Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Process for the production of high purity isobutylene
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Application No.: US16549804Application Date: 2019-08-23
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Publication No.: US11053177B2Publication Date: 2021-07-06
- Inventor: Martinus Johannes Almering , Christopher Robbins
- Applicant: LUMMUS TECHNOLOGY LLC
- Applicant Address: US NJ Bloomfield
- Assignee: LUMMUS TECHNOLOGY LLC
- Current Assignee: LUMMUS TECHNOLOGY LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US NJ Bloomfield
- Agency: Osha Bergman Watanabe & Burton LLP
- Main IPC: C07C5/25
- IPC: C07C5/25 ; B01D3/00 ; C07C7/00 ; C07C7/04 ; B01D3/42 ; B01J8/00

Abstract:
Processes for the production of high purity isobutylene are disclosed. The processes may include supplying a mixed C4 feed stream to a catalytic distillation column, which may contain a butene isomerization catalyst. 1-butene is isomerized to 2-butene and concurrently in the catalytic distillation column the 2-butene is separated from the isobutane and isobutylene. The overheads fraction comprising the isobutane and isobutylene is then condensed in an overheads system and fed to a splitter, where the isobutane is separated from the isobutylene. The process further includes operating the catalytic distillation column at an overheads temperature greater than a bottoms temperature of the splitter, and heating a portion of the splitter bottoms stream via indirect heat exchange with at least a portion of the catalytic distillation column overheads fraction, thereby producing a heated bottoms stream (reboil vapor) fed to the splitter and a cooled overheads fraction.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200062676A1 PROCESS FOR THE PRODUCTION OF HIGH PURITY ISOBUTYLENE Public/Granted day:2020-02-27
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