A process is described for treating a natural gas stream containing methane and one or more higher hydrocarbons including the steps of mixing at least a portion of the natural gas stream with steam; passing the mixture adiabatically over a supported precious metal reforming catalyst to generate a reformed gas mixture comprising methane, steam, carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide and hydrogen; cooling the reformed gas mixture to below the dew point to condense water and removing the condensate to provide a de-watered reformed gas mixture, and passing the de-watered reformed gas mixture through an acid gas recovery unit to remove carbon dioxide and at least a portion of the hydrogen and carbon monoxide, thereby generating a methane stream. The methane stream may be used to adjust the composition of a natural gas stream, including a vaporized LNG stream, to meet pipeline specifications.

The present application provides a method for preparing a deuterated chemical by means of a deuteration reaction of a carbon-hydrogen bond with a deuterium gas under the catalysis of an alkali, wherein in the presence of a catalyst, a deuterium gas is added into a compound containing a carbon-hydrogen bond for a deuteration reaction so as to generate a deuterated compound. A deuterium gas is used as a deuterium source, such that multiple water separation operations, tedious steps and the wasting of energy caused by usage of a large amount of deuterium oxide as a deuterium source are avoided. Moreover, a cheap and easily available alkali metal compound is used for replacing an expensive transition metal catalyst and a complex-structure ligand as a catalyst for a deuteration reaction, and the alkali metal compound has the advantages of a low cost, a good compatibility with functional groups of a substrate and a high deuteration rate. The present application provides a new, low-cost, green and efficient deuteration method, which has a high application value.

The present application provides a method for preparing a deuterated chemical by means of a deuteration reaction of a carbon-hydrogen bond with a deuterium gas under the catalysis of an alkali, wherein in the presence of a catalyst, a deuterium gas is added into a compound containing a carbon-hydrogen bond for a deuteration reaction so as to generate a deuterated compound. A deuterium gas is used as a deuterium source, such that multiple water separation operations, tedious steps and the wasting of energy caused by usage of a large amount of deuterium oxide as a deuterium source are avoided. Moreover, a cheap and easily available alkali metal compound is used for replacing an expensive transition metal catalyst and a complex-structure ligand as a catalyst for a deuteration reaction, and the alkali metal compound has the advantages of a low cost, a good compatibility with functional groups of a substrate and a high deuteration rate. The present application provides a new, low-cost, green and efficient deuteration method, which has a high application value.

A novel catalyst composition and its use in the dehydrogenation of alkanes to olefins. The catalyst comprises a Group VIII noble metal and a metal selected from the group consisting of manganese, vanadium, chromium, titanium, and combinations thereof, on a support. The Group VIII noble metal can be platinum, palladium, osmium, rhodium, rubidium, iridium, and combinations thereof. The support can be silicon dioxide, titanium dioxide, aluminum oxide, silica-alumina, cerium dioxide, zirconium dioxide, magnesium oxide, metal modified silica, silica-pillared clays, silica-pillared micas, metal oxide modified silica-pillared mica, silica-pillared tetrasilicic mica, silica-pillared taeniolite, zeolite, molecular sieve, and combinations thereof. The catalyst composition is an active and selective catalyst for the catalytic dehydrogenation of alkanes to olefins.

A process includes hydrogenating, in a reaction zone, a highly unsaturated hydrocarbon received from a hydrocarbon stream to yield a product having an unsaturated hydrocarbon, the hydrogenating step occurring in the presence of a hydrogenation catalyst which has a selectivity for conversion of the highly unsaturated hydrocarbon to the unsaturated hydrocarbon of about 90 mol % or greater based on the moles of the highly unsaturated hydrocarbon which are converted to the product, the hydrogenating step occurring in a reaction zone under conditions which include a flow index (I.sub.F) in a range of about 0.09 to about 35, wherein the I.sub.F is defined as: $I_F=\frac{F\left[\mathrm{CO}\right]}{V},$
wherein F is the flow rate of the hydrocarbon stream into the reaction zone in units of kg/h, [CO] is the concentration of carbon monoxide in the hydrocarbon stream in units of mol %, and V is the volume of the reaction zone in units of ft.sup.3.

A reactor and process for removing unsaturated alkynes and diolefinic impurities from olefins and oxygenates.

A propane dehydrogenation and propylene purification process in which a stream comprising propylene, propane, and methyl acetylene and propadiene (MAPD) is mixed with a hydrogen stream then reacted in at least three distinct reaction zones in a hydrogenation reactor system where MAPD is hydrogenated by a high-selectivity hydrogenation catalyst in a first reaction zone, and a second and a third reaction zones each have a low-selectivity hydrogenation catalyst to remove unreacted hydrogen. The outlet stream leaving the hydrogenation reactor system is MAPD-free and can be fed to a splitter column, which now mainly serves to separate propylene from propane. Various embodiments of reaction zone arrangements in a single or multiple reactors are also provided.

A process for operating a chemical process includes deriving coefficients for a process performance model from historical feed data and historical production data; formulating the process performance model using the coefficients; determining a predicted change in production of a product of the chemical process using the process performance model; and changing a processing parameter of the chemical process based on economic data and the predicted change in production of the product of the chemical process.

A process for operating a chemical process includes deriving coefficients for a process performance model from historical feed data and historical production data; formulating the process performance model using the coefficients; determining a predicted change in production of a product of the chemical process using the process performance model; and changing a processing parameter of the chemical process based on economic data and the predicted change in production of the product of the chemical process.

The present invention provides a zeolite-containing catalyst having excellent shape, fluidity and mechanical strength as a catalyst for a fluidized bed reaction. The present invention provides a zeolite-containing catalyst which is a particulate catalyst containing zeolite and silica, wherein the catalyst has an average particle diameter of 20 to 300 m and the ratio of the void area in the cross-section of the particle is 30% or less relative to the cross-section area of the particle.