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US3284532A
US3284532A US309849A US30984963A US3284532A US 3284532 A US3284532 A US 3284532A US 309849 A US309849 A US 309849A US 30984963 A US30984963 A US 30984963A US 3284532 A US3284532 A US 3284532A
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  • This invention relates to the cracking of certain olefins. More specifically, it relates to method of improving the cracking of certain olefins. Most specifically, it relates to methods of improving the efiiciency of cracking of olefins to form specific diolefins and parafiinic hydrocarbons or to form certain other specific olefins.
  • olefins may be thermally decomposed or cracked by subjecting them to relatively high temperatures.
  • crack, cracking, decomposing, decompose, decomposed or cracked, etc as employed throughout this application and appended claims, is meant that the olefin molecule splits into two or more .tnagments, these fragments themselves form mole cules of other hydrocarbons as explained later in greater detail.
  • the olefins with which this invention is concerned are those olefins which will crack or decompose upon the application of heat. Olefins, if they are to crack at all, must contain in their molecules a double bond which is 2 carbon atoms removed from another carbon-tocarbon single bond. Another way of stating this is that if olefins are to crack at all they crack at the carbon-carbon single bond which is in the beta position to the double bond.
  • This thermal decomposition or cracking of olefins is usually conducted within a closed zone or reactor in the absence of oxygen. Temperatures employed to crack olefins usually range from about 300 C. to about 1000 C. Usually olefins are cracked while in a gaseous state and may be fed to the cracking zone either relatively pure, as mixtures of olefins, in mixture with other hydrocarbons usually saturated, for instance, mixed feed streams of pentane-pentene, or in mixture with diluents such as nitrogen, steam and the like.
  • the thermal decomposition of olefins usually results in the formation of two lower molecular weight materials. There is usually a predominance of a diolefin and a parafiinic hydrocarbon or a predominance of two other olefins formed in most olefin cracking operations.
  • olefins containing six carbons with a side chain, ie a methyl group attached to the second carbon atom of the main or straight chain portion of the olefin and the double bond in the 2 position, such an olefin is Z-methyl pentene- 2, when subjected to cracking, will upon decomposition produce as the predominant products Z-methyl butadiene- 1,3 or isoprene, a diolefin, and methane, a parafiin.
  • olefins which do not have this molecular make-up are ethylene, propylene, butene-Z, isobutene, 2-methyl butene-Z and 2,3-dimethyl butene-2.
  • an object of this invention to provide a method whereby the 'yield of the desired products produced by cracking olefins is increased. Another object is to provide a method whereby the cracking of olefins to desired products per pass is increased. Another object is to increase the ultimate yield of desired products from the cracking olefins. Another object is to provide a method whereby the residence time of cracking of olefins may be decreased. Another object is to provide a method whereby the promotion of undesirable side reactions during the cracking of olefins is decreased. Another object is to provide a method whereby olefins may be cracked efficiently at lower temperatures.
  • Another object is to provide a promoter for the cracking of olefins to the desired products. Still another object is to provide a method whereby the cracking of the olefins is promoted. Still another object is to provide a promoted cracking method whereby the cracking promoter is more easily handled. Still'another object is to provide a cracking method whereby the cracking promoter may be recovered and recycled for further use.
  • a cracking mixture comprising (1) at least one olefin having in its molecule a carbon-to-carbon single bond which is in a position beta to the double bond and (2) at least one material resulting from the reaction of one mol of hydrogen sulfide and at least one and not more than two mols of an amine, said material being present in an amount of at least 0.005 mol per mol of olefin, (B) cleaving a carbon-to-carbon single bond which is in a position beta to the double bond of said olefin by subjecting said mixture to suitable conditions of temperature ranging from about 500 C. to about 850 C. and periods of time varying from between about 3 minutes to about 0.001 second.
  • amine Contemplated to be within the scope of the term amine in the above statement of invention are aliphatic, aromatic, mixed aromatic-aliphatic amines, hydrazine and ammonia. Another way of defining the materials which react with hydrogen sulfide to form the cracking promoter of this invention, would be to refer to these materials as ammonia, aryl derivatives of ammonia, alkyl derivatives of ammonia and amine derivatives of ammonia.
  • the reaction product of one mol of hydrogen sulfide and one mol of an amine result in a hydrosulfide of the corresponing amine.
  • the reaction product of one mol of hydrogen sulfide and two mols of an amine results in the sulfide of the corresponding amine.
  • corresponding hydrosulfide or corresponding sulfide is meant simply that the amine and the hydrogen sulfide form a simple addition compound.
  • the amine may be, either it be aliphatic, aromatic, a mixed aromatic aliphatic amine, hydrazine or ammonia, the amine will react directly with the hydrogen sulfide to form a simple addition compound.
  • alkyl amines alkyl amines, aryl amines, aryl alkyl amines, ammonia and hydrazine.
  • suitable alkyl amines but by no means limiting are: methylamine, dimethylamine, trimethylamine, ethylamine, diethylamine, triethylamine, methylethylamine, dimethylethylamine, diethylmethylamine, npropylamine, di-n-propylamine, tri-n-propylamine, isopropylamine, methylisopropylamine, methyl n propylamine, ethylisopropylamine, ethyl-n-propylamine, n-butylamine, isobutylamine, methyl-n-butylamine, methylisobutylamine, ethyl-n-butylamine, ethylisobutylamine, tbutylamine,
  • Suitable aryl amines but by no means limiting are: aniline, p-toluidine, o-toluidine, m-toluidine; 2,3-xylidine; 2,4-xylidine; 2,6- xylidene; 3,4-xylidene; 3,5-Xylidene; p-ethylaniline, methylaniline, o-ethylaniline, benzylarnine and the like.
  • suitable mixed aryl alkyl amines but by no means limiting are: phenylmethylamine, phenylethylamine, benzylmethylamine and the like.
  • Hydrazine will also react with hydrogen sulfide to form a water soluble salt.
  • the hydrazine may be simple hydrazine or it may be a substituted hydrazine as well. Representative of such but by no means limiting are hydrazine, methylhydrazine, ethylhydrazine, dimethylhydrazine, diethylhydrazine, phenylhydrazine and the like.
  • Ammonia will also react with hydrogen sulfide to form a water soluble salt, i.e., ammonium hydrosulfide or ammonium sulfide in a manner similar to that of the amines or the hydrazines.
  • One particular interesting embodiment of the invention of this application is the use of a process which comprises providing a cracking mixture comprising (1) at least one olefin having in its molecule a carbon-to-carbon single bond which is in a position beta to the double bond and (2) at least one material selected from the group consisting of (a) ammonium hydrosulfide, (b) ammonium sulfide and (c) at least one ammonuim polysulfide, said material being present in an amount of at least 0.005 mol per mol of olefin, cleaving a carbon-to-carbon single bond which is in a position beta to the double bond of said olefin by subjecting said mixture to suitable conditions of temperature ranging from about 500 C.
  • ammonium hydrosulfide results from the reaction of one mol of ammonia and one mol of hydrogen sulfide.
  • the ammonium sulfide results from the reaction of one mol of hydrgen sulfide and two mols of ammonia.
  • Ammonium polysulfide is usually prepared by adding sulfur to the reaction mixture of ammonium sulfide.
  • amines and hydrogen sulfide may be prepared in various ways.
  • One embodiment which has been found successful is the preparation by the reaction of one mol of hydrogen sulfide and one mol or two mols of an amine to form the corresponding amine hydrosulfide or sulfide of the particular amine employed.
  • corresponding hydrosulfide or corresponding sulfide is meant simply that the amine and hydrogen sulfide form simple addition compounds of the particular amine employed to form the particular amine hydrosulfide or particular amine sulfide.
  • Still another embodiment of the cracking promoter of this invention are the amine polysulfides. They may be prepared by reacting one mol of hydrogen sulfide and two mols of an amine and adding sulphur to the reaction mixture.
  • methylamine polysulfide where x equals at least two up to about five depending on the amount of excess sulfur added.
  • two mols of dimethylamine reacts with one mol of hydrogen sulfide to form dimethylamine sulfide.
  • the amount of cracking promoter employed in the practice of this invention is not particularly critical, but it should be realized that sufiicient cracking promoter should beemployed to effect suflicient promotion to make its addition worthwhile. It has been found that usually about 0.005 mol per mol of olefin to be cracked is sufiicient. There is no upper limit to the amount of promoter, but from a practical standpoint no more than about 0.5 mol per mol of olefin need be used. Thus, the range could be said to be from about 0.5 to about 50 mol percent.
  • reaction products of at least one and not more than two mols of amine and one mol of hydrogen sulfide offer a number of advantages over other promoted olefin processes. Some of these advantages are the ease of processing and economy.
  • the reaction products of one or two molds of amine and one mol of hydrogen sulfide are soluble in water. This means that these cracking promoters can be charged into the process in the form of a water solution. This water is then heated to form steam which is employed as a cracking diluent. Because the reaction products of amines and H 8 are soluble in water the amounts employed can be easily metered and easily handled as well as stored for indefinite periods of time.
  • the compounds employed as cracking promoters in this invention are cheap, thus resulting in considerable economy. These compounds are also recoverable since in the application as a cracking promoter they are relatively indestructible and recoverable in Water soluble forms. They are not soluble in the hydrocarbon phase and therefore do not give rise .5 to purification problems. Furthermore, the promoters employed in this invention do not require expensive materials of construction for the cracking furnace and the quenching equipment in that they are less corrosive and thereby allow the use of lower cost alloys. Additionally, the promoters of this invention do not form by-products which in turn must be removed in the purification operation, thereby adding to the expense of purification.
  • the cracking of olefins in accordance with the practice of this invention may be carried out in any conventional manner usually employed in the art of olefin cracking.
  • the conditions which may be employed in this invention may be widely varied depending upon a number of factors. These conditions depend upon the particular olefin to be cracked, the products desired, the type and amount of diluent employed, if any, the desired rate of conversion of the reactant to products and the desired reaction efiiciency to desired products and the type and amount of promoter employed.
  • the cracking temperature may be varied broadly from about 500 C. to about 850 C. with a preferred range of from about 600 C. to about 800 C. A still more preferred range may be from about 625 C. to about 775 C. with the most preferred range being be.- tween about 650 C. and about 725 C.
  • the pressures at which the olefins may be cracked may vary broadly from about 1 millimeter of mercury to about 500 pounds per square inch gauge (p.s.i.g.). However, a preferred pressure is one from about 100 millimeters of mercury to about 250 p.s.i.g. A more convenient range is from about 1 atmosphere to about 100 to 150 p .s.i.g.
  • the reaction time during which olefins are cracked is usually referred to as residence times.
  • the residence time is defined as the time required for one mol of incoming gas, whether it be pure olefin, olefins in mixtures with other hydrocarbons, other olefins or diluents to pass through the cracking zone.
  • these times may be varied broadly from about 3 minutes to about 0.001 second with a preferred range of from about 1 minute to about 0.003 second and a more preferred range of from about 1 second to about 0.005 second and a more preferred range of about 0.75 second to about 0.01 second, and a most preferred range of 0.5 to 0.05 second.
  • the olefins employed in the practice of this invention are fed to the cracking reactor as pure olefins, in mixture with other olefins; in mixture with other hydrocarbons; or in mixture with some inert diluent; or in mixture with a combination of these. If it is desirable to employ an inert diluent such diluents as steam, nitrogen, carbon dioxide, methane, ethane or hydrogen may be employed. Other hydrocarbons which do not crack at the temperatures employed may be also utilized as diluents. Examples of such diluents are the refractory olefins and certain paraffinic hydrocarbons which are uneifected at the temperatures employed in the cracking process.
  • any diluent that does not have an adverse effect upon the process may be employed. Of these it is usually preferred to employ steam in the practice of this invention as matter of convenience (the promoter being soluble in water) and for reasons of economy.
  • the ratio of diluent to olefin employed in the practice of this invention may be widely varied from about 0.5/1 to about 15/ 1 or more mols of diluent per mol of olefin. However, if more than about a 15/1 ratio is employed the process tends to become uneconomical. It is preferred to use a diluent to olefin ratio ranging from about 2.0/1 to 4.0/1.
  • the olefins may also be cracked without diluent.
  • Example I In this example several experiments were conducted in which 2-methylpentene-2 was pyrolyzed continuously employing methylamine sulfide (CH NH S as a cracking promoter. A control was employed in which no cracking promoter was present and this control represents the thermal pyrolysis of 2-methylpentene-2. Steam was employed as a diluent at a ratio of 3 mols of steam per mole of Z-methylpentene-Z. The pressure employed was atmospheric. The conditions of temperature, time and the amount of promoter, as well as the yield and efficiencies are reported in the following table.
  • CH NH S methylamine sulfide
  • Column 1 is the run number
  • column 2 is the mol percent of promoter employed
  • column 3 is the residence time in seconds
  • column 4 is the temperature in degrees C.
  • column 5 is the mol percent of isoprene obtained per pass
  • column 6 is the reaction efficiency in percent isoprene obtained per mol of 2-methylpentene-2 pyrolyzed.
  • Example II In this example a series of experiments were conducted in which 2-methylpentene-2 was continuously pyrolyzed at various temperatures employing various amounts of ammonium sulfide as the cracking promoter. At each of the various temperatures controls were run in which no cracking promoter was present and these controls consisted of thermal pyrolysis of Z-methylpentene-Z. Steam was employed as an inert diluent at a ratio of 3 mols of diluent per mol of olefin. The pressure was about atmospheric.
  • olefins which are representative but by no means limitative, are the olefins which, when cracked o-r pyrolyzed in accordance with the practice of this invention, the results will exhibit improvements in both yield and etficiencies as compared to the thermal cracking of these olefins.
  • These olefins are grouped in a manner so as to indicate the predominance of the products formed upon their decomposition.
  • Z-methyl hexene-3 Representative among the olefins that will decompose to form predominantly Z-methyl pentadiene-1,3 and 4- methyl pentadiene-1,3 are: Z-methyl hexene-3; 2-ethyl pentene-l; 2,4-dimethyl pentene-2; 2-methyl heptene-3; 4, 4-dimethyl hexene-Z; 2-propyl pentene-Z; 2-methyl-3-ethyl pentene-l; 2,6-di-rnethyl heptene-3 and Z-propyl hexene-l and hexene-3.
  • olefins which will decompose to form predominantly 3-methyl pentadiene-1,3 are 3- methyl hexene-3; 3-methyl heptene-3; 3,4-diniethyl hexene-2; 3,6dimethyl heptene-3.
  • olefins which decompose to form predominantly 2,3-dimethy1 butadiene-l,3 are 2,3- dimethyl pentene-Z; 2,3,3-trimethyl butene-l; 2-isopropyl pentene-l; 2,3,3-trimethyl pentene-l; and 2,3-dimethylheptene-Z.
  • olefins which decompose to form predominantly 2-ethyl butadiene-1,3 are Z-ethyl pentene-Z; 3-ethyl pentene-Z; 3-methyl-2-ethyl butene-l; 3- ethyl hexene-Z; 3-methyl-2-ethyl pentene-l.
  • olefins which will decompose to form predominantly isoprene are: 2 methyl pentene-Z; 3arnethyl pentene-Z; Z-ethyl lbutene-l; 3,3-dimethyl yl pentene-Z; heptene-3; 4-methyl hexene-2; octene-3; 4-
  • methyl heptene-Z 6+methyl heptene-3; 3-ethyl hexene-l; 4-metl1yl-3-ethyl pentene-2; 4,5-dimethyl heptene-Z; and 4,5,S-trimethyl hexene-Z.
  • olefins which will decompose to form propylene as a major product are: pentene-l; hexene-l; 4-methyl pentene-l; heptene-l; Z-methyl hexene-l; 4-methyl hexene-l; S-tmethyl hexene-l; 2,4-dimethyl pentene-l; 4,4-dimethyl pentene-l; octene-l; 4-methyl heptene-l; S-methyl heptene-l; G-methyl heptene-l; and 4-ethyl hexene-l.
  • olefins which will decompose to form isobutylene as a major product are: Z-methyl pentene-l; Z-methyl heXene-l; S-rnethyl hexene-l; 2,4-dimethyl pentene-l; and 4,4-dimethyl pentene-l.
  • olefins which will decompose to form rbutene-l and/or butene-Z as major products are: heptene-l; 4-methyl hexene-l; Z-methyl heptene-l; and 2,4-dirnethyl hexene-l.
  • olefins which will decompose to form Z-methyl butene-l and/or 3-methyl-butene-1 and/or Z-methyl butene-Z as major products are: S-methyl heptene-l; 6-methyl heptene-l; 4,4-dimethyl hexene-l; 4,5- dimethyl hexene-l; and 2,6-dimethyl heptene-l.
  • olefins which will decompose to form pentene-l and/or pentene-2 as major products are: 4-methyl heptene-l; 4-ethyl hexene-l; and Z-methyl octene-l.
  • olefins which will decompose to form 2,3-dimethyl butene-l and/or 2,3-dimethyl butene- 2 as major products are: 4,4,5-trirnethyl hexene-l and 2,5, 6-trimethy1 heptene-l or 2.
  • isoprene by the practice of this invention by cracking 2- methyl pentene-Z; 3-methyl pentene-Z; 2-ethyl butene-l; 3,3-dimethyl rbutene-l and 2,3-dimethyl bu-tene-l while employing the cracking promoter of this invention.
  • a cracking process which comprises (A) providing a cracking mixture comprising (1) at least one olefin having in its molecule a carbon-to-carbon single :bond which is in a position beta to the double bond and (2) at least one cracking promoter resulting from the reaction of one mol of hydrogen sulfide and at least one and not more than two mols of an amine, said material being present in an amount of at least 0.005 mol per mol of said olefin, (B) cleaving the carbon-to-carbon single bond which is in a position beta to the double bond of said olefin by subjecting said mixture to suitable conditions of temperature ranging from about 500 C. to about 850 C. :for periods of time varying from between about 3 minutes to about 0.001 second.
  • a piperylene production process which comprises (A) providing a cracking mixture of (1) at least one olefin selected from the group consisting of hexene-3; 4 methyl pentene-Z; heptene-3; 4-methyl hexene-2; octene-3; 4- methyl heptene-2; 6-methyl heptene-3; 3-ethyl hexene-l and 4methyl-3-ethyl pentene-Z, and (2) at least one cracking promoter resulting from the reaction of one mol of hydrogen sulfide and at least one and not more than two mols of an amine, said material being present in an amount of at least 0.005 mol per mol of said olefin, (B) cleaving the carbon-to-carbon single bond which is in a position beta to the double bond of said olefin by subjecting said mixture to suitable conditions of temperature ranging from about 500 C. to about 850 C. for periods of time varying from between about 3 minutes
  • a butadiene-l,3 production process which comprises (A) providing a cracking mixture of (1) at least one olefin selected from the group consisting of pentene-2; hexene-2; 3-methy1 pentene-l; cyclohexene; 3-methyl butene-l; Z-heptene; 3-methyl hexene-l and S-methyl hexene-Z, and (2) at least one cracking promoter resulting from the reaction of one mol of hydrogen sulfide and at least one and not more than two mols of an amine, said material being present in an amount of at least 0.005 mol per mol of said olefin, (B) cleaving the carbon-tocarbon single bond which is in a position beta to the double bond of said olefin by subjecting said mixture to suitable conditions of temperature ranging from about 500 C. to about 850 C. 'for periods of time varying from between about 3 minutes to about 0.001 second.
  • a 2-ethyl butadiene-1,3 production process which comprises (A) providing a cracking mixture of (1) at least one olefin selected from the group consisting of 3- et-hylpentene-2; 2-ethylpentene-2; 3-methyl-2-ethylbutenel; 3-ethyl hexene-2 and 3- methyl-2-ethyl pentene-l, and (2) at least one cracking promoter resulting from the reaction of one mol of hydrogen sulfide and at least one and not more than two mols of an amine, said material being present in an amount of at least 0.005 mol per mol of said olefin, (B) cleaving the carbon-to-carbon single bond which is in a position beta to the double bond of said olefin by subjecting said mixture to suitable conditions of temperature ranging from about 500 C. to about 850 C. for periods of time varying from between about 3 minutes to about 0.001 second.
  • An isoprene production process which comprises (A) providing a cracking mixture of (1) at least one olefin selected from the group consisting of 2-methyl pentene- 2; 3-rnethyl pentene-Z; 2-ethyl butene-l; 2,3-dimethyl butene-l; 3,3-dimethyl butene-l; Z-methyl hexene-Z; 3- methyl hexene-Z; 2,3-dimethyl pentene-l; 3,3-dimethyl pentene-l; Z-methyl heptene-Z; S-methyl heptene-2; 2- ethyl hexene-l; 3,3-dimethyl hexene-l; 2,5-dimethyl hexene-Z; 3,5-dimethyl hexene-Z; 4-methyl-2-ethyl pentene-l; 2,3,4-trimethyl pentene-l and 3,3,4-trimethyl pentene-2, and (2) at least
  • a method of preparing isoprene which comprises (A) providing a mixture of 1) Z-methyl pentene-2, (2) ammonium sulfide in an amount varying between about 1 mol percent and about 10 mol percent based on the mols of Z-methyl pentene-Z, (3) steam as an inert diluent in an amount of from about 2/1 to about 4/1 mols of diluent to olefin, (B) cleaving a carbon-to-carbon single bond which is in a position beta to the double bond of said 2-methyl pentene-Z by subjecting said mixture to temperatures ranging between about 625 C. to about 775 C. for periods of time ranging from about 0.01 to about 0.75 second to demethanate the said 2-methyl pentene-Z and form isoprene.

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