Integrated apparatus for aromatics production
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국가/구분
United States(US) Patent
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국제특허분류(IPC7판)
B01J-008/00
C07C-005/22
C07C-005/00
출원번호
US-0936129
(2004-09-08)
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Sullivan,Lawrence E.
Maher,Gregory F.
Hamm,David A.
출원인 / 주소
UOP LLC
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초록▼
Enabling a transalkylation process to handle both C10 alkylaromatics and unextracted toluene permits the following improvements to be realized. No longer extracting toluene allows a reformate-splitter column to be eliminated. The extraction unit can be moved to the overhead of a benzene column and i
Enabling a transalkylation process to handle both C10 alkylaromatics and unextracted toluene permits the following improvements to be realized. No longer extracting toluene allows a reformate-splitter column to be eliminated. The extraction unit can be moved to the overhead of a benzene column and integrated together with the transalkylation unit to reduce costs. No longer requiring a rigorous split between C9 and C10 alkylaromatics allows a heavy aromatics column to be eliminated. Such an enabled transalkylation process requires stabilization of a transalkylation catalyst through the introduction of a metal function. These improvements result in an aromatics complex apparatus with savings on inside battery limits curve costs and an improvement on the return on investment in such a complex.
대표청구항▼
What is claimed is: 1. An integrated apparatus for producing benzene and xylene isomers from an aromatics rich stream: (a) an extractive-distillation zone comprising a main-distillation column and a benzene column, wherein a benzene-enriched stream produces a raffinate stream and a benzene product
What is claimed is: 1. An integrated apparatus for producing benzene and xylene isomers from an aromatics rich stream: (a) an extractive-distillation zone comprising a main-distillation column and a benzene column, wherein a benzene-enriched stream produces a raffinate stream and a benzene product stream which is recovered as a product of said apparatus; (b) a fractionation zone comprising a toluene column, wherein the aromatics rich stream and at least a portion of a transalkylation product stream are separated to produce a toluene-enriched stream, and a xylene-plus-enriched stream; (c) a transalkylation zone comprising a reactor and a transalkylation stripper column wherein the toluene-enriched stream and a xylene-column stream rich in C9 and C10 alkylaromatics are contacted with a metal-stabilized transalkylation catalyst under transalkylation conditions to produce the transalkylation product stream of step (b) and the benzene-enriched stream of step (a); and (d) a xylene recovery section comprising a xylene fractionation column and a xylene-isomer separation zone, wherein the xylene fractionation column separates the xylene-plus-enriched stream of step (b) to provide the xylene-column stream rich in C9 and C 10 alkylaromatics of step (c) and an overhead xylene stream, and wherein the xylene-isomer separation zone concentrates the overhead xylene stream into a xylene isomer enriched product stream which is recovered as a product stream of said apparatus. 2. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the xylene recovery section further comprises an alkylaromatics isomerization zone comprising a deheptanizer fractionation zone having at least one deheptanizer column and optionally at least one olefin saturation zone. 3. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the benzene column is further characterized as operating without substantial steam stripping equipment. 4. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the xylene column is further characterized by having a means for withdrawing as a sidecut the stream rich in C9 and C10 alkylaromatics. 5. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the xylene recovery section further comprises an ortho-xylene column. 6. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the aromatics rich stream is selected from the group consisting of catalytic reformate, pygas, imported mixed xylenes, imported toluene, and mixtures thereof. 7. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the main-distillation column contains a solvent selected from the group consisting of sulfolane, diethylene glycol, triethylene glycol, tetraethylene glycol, n-formylmorpholine, n-methylpyrrolidone, methoxy triethylene glycol, and mixtures thereof. 8. The apparatus of claim 7 wherein the benzene column separates a main distillation stream exiting the main-distillation column to produce a solvent stream that is returned to the main-distillation column. 9. The apparatus of claim 8 further comprising a recovery column which accepts at least a part of the solvent stream and produces a recovered benzene stream and a purified solvent stream that is passed to the main-distillation column. 10. An integrated apparatus for producing benzene and xylene isomers from an aromatics rich stream comprising: (a) a fractionation zone comprising a transalkylation stripper column and a toluene column, wherein the aromatics rich stream is provided along with at least a portion of a transalkylation product stream and separated to produce a benzene-enriched stream, a toluene-enriched stream, and a xylene-plus-enriched stream; (b) an extractive-distillation zone comprising a main distillation column and a recovery column, wherein the benzene-enriched stream is provided along with a solvent selected from the group consisting of sulfolane, diethylene glycol, triethylene glycol, tetraethylene glycol, n-formylmorpholine, n-methylpyrrolidone, methoxy triethylene glycol, and mixtures thereof, to the main distillation column that produces a raffinate stream and a main distillation stream that is provided to the recovery column operating without substantial steam stripping that produces at least a portion of the solvent and a benzene product which is recovered as a product stream from said apparatus; (c) a xylene column, wherein a xylene-column stream rich in C9 and C10 alkylaromatics is produced as a sidecut from the xylene column; (d) a transalkylation zone comprising a reactor, wherein the toluene-enriched stream is provided with the xylene-column stream rich in C9 and C10 alkylaromatics and contacted with a metal-stabilized transalkylation catalyst under transalkylation conditions to produce the transalkylation product stream of step (a); and (e) a xylene recovery section comprising a xylene fractionation zone and a xylene-isomer separation zone, wherein the xylene fractionation zone comprises the xylene column of step (c) that separates the xylene-plus-enriched stream of step (a) into the xylene-column stream rich in C9 and C10 alkylaromatics and an overhead xylene stream, and wherein the xylene-isomer separation zone concentrates the overhead xylene stream into a xylene isomer enriched product stream which is recovered as a product stream of said apparatus. 11. The apparatus of claim 10 wherein the xylene recovery section further comprises an alkylaromatics isomerization zone. 12. The apparatus of claim 11 wherein alkylaromatics isomerization zone further comprises a deheptanizer fractionation zone having at least one deheptanizer column and optionally at least one olefin saturation zone. 13. The apparatus of claim 10 wherein the xylene recovery section further comprises an ortho-xylene column. 14. The apparatus of claim 10 wherein the xylene-isomer separation zone is an adsorptive separation process or a fractional crystallization process. 15. The apparatus of claim 10 wherein the aromatics rich stream is selected from the group consisting of catalytic reformate, pygas, imported mixed xylenes, imported toluene, and mixtures thereof.
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