Apparatuses, systems and methods for producing Pips stream for manufacturing catalytic C5 hydrocarbon resins containing all the key reactive monomers that are already present in the C5 fraction of the pyrolysis gasoline, which is otherwise lost with the crude isoprene stream, are disclosed herein. Embodiments of the invention are directed to producing a hydrocarbon resin grade DCPD stream consisting of dimers and codimers of isoprene which are of value in manufacturing thermal hydrocarbon resins, either polymer grade isoprene and gasoline quality raffinate (free or sulfur and acetylenes) or a relatively small crude isoprene stream with maximum utilization of isoprene by moving some of the isoprene to a DCPD stream used to manufacture thermal hydrocarbon resins.

Producing C5 olefins from steam cracker C5 feeds may include reacting a mixed hydrocarbon stream comprising cyclopentadiene, C5 olefins, and C6+ hydrocarbons in a dimerization reactor where cyclopentadiene is dimerized to dicyclopentadiene. The dimerization reactor effluent may be separated into a fraction comprising the C6+ hydrocarbons and dicyclopentadiene and a second fraction comprising C5 olefins and C5 dienes. The second fraction, a saturated hydrocarbon diluent stream, and hydrogen may be fed to a catalytic distillation reactor system for concurrently separating linear C5 olefins from saturated hydrocarbon diluent, cyclic C5 olefins, and C5 dienes contained in the second fraction and selectively hydrogenating C5 dienes. An overhead distillate including the linear C5 olefins and a bottoms product including cyclic C5 olefins are recovered from the catalytic distillation reactor system. Other aspects of the C5 olefin systems and processes, including catalyst configurations and control schemes, are also described.

A method for producing a hydrogenated petroleum resin by reacting dicyclopentadiene with a vinyl aromatic compound, subjecting the reaction product obtained by this reaction to thermal polymerization, and then hydrogenating the resulting product, including the following steps (A) to (C): (A) a preliminary reaction step of reacting a vinyl aromatic compound represented by the following Formula (1) (in the formula, R.sup.1 is a hydrogen atom or the like) with dicyclopentadiene under the condition that selectivity for a phenylnorbornene derivative, which is a reaction product and is represented by the following Formula (2) {in the formula, R.sup.1 has the same meaning as in the above Formula (1)}, is 90% or more to obtain a reaction liquid containing the phenylnorbornene derivative: (B) a polymerization step of heating the reaction liquid, which contains the phenylnorbornene derivative and is obtained in the preliminary reaction step (A), to a temperature of 240 to 300? C. to polymerize the reaction liquid, thereby obtaining a polymerization reaction product; and (C) a hydrogenation step of hydrogenating the polymerization reaction product, which is obtained in the polymerization step (B), in the presence of a catalyst to obtain a hydrogenated petroleum resin. ##STR00001##

A method for producing a hydrogenated petroleum resin by reacting dicyclopentadiene with a vinyl aromatic compound, subjecting the reaction product obtained by this reaction to thermal polymerization, and then hydrogenating the resulting product, including the following steps (A) to (C): (A) a preliminary reaction step of reacting a vinyl aromatic compound represented by the following Formula (1) (in the formula, R.sup.1 is a hydrogen atom or the like) with dicyclopentadiene under the condition that selectivity for a phenylnorbornene derivative, which is a reaction product and is represented by the following Formula (2) {in the formula, R.sup.1 has the same meaning as in the above Formula (1)}, is 90% or more to obtain a reaction liquid containing the phenylnorbornene derivative: (B) a polymerization step of heating the reaction liquid, which contains the phenylnorbornene derivative and is obtained in the preliminary reaction step (A), to a temperature of 240 to 300? C. to polymerize the reaction liquid, thereby obtaining a polymerization reaction product; and (C) a hydrogenation step of hydrogenating the polymerization reaction product, which is obtained in the polymerization step (B), in the presence of a catalyst to obtain a hydrogenated petroleum resin. ##STR00001##

A method for producing a hydrogenated petroleum resin by reacting dicyclopentadiene with a vinyl aromatic compound, subjecting the reaction product obtained by this reaction to thermal polymerization, and then hydrogenating the resulting product, including the following steps (A) to (C): (A) a preliminary reaction step of reacting a vinyl aromatic compound represented by the following Formula (1) (in the formula, R.sup.1 is a hydrogen atom or the like) with dicyclopentadiene under the condition that selectivity for a phenylnorbornene derivative, which is a reaction product and is represented by the following Formula (2) {in the formula, R.sup.1 has the same meaning as in the above Formula (1)}, is 90% or more to obtain a reaction liquid containing the phenylnorbornene derivative: (B) a polymerization step of heating the reaction liquid, which contains the phenylnorbornene derivative and is obtained in the preliminary reaction step (A), to a temperature of 240 to 300? C. to polymerize the reaction liquid, thereby obtaining a polymerization reaction product; and (C) a hydrogenation step of hydrogenating the polymerization reaction product, which is obtained in the polymerization step (B), in the presence of a catalyst to obtain a hydrogenated petroleum resin. ##STR00001##

An energy integrated process is disclosed for the conversion of carbon dioxide to a liquid product. The conversion reaction is exothermic. The heat of reaction and the heat of condensation of the reaction product or products are used as energy input in a carbon dioxide enrichment step. The enrichment step produces a feed gas for the conversion reaction.

An energy integrated process is disclosed for the conversion of carbon dioxide to a liquid product. The conversion reaction is exothermic. The heat of reaction and the heat of condensation of the reaction product or products are used as energy input in a carbon dioxide enrichment step. The enrichment step produces a feed gas for the conversion reaction.

A method to generate cyclic hydrocarbons from farnesene to increase both the density and net heat of combustion of the product fuels.

A method to generate cyclic hydrocarbons from farnesene to increase both the density and net heat of combustion of the product fuels.

A method for producing high density fuels from isoprene which can be produced via biosynthetic routes using biomass sugars as feedstock. This allows for the production of isoprene and isoprene-derived fuels from abundant waste materials with the potential to significantly reduce DoD carbon emissions. Embodiments of the invention describe a method for conversion of isoprene to full performance jet and diesel fuels. Isoprene can be selectively oligomerized to generate a distribution of branched chain hydrocarbons. Combination of an oligomerization catalyst with a metathesis catalyst allows for the synthesis of high density cyclic fuels with performance advantages (increased density and volumetric net heat of combustion) over conventional petroleum-based fuels.