CA2516898A1 - Process for the production of alkylaromatics - Google Patents

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CA2516898A1
CA2516898A1 CA002516898A CA2516898A CA2516898A1 CA 2516898 A1 CA2516898 A1 CA 2516898A1 CA 002516898 A CA002516898 A CA 002516898A CA 2516898 A CA2516898 A CA 2516898A CA 2516898 A1 CA2516898 A1 CA 2516898A1
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A process for producing an alkylaromatic compound includes contacting a dilute olefin feed with a lean oil stream containing aromatic compound and alkylaromatic compound in an absorption zone to provide an alkylation reaction stream containing aromatic compound, alkylaromatic compound and olefin. The alkylation reaction stream is reacted under alkylation reaction conditions in an alkylation reaction zone to provide an effluent containing the aromatic compound and alkylaromatic compound. The effluent of step is separated into the Jean oil stream which is recycled to the absorption zone and a product portion from which an alkylaromatic product is recovered.

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1. A process for producing an alkylaromatic compound, comprising:

a) contacting a dilute olefin feed with a lean oil stream containing aromatic compound and alkylaromatic compound in an absorption zone to provide an alkylation reaction stream containing aromatic compound, alkylaromatic compound and olefin;

b) reacting the alkylation reaction stream of step (a) under alkylation reaction conditions in an alkylation reaction zone to provide an effluent containing the aromatic compound and alkylaromatic compound;

c) separating the effluent of step (b) into the lean oil stream which is recycled to the absorption zone of step (a) and a product portion; and, d) recovering an alkylaromatic product from the product portion of step (c).
2. The process of claim 1, wherein the aromatic compound is selected from the group consisting of benzene, naphthalene, anthracene, phenanthrene, and derivatives thereof.
3. The process of claim 1, wherein the olefin alkylation agent is selected from the group consisting of ethylene, propylene, and other branched or linear olefins containing 2 to at least 20 carbon atoms.
4. The process of claim 1, wherein the alkylaromatic compound is selected from the group consisting of alkylbenzene, polyalkylbenzene and mixtures thereof.
5. The process of claim 4, wherein the alkylbenzene is selected from the group consisting of ethylbenzene and cumene.
6. The process of claim 4, wherein the polyalkylbenzene is selected from the group consisting of diethylbenzene, triethylbenzene, higher ethylated benzenes and mixtures thereof.
7. The process of claim 1, wherein the dilute olefin feed has an olefin concentration in the range of about 3 mol% to about 95 mol%.
8. The process of claim 7, wherein the dilute olefin feed has an olefin concentration in the range of about 3mol%
to about 70mol%.
9. The process of claim 1, wherein the dilute olefin feed includes one or more inert low molecular weight impurities selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, methane, ethane, nitrogen, carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, butane and pentane.
10. The process of claim 9, wherein the dilute olefin feed has an inert low molecular weight impurities concentration of at least about 5 mol%.
11. The process of claim 10, wherein the dilute olefin alkylation agent feed has an olefin concentration in the range of about 3 mol% to about 70 mol%.
12. The process of claim 1, wherein the absorption zone comprises an absorber selected from the group consisting of a packed column absorber, tray absorber and combined tray and packed column absorber.
13. The process of claim 12, wherein gaseous overheads from the absorber are transferred to a vent scrubber.
14. The process of claim 12, wherein the absorber operates in the gas phase.
15. The process of claim 1, wherein the alkylation reaction zone comprises an alkylator.
16. The process of claim 15, wherein the alkylator is a fixed bed reactor.
17. The process of claim 16 wherein the alkylator comprises multiple beds and multiple olefin inlets respectively positioned between the beds.
18. The process of claim 15, wherein the alkylator operates in the liquid phase.
19. The process of claim 15, wherein the alkylator contains a catalyst selected from the group consisting of zeolite BEA, zeolite MWW, zeolite Y, Mordenite catalyst, MFI
catalyst and Faujasite catalyst, or combinations thereof.
20. The process of claim 1, wherein the lean oil stream in step (c) comprises about 5 wt% to about 99 wt% of the effluent of step (b).
21. The process of claim 20, wherein the lean oil stream in step (c) comprises about 75 wt% to about 95 wt% of the effluent of step (b).
22. The process, of claim 1, wherein the recovery step (d) includes one or more distillation operations.
23. The process of claim 22, wherein unreacted aromatic compound is recovered in a first distillation operation and the alkylaromatic product is recovered in a second distillation operation.
24. The process of claim 23, wherein at least a portion of the unreacted aromatic compound is recycled to the lean oil stream.
25. The process of claim 1, wherein the effluent of step (b) also contains polyalkylaromatic byproduct which is recovered in a distillation operation.
26. The process of claim 25, wherein at least a portion of the recovered polyalkylaromatic byproduct is directed to a vent scrubber to provide a transalkylation reaction stream for transfer to a transalkylator.
27. The process of claim 26, wherein the transalkylation reaction stream is subjected to catalytic transalkylation reaction conditions to form a transalkylation reaction product stream having a higher aromatic to polyalkylaromatic ratio than that of the transalkylation reaction stream.
28. The process of claim 26, wherein the transalkylation reaction product stream is directed to the operations to separately recover unreacted aromatic compound and alkylaromatic compound.
28. The process of claim 1, wherein additional olefin alkylation agent is added to the alkylation reaction zone of step (b).
29. The process of claim 28, wherein the additional olefin alkylation agent is high purity ethylene.
30. The process of claim 1, wherein step (c) includes the additional step of subjecting the first portion of the alkylation product stream of step (b) to an operation to recover ethane before recycling the first portion of the alkylation product stream to the contact zone of step (a).
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