A process for the production of polymers from waste plastics feedstocks includes: providing a hydrocarbon stream A obtained by treatment of a waste plastics feedstock; optionally providing a hydrocarbon stream B; supplying a feed C comprising a fraction of the hydrocarbon stream A and a fraction of the hydrocarbon stream B to a thermal cracker furnace comprising cracking coil(s); performing a thermal cracking operation in the presence of steam to obtain a cracked hydrocarbon stream D; supplying the cracked hydrocarbon stream D to a separation unit; performing a separation operation in the separation unit to obtain a product stream E comprising a monomer; supplying the product stream E to a polymerisation reactor; and performing a polymerisation reaction to obtain an polymer. The process allows for optimisation of the quantity of waste plastic material that finds its way back into a polymer that is produced as outcome of the process.

Methods for processing paraffinic naphtha include contacting a paraffinic naphtha feedstock with a catalyst system in a dehydrogenation reactor. The catalyst system includes a framework-substituted ultra-stable Y (USY)-type zeolite to produce a dehydrogenated product stream. The catalyst system includes a framework-substituted ultra-stable Y (USY)-type zeolite. The framework-substituted USY-type zeolite has a modified USY framework. The modified USY framework includes a USY aluminosilicate framework modified by substituting a portion of framework aluminum atoms of the USY aluminosilicate framework with substitution atoms independently selected from the group consisting of titanium atoms, zirconium atoms, hafnium atoms, and combinations thereof. A dehydrogenation catalyst for dehydrogenating a paraffinic naphtha includes the framework-substituted ultra-stable Y (USY)-type zeolite.

A method for producing aromatic compounds from pyrolysis oil comprises: upgrading the pyrolysis oil to pyrolysis gasoline in a multi-stage reactor comprising a slurry-phase reactor and a fixed-bed reactor, wherein the slurry-phase reactor comprises a mixed metal oxide catalyst, and the fixed-bed reactor comprises a mesoporous zeolite-supported metal catalyst; aromatizing the pyrolysis gasoline in an aromatization unit; hydrodealkylating and transalkylating a product from the aromatization unit in a hydrodealkylation-transalkylation unit, thereby producing an aromatic stream; and processing the aromatic stream in an aromatics recovery complex to produce the aromatic compounds comprising benzene, toluene, and xylenes (BTX).

The invention refers to the method for producing gasolines or aromatic compound concentrates, where three streams are used as feedstock, one of which includes hydrocarbon fraction, the second stream includes oxygenate, the third stream includes olefin-containing fraction with one or more olefins selected from the group consisting of ethylene, propylene, normal butylenes, isobutylene, in total from 10 to 50 wt %, and where three reaction zones filled with zeolite catalyst are used, with distribution of hydrocarbon fraction and oxygenate to the first reaction zone, and with olefin-containing fraction distributed over the three reaction zones, with the third stream mass fraction distributed to the final reaction zone higher than the mass fraction of the third stream distributed to each of the previous reaction zones. This method allows to increase the yield of C.sub.5+ hydrocarbons, enhance n-hexane and n-heptane conversion, reduce benzene content in the product, avoid recycling of gaseous products and decrease consumption of oxygenates.

In accordance with one or more embodiments of the present disclosure, a process for treating a hydrocarbon feedstream having nitrogen-containing compounds and polynuclear aromatic compounds includes contacting the hydrocarbon feedstream with an adsorbent material; introducing the adsorbent-treated hydrocarbon feedstream to a hydrocracking reaction unit to produce a hydrocracked effluent stream; introducing a naphtha stream to a catalytic reforming unit to produce a reformate stream; introducing the reformate stream to an aromatic recovery complex to produce a light reformate stream, a BTX stream, and an aromatic bottoms stream; and introducing the aromatic bottoms stream to the used adsorbent to release at least a portion of the nitrogen-containing compounds and polynuclear compounds.

The present invention relates to a process for the production of ethylene-based polymers from waste plastics feedstocks comprising the steps in this order of: (a) providing a hydrocarbon stream A obtained by hydrotreatment of a pyrolysis oil produced from a waste plastics feedstock; (b) optionally providing a hydrocarbon stream B; (c) supplying a feed C comprising a fraction of the hydrocarbon stream A and optionally a fraction of the hydrocarbon stream B to a thermal cracker furnace comprising cracking coil(s); (d) performing a thermal cracking operation in the presence of steam to obtain a cracked hydrocarbon stream D; (e) supplying the cracked hydrocarbon stream D to a separation unit; (f) performing a separation operation in the separation unit to obtain a product stream E comprising ethylene; (g) supplying the product stream E to a polymerisation reactor; and (h) performing a polymerisation reaction in the polymerisation reactor to obtain an ethylene-based polymer; wherein in step (d): • ⋅ the coil outlet temperature is 2: 800 and; 870° C., preferably 2: 820 and; 870° C.; and • ⋅ the weight ratio of steam to feed C is >0.3 and <0.8.

The present invention relates to an advanced process control system (APC) for a continuous catalytic regeneration reformer with master-slave configuration to control coke on spent catalyst while maximizing heavy reformate octane barrel using online inferential, both for coke content of spent catalyst and octane of heavy reformate. Further, the present invention relates to provide an APC system for a continuous catalytic regeneration reformer with master-slave configuration, which comprises of a master APC, a reactor APC, and a regenerator APC, wherein, the reactor APC and the regenerator APC are linked to the master APC.

This disclosure relates to methods of upgrading hydrocarbon feed stream, which can include separating the hydrocarbon feed stream into a heavy fraction and a light fraction, hydrotreating an aromatic feed stream with at least a first catalyst in a first reactor comprising hydrogen to produce a first product effluent, combining the heavy fraction with at least a portion of the first product effluent to form a mixed stream, and hydrotreating the mixed stream with one or more second catalysts in a second reactor comprising hydrogen to produce a second product effluent.

Methods for processing paraffinic naphtha include contacting a paraffinic naphtha feedstock with a catalyst system in a dehydrogenation reactor. The catalyst system includes a framework-substituted ultra-stable Y (USY)-type zeolite to produce a dehydrogenated product stream. The catalyst system includes a framework-substituted ultra-stable Y (USY)-type zeolite. The framework-substituted USY-type zeolite has a modified USY framework. The modified USY framework includes a USY aluminosilicate framework modified by substituting a portion of framework aluminum atoms of the USY aluminosilicate framework with substitution atoms independently selected from the group consisting of titanium atoms, zirconium atoms, hafnium atoms, and combinations thereof. A dehydrogenation catalyst for dehydrogenating a paraffinic naphtha includes the framework-substituted ultra-stable Y (USY)-type zeolite.

A hydrocarbon cracker stream is combined with recycle content pyrolysis oil to form a combined cracker stream and the combined cracker stream is cracked in a cracker furnace to provide an olefin-containing effluent. The r-pyoil can be fed to the cracker feed. Alternatively, the r-pyoil with a predominantly c8+ fraction can be fed to the cracker feed. The furnace can be a gas fed furnace, or split cracker furnace.