Abstract: The present invention concerns a process for oligomerizing an olefin feedstock to form an oligomerization product, and a method of controlling such an oligomerization process. The process comprises oligomerizing propylene to form a Cn olefin, including contacting a feed stream comprising propylene and a recycle fraction with a solid phosphoric acid oligomerization catalyst under effective oligomerization conditions in an oligomerization reactor to produce an oligomerization effluent; and fractionating the oligomerization effluent to obtain a product fraction and the recycle fraction, the product fraction comprising the Cn olefin and the recycle fraction comprising a Cn-3 olefin; wherein the recycle fraction comprises at least 80 wt % of the Cn-3 olefin, based on the weight of the recycle fraction; and wherein n is 9, or 12.

Abstract: A method of converting one or more alkanes to one or more alkenes that includes a) providing a first stream containing one or more alkanes and oxygen to an oxidative dehydrogenation reactor; b) converting at least a portion of the one or more alkanes to one or more alkenes in the oxidative dehydrogenation reactor to provide a second stream exiting the oxidative dehydrogenation reactor containing one or more alkanes, one or more alkenes, oxygen, carbon monoxide and optionally acetylene; and c) providing the second stream to a second reactor containing a catalyst that includes a group 11 metal to convert a least a portion of the carbon monoxide to carbon dioxide and reacting the acetylene.

Abstract: Processes for producing jet-range hydrocarbons includes splitting a renewable olefin feedstock comprising C3 to C8 olefins into a plurality of streams and passing each stream to an oligomerization reactor containing a zeolite catalyst to produce an oligomerized effluent. The reactors may be arranged in series, such that an oligomerized effluent comprises a diluent for a downstream reactor. The net oligomerized effluent may be separated and a heavy olefin stream comprising C8+ olefins may be hydrogenated and separated to provide a distillate range hydrocarbon product.

Abstract: A system and method for a first reactor to produce a transfer slurry having a first polyolefin polymerized in the first reactor, a heat-removal zone to remove heat from the transfer slurry, and a second reactor to receive the transfer slurry cooled by the heat-removal zone, the second reactor to produce a product slurry having a product polyolefin which includes the first polyolefin and a second polyolefin polymerized in the second reactor.

Abstract: One exemplary embodiment can be a process for oligomerizing one or more hydrocarbons. The process can include oligomerizing a feed including one or more C3-C5 hydrocarbons to produce an effluent, and recycling at least a portion of the effluent for oligomerizing. Typically, the recycled portion has at least about 50%, by weight, one or more alkenes based on the weight of the recycled portion.

Abstract: A process for polymerising or oligomerising a hydrocarbon includes feeding a liquid hydrocarbon reactant and a liquid evaporative cooling medium into a bulk liquid phase which includes polymeric or oligomeric product admixed with a catalyst, and allowing at least a portion of the liquid hydrocarbon reactant and the liquid evaporative cooling medium to vapourise to form bubbles rising through the bulk liquid phase, with the hydrocarbon reactant polymerising or oligomerising to form the polymeric or oligomeric product and with the evaporation of both the liquid hydrocarbon reactant and the liquid evaporative cooling medium effecting heat removal from the bulk liquid phase. Gaseous components are withdrawn from a head space, cooled and separated. Condensed hydrocarbon reactant and condensed cooling medium are recycled to the bulk liquid phase.

Abstract: The present invention provides: a process for preparing a vinyl polymer containing a halogen in an amount of 1,000 mg or less per kilogram, in which a vinyl polymer containing the halogen produced by atom transfer radical polymerization of a vinyl monomer is heated at a temperature in the range of 140 to 250° C. to dehalogenate the vinyl polymer; a vinyl polymer obtained by the process; and a hydrosilylation-reactive curable composition containing the vinyl polymer.

Abstract: 1,3-butadiene is obtained by extractive distillation with a selective solvent from a C4 cut comprising C4 acetylenes as secondary components in a dividing wall column having a bottom evaporator, in which a dividing wall is disposed in the longitudinal direction of the column to form a first subregion, a second subregion and a lower combined column region. The column is disposed upstream of an extractive wash column. The energy input into the dividing wall column via the bottom evaporator is controlled in such a way that a bottom stream containing solvent, C4 acetylenes and 1,3-butadiene restricted such that the loss of 1,3-butadiene is economically acceptable, is drawn off and fed to an acetylenes outgasser where the C4 acetylenes are stripped out overhead and purified solvent is obtained as the bottom stream.

Abstract: Olefin feeds with high olefin content and/or containing a substance that generates water when contacting the catalyst, are oligomerised over solid phosphoric acid catalyst in tubular reactors by introducing the olefin feed into the reactor and maintaining the reacting mixture under conditions whereby the peak temperature is controlled to be below 265° C. and preferably a single liquid or dense phase is maintained and the average temperature throughout the reactor is maintained in the range 190° C. to 260° C.

Abstract: Process for preparing oligomers of alkenes having from 4 to 8 carbon atoms from a feed stream comprising such alkenes or hydrocarbon streams in which such alkenes are present over a nickel-containing, heterogeneous catalyst in n successive adiabatically operated reactors, where n is 2 or an integer greater than 2, at from 30 to 280° C. and pressures of from 1 to 300 bar, where the feed stream has a temperature Tin when it enters the first reaction zone, experiences a temperature increase in each reaction zone and, if this temperature increase is more than Tin+20° C., is brought to a temperature in the range Tin±20° C. before it enters a subsequent reaction zone, wherein the feed stream is divided and the feed substreams obtained in this way are fed to the 2 reactors, or if more than 2 reactors are used to at least 2 of the reactors, with addition of fresh feed in such a way that the temperature in one of the reactors is at most 20° C. higher than that in each of the other reactors used.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method of preparing a phosphonium salt of the formula [R1R2R3P—CR4R5R6]X, comprising ball-milling a phosphine of the formula R1R2R3P with a compound of the formula XCR4R5R6; a method of preparing a phosphorus ylide of the formula R1R2R3P?CR4R5, comprising ball-milling a phosphonium salt of the formula [R1R2R3P—HCR4R5]X in the presence of a base; and a method of preparing an olefin of the formula R4R5C?CR7H or R4R5C?CR7R8, comprising ball-milling a phosphorus ylide of the formula R1R2R3P?CR4R5 with a compound of the formula R7C(O)H or R7C(O)R8. The inventive method produces phosphonium salts and phosphorus ylides by mechanical processing solid reagents under solvent-free conditions.

Abstract: A process is provided to stabilize and/or reactivate an olefin production catalyst system which comprises contacting an olefin production catalyst system, either before or after use, with an aromatic compound.

Abstract: Vinylidene olefin can be formed in good yield and high selectivity in much shorter reaction periods than found critical heretofore. The process involves dimerizing vinyl olefin with at least one trialkylaluminum compound as the catalyst component charged to the reaction vessel. These materials are charged to the reactor so that it contains in the range of 0.001 to 0.5 mol of trialkylaluminum per mol of the initial vinyl olefin. The reaction is performed at a temperature in the range of 100.degree. to 200.degree. C. for a period of time sufficient to convert 10 to 99% by weight of the initial vinyl olefin to a different product with at least 80 wt % vinylidene dimer selectivity. In conducting the process the liquid reaction mixture is in direct contact with a nickel-containing metal alloy surface for at least one hour at a temperature above about 50.degree. C.

Abstract: Vinylidene olefin can be formed in good yield and high selectivity in much shorter reaction periods than found critical heretofore. The process involves dimerizing vinyl olefin with at least one trialkylaluminum compound as the sole catalyst component charged to the reaction vessel. These materials are charged to the reactor so that it contains in the range of 0.001 to 0.5 mol of trialkylaluminum per mol of the initial vinyl olefin. The reaction is performed at a temperature in the range of 100.degree. to 200.degree. C. for a period of time sufficient to convert 10 to 99% by weight of the initial vinyl olefin to a different product and form a product mixture with at least 80 wt % vinylidene dimer selectivity.

Abstract: There is provided a process for recovering boron trifluoride catalyst from an oligomerization mixture, which comprises introducing an oligomerization mixture containing catalyst comprising boron trifluoride and a complex of boron trifluoride and cocatalyst into a copper-nickel-made recovery reactor, heating the oligomerization mixture at or above a decomposition temperature of the complex, and separating and recovering boron trifluoride from the oligomerization mixture. According to the process, the boron trifluoride can be recovered effectively from the oligomerization mixture without causing the corrosion problem of the recovery reactor.

Abstract: In its simplest sense, the present invention is directed toward a process for the thermal conversion of methane into unsaturated gaseous hydrocarbons, especially olefins, comprising first compressing methane in the presence of an inert gas having a higher ratio of heat capacities, Cp/Cv, than methane. The inert gas used is present in an amount sufficient to provide a compressed gas mixture having a peak temperature of adiabatic compression in the range of about 900.degree. C. to about 2200.degree. C. Under these conditions, at least some of the methane is converted to unsaturated gaseous hydrocarbons. Immediately thereafter, the compressed gas mixture is expanded, thereby substantially preventing thermal conversion of the gaseous hydrocarbons. Importantly, the compression and expansion are achieved in a single cycle of less than about one second.

Abstract: The invention provides a catalytic method for the dimerization or codimerization or oligomerization, in particular selective, of olefins, carried out under pressure, in a reaction zone 1 containing a solid catalyst bed in which is disposed a plurality of hollow internal spaces 6.3a defined by walls, each being divided into an upper semi-space 6.3, 1a and a lower semi-space 6.3, 2a which communicate together through a connecting zone 6.6a. An autogenous thermoregulation fluid flows, in the form of a sheet, in said hollow internal spaces 6.3a after passing through a central distributing zone 6.1a and distributing zones 6.2a and before passing into collecting zone 6.4a and into a central collecting zone 6.5a.

Abstract: The invention provides a catalytic method for the dimerization or codimerization or oligomerization, particularly selectively, of olefins, carried out under pressure, in a reaction zone 1 containing a solid catalyst bed into which is disposed a plurality of hollow internal spaces 6.3 defined by walls and through which an autogenous thermoregulation fluid flows, in the form of a sheet, after passing through a central distributing zone 6.1 and distributing zones 6.2 and before passing through collecting zones 6.4 and into a central collecting zone 6.5.

Abstract: Apparatus for converting crude aqueous oxygenate feedstock, such methanol or the like, to liquid hydrocarbons in contact with a medium pore shape selective crystalline acid zeolite catalyst, such as HZSM-5. In a preferred embodiment, the novel technique comprises means for: (a) contacting a crude methanol feedstock containing a minor amount of water with a liquid hydrocarbon extraction stream under extraction conditions favorable to selective extraction of the methanol, thereby providing an extract liquid stream rich in methanol and an aqueous raffinate stream lean in methanol; (b) charging the extracted methanol substantially free of water to said reaction zone under process conditions to convert substantially all methanol to hydrocarbons; (c) cooling reaction effluent to recover aqueous liquid byproduct stream, gas rich in C.sub.2.sup.- hydrocarbons, liquid rich in C.sub.3 -C.sub.4 hydrocarbons and C.sub.5.sup.

Abstract: A process flow for a catalytic oligomerization process is presented. The feed contacts a solid catalyst in a tubular reactor cooled by indirect heat exchange. The mixed-phase coolant used in the reactor is the reactor effluent itself, which has been cooled by indirect heat exchange and depressurized. The reactor effluent is then passed into a rectified separation zone. The heat picked up by the effluent stream in the reactor is thereby used in separating light hydrocarbons from the effluent to produce a recycle stream.

Abstract: Methane is converted to higher, more reactive, hydrocarbon products by a diffusion flame. Methane is converted to C.sub.2 + products by pyrolysis in the interior of the flame with oxidizing gas flowing outside of the flame. More reactive products are withdrawn from the center of the flame by a probe tube and cooled by the flowing oxidizing gas to stop the reaction.

Abstract: A diffusion flame reactor for cracking hydrocarbon gas has an oxygen-deficient zone in the center of the flame or in the center of an array of flames. Propane, n-octane, iso-octane and decalin are cracked to ethylene, acetylene, propylene, butenes, and butadienes which are withdrawn from the flame.

Abstract: Process and apparatus for a hydrocarbon conversion process, for example thermal cracking, in which feedstock is converted in a heated furnace, the furnace being heated by burning a mixture of fuel and preheated air. The preheated air is obtained by passing air through successive compression, heating and gas turbine expansion zones, the work thereby obtained from the gas turbine expansion zone being used, at least in part, to compress hydrocarbon process gas produced in the furnace.

Abstract: A process for preparing 1,7-octadiene by hydrodimerizing butadiene which comprises reacting the butadiene in the presence of formic acid, or a salt thereof, optionally a solvent and a catalyst comprising palladium complexed with a sterically hindered phosphine, phosphinite or phosphonite and a different ligand selected from phosphine, phosphinite, phosphonite or phosphite. Enhanced catalytic activity is obtained.

Abstract: A process for preparing 1,7-octadiene by hydrodimerizing butadiene which comprises reacting the butadiene in the presence of formic acid or a salt thereof, optionally a solvent and a catalyst comprising palladium complexed with a tertiary phosphinite or phosphonite. More active catalysts are obtained with phosphinites and phosphonites than with phosphines or phosphites.