Fluidized bed reactor, heat removal water pipe and application thereof in acrylonitrile production

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12485397-B2
Application number	US-202017756302-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 18, 2020
Priority date	Nov 20, 2019
Publication date	Dec 2, 2025
Grant date	Dec 2, 2025

Abstract

Disclosed is a fluidized bed reactor and a heat removal water pipe and application thereof in acrylonitrile production. The fluidized bed reactor comprises at least a reaction cooling section and a vertical inner component provided in the reaction cooling section. Where, at a cross section transverse and perpendicular to a central axis of the fluidized bed reactor, an area of the cross section of the reaction cooling section is designated as S1 (expressed in a unit of m 2 ) and an outer contour circumference of the cross section of the vertical inner component is designated as L1 (expressed in a unit of m), L1/S1=2.0-4.3 m −1 . The fluidized bed reactor can promote the breaking of bubbles as early as possible and effectively limit the growth of the bubbles.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1 . A fluidized bed reactor, comprising at least a reaction cooling section and a vertical inner component provided in the reaction cooling section, wherein, when a length of the reaction cooling section in a direction along a central axis of the fluidized bed reactor is designated as L, expressed in a unit of m, and, at a cross section transverse and perpendicular to the central axis of the fluidized bed reactor at an arbitrary position within a region from 45% L above to 38% L below a central point of the reaction cooling section, an area of the cross section of the reaction cooling section is designated as S1, expressed in a unit of m 2 , and an outer contour circumference of the cross section of the vertical inner component is designated as L1, expressed in a unit of m, and, L1/S1=2.0-4.3 m −1 , wherein, when there are a plurality of cross sections, the outer contour circumference of the cross section of the vertical inner component is a sum of the outer contour circumferences of all of the plurality of cross sections.

2 . The fluidized bed reactor according to claim 1 , wherein the vertical inner component is a heat removal water pipe or a combination of a heat removal water pipe and a gas-solid separator.

3 . The fluidized bed reactor according to claim 1 , wherein the vertical inner component is a heat removal water pipe, wherein, at a cross section transverse and perpendicular to the central axis of the fluidized bed reactor, an area of the cross section of the reaction cooling section is designated as S1, expressed in a unit of m 2 , and an outer contour circumference of the cross section of the heat removal water pipe, calculated on the basis of the straight pipe section, is designated as L2, expressed in a unit of m, and, L2/S1=1.7-3.6 m −1 , and the vertical inner component optionally further comprises a gas-solid separator, where, at a cross section transverse and perpendicular to the central axis of the fluidized bed reactor, an area of the cross section of the reaction cooling section is designated as S1, expressed in a unit of m 2 , and an outer contour circumference of the cross section of the gas-solid separator, calculated on the basis of the dipleg, is designated as L3, expressed in a unit of m, and, L3/S1=0.25-0.85 m −1 , wherein, when there are a plurality of cross sections, L2 or L3 refers to a sum of the outer contour circumferences of all of the plurality of cross sections.

4 . The fluidized bed reactor according to claim 2 , wherein the number of the heat removal water pipes, calculated on the basis of the straight pipe section, is 220-5000, and/or the number of the gas-solid separators, calculated on the basis of the dipleg, is 16-516, and/or, the ratio of the number of the straight pipe sections to the number of the diplegs is 8.5-24.0.

5 . The fluidized bed reactor according to claim 4 , wherein the external diameters of the straight pipe sections, being the same as or different from each other, are each independently 80 to 180 mm, and/or the inner diameters of the straight pipe sections, being the same as or different from each other, are each independently 60 to 150 mm, and/or the lengths of the straight pipe sections, being the same as or different from each other, are each independently 4.0 to 13 m, and/or the external diameters of the diplegs, being the same as or different from each other, are each independently 150 to 410 mm, and/or the inner diameters of the diplegs, being the same as or different from each other, are each independently 130 to 400 mm, and/or the lengths of the diplegs, being the same as or different from each other, are each independently 6 to 14 m, and/or, the reaction cooling section has a diameter of 5 to 29 m, an area S1 of 19.6 to 660 m 2 , and/or a length L of 4-12.5 m.

6 . The fluidized bed reactor according to claim 1 , comprising a head, a dilute phase zone, the reaction cooling section, a pre-reaction section and a cone in sequence from top to bottom, and further comprising a gas distribution plate and optionally a fluid distributor provided in the pre-reaction section.

7 . The fluidized bed reactor according to claim 1 , wherein the reaction cooling section has a substantially circular cross section, and/or the cross section of the vertical inner component has a substantially circular inner contour and a substantially circular outer contour, and/or the cross section of the vertical inner component has a substantially circular inner contour and a substantially circular outer contour with protrusion(s), and/or the vertical inner component comprises a heat removal water pipe, the heat removal water pipe has a heat removal medium inlet, n straight pipe sections and a heat removal medium outlet, wherein a head end of the first straight pipe section is in communication with the heat removal medium inlet, a tail end of the n-th straight pipe section is in communication with the heat removal medium outlet, a tail end of the i-th straight pipe section is in communication with a head end of the (i+1)-th straight pipe section through a U-shaped pipe, wherein n is an integer from 2 to 100, i refers to an arbitrary integer between 1 and n−1, and protrusion(s) is present on the outer wall of a part or all of the straight pipe sections.

8 . The fluidized bed reactor according to claim 7 , wherein the centerlines of any two adjacent straight pipe sections are parallel to each other and distances between the centerlines of any two adjacent straight pipe sections are the same as or different from each other, and are each independently 160-540 mm.

9 . The fluidized bed reactor according to claim 7 , wherein the protrusion(s) extends continuously or discontinuously in a direction along a centerline of the straight pipe section, and/or the protrusion(s) extends continuously or discontinuously around the centerline of the straight pipe section.

10 . The fluidized bed reactor according to claim 7 , wherein where the protrusion(s) extends continuously or discontinuously in a direction along a centerline of the straight pipe section, the extension length Lt of the protrusion(s) is not greater than the length Lz of the straight pipe section, and/or, where the protrusion(s) extends continuously or discontinuously around the centerline of the straight pipe section in the form of a ring, the height Hh of the ring is not greater than the length Lz of the straight pipe section, or, where the protrusion(s) extends continuously or discontinuously around the centerline of the straight pipe section in the form of a spiral, the height Ht of the spiral is not greater than the length Lz of the straight pipe section, and/or the height of the protrusion(s) is 0.005 to 0.3 times the external diameter of the straight pipe section, and/or the width of the protrusion(s) is 0.005 to 0.3 times the external diameter of the straight pipe section.

11 . The fluidized bed reactor according to claim 7 , wherein the protrusion(s) extends continuously or discontinuously around a centerline of the straight pipe section, and there is an angle between the centerline of the protrusion(s) and the centerline of the straight pipe section that is greater than 0° and not greater than 90°.

12 . A method for producing an unsaturated nitrile, comprising the step of subjecting an olefin to an ammoxidation reaction in a fluidized bed reactor according to claim 1 to produce an unsaturated nitrile.

13 . The fluidized bed reactor according to claim 1 , wherein L1/S1=2.2-4.1 m −1 .

14 . The fluidized bed reactor according to claim 3 , wherein L2/S1=1.9-3.5 m −1 , and/or, said gas-solid separator is a cyclone separator,

Assignees

• China Petroleum & Chem Corp
• Shanghai Res Inst Petrochemical Tech Sinopec

Inventors

• Zhao Le
• Wu Lianghua

Classifications

• B01J8/24 Primary

  according to "fluidised-bed" technique (B01J8/20 takes precedence) · CPC title

• B01J8/1836

  Heating and cooling the reactor (B01J8/42 takes precedence) · CPC title

• B01J8/0055

  using cyclones · CPC title

• B01J2208/00132

  Tubes · CPC title

• C07D303/04

  containing only hydrogen and carbon atoms in addition to the ring oxygen atoms · CPC title