Exxon Research and Engineering Company

Bernie John Pafford

Robert J Chimenti

Gerald M Halpern

Martin O Gernand

Robert H Waghorne

Carl F Bertsch

The present invention is a method to determine the water content and/or total organic carbon content in a petrochemical stream including water, organic carbon and acid comprising irradiating a feed stream including an acid, water, and organic carbon, with optical radiation; determining the optical absorption of the feed stream for at least two selected wavelengths; and determining the weight percent of the water and/or organic carbon content from the optical absorption.

Optimization of acid strength and total organic carbon in acid processes

A method and system to optimize the acid strength and level of total organic carbon (TOC) of process streams in which specific hydrocarbons are extracted from hydrocarbon mixtures by sulfuric acid.

A method for improving the octane rating of products from a catalytic cracking system is disclosed. The method is directed at maintaining the metal contaminant level on the cracking catalyst above about 400 wppm equivalent metal and periodically passing the cracking catalyst through a passivation zone having a reducing atmosphere maintained at an elevated temperature to passivate the metal contaminant on the cracking catalyst.

Octane catalytic cracking process

An adsorption process for the recovery of hydrogen from a feed gas or vapor which contains hydrogen in admixture with one or more hydrocarbon components, alone or in admixture with non-hydrocarbon components. Particulate adsorbent solids are provided with a magnetizable component, or components, and circulated between an adsorption zone in which hydrogen is concentrated in the off gas by contact of the adsorbent solids with the feed, and hydrogen recovered, and a desorption zone in which the exhausted solids are regenerated. Within the adsorption zone the feed is countercurrently contacted with the solids at relatively low temperature to selectively adsorb hydrocarbons, and perhaps other non-hydrogen components. The solids are formed into a moving, fluidized bed, and magnetically stabilized to suppress gross solids circulation while hydrocarbons are adsorbed from the feed. Occluded hydrogen is subsequently displaced from the particulate adsorbent solids with hydrocarbons, and the hydrocarbon enriched particulate adsorbent solids are then transported to the desorption zone. In the desorption zone the solids are fluidized, and the temperature of the bed is elevated sufficiently to desorb at least a portion of the hydrocarbons. The residual hydrocarbons are subsequently displaced, suitably with steam or water by contact with steam in a magnetically stabilized bed of the solids. The wet solids are then dried by contact with hydrogen to displace the water, and cooled to complete the regeneration.

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