Patents Assigned to EXXONMOBIL RESEARCH AND ENGNEERING COMPANY
  • Integrated methanol separation and methanol-to-gasoline conversion process
    Patent number: 10519383
    Abstract: A method for converting methanol to gasoline boiling range hydrocarbons is disclosed. In an aspect the method includes feeding crude methanol from a methanol synthesis reactor to a methanol separation vessel to recover a methanol stream in a vapor phase; and without condensing the methanol stream, feeding the methanol stream in the vapor phase to a reactor containing a conversion catalyst for converting methanol to at least one of dimethyl ether or gasoline boiling range hydrocarbons.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: EXXONMOBIL RESEARCH AND ENGNEERING COMPANY
    Inventors: Mitch L. Hindman, Mohsen N. Harandi, Suriyanarayanan Rajagopalan