Development of Catalytic Processes for the Production of Olefins

Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 8 - Trang 201-219 - 2023
Bipin V. Vora1
1Department of Biological and Chemical Engineering, IIT-Chicago, Naperville, USA

Tóm tắt

Olefins are by far the most valuable petrochemical intermediates. Historically thermal steam cracking of naphtha, though primarily used for the production of ethylene, is also a source of other olefins as coproduct of ethylene production. Another source has been fluid catalytic cracking process widely used in petroleum refining, providing abundance of propylene and butenes. Ethylene and propylene are No. 1 and 2, respectively largest volume petrochemical intermediates. Higher molecular weight olefins, with carbon number in the range of C8–C14 are used for the production of plasticizers, synthetic lubricant and detergent products. As the growth of petrochemicals outpaced the refining, these conventional sources for the olefins could not meet the demand and a search for alternate routes began. Catalytic dehydrogenation plays an important role in production of light (C3–C4 carbon range), detergent range (C10–C13 carbon range) olefins and for ethylbenzene dehydrogenation to styrene. This paper describes development of two routes for the production of olefins, one is catalytic dehydrogenation of paraffins to olefins and second is conversion of methanol to olefins. Both routes were developed by scientists and engineers at UOP LLC, now a Honeywell company, where the author of this paper played a major role in the development and commercialization of these technologies. The author also includes description of competitive processes.

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