Process and apparatus for recovering hydrogen from hydroprocessed hot flash liquid

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10781380-B2
Application number	US-201615391257-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 27, 2016
Priority date	Dec 29, 2015
Publication date	Sep 22, 2020
Grant date	Sep 22, 2020

Abstract

A medium separator is used to recover a gaseous stream from a hydroprocessed liquid stream for hydrogen recovery in a hydrogen recovery unit. A medium flash drum may further remove liquid components from the gaseous stream prior to hydrogen recovery in the hydrogen recovery unit.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A hydroprocessing process comprising:
hydroprocessing a hydrocarbon feed stream in a hydroprocessing reactor to provide a hydroprocessing effluent stream;
separating said hydroprocessing effluent stream in a hot separator to provide a hot separator gaseous stream and a hot separator liquid stream;
letting down the pressure of the hot separator liquid stream;
flashing the hot separator liquid stream in a hot flash drum to provide a hot flash gaseous stream and a hot flash liquid stream, wherein bulk of hydrogen is contained in the hot flash liquid stream compared to the hot flash gaseous stream; and
recovering hydrogen from said hot flash liquid stream, wherein recovering hydrogen from said hot flash liquid stream further includes separating said hot flash liquid stream to provide a medium gaseous stream and a medium liquid stream; and recovering hydrogen from said medium gaseous stream.

2. The process of claim 1 wherein separating said hot flash liquid stream further comprises stripping said medium liquid stream in a stripper.

3. The process of claim 2 further comprising flashing said medium gaseous stream to provide a medium flash gaseous stream and a medium flash liquid stream.

4. The process of claim 3 further comprising cooling said medium gaseous stream.

5. The process of claim 3 further comprising compressing said medium flash gaseous stream.

6. The process of claim 4 further comprising removing acid gases from said medium gaseous stream.

7. The process of claim 5 further comprising adsorbing impurities from hydrogen in said medium gaseous stream.

8. The process of claim 1 further comprising stripping said medium liquid stream in a stripper.

9. The process of claim 1 further comprising separating the hot separator gaseous stream in a cold separator to provide a cold separator gaseous stream and a cold separator liquid stream and recovering hydrogen from said cold separator gaseous stream.

10. The process of claim 9 further comprising separating said cold separator liquid stream in a cold flash drum to provide a cold flash gaseous stream and a cold flash liquid stream.

11. The process of claim 10 further comprising recovering hydrogen from said cold flash gaseous stream and stripping said cold flash liquid stream.

12. The process of claim 11 wherein recovering hydrogen from said hot flash liquid stream further includes separating said hot flash liquid stream to provide a medium gaseous stream and a medium liquid stream, flashing said medium gaseous stream to provide a medium flash gaseous stream and a medium flash liquid stream, mixing said cold flash gaseous stream with said medium flash gaseous stream and recovering hydrogen from said medium flash gaseous stream and the cold flash gaseous stream and mixing said cold flash liquid stream with said medium flash liquid stream.

13. A hydroprocessing process comprising:
hydroprocessing a hydrocarbon feed in a hydroprocessing reactor to provide a hydroprocessing effluent stream;
separating said hydroprocessing effluent stream in a hot separator to provide a hot separator gaseous stream and a hot separator liquid stream;
separating the hot separator liquid stream in a hot flash drum operating at a lower pressure of between about 1.4 MPa (gauge) (200 psig) and about 6.9 MPa (gauge) (1000 psig) than the hot separator to provide a hot flash gaseous stream and a hot flash liquid stream, wherein bulk of hydrogen is contained in the hot flash liquid stream compared to the hot flash gaseous stream;
separating said hot flash liquid stream to provide a medium gaseous stream and a medium liquid stream; and
recovering hydrogen from said medium gaseous stream.

14. The process of claim 13 further comprising flashing said medium gaseous stream in a medium pressure flash drum to provide a medium flash gaseous stream and a medium flash liquid stream and recovering hydrogen from said medium flash gaseous stream.

15. The process of claim 13 further comprising stripping said medium liquid stream in a stripper.

16. The process of claim 13 further comprising stripping said medium flash liquid stream in a stripper.

Assignees

• Uop Llc

Inventors

• Ladkat Kiran
• Hoehn Richard K
• Mahajan Hemant
• Panchapakesan Rajaraman

Classifications

• C10G2300/4012

  Pressure · CPC title

• C10G67/02

  plural serial stages only · CPC title

• C10G67/06 Primary

  including a sorption process as the refining step in the absence of hydrogen · CPC title