EP2010470A2 - Procédé de production de propène à partir de propane - Google Patents

Procédé de production de propène à partir de propane

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EP2010470A2
EP2010470A2 EP07726856A EP07726856A EP2010470A2 EP 2010470 A2 EP2010470 A2 EP 2010470A2 EP 07726856 A EP07726856 A EP 07726856A EP 07726856 A EP07726856 A EP 07726856A EP 2010470 A2 EP2010470 A2 EP 2010470A2
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Markus Schubert
Ulrich Müller
Christoph Kiener
Friedhelm Teich
Sven Crone
Falk Simon
Jörg PASTRE
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  • the invention relates to a process for the preparation of propene from propane.
  • Propene is obtained industrially by dehydrogenation of propane.
  • a feed gas stream containing propane is preheated to 600-700 ° C and dehydrogenated in a moving bed dehydrogenation reactor over a catalyst containing platinum on alumina, with predominantly propane Propene and hydrogen containing product gas stream is obtained.
  • low-boiling hydrocarbons formed by cracking (methane, ethane, ethene) and small amounts of high-boiling components (C 4 + hydrocarbons) are contained in the product gas stream.
  • the product gas mixture is cooled and compressed in several stages.
  • the C 2 and C 3 hydrocarbons and the high boilers of hydrogen and methane formed during the dehydrogenation are then separated by condensation in a so-called "cold box.”
  • the liquid hydrocarbon condensate is then separated by distillation, in a first column the C 2 hydrocarbons and remaining methane are separated and separated in a second distillation column of the C 3 hydrocarbon stream into a high purity propene fraction and a propane fraction which also contains the C 4 + hydrocarbons.
  • a disadvantage of this process is the loss of C 3 hydrocarbons due to condensation in the "cold box.” Owing to the large amounts of hydrogen formed in the dehydrogenation and owing to the phase equilibrium, larger quantities are also produced with the hydrogen / methane exhaust gas stream Thus, must work at temperatures of -20 to -120 ° C is discharged at C bons 3 -KoIi, unless condensation at very low temperatures., for the loss of C 3 hydrocarbons to limit, with the hydrogen / methane Exhaust stream to be discharged.
  • the object of the invention is to provide an improved process for the dehydrogenation of propane to propene.
  • the product gas stream c is brought into contact with a selectively acting adsorbent which selectively adsorbs propene, an adsorbent laden with propene and a gas stream depleted in propene containing d2 propane, methane, ethane, ethene and hydrogen, optionally carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide are obtained;
  • a propane-containing feed gas stream a is provided. This generally contains at least 80% by volume of propane, preferably 90% by volume of propane. In addition, the propane-containing feed gas stream a generally still contains butanes (n-butane, iso-butane). Typical compositions of the propane-containing feed gas stream are disclosed in DE-A 102 46 1 19 and DE-A 102 45 585. Usually, the propane-containing feed gas stream a is obtained from liquid petroleum gas (LPG).
  • LPG liquid petroleum gas
  • the propane-containing feed gas stream is fed to a dehydrogenation zone and subjected to a generally catalytic dehydrogenation.
  • propane is partially dehydrogenated to propene in a dehydrogenation reactor on a dehydrogenating catalyst.
  • hydrogen and small amounts of methane, ethane, ethene and C 4 + hydrocarbons are obtained.
  • carbon oxides (CO, CO 2 ) in particular CO 2 , water vapor and, if appropriate, small amounts of inert gases in the product gas mixture of the catalytic propane dehydrogenation generally accumulate.
  • the product gas stream of dehydrogenation generally contains Water vapor which has already been added to the dehydrogenation gas mixture and / or-upon dehydrogenation in the presence of oxygen (oxidative or non-oxidative) -is formed during the dehydrogenation.
  • Inert gases nitrogen
  • they oxygen content is generally at least 40% by volume, preferably at least 80% by volume, particularly preferably at least 90% by volume.
  • technically pure oxygen with an oxygen content> 99% is used in order to avoid an excessively high proportion of inert gas in the product gas mixture.
  • unreacted propane is present in the product gas mixture.
  • the propane dehydrogenation can in principle be carried out in all reactor types known from the prior art.
  • a comparatively comprehensive description of the invention suitable reactor types contains "Catalytica® ® Studies Division, Oxidative Dehydrogenation and Alternative Dehydrogenation Processes" (Study Number 4192 OD, 1993, 430 Ferguson Drive, Mountain View, California, 94043-5272, USA).
  • the dehydrogenation can be carried out as oxidative or non-oxidative dehydrogenation.
  • the dehydration can be performed isothermally or adiabatically.
  • the dehydrogenation can be carried out catalytically in a fixed bed, moving bed or fluidized bed reactor.
  • the non-oxidative catalytic propane dehydrogenation is preferably carried out autothermally.
  • oxygen is added to the reaction gas mixture of the propane dehydrogenation in at least one reaction zone and at least partially burned the hydrogen and / or hydrocarbon contained in the reaction gas mixture, whereby at least a portion of the required Dehydriereben in the at least one reaction zone is generated directly in the reaction gas mixture.
  • One feature of non-oxidative driving versus oxidative driving is the at least intermediate formation of hydrogen, which is reflected in the presence of hydrogen in the dehydrogenation product gas. In oxidative dehydrogenation, there is no free hydrogen in the dehydrogenation product gas.
  • a suitable reactor form is the fixed bed tube or tube bundle reactor.
  • the catalyst dehydrogenation catalyst and, if appropriate, special oxidation catalyst
  • Typical reaction tube internal diameters are about 10 to 15 cm.
  • a typical Scher Dehydrierrohrbündelreaktor comprises about 300 to 1000 reaction tubes. The temperature inside the reaction tube usually moves in the range of 300 to 1200 ° C, preferably in the range of 500 to 1000 ° C.
  • the working pressure is usually between 0.5 and 8 bar, often between 1 and 2 bar when using a low water vapor dilution, but also between 3 and 8 bar when using a high steam dilution (according to the so-called "steam active reforming process" (US Pat. STAR) process or the Linde process) for the dehydrogenation of propane or butane of Phillips Petroleum Co.
  • Typical catalyst space velocities (GHSV) are from 500 to 2000 h "1, based on the hydrocarbon used.
  • the catalyst geometry can be, for example, spherical or cylindrical (hollow or full).
  • the catalytic propane dehydrogenation can also be carried out in a heterogeneously catalyzed manner in a fluidized bed, in accordance with the Snampropoti / Yarsintez-FBD process.
  • a fluidized bed in accordance with the Snampropoti / Yarsintez-FBD process.
  • two fluidized beds are operated side by side, one of which is usually in the state of regeneration.
  • the working pressure is typically 1 to 2 bar, the dehydrogenation temperature usually 550 to 600 ° C.
  • the heat required for the dehydrogenation can be introduced into the reaction system in that the dehydrogenation catalyst is preheated to the reaction temperature.
  • an oxygen-containing co-feed can be at least partially dispense with the preheater, and the heat required is generated directly in the reactor system by combustion of hydrogen and / or hydrocarbons in the presence of oxygen.
  • a hydrogen-containing co-feed may additionally be admixed.
  • the catalytic propane dehydrogenation can be carried out in a tray reactor. If the dehydrogenation is carried out autothermally with the introduction of an oxygen-containing gas stream, it is preferably carried out in a tray reactor. This contains one or more successive catalyst beds. The number of catalyst beds may be 1 to 20, advantageously 1 to 6, preferably 1 to 4 and in particular 1 to 3. The catalyst beds are preferably flowed through radially or axially from the reaction gas. In general, such a tray reactor is operated with a fixed catalyst bed. In the simplest case, the fixed catalyst beds are arranged in a shaft furnace reactor axially or in the annular gaps of concentrically arranged cylindrical gratings. A shaft furnace reactor corresponds to a horde. The performance of dehydrogenation in a single shaft furnace reactor corresponds to one embodiment. In a In another preferred embodiment, the dehydrogenation is carried out in a tray reactor with 3 catalyst beds.
  • the amount of the oxygen-containing gas added to the reaction gas mixture is selected such that the amount of heat required for the dehydrogenation of the propane due to the combustion of hydrogen present in the reaction gas mixture and optionally of hydrocarbons present in the reaction gas mixture and / or coke present in the form of coke is produced.
  • the total amount of oxygen fed, based on the total amount of propane is 0.001 to 0.8 mol / mol, preferably 0.001 to 0.6 mol / mol, particularly preferably 0.02 to 0.5 mol / mol.
  • Oxygen can be used either as pure oxygen or as an oxygen-containing gas containing inert gases.
  • the oxygen content of the oxygen-containing gas used is high and at least 40% by volume, preferably at least 80% by volume. , more preferably at least 90 vol .-% is.
  • Particularly preferred oxygen-containing gas is technically pure oxygen having an O 2 content of about 99% by volume.
  • the hydrogen burned to generate heat is the hydrogen formed during the catalytic propane dehydrogenation and, if appropriate, the hydrogen gas additionally added to the reaction gas mixture.
  • the hydrogen gas preferably, sufficient hydrogen should be present so that the molar ratio H 2 / O 2 in the reaction gas mixture immediately after the introduction of oxygen is 1 to 10, preferably 2 to 5 mol / mol. This applies to multi-stage reactors for each intermediate feed of oxygen-containing and possibly hydrogen-containing gas.
  • the hydrogen combustion takes place catalytically.
  • the dehydrogenation catalyst used generally also catalyzes the combustion of the hydrocarbons and of hydrogen with oxygen, so that in principle no special oxidation catalyst different from this one is required.
  • the reaction is carried out in the presence of one or more oxidation catalysts which selectively catalyze the combustion of hydrogen with oxygen in the presence of hydrocarbons.
  • the combustion of these hydrocarbons with oxygen to CO, CO 2 and water is therefore only to a minor extent.
  • the dehydrogenation catalyst and the oxidation catalyst are present in different reaction zones. In multi-stage reaction, the oxidation catalyst may be present in only one, in several or in all reaction zones.
  • the catalyst which selectively catalyzes the oxidation of hydrogen is disposed at the sites where higher oxygen partial pressures prevail than at other locations of the reactor, particularly near the oxygen-containing gas feed point.
  • the feeding of oxygen-containing gas and / or hydrogen-containing gas can take place at one or more points of the reactor.
  • an intermediate feed of oxygen-containing gas and of hydrogen-containing gas takes place before each tray of a tray reactor.
  • the feed of oxygen-containing gas and of hydrogen-containing gas takes place before each horde except the first horde.
  • behind each feed point is a layer of a specific oxidation catalyst, followed by a layer of the dehydrogenation catalyst.
  • no special oxidation catalyst is present.
  • the dehydrogenation temperature is generally 400 to 1100 ° C.
  • the pressure in the last catalyst bed of the tray reactor generally 0.2 to 15 bar, preferably 1 to 10 bar, particularly preferably 1 to 5 bar.
  • the load (GHSV) is generally 500 to 2000 h "1 , in high load mode also up to 100 000 h " 1 , preferably 4000 to 16 000 h "1 .
  • a preferred catalyst which selectively catalyzes the combustion of hydrogen contains oxides and / or phosphates selected from the group consisting of the oxides and / or phosphates of germanium, tin, lead, arsenic, antimony or bismuth.
  • Another preferred catalyst which catalyzes the combustion of hydrogen contains a noble metal of VIII. And / or I. Maury.
  • the dehydrogenation catalysts used generally have a carrier and an active composition.
  • the carrier is usually made of a heat-resistant material.
  • the dehydrogenation catalysts contain a metal oxide selected from the group consisting of zirconium dioxide, zinc oxide, aluminum oxide,
  • the mixtures may be physical mixtures or chemical mixed phases such as magnesium or zinc-aluminum oxide mixed oxides.
  • Preferred supports are zirconia and / or silica, more preferred
  • Suitable shaped catalyst body geometries are strands, stars, rings, saddles, spheres, foams and monoliths with characteristic dimensions of 1 to 100 mm.
  • the active composition of the dehydrogenation catalysts generally contain one or more elements of subgroup VIII, preferably platinum and / or palladium, more preferably platinum.
  • the dehydrogenation catalysts may comprise one or more elements of main group I and / or II, preferably potassium and / or cesium.
  • the dehydrogenation catalysts may contain one or more elements of the IM. Subgroup including the lanthanides and actinides, preferably lanthanum and / or cerium.
  • the dehydrogenation catalysts may contain one or more elements of the IM. and / or IV.
  • Main group preferably one or more elements from the group consisting of boron, gallium, silicon, germanium, tin and lead, particularly preferably tin.
  • the dehydrogenation catalyst contains at least one element of subgroup VIII, at least one element of main group I and / or II, at least one element of IM. and / or IV. main group and at least one element of IM.
  • Subgroup including the lanthanides and actinides.
  • all dehydrogenation catalysts can be used which are described in WO 99/46039, US Pat. No. 4,788,371, EP-A 705,136, WO 99/29420, US Pat. No. 5,220,091, US Pat. No. 5,430,220, US Pat. No. 5,877,369, EP 0 1 17 146, DE-A 199 37 106, DE-A 199 37 105 and DE-A 199 37 107 are disclosed.
  • Particularly preferred catalysts for the above-described variants of the autothermal propane dehydrogenation are the catalysts GE measured Examples 1, 2, 3 and 4 of DE-A 199 37 107th
  • the autothermal propane dehydrogenation is preferably carried out in the presence of steam.
  • the added water vapor serves as a heat carrier and supports the gasification of organic deposits on the catalysts, whereby the coking of the catalysts counteracted and the service life of the catalysts is increased.
  • the organic deposits are converted into carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide and possibly water. Dilution with water vapor shifts the equilibrium degree of dehydrogenation.
  • the dehydrogenation catalyst can be regenerated in a manner known per se.
  • steam can be added to the reaction gas mixture or, from time to time, an oxygen-containing gas can be introduced at elevated temperature over the catalyst bed. and the deposited carbon be burned off.
  • the catalyst is reduced after regeneration with a hydrogen-containing gas.
  • the product gas stream b can be separated into two partial streams, with a partial stream being returned to the autothermal dehydrogenation, in accordance with the cycle gas method described in DE-A 102 11 275 and DE-A 100 28 582.
  • the propane dehydrogenation can be carried out as an oxidative dehydrogenation.
  • the oxidative propane dehydrogenation can be carried out as a homogeneous oxidative dehydrogenation or as a heterogeneously catalyzed oxidative dehydrogenation.
  • propane dehydrogenation is prepared as a homogeneous oxydehydrogenation, this can in principle be carried out as described in US-A 3,798,283, CN-A 1, 105,352, Applied Catalysis, 70 (2), 1991, p to 187, Catalysis Today 13, 1992, pp. 673 to 678 and DE-A 1 96 22 331.
  • the temperature of the homogeneous oxydehydrogenation is generally from 300 to 700 ° C, preferably from 400 to 600 ° C, more preferably from 400 to 500 ° C.
  • the pressure can be 0.5 to 100 bar or 1 to 50 bar. Often it will be between 1 and 20 bar, in particular between 1 and 10 bar.
  • the residence time of the reaction gas mixture under oxydehydrogenation conditions is usually 0.1 or 0.5 to 20 seconds, preferably 0.1 or 0.5 to 5 seconds.
  • a tube furnace or a tube bundle reactor may be used, e.g. a countercurrent furnace with flue gas as the heat carrier, or a shell-and-tube reactor with molten salt as the heat carrier.
  • the propane to oxygen ratio in the starting mixture to be used may be 0.5: 1 to 40: 1.
  • the molar ratio of propane to molecular oxygen in the starting mixture is preferably ⁇ 6: 1, preferably ⁇ 5: 1.
  • the abovementioned ratio will be> 1: 1, for example> 2: 1.
  • the starting mixture may comprise further, essentially inert constituents, such as H 2 O, CO 2 , CO, N 2 , noble gases and / or propene. Propene may be present in the C ⁇ fraction coming from the refinery.
  • the first reaction stage is designed as a heterogeneously catalyzed oxydehydrogenation
  • this can in principle be carried out as described in US-A 4,788,371, CN-A 1, 073,893, Catalysis Letters 23 (1994) 103-106, W. Zhang Gaodeng Xuexiao Huaxue Xuebao, 14 (1993) 566, Z. Huang, Shiyou Huagong, 21 (1992) 592, WO 97/36849, DE-A 1 97 53 817, US-A 3,862,256, US-A 3,887,631, DE-A A 1 95 30 454, US Pat. No. 4,341,664, J.
  • Particularly suitable oxydehydrogenation catalysts are the multimetal oxide materials or catalysts A of DE-A 1 97 53 817, the multimetal oxide materials or catalysts A mentioned as being preferred being very particularly advantageous.
  • the active compounds used are, in particular, multimetal oxide materials of the general formula I.
  • M 1 Co, Ni, Mg, Zn, Mn and / or Cu,
  • Suitable Mo-V-Te / Sb-Nb-O multimetal oxide catalysts are described in EP-A 0 318 295, EP-A 0 529 853, EP-A 0 603 838, EP-A 0 608 836, and EP-A 0 608 838 EP-A 0 895 809, EP-A 0 962 253, EP-A 1 192 987, DE-A 198 35 247, DE-A 100 51 419 and DE-A 101 19 933.
  • Suitable Mo-V-Nb-O multimetal oxide catalysts are described inter alia in EM Thorsteinson, TP Wilson, FG Young, PH Kasei, Journal of Catalysis 52 (1978), pages 16-132 and in US 4,250,346 and EP-A 0294 845th
  • suitable active compounds can be prepared in a simple manner by producing as intimate as possible, preferably finely divided, stoichiometrically composed dry mixtures of suitable sources of their components and calcining them at temperatures of 450 to 1000 ° C.
  • the calcination can be carried out both under inert gas and under an oxidative atmosphere such as air (mixture of inert gas and oxygen) as well as under reducing atmosphere (eg mixture of inert gas, oxygen and NH 3 , CO and / or H 2 ).
  • Suitable sources of the components of the multimetal oxide active compounds are oxides and / or compounds which can be converted into oxides by heating, at least in the presence of oxygen.
  • suitable starting compounds are in particular halides, nitrates, formates, oxalates, citrates, acetates, carbonates, amine complex salts, ammonium salts and / or hydroxides.
  • the multimetal oxide compositions can be used for the process according to the invention in shaped both in powder form and to specific catalyst geometries, wherein the shaping can take place before or after the final calcination.
  • Suitable unsupported catalyst geometries are e.g. Solid cylinder or hollow cylinder with an outer diameter and a length of 2 to 10 mm. In the case of the hollow cylinder, a wall thickness of 1 to 3 mm is appropriate.
  • Suitable hollow cylinder geometries are e.g. 7mm x 7mm x 4mm or 5mm x 3mm x 2mm or 5mm x 2mm x 2mm (each length x outside diameter x inside diameter).
  • the full catalyst may also have spherical geometry, wherein the ball diameter may be 2 to 10 mm.
  • the shaping of the pulverulent active composition or its powdery, not yet calcined, precursor composition can also be effected by application to preformed inert catalyst supports.
  • the layer thickness of the powder mass applied to the carrier body is expediently chosen in the range from 50 to 500 mm, preferably in the range from 150 to 250 mm.
  • carrier materials it is possible to use customary porous or non-porous aluminum oxides, silicon dioxide, thorium dioxide, zirconium dioxide, silicon carbide or silicates, such as magnesium silicate or aluminum silicate.
  • the carrier bodies can NEN regularly or irregularly shaped, with regularly shaped carrier body with a well-trained surface roughness, such as balls, hollow cylinders or saddles with dimensions in the range of 1 to 100 mm are preferred. Suitable is the use of substantially nonporous, surface roughness, spherical steatite supports whose diameter is 1 to 8 mm, preferably 4 to 5 mm.
  • the reaction temperature of the heterogeneously catalyzed oxydehydrogenation of propane is generally from 300 to 600 ° C, usually from 350 to 500 ° C.
  • the pressure is 0.2 to 15 bar, preferably 1 to 10 bar, for example 1 to 5 bar. Pressures above 1 bar, eg 1, 5 to 10 bar, have proven to be particularly advantageous.
  • the heterogeneously catalyzed oxydehydrogenation of the propane takes place on a fixed catalyst bed.
  • the latter is expediently poured into the tubes of a tube bundle reactor, as described, for example, in EP-A 700 893 and in EP-A 700 714 and in the literature cited in these publications.
  • the average residence time of the reaction gas mixture in the catalyst bed is normally 0.5 to 20 seconds.
  • the propane to oxygen ratio in the reaction gas starting mixture to be used for the heterogeneously catalyzed propane oxydehydrogenation may be 0.5: 1 to 40: 1. It is advantageous if the molar ratio of propane to molecular oxygen in the starting gas mixture is ⁇ 6: 1, preferably ⁇ 5: 1. In general, the aforementioned ratio will be> 1: 1, for example 2: 1.
  • the starting gas mixture may comprise further, substantially inert constituents such as H 2 O, CO 2 , CO, N 2 , noble gases and / or propene. In addition, d, C 2 and C 4 hydrocarbons may also be present to some extent.
  • the product gas stream b when leaving the dehydrogenation zone is generally under a pressure of 0.2 to 15 bar, preferably 1 to 10 bar, more preferably 1 to 5 bar, and has a temperature in the range of 300 to 700 ° C.
  • a gas mixture which generally has the following composition: 10 to 80% by volume of propane, 5 to 50% by volume of propene, 0 to 20% by volume of methane, ethane, ethene and C 4 + hydrocarbons, 0 to 30% by volume of carbon oxides, 0 to 70% by volume of steam and 0 to 25% by volume of hydrogen and 0 to 50% by volume of inert gases.
  • a gas mixture which generally has the following composition: 10 to 80 vol .-% propane, 5 to 50 vol .-% propene, 0 to 20 vol .-% of methane, ethane, ethene and C 4 + hydrocarbons, 0.1 to 30% by volume of carbon oxides, 1 to 70% by volume of steam and 0.1 to 25% by volume of hydrogen and 0 to 30% by volume of inert gases.
  • water is first separated from the product gas stream b.
  • the separation of water is carried out by condensation by cooling and optionally compressing the product gas stream b and can be carried out in one or more cooling and optionally compression stages.
  • the product gas stream b is cooled to a temperature in the range from 20 to 80.degree. C., preferably from 40 to 65.degree.
  • the product gas stream can be compressed, generally to a pressure in the range of 2 to 40 bar, preferably 5 to 20 bar, particularly preferably 10 to 20 bar.
  • the product gas stream b is passed through a cascade of heat exchangers and initially cooled to a temperature in the range of 50 to 200 ° C and then in a quench tower with water to a temperature of 40 to 80 ° C, for example 55 ° C further cooled.
  • Suitable heat exchangers are, for example, direct heat exchangers and countercurrent heat exchangers, such as gas-gas countercurrent heat exchangers, and air coolers.
  • a water vapor depleted product gas stream c This generally contains 0 to 10 vol .-% water vapor.
  • drying using a molecular sieve in particular molecular sieve 3A, 4A, 13X, or preferably aluminum oxides, or by means of membranes can be provided when certain adsorbents are used in step D).
  • carbon dioxide can be separated off from the gas stream c by scrubbing with gas or by absorption on solid absorbents.
  • the carbon dioxide gas scrubber may be preceded by a separate combustion stage in which carbon monoxide is selectively oxidized to carbon dioxide.
  • the product gas stream c is compressed to a pressure in the range from 5 to 25 bar by single or multi-stage compression. It may be a carbon dioxide depleted stream c with a CO 2 content of generally ⁇ 1000 ppm, preferably ⁇ 100 ppm, more preferably ⁇ 20 ppm are obtained.
  • CO 2 by sorption on suitable solid sorbents, for example molecular sieve 13X, calcium oxide, barium oxide, magnesium oxide or hydrotalcites.
  • suitable solid sorbents for example molecular sieve 13X, calcium oxide, barium oxide, magnesium oxide or hydrotalcites.
  • the product gas stream c is contacted in an adsorption zone with an adsorbent selectively adsorbing under the selected adsorption conditions, which selectively adsorbs propene, a propene-laden adsorbent and a gas stream depleted in propene containing d2 propane, methane , Ethane, ethene, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide and hydrogen. Propene may also be present in the gas stream d2.
  • a propene-containing gas stream e1 is released from the adsorbent essentially laden with propene by reducing the pressure and / or heating the adsorbent.
  • the pressure may be the total pressure and / or the partial pressure of the propene in particular.
  • porous organometallic frameworks (English: “Metal Organic Framework (MOF)" were found to efficiently separate propene on the one hand and propane and other gas constituents on the other hand.
  • MOF Metal Organic Framework
  • Organometallic frameworks contain at least one at least one metal ion coordinated at least bidentate organic compound. These organometallic frameworks (MOF) are described, for example, in US Pat
  • the organometallic frameworks according to the present invention contain pores, in particular micro and / or mesopores.
  • Micropores are defined as those with a diameter of 2 nm or smaller and mesopores are defined by a diameter in the range of 2 to 50 nm, each according to the definition as described by Pure Applied Chem. 45, page 71, in particular on page 79 (1976) ).
  • the presence of micro- and / or mesopores can be checked by means of sorption measurements, whereby the absorption capacity of the MOF for nitrogen at 77 Kelvin according to DIN 66131 and / or DIN 66134 is determined by these measurements.
  • the specific surface area - calculated according to the Langmuir model according to DIN 66135 (DIN 66131, 66134) for a framework material in powder form is more than 5 m 2 / g, more preferably more than 10 m 2 / g, more preferably more than 50 m 2 / g, more preferably more than 500 m 2 / g, even more preferably more than 1000 m 2 / g and particularly preferably more than 1500 m 2 / g.
  • MOF shaped bodies can have a lower active surface; but preferably more than 10 m 2 / g, more preferably more than 50 m 2 / g, even more preferably more than 500 m 2 / g, in particular more than 1000 m 2 / g.
  • the maximum of the pore diameter distribution should be at least 4 ⁇ . This maximum is preferably between 4.3 and 20 ⁇ . Particularly preferred is the range between 5 and 13 ⁇ .
  • the metal component in the framework material according to the present invention is preferably selected from the groups Ia, IIa, IMa, IVa to Villa and Ib to VIb. Further preferred are the groups IIa, MIb, IMa to VIa of the Periodic Table of the Elements and the lanthanides, V, Mn, Fe, Ni, Co.
  • Mg, Al, In, Cu, Zn, Fe, Ni, Co, Mn, Zr, Ti, Sc, Y, La , Ce More preferred are Mg, Al, In, Cu, Zn, Fe, Zr, Y.
  • MOF types which do not have a free Cu coordination site.
  • At least bidentate organic compound refers to an organic compound containing at least one functional group capable of having at least two, preferably two coordinative, bonds to a given metal ion, and / or to two or more, preferably two, metal atoms, respectively to form a coordinative bond.
  • Examples of functional groups which can be used to form the abovementioned coordinative bonds are, for example, the following functional groups: -CO 2 H, -CS 2 H, -NO 2 , -B (OH) 2 , -SO 3 H, - Si (OH) 3, -Ge (OH) 3, -Sn (OH) 3, -Si (SH) 4, - Ge (SH) 4, -Sn (SH) 3, -PO 3 H, 3 H -AsO , -AsO 4 H, -P (SH) 3 , -As (SH) 3 , -CH (RSH) 2 , -C (RSH) 3 -CH (RNH 2 ) 2 -C (RNH 2 ) 3 , -CH (ROH) 2 , -C (ROH) 3 , -CH (RCN) 2 , -C (RCN) 3 , wherein R, for example, preferably an alkylene group having 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5 carbon
  • functional groups are to be mentioned in which the abovementioned radical R is absent.
  • -CH (SH) 2 , -C (SH) 3 -CH (NH 2 ) 2 , -C (NH 2 J 3 , -CH (OH) 2 , -C (OH) 3 , -CH (CN) 2 or -C (CN) 3 TO call.
  • the at least two functional groups can in principle be bound to any suitable organic compound as long as it is ensured that the organic compound having these functional groups is capable of forming the coordinative bond and the preparation of the framework.
  • the organic compounds containing the at least two functional groups derived from a saturated or unsaturated aliphatic compound o- of an aromatic compound or an aliphatic as well as aromatic compound are preferred.
  • the aliphatic compound or the aliphatic portion of the both aliphatic and aromatic compound may be linear and / or branched and / or cyclic, wherein Several cycles per compound are possible. More preferably, the aliphatic compound or the aliphatic portion of the both aliphatic and aromatic compound contains 1 to 15, more preferably 1 to 14, further preferably 1 to 13, further preferably 1 to 12, further preferably 1 to 11 and especially preferably 1 to 10 C atoms, for example 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 or 10 C atoms. Methane, adamantane, acetylene, ethylene or butadiene are particularly preferred in this case.
  • the aromatic compound or the aromatic part of both aromatic and aliphatic compound may have one or more cores, such as two, three, four or five cores, wherein the cores may be separated from each other and / or at least two nuclei in condensed form.
  • the aromatic compound or the aromatic moiety of the both aliphatic and aromatic compounds has one, two or three nuclei, with one or two nuclei being particularly preferred.
  • each nucleus of the named compound may contain at least one heteroatom, such as, for example, N, O, S, B, P, Si, Al, preferably N, O and / or S.
  • the aromatic compound or the aromatic moiety of the both aromatic and aliphatic compounds contains one or two C 6 cores, the two being either separately or in condensed form.
  • benzene, naphthalene and / or biphenyl and / or bipyridyl and / or pyridyl may be mentioned as aromatic compounds.
  • Examples include trans-muconic acid or fumaric acid or phenylenebisacrylic acid.
  • the at least bidentate organic compound is preferably derived from a di-, tri- or tetracarboxylic acid or their sulfur analogs.
  • the term "derive" means that the at least bidentate organic compound may be present in the framework material in partially deprotonated or fully deprotonated form Furthermore, the at least bidentate organic compound may contain further substituents, such as -OH, -NH 2 , - OCH 3 , -CH 3 , -NH (CH 3 ), -N (CH 3 J 2 , -CN and halides.
  • dicarboxylic acids such as Oxalic acid, succinic acid, tartaric acid, 1,4-butanedicarboxylic acid, 4-oxo-pyran-2,6-dicarboxylic acid, 1,6-hexanedicarboxylic acid, decanedicarboxylic acid, 1,8-heptadecanedicarboxylic acid, 1,9-heptadecane dicarboxylic acid, heptadecanedicarboxylic acid, acetylenedicarboxylic acid.
  • dicarboxylic acids such as Oxalic acid, succinic acid, tartaric acid, 1,4-butanedicarboxylic acid, 4-oxo-pyran-2,6-dicarboxylic acid, 1,6-hexanedicarboxylic acid, decanedicarboxylic acid, 1,8-heptadecanedicarboxylic acid, 1,9-heptadecane dicarboxylic acid, heptadecan
  • carboxylic acid 1, 2-benzenedicarboxylic acid, 2,3-pyridinedicarboxylic acid, pyridine-2,3-dicarboxylic acid, 1,3-butadiene-1,4-dicarboxylic acid, 1,4-benzenedicarboxylic acid, p-benzenedicarboxylic acid, imidazole-2, 4-dicarboxylic acid, 2-methyl-quinoline-3,4-dicarboxylic acid, quinoline-2,4-dicarboxylic acid, quinoxaline-2,3-dicarboxylic acid, 6-chloroquinoxaline-2,3-dicarboxylic acid, 4,4
  • Trioxaundecanedicarboxylic acid O-hydroxybenzophenone dicarboxylic acid, Pluriol E 300 dicarboxylic acid, Pluriol E 400 dicarboxylic acid, Pluriol E 600 dicarboxylic acid, pyrazole-3,4-dicarboxylic acid, 2,3-pyrazine dicarboxylic acid, 5,6-dimethyl-2,3-dicarboxylic acid pyrazine dicarboxylic acid, 4,4'-diaminodiphenyl ether diimide dicarboxylic acid, 4,4'-diaminodiphenylmethane diimide dicarboxylic acid, 4,4'-diaminodiphenylsulfonediimide dicarboxylic acid, 2,6-naphthalene dicarboxylic acid, 1, 3-adamantane dicarboxylic acid, 1,8-naphthalenedicarboxylic acid, 2,3-naphthalenedicarboxy
  • each of the cores can contain at least one heteroatom, where two or more nuclei have identical or different heteroatoms may contain.
  • monocarboxylic dicarboxylic acids preference is given to monocarboxylic dicarboxylic acids, monocarboxylic tricarboxylic acids, monocarboxylic tetracarboxylic acids, dicercaric dicarboxylic acids, dicercaric tricarboxylic acids, dicercaric tetracarboxylic acids, tricyclic dicarboxylic acids, tricarboxylic tricarboxylic acids, tricarboxylic tetracarboxylic acids, tetracyclic dicarboxylic acids, tetracyclic tricarboxylic acids and / or tetracyclic tetracarboxylic acids.
  • Suitable heteroatoms are, for example, N, O, S, B, P, Si, Al, Preferred heteroatoms here are N, S and / or O.
  • a suitable substituent in this regard is, inter alia, -OH, a nitro group, an amino group or an alkyl or alkoxy group.
  • At least bidentate organic compounds to acetylenedicarboxylic acid (ADC), benzenedicarboxylic acids, naphthalenedicarboxylic acids, biphenyldicarboxylic acids such as, for example, 4,4'-biphenyldicarboxylic acid (BPDC), bipyridinedicarboxylic acids, for example 2,2'-bipyridinedicarboxylic acids, for example 2,2'-biphenylcarboxylic acids.
  • ADC acetylenedicarboxylic acid
  • BPDC 4,4'-biphenyldicarboxylic acid
  • bipyridinedicarboxylic acids for example 2,2'-bipyridinedicarboxylic acids, for example 2,2'-biphenylcarboxylic acids.
  • Bipyridine-5,5'-dicarboxylic acid benzene tricarboxylic acids such as 1,3,3-benzenetricarboxylic acid or 1,3,5-benzenetricarboxylic acid (BTC), adamantane tetracarboxylic acid (ATC), adamantane dibenzoate (ADB) benzene tribenzoate (BTB), methanetetrabenzoate (MTB), Adamantantetrabenzoat or Dihydroxyterephthal Acid such as 2,5-dihydroxyterephthalic acid (DHBDC) used.
  • BTC 1,3,3-benzenetricarboxylic acid or 1,3,5-benzenetricarboxylic acid
  • ATC adamantane tetracarboxylic acid
  • ADB adamantane dibenzoate
  • BTB benzene tribenzoate
  • MTB methanetetrabenzoate
  • Adamantantetrabenzoat or Dihydroxyterephthal Acid such
  • Isophthalic acid, terephthalic acid, 2,5-dihydroxyterephthalic acid, 1,2,3-benzenetricarboxylic acid, 1,3,5-benzenetricarboxylic acid, 2,2'-bipyridine-5,5'-dicarboxylic acid, aminoterephthalic acid or diaminoterephthalic acid are very particularly preferably used .
  • the MOF may also comprise one or more monodentate ligands.
  • Suitable solvents for the preparation of the MOF include i.a. Ethanol, dimethylformamide, toluene, methanol, chlorobenzene, diethylformamide, dimethyl sulfoxide, water, hydrogen peroxide, methylamine, sodium hydroxide solution, N-methylpyrrolidone, acetonitrile, benzyl chloride, triethylamine, ethylene glycol and mixtures thereof.
  • Other metal ions, at least bidentate organic compounds and solvents for the production of MOF include i.a. in US Pat. No. 5,648,508 or DE-A 101 11 230.
  • the pore size of the MOF can be controlled by choice of the appropriate ligand and / or the least bidentate organic compound.
  • the larger the organic compound the larger the pore size.
  • the pore size is preferably from 0.2 nm to 30 nm, more preferably the pore size is in the range from 0.3 nm to 3 nm, based on the crystalline material.
  • pores also occur whose size distribution can vary.
  • more than 50% of the total pore volume in particular more than 75%, of pores having a pore diameter of up to 1000 nm educated.
  • a majority of the pore volume is formed by pores of two diameter ranges. It is therefore further preferred if more than 25% of the total pore volume, in particular more than 50% of the total pore volume, is formed by pores which are in a diameter range of 100 nm to 800 nm and if more than 15% of the total pore volume, in particular more than 25% of the total pore volume is formed by pores in a diameter range of up to 10 nm.
  • the pore distribution can be determined by means of mercury porosimetry.
  • the organometallic frameworks are generally used as moldings, for example as random beds of spheres, rings, strands or tablets or as ordered internals such as packings, honeycomb bodies and monoliths.
  • the shaped bodies at their narrowest point preferably at most 3 mm, more preferably at most 2 mm, most preferably at most 1, 5 mm in diameter.
  • a preferred molecular sieve is a 4A molecular sieve.
  • the 4A molecular sieve is loaded at temperatures of at least 70 ° C, preferably at least 90 ° C and especially at least 100 ° C. Propene can be obtained with a purity of> 90% or even> 99%.
  • Particularly preferred molecular sieves are 4A, 5A, 13X.
  • Molecular sieves are generally used as shaped bodies. Suitable are random beds of, for example, balls, rings, stringers and tablets as well as ordered installations of packs, honeycomb bodies and monoliths.
  • adsorption stage D complete separation of the propene from the other gas constituents is not necessary because the gas stream d2 is returned to the propane dehydrogenation.
  • the goal is a complete loading of the adsorbent with pure propene. Since the adsorption coefficient of propene on the adsorbent is higher than that of the other gas components, other gas components are successively displaced from the adsorption sites, so that finally propene is selectively adsorbed.
  • adsorption stage D For carrying out the adsorption stage D) and the desorption stage E), a number of different possible embodiments are available to the person skilled in the art. All have in common that at least two, preferably three, more preferably at least four adsorbers are operated in parallel, of which at least two, but preferably all work out of phase with respect to the other adsorber. Possible variants are a) a pressure swing adsorption (PSA) b) a vacuum pressure swing adsorption (VPSA), c) a temperature swing adsorption (TSA) or These methods are known in principle to those skilled in the art and can be found in textbooks such as, for example, W.
  • PSA pressure swing adsorption
  • VPSA vacuum pressure swing adsorption
  • TSA temperature swing adsorption
  • the bed of an adsorber need not necessarily contain only a single adsorbent, but can consist of several layers of different materials, which can be used, for example, to sharpen the breakthrough front of the adsorbed species during the adsorption phase.
  • a pressure swing adsorption for the propane / propene T rennung be configured as follows: In four reactors operate in parallel in the following staggered phases: In phase 1, an adsorber by supplying gas from a second adsorber in the adsorption mode or exhaust gas from a second adsorber is decompressed at the same time, and fresh gas to the working pressure (p m a x ⁇ m ai) brought. In phase 2, the adsorbent is completely loaded with propene by further feed, preferably until the entire adsorption front is broken and no more propene is adsorbed. In this case, a second reactor downstream in the adsorption mode is preferably switched on before breakthrough of the propene front.
  • phase 3 the adsorber is flushed with pure propene in order to displace non-adsorbed residual propane present in the adsorber.
  • Rinsing may be in cocurrent or countercurrent, with direct current being preferred.
  • the rinsing can be carried out at adsorption pressure. To save pure propene, however, a prior lowering of the adsorber pressure is preferred, and a similar propene partial pressure in the adsorption (phase 2) and purge phase (phase 3) is particularly preferred.
  • the released at this pressure reduction gas mixture can be fed to another adsorber during phase 1 for pressure build-up.
  • phase 4 the loaded and purged adsorber is decompressed to recover the pure propylene stream.
  • the product is preferably removed in countercurrent.
  • a negative pressure can be applied in phase 4.
  • This embodiment is an example of a VPSA method.
  • the heat input can take place in different ways: Conductively via internal heat exchangers, convectively via external heat exchangers or by radiation, for example by irradiation of micro or radio waves.
  • Conductively via internal heat exchangers convectively via external heat exchangers or by radiation, for example by irradiation of micro or radio waves.
  • one over the Compensation of Desorptions relies for the compensation of Desorptions and temperature swing adsorption.
  • Desorption of the desired product can also be effected by displacement with an auxiliary component, for example N 2 , CO 2 or water vapor. It is exploited that the auxiliary component lowers the partial pressure of the propylene in the gas phase, while the absolute pressure can remain constant.
  • a more strongly adsorptive auxiliary component such as, for example, steam or CO 2 , can also lead to a displacement of the desired product from the surface of the adsorbent. In the latter case, however, the auxiliary component must be removed in a further step from the surface of the adsorbent, z. B. by raising the temperature.
  • temperature levels can be set, which lead in the presence of propylene to undesirable side reactions such as polymerization. Since in such a mode of operation of the excipient can enter the desorbed value product, a separation step, for. Example, by condensation, adsorption, separation via a membrane, distillation or by selective washing, connect.
  • the phases do not necessarily have the same length, so that a smaller or larger number of adsorbers can be used for synchronization.
  • a further purification preferably adsorptive, can follow, in which case another adsorbent can also be used.
  • the adsorption is generally carried out at a temperature in the range of -50 to 250 ° C, preferably 10 to 100 ° C and particularly preferably 10 to 50 ° C.
  • the adsorption is carried out using molecular sieves in the range of 100 to 150 ° C, when using MOFs at -50 to 100 ° C.
  • the adsorption takes place at a pressure of generally 1 to 40 bar, preferably 1.5 to 20 bar, more preferably 2 to 15 bar and in particular 2.5 to 10 bar.
  • the desorption phase itself can be carried out both by (partial) pressure reduction and by heat input as well as by a combination of both measures.
  • the adsorption / desorption can be designed as a fixed bed, fluidized bed or moving bed process. Suitable apparatus are, for example, fixed bed reactors, rotary adsorbers or venetian blind filters. A detailed description of possible apparatuses can be found in: Werner KITA, "Adsorption from the Gas Phase", VCH (Weinheim), H. Brauer, "The Adsorption Technique, An Area with a Future", Chem.-Ing. Tech 57 (1985) 8, 650-653; Dieter Bathen, Marc Breitbach “adsorption technology", VDI book, 2001.
  • the gas stream e1 released by desorption, containing propene generally contains, based on the hydrocarbon content, at least 90% by volume of propene, preferably at least 95% by volume of propene, particularly preferably at least 99.5% by volume of propene. In addition, it may contain 0 to 5 vol .-% of propane and small amounts of CO, CO 2 , ethane, ethene and methane, but generally not more than 1 vol .-%, preferably not more than 0.5 vol .-%. When performing a displacement desorption, the stream e1 may additionally contain the purge gas, for example CO 2 .
  • a selective hydrogenation can be carried out before carrying out the adsorption stage D) to remove acetylenes and allenes, which may adsorb better to the adsorbent than propene.
  • the acetylene content in stream c should generally be ⁇ 1%, preferably ⁇ 500 ppm, more preferably ⁇ 100 ppm, in particular ⁇ 10 ppm.
  • Selective hydrogenation may be required if significant amounts of acetylenes and allenes (methyl acetylene and propadiene) are formed during propane dehydrogenation.
  • the selective hydrogenation can be carried out with hydrogen supplied externally or contained in the product gas stream of the dehydrogenation.
  • the propane-containing gas stream d2 is at least partially recycled directly into the dehydrogenation zone, wherein a partial stream (purge gas stream) is generally separated from the gas stream d2 for the discharge of inert gases, hydrogen and carbon oxides.
  • the purge gas stream can be burned.
  • a partial stream of the gas stream d2 it is also possible for a partial stream of the gas stream d2 to be recirculated directly into the dehydrogenation zone and propane to be separated off from a further partial stream by absorption and desorption and recycled to the dehydrogenation zone.
  • At least a portion of the propane-containing gas stream d2 obtained in step D) is contacted with a high-boiling absorbent in a further step F) and the gases dissolved in the absorbent are subsequently desorbed, wherein essentially consisting of propane recycle stream f1 and an exhaust gas stream f2 containing methane, ethane, ethene and hydrogen, optionally carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide, is obtained.
  • the recycle stream consisting essentially of propane is returned to the first dehydrogenation zone.
  • the gas stream d2 is contacted with an inert absorbent, wherein propane and also small amounts of the C 2 hydrocarbons are absorbed in the inert absorbent and a propane laden absorbent and the other gas constituents containing exhaust gas are obtained.
  • propane is released from the absorbent again.
  • Inert adsorbents used in the absorption stage are generally high-boiling nonpolar solvents in which the propane to be separated has a significantly higher solubility than the other gas constituents.
  • Absorption can be accomplished by simply passing the stream d2 through the absorbent. But it can also be done in columns or in rotational absorbers. It can be used in cocurrent, countercurrent or cross flow. Suitable absorption columns include plate columns having bubble, centrifugal and / or sieve trays, ckept columns with structured parity, for example, fabric packings or sheet-metal packings with a specific surface area of 100 to 1000 m 2 / m 3 as Mellapak ® 250 Y, and packed columns.
  • Suitable absorbents are relatively nonpolar organic solvents, for example C 4 -C 8 -alkenes, naphtha or aromatic hydrocarbons, such as the paraffin distillation medium fractions, or bulky group ethers, or mixtures of these solvents, such as polar solvents such as 1, 2 and 3. Dimethyl phthalate may be added.
  • Suitable absorbents are also esters of benzoic acid and phthalic acid with straight-chain C 1 -C 8 -alkanols, such as n-butyl benzoate, methyl benzoate, ethyl benzoate, dimethyl phthalate, Diethyl phthalate, as well as so-called heat transfer oils, such as biphenyl and diphenyl ether, their chlorinated derivatives and triaryl alkenes.
  • a suitable absorbent is a mixture of biphenyl and diphenyl ether, preferably in the azeotropic composition, for example, the commercially available Diphyl ®. Frequently, this solvent mixture contains dimethyl phthalate in an amount of 0.1 to 25 wt .-%.
  • Suitable absorbents are also butanes, pentanes, hexanes, heptanes, octanes, nonanes, decanes, undecanes, dodecanes, tridecanes, tetradecanes, pentadecanes, hexadecanes, heptadecanes and octadecanes or fractions obtained from refinery streams which contain as main components said linear alkanes.
  • the loaded absorbent is heated and / or released to a lower pressure.
  • the desorption can also be effected by stripping, usually with steam or an oxygen-containing gas, or in a combination of relaxation, heating and stripping in one or more process steps.
  • the desorption can be carried out in two stages, wherein the second desorption stage is carried out at a lower pressure than the first desorption stage and the desorption gas of the first stage is returned to the absorption stage.
  • the absorbent regenerated in the desorption stage is returned to the absorption stage.
  • the desorption step is carried out by relaxation and / or heating of the loaded absorbent.
  • the desorption step is additionally stripped with steam.
  • the desorption step is additionally stripped with an oxygen-containing gas. The amount of stripping gas used can correspond to the oxygen requirement of the autothermal dehydrogenation.
  • adsorption / desorption with a fixed-bed adsorbent can also be carried out to separate propane from the other gas constituents in order to obtain a recycle stream f1 consisting essentially of propane.
  • carbon dioxide can be separated from the gas stream d2 or a part stream thereof by scrubbing the gas, a recycle stream f1 enriched in carbon dioxide being obtained.
  • the carbon dioxide gas scrubber can be preceded by a separate combustion stage in which carbon monoxide is selectively oxidized to carbon dioxide.
  • carbon monoxide is selectively oxidized to carbon dioxide.
  • For CO 2 separation generally sodium hydroxide solution, potassium hydroxide solution or an alkanolamine solution is used as the scrubbing liquid; preference is given to using an activated N-methyldiethanolamine solution.
  • the product gas stream c is compressed to a pressure in the range from 5 to 25 bar by single or multi-stage compression. It can be a carbon dioxide depleted recycle stream f1 with a CO 2 content of generally ⁇ 100 ppm, preferably ⁇ 10 ppm are obtained.
  • Hydrogen may optionally be separated from the gas stream d2 by membrane separation or pressure swing absorption.
  • the exhaust gas stream may be passed, optionally after cooling, for example in an indirect heat exchanger, via a membrane, which is generally designed as a tube, which is permeable only to molecular hydrogen.
  • a membrane which is generally designed as a tube, which is permeable only to molecular hydrogen.
  • the thus separated molecular hydrogen can, if necessary, at least partially used in the dehydrogenation or else be supplied to another utilization, for example, be used for generating electrical energy in fuel cells.
  • the exhaust gas flow can be burned.
  • an adsorptive workup can take place.
  • the invention is further illustrated by the following example.
  • the variant of the method according to the invention shown in FIG. 1 was mathematically simulated. It assumed a propane conversion in the dehydrogenation stage of 35%, a selectivity to propene of 95.4% and also the formation of 2.3% cracking products and 2.3% combustion products. A capacity of the plant of 350 kt / a propene with a running time of 8000 h / a was assumed.
  • the product gas (5) is cooled and fed to a multi-stage compression with intermediate cooling (30). This takes place from a pressure of 2.5 bar over 2 stages with turbocompressors to 10 bar.
  • the CO 2- freed stream (8) is virtually completely adsorptively dried (stream 10 still contains 10 ppm by weight of water).
  • the stream 10 largely freed from CO 2 and water is then fed to the adsorption stage (60), in which the separation of the propene takes place as polymer-grade propene (12).
  • the propene-depleted gas stream (13) yield of the adsorption step 90%) is divided.
  • the majority (15) is returned directly to the PDH (20), a small purge stream (14) is withdrawn from the process to discharge minor components and hydrogen.
  • the stream (14) can either be incinerated or a recovery of the propane can be carried out by absorption or adsorption.
  • composition of the streams in mass fractions reflects the following table.

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L'invention concerne un procédé de production de propène à partir de propane, ce procédé comprenant les étapes suivantes : A) un flux de gaz d'apport a contenant du propane est préparé; B) le flux de gaz d'apport a contenant du propane est introduit avec éventuellement de la vapeur d'eau et éventuellement un flux de gaz contenant de l'oxygène dans une zone de déshydrogénation et le propane est soumis à une déshydrogénation pour former du propène, un flux de gaz produit b contenant du propane, du propène, du méthane, de l'éthane, de l'éthène, de l'hydrogène, éventuellement du monoxyde de carbone, du dioxyde de carbone, de la vapeur d'eau et de l'oxygène étant ainsi obtenu; C) le flux de gaz produit b est refroidi, puis éventuellement condensé et de la vapeur d'eau est séparée par condensation, un flux de gaz produit c appauvri en vapeur d'eau étant obtenu; D) le flux de gaz produit c est mis en contact avec un adsorbant à action sélective, qui adsorbe sélectivement du propène dans les conditions d'adsorption sélectionnées, de façon à produire un adsorbant chargé de propène et un flux de gaz d2 appauvri en propène, ce flux de gaz d2 contenant du propane, du méthane, de l'éthane, de l'éthène et de l'hydrogène, du monoxyde de carbone et du dioxyde de carbone; E) un flux de gaz e1 contenant du propène est libéré de l'adsorbant chargé de propène par réduction de la pression et/ou chauffage de l'adsorbant.
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