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• This invention relates to purification processes and in particular to the removal of halogen compounds, particularly chlorine compounds, from gaseous or liquid process fluids.
• Halogen compounds such as hydrogen chloride and organic chloride compounds may be present as contaminants in various process fluids, but are a particular problem in processing hydrogen- and hydrocarbon-containing gases and liquids, where they can cause corrosive damage to equipment and poison catalysts used in hydrocarbon processing.
• a process fluid containing less than about 2 ppm, and preferably less than about 0.1 ppm, by volume of such contaminants.
• WO 99/39819 (A1 ) describes shaped absorbent units suitable for use as chloride absorbents comprising a calcined intimate mixture of an alkali or alkaline earth, zinc and aluminium components having an alkali or alkaline earth metal to zinc atomic ratio in the range 0.5x to 2.5x and an alkali or alkaline earth metal to aluminium atomic ratio in the range 0.5x to 1.5x, where x is the valency of the alkali or alkaline earth metal, and containing from 5 to 20 % by weight of a binder.
• Preferred compositions are made from sodium carbonate or bicarbonate, basic zinc carbonate or zinc oxide and alumina or hydrated alumina. Such materials have some capacity for organic chloride compounds in addition to their excellent hydrogen chloride sorption capacity, but processes offering improved organic chloride removal are highly desirable.
• US201 1/0040136 describes a process for purification by elimination of chlorine in the form of hydrogen chloride and organochlorine compounds by contacting in the presence of hydrogen of at least a part of the effluent from a reforming, aromatics production, dehydrogenation, isomerisation or hydrogenation zone, said part of the effluent comprising olefins, hydrogen chloride and organochlorine compounds, on an elimination zone comprising a chain arrangement of two masses, the first mass being a mass comprising at least one metal from group VIII deposited on a mineral carrier and the second mass being a hydrogen chloride adsorbent.
• the Group VIII catalyst Pt or Pd
• the present invention offers an alternative process without expensive Pt or Pd hydrogenation catalysts in which a hydrogen halide sorbent is placed before an organic halide sorbent such that the organic halide sorbent is not saturated by hydrogen halide. In this way the combined removal of organic halide, which we have found may be formed on the surface of certain hydrogen halide sorbents, is improved.
• the invention provides a process for removing halogen compounds from a process fluid, comprising the steps of (i) passing a process fluid containing hydrogen halide over a first sorbent to remove hydrogen halide and generate a hydrogen halide depleted process fluid and then, (ii) passing the hydrogen halide depleted process fluid over a second sorbent to remove organic halide compounds therefrom.
• the invention further provides a purification system suitable for removing halogen compounds from process fluids from process fluids comprising a first sorbent and, downstream of said first sorbent a second sorbent wherein the first sorbent removes hydrogen halide from said process fluid to generate a hydrogen halide depleted process fluid and the second sorbent removes the organic halide compounds from the hydrogen halide depleted process fluid.
• sorbent we hereby include adsorbent and absorbent.
• the process fluid may be a hydrogen gas stream comprising preferably >50% vol hydrogen, more preferably > 80% vol hydrogen, most preferably >90% vol hydrogen.
• the process fluid may be a synthesis gas stream comprising hydrogen, carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide.
• the process fluid may be a gas stream comprising a hydrocarbon such as a natural gas or a refinery off-gas, containing, for example, one or more hydrocarbons such as methane, ethane, propanes, or butanes and especially one or more alkenes such as ethane, propene and butenes. Alkynes may also be present.
• the hydrocarbon content may be in the range 0.1-100% vol, but is preferably in the range 0.5-20% vol.
• the process fluid may be a liquid hydrocarbon stream.
• Such streams include liquid natural gas, natural gas liquids, condensates , LPG, kerosene, cracked naphtha and diesel fuels.
• halogen compounds are typically bromine compounds and/or chlorine compounds but more commonly are chlorine compounds.
• organic halide compounds we include in particular haloalkanes such as chloromethanes, chloroethanes, chloropropanes and chlorobutanes, as well as other longer chain chloroalkanes
• the amount of halogen compounds may vary depending upon the process fluid but the present process is particularly effective where the hydrogen halide content of the process fluid fed to the first sorbent is in the range 0.1-20 ppm.
• the first sorbent may be a conventional hydrogen halide sorbent material including for example sorbents comprising carbon, alumina, alkalised metal oxides such as alkalised alumina, alkalised silica and alkalised aluminosilicate.
• the first sorbent comprises an alkalised alumina, for example as described in EP1053053, and more preferably comprises an alkalised zinc-alumina composition as described in the aforesaid WO 99/39819 (A1 ).
• the first sorbent preferably comprises shaped units formed from a calcined intimate mixture of:
• an alumina component selected from alumina and/or hydrated alumina
• a zinc component selected from a zinc oxide, hydroxide, carbonate, bicarbonate and/or basic carbonate,
• a basic metal component selected from at least one compound of at least one alkali or alkaline earth metal, and
• the first sorbent comprises a zinc component with a basic metal to zinc atomic ratio in the range 0.5x to 2.5x and a basic metal to aluminium atomic ratio in the range 0.5x to 1.5x where x is the valency of the basic metal.
• the first sorbent has a basic metal content such that, after ignition of a sample of the units at 900°C, the sample has a basic metal oxide content of at least 10%, particularly at least 15%, and more particularly at least 20%, by weight.
• Basic metal compounds that may be employed include compounds of lithium, sodium, potassium, beryllium, magnesium, calcium, strontium and barium.
• Preferred compounds are compounds of sodium or calcium, particularly sodium.
• the zinc component is preferably zinc oxide, zinc carbonate or, particularly, basic zinc carbonate.
• the basic metal and zinc components may be present at least partially as a mixed salt, such as sodium zinc carbonate and/or basic sodium zinc carbonate.
• the binder may be a suitable hydraulic cement, such as a calcium aluminate cement.
• the binder comprises a clay, for example an acicular clay such as attapulgite or sepiolite clay.
• the first sorbent is made from a mixture of hydrated alumina, sodium bicarbonate, zinc oxide or basic zinc carbonate, and a clay binder in which the alkali metal to zinc atomic ratio is above 0.8. It is especially preferred that the alkali metal to zinc atomic ratio is in the range from about 0.8 to 2.2.
• the first sorbent may be made by pelleting, granulating or extruding a mixture of alumina or a hydrated alumina such as alumina trihydrate, basic metal component, optionally the zinc component, and the binder in the requisite proportions, and calcining the resultant mixture.
• granulating we mean mixing the powdered ingredients, including the binder, with a little wetting agent such as water, in an amount that is insufficient to form a slurry, and forming the resultant mixture into aggregates, generally of approximate spherical configuration. Such granulation techniques are well known in the art.
• the composition may be formed into extrudates, for example using a pellet mill, for example of the type used for pelleting animal feedstuffs, wherein the mixture to be pelleted is charged to a rotating perforate cylinder through the perforations of which the mixture is forced by a bar or roller within the cylinder.
• the resulting extruded mixture is cut from the surface of the rotating cylinder by a doctor knife positioned to give pellets of the desired length.
• the ingredients In order to make shaped units of adequate strength it is desirable to employ the ingredients in a finely divided form.
• the ingredients have an average particle size in the range 1-20 ⁇ , preferably in the range 50-1 ⁇ .
• alumina trihydrate rather than alumina
• alumina it is preferred to employ alumina trihydrate, rather than alumina, since granulation or extrusion of alumina-containing compositions tends to present processing difficulties.
• hydrated alumina is used as the alumina component
• the calcination results in a substantial increase in the surface area of the absorbents.
• the calcination is preferably effected at temperatures in the range 200- 450°C, particularly above 240°C, and most preferably above 300°C.
• the calcination temperature is below 500°C to minimise reaction of the basic metal compound and the alumina.
• the first sorbent preferably has a BET surface area of at least 10 m 2 /g, particularly above 50m 2 /g, and most preferably above 90m 2 /g.
• alumina-containing sorbents may contain acidic alumina sites that under some conditions are able to generate organic halide compounds in process fluids containing hydrogen halide and hydrocarbons such as alkenes.
• the second sorbent is different from the first sorbent and may comprise any organic halide removal material including for example alumina, carbon, zeolite, a transition metal oxide such as iron oxide and nickel oxide, and supported sorbent materials such as supported sulphonic acid, supported transition metal oxides, as well as supported barium oxide, and supported lead oxide.
• Preferred second sorbents comprise one or more of an alumina such as a transition alumina or a hydrated alumina, a zeolite such as zeolite Y or zeolite 13X, or a transition metal oxide selected from iron oxide, manganese oxide, copper oxide and nickel oxide.
• an alumina such as a transition alumina or a hydrated alumina
• a zeolite such as zeolite Y or zeolite 13X
• a transition metal oxide selected from iron oxide, manganese oxide, copper oxide and nickel oxide.
• the second sorbent may be made by pelleting, granulating or extruding a sorbent powder.
• Supported sorbent materials may be prepared by impregnating a granulated or extruded product with a suitable solution of a coating compound, drying and calcining the sorbent to convert the coating compound to the corresponding metal oxide.
• the coating compound may be an alkali coating compound, a transition metal coating compound, a lead coating compound or a barium coating compound.
• Suitable alkali coating compounds include sodium hydroxide, potassium hydroxide and sodium acetate.
• Suitable transition metal coating compounds include the metal acetates and nitrates, for example iron nitrate.
• Suitable lead or barium coating compounds include the nitrates.
• the solutions may be applied using known impregnation techniques.
• the level of coated metal oxide on the extruded or granulated support is preferably in the range 5-45% by weight.
• the second sorbent converts at least a portion of the organic halide present in the process fluid fed to it into hydrogen halide.
• the hydrogen halide may be captured on the second sorbent, and if desired, a third sorbent may be provided downstream to capture any hydrogen halide not trapped on the second sorbent.
• the second sorbent comprises a mixed transition alumina, in the form of granulated or extruded shaped unit comprising 1-10% wt binder .
• the transition alumina may be derived from gibbsite, boehmite or bayerite.
• the transition alumina may be a gamma-alumina, delta-alumina, theta-alumina, eta-alumina or chi-alumina, or a mixture of these phases. These materials may be formed by calcination of aluminium hydroxides and generally have a BET surface area in the range 50 to 400 m 2 /g.
• a suitable alumina from which the shaped unit may be prepared may have a volume-median diameter D[v,0.5] in the range 1 to 500 ⁇ .
• neither the first or second sorbent need contain a Group VIII metal hydrogenating catalyst, in particular, neither need contain Pt or Pd and preferably the sorbents are essentially free of Pt or Pd.
• the first and second sorbents preferably have an average particle size in the range 1-10 mm, and preferably 1-5 mm, in order to obtain the optimum balance of surface area versus pressure drop.
• a preferred purification system comprises a first sorbent comprising an alkalised alumina or alkalised zinc alumina sorbent in the form of granules according to the aforesaid WO 99/39819 and the second sorbent a transition alumina granule or extrudate, a zeolite granule or extrudate, or a coated transition alumina extrudate, wherein the coating is selected from iron oxide, manganese oxide, copper oxide, nickel oxide, or sodium oxide or potassium oxide.
• a process fluid containing hydrogen halide and optionally one or more organic halide compounds is passed through a fixed bed of a particulate first sorbent disposed in a vessel, producing a hydrogen halide depleted process fluid preferably containing essentially no hydrogen halide.
• the first sorbent comprises acidic sites the hydrogen-halide-depleted process fluid may contain organic halide compounds generated by reaction of hydrogen halide on the surface of the first sorbent.
• the hydrogen halide depleted process fluid recovered from the first sorbent is then passed through a second sorbent bed, which may be in the same vessel or a different vessel, that adsorbs the organic halide compounds and/or converts the organic halide compounds into hydrogen halide and captures them.
• the process stream may require further treatment with a third sorbent.
• the second exit stream from the second sorbent may be passed over a third bed of sorbent for removing hydrogen halide to produce a process stream essentially free of halogen compounds.
• the third bed of sorbent may be in the same vessel as the first and/or second sorbent beds or in a downstream vessel.
• the third sorbent may be a conventional hydrogen halide sorbent material including for example sorbents comprising carbon, alumina, alkalised metal oxides such as alkalised alumina, alkalised silica and alkalised aluminosilicate.
• sorbents comprising carbon, alumina, alkalised metal oxides such as alkalised alumina, alkalised silica and alkalised aluminosilicate.
• the third sorbent, where used, is the same as the first sorbent.
• the purification system may be used at temperatures in the range 0 to 300°C, preferably 0- 200°C more preferably 10-100°C and at pressures in the range 1 to 100 bar abs, preferably 1 to 40 bar abs.
• the purification system is preferably used on dry process fluids, but may, in some cases, be used to treat process fluid streams containing small quantities of water, e.g. hydrocarbon streams with ⁇ 0.2% water, preferably ⁇ 0.1 % water.
• Example 1 Preparation of sorbents.
• Sorbent (1 ) is PURASPECTM 2250, a hydrogen chloride sorbent material comprising alkalised zinc and alumina as described in WO 99/39819 A1. It is commercially available from Johnson Matthey Catalysts.
• Sorbent (2) is a mixed transitional phase alumina in the form of spheres (2.00 - 4.75 mm).
• Sorbent (3) is an activated carbon product, RX3 extra (2x6 mm extrudates), supplied by Norit.
• Sorbent (4) is a zeolite Y product, CBV500 (1 .6 mm extrudates), supplied by Zeolyst.
• Sorbent (5) is a zeolite molecular sieve product, 13X (1.6 mm extrudates), supplied by BDH. b) Sorbents prepared by treatment .
• Sorbent (6) Sorbent (2) was charged to a basket and soaked in caustic soda solution (60 g NaOH/100 ml water) for a period of 45 minutes. The basket was drained, and the saturated material calcined under air for two hours at 350 °C. The resultant material comprised ca.10 wt.% Na 2 0 on alumina.
• Sorbent (7) 123.8 g Sorbent (2) was charged to a basket and soaked in an aqueous potassium hydroxide solution (2.1 g KOH/199.4g water) for a period of 45 minutes. The basket was drained, and the saturated material calcined under air for two hours at 350°C.
• Sorbent (8) was prepared by impregnation of sorbent (2) with an aqueous iron nitrate solution. 60 ml of sorbent (2) was dried at 1 10 °C for 1 hr. This material was impregnated with a solution of 5.4 g of iron (III) nitrate nonahydrate dissolved in 20 ml of deionised water. The sample was then dried at 150 °C for 1 hr.
• Example 2 Organochloride formation over sorbents .
• the feed gas consisted of hydrogen, with the addition of 50 ppm hydrogen chloride and 200 ppm isobutene.
• Hydrogen chloride concentration at the inlet and exit of the reactor was measured using hydrogen chloride gas detection tubes.
• Concentrations of organochloride (tertiary butyl chloride) at the reactor exit were determined by gas chromatography. The concentration of tertiary butyl chloride in the exit stream at the end of the test run for each of the sorbents is shown in Table 1.
• Example 3 Organochloride removal from a gas stream .
• Sorbent (1 ) had a breakthrough time of 8695 minutes.
• alumina sorbent (2) and Zeolite sorbents (4) and (5) are particularly effective as organochloride sorbents under these conditions.
• Example 4 Organochloride removal from a liquid stream .
• Example 5 Removal of hydrogen chloride and by-product organochloride using a combination of materials in different beds .
• Example 2 A series of tests was conducted to combine the effects demonstrated in Example 2 and Example 3, whereby a range of different sorbents were placed downstream of a hydrogen chloride sorbent to demonstrate the effectiveness of the second sorbent bed for the removal of by-product organochloride.
• the experiments were carried out using the same reactor system as described in Example 3.
• a hydrogen feed gas containing 1 %v hydrogen chloride and 1 %v propene was used.
• the vessel was loaded with 60 cm 3 each of the first and second sorbents.
• the first sorbent in each case was the alkalised zinc-alumina, sorbent (1 ), for hydrogen chloride removal.
• the second sorbents are set out below in Table 4.
• the feed gas was fed to the vessel such that it passed through the first sorbent bed and then the second sorbent bed.
• the feed gas was passed over the sorbents at a rate of 45 Bit " .
• the reactor was operated at ambient temperature (about 20°C) and atmospheric pressure. Gas samples were taken by syringe from the midpoint of the reactor between the first and second sorbents and the exit of the bottom bed and analysed for organochloride (by gas chromatography) and hydrogen chloride (using gas detection tubes). Breakthrough times for hydrogen chloride and organochloride were recorded. The experiment was terminated when hydrogen chloride exiting the first bed exceeded 10 ppmv, or the organochloride exciting the second bed exceeded 0.5 ppmv, whichever occurred first. The results are given in Table 4.

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