B01J8/005

PROCESS AND APPARATUS FOR SEPARATION, REMOVAL, AND PURIFICATION OF SOLID CARBON OUTCOMING FROM A HYDROGEN PRODUCTION REACTOR BY METHANE AND/OR HYDROCARBONS CRACKING WITH LOW CO2 EMISSIONS

The present invention is an apparatus and method for continuously separating, removing and purifying the solid residue, resulting from the conversion of hydrocarbons into carbon and hydrogen, from the homogeneous phase of different density contained in a cracking reactor with which said solid residue is not soluble, and where the separation of the solid carbon occur at two subsequent moments: a first separation occurs inside the reactor between the reaction products, including carbon, and the melting bath; a second separation then occurs outside the reactor between the carbon and the gas produced in a separation system (1) of the solid phase from the gas phase, where said separation system (1) also includes carbon purification.

Separation device

A separation device, comprising: a third-stage cyclone housing, a separating unit, and a granule recycle and regeneration unit, wherein, the separating unit is disposed inside the third-stage cyclone housing and comprises: a cyclone separator and a moving bed coupled to each other; the granule recycle and regeneration unit comprises: a riser, a spouted bed regenerator, and a regeneration pipe connecting the spouted bed regenerator with the moving bed; the spouted bed regenerator has upper and lower ends opposing to each other, wherein, the upper end of the spouted bed regenerator is provided with a sleeve which opens downwardly, the sleeve divides an interior of the spouted bed regenerator into a fountain area and an annular gap area, and a regenerating gas outlet which is in communication with the annular gap area is provided on a side wall of the spouted bed regenerator. A centrifugal separation and intercepting filtration of the moving granular bed to fine particles can separate fine particles under low pressure drop, and can continuously separate the captured dust particles and the moving bed granules ensuring a sustainable recycling of the moving bed granules.

Chemical reaction apparatus

In order to suppress discharge of an unreacted content in a chemical reaction apparatus for irradiating a content with microwaves, a chemical reaction apparatus includes: a horizontal flow-type reactor in which a liquid content horizontally flows with an unfilled space being provided thereabove; a microwave generator that generates microwaves; and a waveguide that transmits the microwaves generated by the microwave generator to the unfilled space in the reactor, wherein the inside of the reactor is partitioned into multiple chambers to by overflow-type partition plates and that allow the content to flow thereover and an underflow-type partition plate that allows the content to flow thereunder.

Methods of Polyolefin Solids Recovery
20200231718 · 2020-07-23 ·

Methods for separating gaseous components, such as unreacted hydrocarbon monomer and/or solvent, from polyolefin solids are provided. The methods include contacting a first stream including polyolefin solids and gaseous unreacted hydrocarbon monomer and/or solvent with a first purge gas in a gas-solid separation vessel to separate the gaseous unreacted hydrocarbon monomer and/or solvent from the polyolefin solids to produce a second stream including polyolefin solids substantially free of gaseous unreacted hydrocarbon monomer and/or solvent and a third stream including the gaseous unreacted hydrocarbon monomer and/or solvent. The first purge gas includes hydrocarbon monomer and/or solvent and has a temperature of at least about 70 C. when entering the gas-solid separation vessel. Systems for carrying out such methods are also provided.

REACTOR SYSTEMS COMPRISING FLUID RECYCLING
20200197891 · 2020-06-25 · ·

A method for processing a chemical stream includes contacting a feed stream with a catalyst in an upstream reactor section of a reactor having the upstream reactor section and a downstream reactor section, passing an intermediate product stream to the downstream reactor section, and introducing a riser quench fluid into the downstream reactor section, upstream reactor section, or transition section and into contact with the intermediate product stream and the catalyst to slow or stop the reaction. The method includes separating at least a portion of the catalyst from the product stream, passing the product stream to a product processing section, cooling the product stream, and separating a portion of the riser quench fluid from the product stream. The riser quench fluid separated from the product stream may be recycled back to the downstream reactor section, upstream reactor section, or transition section as the riser quench fluid.

METHODS AND SYSTEMS TO DECARBONIZE NATURAL GAS USING SULFUR TO PRODUCE HYDROGEN AND POLYMERS
20200199301 · 2020-06-25 · ·

Methods and systems to decarbonize natural gas using sulfur to produce hydrogen and polymers are provided. Sulfur can be introduced in elemental form or as hydrogen sulfide, as may be desired. Decarbonization of natural gas involves introducing natural gas and H.sub.2S to a first reactor to produce first reactor products including CS.sub.2 and H.sub.2. The CS.sub.2 can subsequently be polymerized and the H.sub.2 recovered in a purified form with little or no carbon emissions.

FLUIDIZED BED GAS DISTRIBUTOR, REACTOR USING FLUIDIZED BED GAS DISTRIBUTOR, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING PARA-XYLENE AND CO-PRODUCING LIGHT OLEFINS

Disclosed are a fluidized bed gas distributor and a fluidized bed reactor, the fluidized bed reactor comprising a first distributor (1) and a second distributor (2), wherein the first distributor (1) is located at the bottom of a fluidized bed, and second distributor (2) is located downstream of a gas from the first distributor (1). Also disclosed is a method for producing a para-xylene and co-producing light olefins, the method comprising the following steps: material stream A enters a reaction zone (3) of a fluidized bed reactor from a first gas distributor (1); material stream B enters the reaction zone (3) of the fluidized bed reactor from a second gas distributor (2); and the reactants are brought into contact with a catalyst in the reaction zone (3) to generate a gas phase stream comprising para-xylene and light olefins.

REACTOR SYSTEM WITH UNEQUAL REACTOR ASSEMBLY OPERATING PRESSURES
20200156032 · 2020-05-21 ·

A reactor system comprising a first reactor assembly, a first pressure transition assembly, a second reactor assembly and a second pressure transition assembly.

COUPLED FLUIDIZED BEDS REACTOR-REGENERATOR APPARATUS FOR CATALYTIC DEHYDROGENATION OF PROPANE
20240017232 · 2024-01-18 ·

A coupled fluidized beds reactor-regenerator apparatus for catalytic dehydrogenation of propane. The fluidized bed reactor comprising a raw material delivery system, a pre-rising system, a reaction system, a gas-solid separation system and an internal circulation pipeline, the reaction system includes a conical riser and a turbulent bed reactor; the raw material delivery system, the pre-rising system, the conical riser, the turbulent bed reactor, and the gas-solid separation system are consecutively connected in this order from bottom to top; the bottom outlet of the gas-solid separation system is connected to the inlet of the internal circulation pipeline, and the outlet of the internal circulation pipeline is connected to the raw material delivery system and/or the reaction system. The coupled fluidized beds reactor-regenerator apparatus for catalytic dehydrogenation of propane includes the fluidized bed reactor, a gas-solid airlift loop regenerator, a recirculation inclined pipe and a regeneration inclined pipe.

PROCESS AND APPARATUS FOR DIRECT CRYSTALLIZATION OF POLYCONDESATES
20200148838 · 2020-05-14 ·

A process for continuous production of partly crystalline polycondensate pellet material which comprises the step of crystallizing the pellet material in a second treatment space (6a) under fixed bed conditions by supply of energy from the exterior by means of a process gas, wherein the process gas has a temperature (T.sub.Gas), which is higher than the sum of the pellet temperature (T.sub.GR) and the temperature increase (T.sub.KR) which occurs due to heat of crystallization released hi the second treatment space (6a), i.e., (T.sub.Gas>(T.sub.GR+T.sub.KR)). The pellets at the exit from the second treatment space (6a) have an average temperature (T.sub.PH), which is 10 to 90 C. higher than the sum of the temperature of the pellets (T.sub.GR) and the temperature increase (T.sub.KR) which occurs due to heat of crystallization released in the second treatment space (6a), i.e., (T.sub.GR+T.sub.KR+90 C.)T.sub.PH(T.sub.GR+T.sub.KR+10).