System and producing method for preparing alkylated oil by using sulfuric acid as catalyst

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10556845-B2
Application number	US-201615575425-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 20, 2016
Priority date	May 21, 2015
Publication date	Feb 11, 2020
Grant date	Feb 11, 2020

Abstract

Disclosed are a system device for preparing an alkylate oil using a sulfuric acid catalyst and a manufacturing method thereof. The system device comprises a reactor unit ( 100 ), a catalyst and hydrocarbon circulation unit ( 200 ), a separator unit ( 300 ), an isobutane circulation unit ( 500 ) and a fractionator unit ( 400 ). The reactor unit ( 100 ) is connected and in communication with the catalyst and hydrocarbon circulation unit ( 200 ) and the separator unit ( 300 ) via channels respectively. The catalyst and hydrocarbon circulation unit ( 200 ) is connected and in communication with the separator unit ( 300 ) via channels. The separator unit ( 300 ) is connected and in communication with the isobutane circulation unit ( 500 ) and the fractionator unit ( 400 ) via channels respectively. The catalyst and hydrocarbon circulation unit ( 200 ), the separator unit ( 300 ), the isobutane circulation unit ( 500 ) and the fractionator unit ( 400 ) are connected and in communication with the reactor unit ( 100 ) via channels respectively. The reactor unit ( 100 ) comprises at least a high gravity reactor. Due to the adopted high gravity reactor capable of highly reinforcing the mixing of materials under high viscosity, the system device can operate at a low temperature of −5° C. and prepare the alkylate oil having an octane number of 97-100 at an alkane/alkene ratio of 2-100.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A system for preparing alkylated oil by using sulfuric acid as a catalyst, comprising a reactor unit, a catalyst and hydrocarbon circulating unit, a separator unit, an isobutene circulating unit and a fractionator unit; wherein:
the reactor unit is respectively communicated with the catalyst and hydrocarbon circulating unit and the separator unit through pipes;
the catalyst and hydrocarbon circulating unit comprises at least one circulating pump and at least one gas separation tank, and is communicated with the separator unit through a pipe;
the separator unit comprises a settler unit, a cyclone unit or a combination thereof, and is respectively communicated with the isobutene circulating unit and the fractionator unit through pipes;
the isobutane circulating unit comprises at least one gas compressor and at least one cooler;
the fractionator unit comprises at least one fractionating tower;
the catalyst and hydrocarbon circulating unit, the separator unit, the isobutene circulating unit and the fractionator unit are respectively communicated with the reactor unit through pipes; and
the reactor unit comprises at least one high-gravity reactor.

2. The system for preparing alkylated oil by using sulfuric acid as, a catalyst according to claim 1 , wherein
the separator unit comprises at least one settling tank and at least one gas-liquid separation tank.

3. The system for preparing alkylated oil by using sulfuric acid as a catalyst according to claim 1 , wherein:
the separator unit comprises the settler unit and the cyclone unit, and
a device is provided to convey an effluent from the cyclone unit to the settler unit.

4. The system for preparing alkylated oil by using sulfuric acid as a catalyst according to claim 1 , wherein
the fractionator unit comprises one or more distillation subunits; and
each distillation subunit comprises a main fractionating tower, an acid stripping tower and/or a depropanizing tower.

5. The system for preparing alkylated oil by using sulfuric acid as a catalyst according to claim 1 , wherein
the separator unit is located at a downstream of the reactor unit in a fluid flow path; and
the fractionator unit is located at a downstream of the separator unit the fluid flow path.

6. A producing method for preparing alkylated oil by using sulfuric acid as a catalyst by adopting the system according to claim 1 , wherein the producing method comprises the following steps:
1) supplying a feed flow of hydrocarbon mixture at least containing isoalkane and alkene and a catalyst sulfuric acid to the reactor unit to perform alkylation reaction: supplying an effluent of the reactor unit after alkylation reaction to the catalyst and hydrocarbon circulating unit and the separator unit, wherein the feed flow of the hydrocarbon mixture and the catalyst comes from an internal circulation of the system and an external feed of the system;
2) pressurizing a lower-layer effluent of the catalyst and hydrocarbon circulating unit by using the at least one circulating pump, then recirculating the effluent into the reactor unit and supplying an upper-layer effluent of the catalyst to the separator unit;
3) the separator unit separating the effluent entering the separator unit into a catalyst phase, a hydrocarbon phase containing alkylated oil and a gas phase; recirculating one portion of the catalyst phase separated by the separator unit to the reactor unit and removing the other portion as waste acid from the system; supplying the hydrocarbon phase containing alkylated oil separated by the separator unit to the fractionator unit; and supplying the gas phase separated by the separator unit to the isobutane circulating unit;
4) the isobutane circulating unit compressing and cooling the entering gas phase into liquid and recirculating the liquid to the reactor unit; and
5) the fractionator unit fractionating the influent hydrocarbon phase containing alkylated oil to obtain at least one product containing alkylated oil and a flow of other hydrocarbons, which are guided out as a lower-layer effluent; and recirculating an upper-layer effluent fractionated by the fractionator unit to the reactor unit for continuous reaction.

7. The producing method for preparing alkylated oil by using sulfuric acid as a catalyst according to claim 6 , wherein, in step 1), in the external feed of the system, the isoalkane is isobutane and the alkene is one or more of 2-butene, isobutene and 1-butene; a molar ratio of isoalkane to alkene is above 1.

8. The producing method for preparing alkylated oil by using sulfuric acid as a catalyst according to claim 6 , wherein, in step 1) the temperature of alkylation reaction is −10-100° C. and the pressure of reaction is 0.1-5 MPa.

9. The product method for preparing alkylated oil by using sulfuric acid as a catalyst according to claim 6 , wherein,
in step 1) the producing method further comprises the step of recirculating a portion of the effluent of the reactor unit to the reactor unit; and
in step 3), the producing method further comprises the step of recirculating a portion of the hydrocarbon phase containing alkylated oil separated by the separator unit to the reactor unit.

10. The producing method, for preparing alkylated oil by using sulfuric acid as a catalyst according to claim 6 , wherein, in step 1), a volume ratio of the internal circulation to the external feed of the system in the feed flow of the hydrocarbon mixture and the catalyst is 10-200:1 and the revolving speed of a rotor in the high-gravity reactor is 100-2850 rpm.

Assignees

• Univ Beijing Chem Tech

Inventors

• Zou Haikui
• Chu Guangwen
• Chen Jianfeng
• Luo Yong
• Sun Baochang
• Xiang Yang

Classifications

• C07C2/62 Primary

  with acids · CPC title

• B01J2219/00051

  Controlling the temperature · CPC title

• B01J2219/00162

  controlling the pressure · CPC title

• C07C7/09

  by fractional condensation · CPC title

• B01D3/14

  Fractional distillation {or use of a fractionation or rectification column} · CPC title