ or ex-situ in order to increase the proportion of para- xylene in the C 8 aromatics product.
- the pre-coking is effected at conditions relative to the subsequent disproportionation step comprising one or more of a higher temperature, lower pressure, and higher space velocity.
- Such pre-coking conditions comprise a pressure of from 100 kPa to 4 MPa absolute, and a liquid hourly space velocity of from 0.2 to 20 hr "1 .
- the conditions comprise one or more of an inlet temperature at least 50 0 C higher; a pressure at least 100 kPa lower, or preferably no more than half of the pressure utilized in the subsequent disproportionation step.
- Lower pressure and/or a lower hydrogen/hydrocarbon ratio will lower the proportion of exothermic aromatic-saturation reactions, and thus restrict the temperature rise; the result thus should be a relatively flatter temperature profile.
- a typical temperature range would be from 300° to 700 0 C and a typical hydrogen to coke-forming feed range would be 0.01 to 5.
- thermally inert diluent gas such as methane, ethane, or propane is believed to be highly beneficial when included with hydrogen during the pre- coking phase.
- thermally inert diluent gas assists in controlling the temperature profile and is present in a molar ratio to coke-forming feed of 0.01 to 10, preferably in a ratio greater than 1. It is believed that the temperature profile affects the coking rate in various parts of the catalyst bed. A steep temperature gradient therefore will effect non-uniform coke deposition, and different parts of the catalyst bed thus will be selectivated to a different extent causing poorer performance in subsequent disproportionation reactions.
- Pre-coking effects a catalyst coke or carbon content of between 5 and 40 mass-% carbon, and preferably between 10 and 30 mass-% carbon.
- a coke-forming feed for pre-coking may comprise the feedstock to the disproportionation step as described hereinbelow, such as toluene, or other specific hydrocarbons or mixtures known in the art preferably comprising aromatics may be used. Further details relative to pre-coking are disclosed in US 4,097,543 and US 6,191,331 , incorporated herein by reference.
- the feedstock to the present process comprises alkylaromatic hydrocarbons of the general formula C 6 H( 6 - n )Rn, where n varies from 0 to 5 and R is CH 3 , C 2 H 5 , C 3 H 7 , or C4H9, in any combination to obtain more valuable alkylaromatics.
- Suitable alkylaromatic hydrocarbons include, for example but without so limiting the invention, benzene, toluene, xylenes, ethylbenzene, trimethylbenzenes, ethyltoluenes, propylbenzenes, tetramethylbenzenes, ethyl- dimethylbenzenes, diethylbenzenes, methylpropylbenzenes, ethylpropylbenzenes, triethylbenzenes, di-isopropylbenzenes, and mixtures thereof.
- the feedstock preferably comprises toluene, optionally in combination with C 9 aromatics, and suitably is derived from one or a variety of sources.
- Feedstocks may be produced synthetically, for example, from naphtha by catalytic reforming or by pyrolysis followed by hydrotreating to yield an aromatics-rich product.
- the feedstock may be derived from such product with suitable purity by extraction of aromatic hydrocarbons from a mixture of aromatic and nonaromatic hydrocarbons and fractionation of the extract. For instance, aromatics may be recovered from a reformate.
- the reformate may be produced by any of the processes known in the art.
- the aromatics then may be recovered from the reformate through the use of a selective solvent, such as one of the sulfolane type, in a liquid-liquid extraction zone.
- the recovered aromatics may then be separated into streams having the desired carbon number range by fractionation.
- the feedstock should contain no more than 10 mass-% non- aromatics; the content of benzene and C 8 aromatics is principally an economic decision relating to the dilution of toluene from these aromatics.
- extraction may be unnecessary and fractionation may be sufficient to prepare the feedstock.
- the feed usually is first heated by indirect heat exchange against the effluent of the reaction zone and is then further heated in a fired heater.
- the resulting vaporous stream is then passed through a reaction zone which may comprise one or more individual reactors.
- a reaction zone which may comprise one or more individual reactors.
- the use of a single reaction vessel having a fixed cylindrical bed of catalyst is preferred, but other reaction configurations utilizing moving beds of catalyst or radial-flow reactors may be employed if desired.
- Passage of the combined feed through the reaction zone effects the production of a vaporous effluent stream comprising hydrogen and both product and unconverted feed hydrocarbons.
- This effluent is normally cooled by indirect heat exchange against the stream entering the reaction zone and then further cooled through the use of air or cooling water.
- the temperature of the effluent stream generally is lowered by heat exchange sufficiently to effect the condensation of substantially all of the feed and product hydrocarbons having six or more carbon atoms per molecule.
- the resultant mixed-phase stream is passed into a vapor-liquid separator wherein the two phases are separated and from which the hydrogen-rich vapor is recycled to the reaction zone.
- the condensate from the separator is passed into a stripping column in which substantially all C 5 and lighter hydrocarbons present in the effluent are concentrated into an overhead stream and removed from the process.
- An aromatics-rich stream which is referred to herein as the disproportionation effluent stream is recovered as net stripper bottoms.
- Conditions employed in the disproportionation process zone normally include a temperature of from 200° to 600 0 C, and preferably from 350° to 575 0 C.
- the temperature required to maintain the desired degree of conversion will increase as the catalyst gradually loses activity during processing. Normal end-of-run temperatures may therefore exceed start- of-run temperatures by 65 °C or more.
- the disproportionation zone is generally operated at hydrogen-to-hydrocarbon ratios from 0.1 to 1.0, preferably from 0.2 to 0.5.
- the ratio of hydrogen-to-hydrocarbon is calculated based on the molar ratio of free hydrogen compared against the feedstock hydrocarbon. Periodic increases in hydrogen-to-hydrocarbon of at least 0.5 permit catalyst rejuvenation by hydrogenation of soft coke.
- the hydrogen-to-hydrocarbon ratio during rejuvenation is in the range of 1 to 5.
- the disproportionation zone is operated at moderately elevated pressures broadly ranging from 100 kPa to 6 MPa absolute. A preferred pressure range is from 2 to 3.5 MPa.
- the disproportionation reaction can be effected over a wide range of space velocities, with higher space velocities effecting a higher ratio of para-xylene at the expense of conversion.
- Liquid hourly space velocity generally is in the range of from 0.2 to 20 hr "1 .
- the disproportionation effluent stream is separated into a light recycle stream, a para-xylene-rich mixed-Cs-aromatics product and a heavy-aromatics stream.
- the para-xylene- rich product may be sent to a xylene separation zone for recovery of pure para-xylene; optionally, other xylenes and ethylbenzene also may be recovered as pure products.
- the para- xylene-rich stream preferably contains para-xylene in proportion to total xylenes in excess of its equilibrium concentration at disproportionation conditions, more preferably at least 80 mass-% para-xylene, and most preferably at least 85 mass-% para-xylene.
- the light recycle stream may be diverted to other uses such as to benzene and toluene recovery, but optionally a portion is recycled since it contains not only benzene and toluene but also amounts of non- aromatics which would remain with the benzene and reduce its commercial value.
- the heavy recycle stream contains substantially all of the Cg and heavier aromatics and may be withdrawn as a product of the process.
- the xylene-separation zone may utilize one or more different separation techniques such as fractionation, crystallization or selective adsorption to recover substantially pure para- xylene from the para-xylene-rich stream in the xylene-separation zone.
- separation techniques such as fractionation, crystallization or selective adsorption to recover substantially pure para- xylene from the para-xylene-rich stream in the xylene-separation zone.
- Conventional crystallization is disclosed in US 3,177,255, US 3,467,724 and US 3,662,013.
- Various other crystallization alternatives are discussed in US 5,329,061, incorporated by reference.
- recovery of para-xylene may be effected using only a single stage of crystallization corresponding to the higher-temperature purification stage of conventional crystallization.
- An alternative separation zone comprises a bed of molecular sieves operated in accordance with the teaching of US 3,201,491 to simulate the use of a continuously moving bed of molecular sieves. Subsequent improvements to the process are described in US 3,696,107 and US 3,626,020. Details on the operation of the xylene-separation zone may be obtained from US 4,039,599 and US 4,184,943.
- the xylene-separation zone may also incorporate a catalytic alkyl-aromatic isomerization zone within the separation loop, in order to shift the isomers of ortho- and meta-xylene towards para-xylene, as well as to isomerize ethyl benzene to xylene or else to dealkylate it to benzene.
- the benzene produced here may also be sent to the transalkylation zone.
- the xylene separation zone may also employ a simulated concurrent adsorptive separation process of US 4,402,832.
- the extract and raffinate streams may be handled as described in these references or as described in US 4,381,410 and US 5,495,061.
- benzene as well as toluene may be charged to the disproportionation zone as a supplementary feedstock.
- the xylene-separation zone may use one or more of several known separation techniques such as adsorption, crystallization and fractionation.
- Ortho-xylene and/or meta-xylene may be recovered by one or more of such techniques as pure products from the xylene-separation zone.
- the process of disproportionation may be carried out until the conversion of toluene is no longer economically favorable due to catalyst decline, deterioration, or deactivation.
- a typical economic target occurs when the initial conversion has decreased, as measured by an inlet temperature increase of 2O 0 C or more, at which point the catalyst is rejuvenated by increasing the molar ratio of free hydrogen to feedstock hydrocarbons by at least 0.5.
- preferred rejuvenation conditions include free hydrogen present in a molar ratio to feedstock hydrocarbons of 1 to 5, an inlet temperature from 200° to 600 0 C, a pressure of from 100 kPa to 6 MPa absolute, and a liquid hourly space velocity of 0.2 to 20 hr "1 .
- An alumina-phosphate-bound MFI catalyst was prepared to evaluate the invention.
- a first solution was prepared by adding phosphoric acid to an aqueous solution of hexamethylenetetraamine (HMT) in an amount to yield a phosphorus content of the finished catalyst equal to 3.8 mass-% and an aluminum: phosphorus atomic ratio in the binder of 1 :1.
- a second solution was prepared by adding an MFI-type zeolite having a Si/Al 2 ratio of 39 to enough alumina sol, prepared by digesting metallic aluminum in hydrochloric acid, to yield a zeolite content in the finished catalyst equal to 70 mass-%.
- the catalyst was then pre-coked at conditions comprising a temperature of 560 0 C, a pressure of 0.72 MPa and 4 weight hourly space velocity (WHSV) in the presence of a 0.5 hydrogen-to-hydrocarbon molar ratio for a period of time sufficient to effect approximately 90 mol-% para- xylene in total xylenes.
- Disproportionation of pure toluene then was carried out at 2.45 MPa and 4 WHSV in the presence of pure hydrogen at varying temperatures as required achieving a range of toluene conversion levels.
- FIG. 1 shows the yields of para-xylene at these hydrogen-to-hydrocarbon ratios as toluene conversion increases over the selectively pre-coked catalyst.
- FIG. 2 shows the yields of benzene at these hydrogen-to-hydrocarbon ratios.
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