Ethylene recovery facilities

The principal function of the ethylene recovery facilities is to recover high... 

In the depropanizer tower the propane and lighter gases are taken overhead to become feed to the ethylene and propylene recovery facilities. Separation is accomplished at a relatively low overhead temperature of -25°F to minimize reboiler fouling by olefin polymerization. 

The Cj plus bottoms from the demethanizer then go to the deethanizer. A propylene-propane bottoms product containing 90-92% propylene is obtained which may either be sold, used directly as propylene- 90, or further purified. The ethylene-ethane overhead from the deethanizer is separated in the splitter tower yielding a 99.8% overhead ethylene product at -25°F. The ethane bottoms at -l-18°F may either be sent to fuel gas or used as feed to an ethane cracking furnace. Overall ethylene recovery in these facilities is about 98%. The product is of very high purity with less than 50 parts per million of non-hydrocarbon contaminants and a methane plus ethane level below 250 ppm. 

The cooled reactor effluent can be processed for the ultimate production of polymer-grade olefins. Several design options are available, including fully dedicated recovery facilities recovery in a nearby, existing ethylene plant recovery section to minimize capital investment or processing in a partial recovery unit to recover recycle streams and concentrate olefin-rich streams for further processing in nearby plants. 

Steam cracking of ethane is the most widely used process for making ethylene. U.S. 6,578,378 (to Technip-Coflexip) gives a typical ethane cracker product composition and describes an improved separation process for ethylene recovery. U.S. 5,990,370 (to BP) gives yields for ethane, propane, and mixtures. U.S. 5,271,827 (to Stone Webster) gives details of furnace design and yields for a naphtha feed. Several other separation schemes for ethylene and propylene recovery are described in the literature. Estimate the cost of production for a new steam cracking facility that produces 1 million metric tons per year of ethylene and 600,000 metric tons per year of propylene. What feedstock would you recommend ... 

H-Oil unit are processed for sulfur recovery and then sent for separation through the gas recovery facilities associated with the steam cracker. Remaining unconverted residue from the H-Oil operation is used as a fuel oil component for plant fuel. Ethylene is manufactured by steam cracking of ethane, propane, naphtha, and distillate, and products from these operations are separated in conventional gas recovery facilities. Hydrogen for H-Oil is partially supplied by by-product recovery from steam cracker and H-Oil off-gases supplemented by steam reforming of methane. The heavy oils produced in steam cracking of naphtha and distillate are blended with the H-Oil residue to yield plant fuel. 

Production of chemicals became increasingly important. The recovery of oxygenates from the Fischer-Tropsch aqueous product was expanded to include niche chemicals, such as 1-propanol.45 Ethylene and propylene extraction was increased and even supplemented by the addition of a high-temperature catalytic cracker.46 Linear a-olefin extraction units for the recovery of 1-pentene, 1-hexene, and 1-octene were added to the refinery,45-47 and a new facility for the extraction of 1-heptene and its... 

The conceptual process for the production of liquid fuels from methane by the OXCO route is shown in Fig. 1. In addition to the OXCO reactor it includes facilities for removal of reaction byproducts, recovery of the C2+ hydrocarbons and the production of liquid fuels by ethylene oligomerisation. 

In another work lacosamide based MIPs of methacrylic acid monomers were used for the solid-phase extraction of the template from rat plasma before LC analysis and the results revealed a recovery of over 98% for the SPE and the LOD and LR of the method were evaluated to be 0.03 pg mL and 0.1-100 pg mL [244]. B. B. Prasad et al. reported the MIP-based SPE of epinephrine and detection of the same through an MIP based sensing device in plasma cerebrospinal fluids. They reported the reaction of functionalized multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs-COCl)] as a monomer with N-hydroxy phenylmaleimide and used glycoldimethylacrylate as the cross-linking agent. The LOD of the hyphenated method was reported to be 0.002 ng mL [245]. In another study M. Moein and co-workers developed MIP cartridges to be used in combination with HPLC for facile analysis of human insulin in plasma and urine. They used insulin as the template, in the reaction between meth-acrylicacid monomer and ethylene eglycol dimethacrylate cross-linker. The reaction initiation was achived by 2,2/-azobisisobutyronitrile. The overal results showed LODs of 0.2 ng mL in plasma and 0.03 ng mL in urine with recovery factors over 87% [246]. 

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