Abstract: A hydrocracking process wherein the undesirable production of polynuclear aromatic compounds is controlled by removing a small dragstream of high pressure product stripper bottoms to reject polynuclear aromatic compounds and recovering valuable diesel boiling range hydrocarbons and unconverted feedstock by routing the dragstream to a hot flash separator and subsequently to a divided wall fractionation zone to produce a concentrated stream of polynuclear aromatic compounds while recovering the valuable hydrocarbon compounds.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
February 17, 2000
Date of Patent:
April 30, 2002
Assignee:
UOP LLC
Inventors:
Richard K. Hoehn, Bradford L. Bjorklund