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Bayer Aktiengesellschaft

Hans J Wernicke

Walter Kreuter

Claus Schliebener

Manfred Mansmann

Udo Lang

Allan M Watson

Horst Weber

Klaus D Mikulla

Berndt Horner

Heinz Zimmerman

Blast furnace flue dust is used as a catalyst in a process for the hydrogenation of coal. A flowable mixture of finely divided coal particles and liquid hydrocarbons is brought to high pressure and to reaction temperature. The mixture is hydrogenated with hydrogen in the presence of blast furnace dust as a hydrogenation catalyst. The cost-effective hydrogenation catalyst is reused profitably subsequent to application in the coal hydrogenation process. Gaseous products are separated from liquid and solid reaction products. Liquid products are vaporized and are fractionated under atmospheric pressure and under vacuum. Hydrogen for use in the hydrogenation is produced by partial oxidation of the residue, and the catalyst is deposited as slag, which is returned to the blast furnace.

Process and catalyst for the hydrogenation of coal

For thermally cracking heavy liquid hydrocarbons to produce gaseous olefins comprising a catalytic hydrogenating pretreatment, a separation of the hydrogenation product into a lighter fraction and a heavier fraction; passing the heavier fraction at least in part to a thermal cracking step to produce normally gaseous olefins; and withdrawing the lighter fraction, the improvement wherein the hydrogenation is conducted within the shaded area of FIG. 2, whereby said lighter fraction has a higher octane number.

Special conditions for the hydrogenation of heavy hydrocarbons

To obtain olefins by the thermal cracking of hydrocarbons, e.g., vacuum gas oil, by hydrogenation and subsequent steam cracking, an intermediate fractionation of the hydrogenate is provided so that the light fraction enriched in branched isomers can be used as fuel and the heavy fraction only is subjected to the steam cracking.

Thermal cracking of heavy fraction of hydrocarbon hydrogenate

In a process for the thermal cracking of hydrocarbons to produce olefins, improvement of recovering hydrocarbons boiling above 200.degree. C. from the thermal cracking stage, preferably removing polymeric components therefrom, catalytically hydrogenating resultant hydrocarbons boiling above 200.degree. C., and recycling resultant hydrogenated hydrocarbons to the thermal cracking stage.

Thermal cracking with post hydrogenation and recycle of heavy fractions

Vacuum residue is used for production of olefins by first separating, preferably by solvent extraction, the asphalt therein, blending resultant asphalt depleted fraction with a lighter fraction, e.g., a vacuum gas oil, and then subjecting the blend to a conventional catalytic hydrogenation step prior to thermal cracking. The hydrogenate may be separated into fractions with the heavy fraction only being thermally cracked.

Use of vacuum residue in thermal cracking

A process for the treatment of a hydrocarbon fraction having a boiling point range beginning above 200.degree. C. and obtained in the cracking of hydrocarbons, in which the polymeric component resulting from the cracking pyrolysis is removed and the remaining polymer-free hydrocarbon is subjected to hydrogenation under such reaction conditions that the product is high in monoaromatic components while the polyaromatics are removed therefrom.

Method of processing a high-boiling fraction obtained in the cracking of

In a process for the production of olefins in two stages wherein, in the first stage, heavy petroleum fractions are hydrogenated in the presence of hydrogen and a hydrogenation catalyst and, in the second stage, the thus-hydrogenated fractions are subjected to thermal cracking in the presence of steam, the improvement which comprises employing as the hydrogenation catalyst a support-free catalyst consisting essentially of elements from Groups VIb, VIIB, and VIII of the periodic table of the elements in the form of the metals, metal oxides, metal sulfides, or organometal complexes, or mixtures thereof.

Unsupported catalysts in the production of olefins

In a process for the production of olefins in two stages wherein, in the first stage, heavy petroleum fractions are hydrogenated in the presence of hydrogen and a hydrogenation catalyst and, in the second stage, the thus-hydrogenated fractions are subjected to thermal cracking the presence of steam, the improvement which comprises employing as the hydrogenation catalyst a zeolite of the faujasite structure combined with elements from Groups VIB, VIIB and VIII of the periodic table of the elements, wherein the alkali component of the zeolite is exchanged at least partially for ammonium, hydronium, alkaline earth and/or rare earth ions, and the elements are present in a metallic, ionic, oxidic and/or sulfidic form.

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Hans J Wernicke