Lummus Technology Inc.

Siluria Technologies, Inc.

Humera A Rafique

Jarod McCormick

Guido Radaelli

Joel M Cizeron

Srinivas R Vuddagiri

Erik C Scher

Bipinkumar Patel

Satish Lakhapatri

Suchia Duggal

Robert S Bridges

Jin Ki Hong

Hatem Harraz

Richard Black

Ajay M Madgavkar

Greg Nyce

Wayne Paul Schammel

Aihua Zhang

Ron Runnebaum

Tim A Rappold

Rahul Iyer

William Michalak

Carlos Faz

Peter Czerpak

Erik Freer

Joshua Ryan Miles

James Hidajat

Hassan Taheri

Jarod Mccormick

Srinivas Vuddagiri

Robert Bridges

The present disclosure provides natural gas and petrochemical processing systems including oxidative coupling of methane reactor systems that integrate process inputs and outputs to cooperatively utilize different inputs and outputs of the various systems in the production of higher hydrocarbons from natural gas and other hydrocarbon feedstocks.

Oxidative coupling of methane methods and systems

The present disclosure provides oxidative coupling of methane (OCM) systems for small scale and world scale production of olefins. An OCM system may comprise an OCM subsystem that generates a product stream comprising Ccompounds and non-Cimpurities from methane and an oxidizing agent. At least one separations subsystem downstream of, and fluidically coupled to, the OCM subsystem can be used to separate the non-Cimpurities from the Ccompounds. A methanation subsystem downstream and fluidically coupled to the OCM subsystem can be used to react Hwith CO and/or COin the non-Cimpurities to generate methane, which can be recycled to the OCM subsystem. The OCM system can be integrated in a non-OCM system, such as a natural gas liquids system or an existing ethylene cracker.

Oxidative coupling of methane implementations for olefin production

In an aspect, the present disclosure provides a method for the oxidative coupling of methane to generate hydrocarbon compounds containing at least two carbon atoms (Ccompounds). The method can include mixing a first gas stream comprising methane with a second gas stream comprising oxygen to form a third gas stream comprising methane and oxygen and performing an oxidative coupling of methane (OCM) reaction using the third gas stream to produce a product stream comprising one or more Ccompounds.

Reactors and systems for oxidative coupling of methane

The present disclosure provides methods and systems for producing an olefin, such as ethylene and propylene. A method for producing an olefin can comprise injecting an oxidizing agent and methane into an oxidative coupling of methane (OCM) reactor to generate ethylene. The methane and/or additional feedstocks for the OCM reactor can be derived from a thermal cracking or fluidized catalytic cracking (FCC) process. The ethylene generated in the OCM reactor can be converted to propylene through a dimerization unit and metathesis unit.

Integration of oxidative coupling of methane processes

Efficient oxidative coupling of methane processes and systems

Integrated systems are provided for the production of higher hydrocarbon compositions, for example liquid hydrocarbon compositions, from methane using an oxidative coupling of methane system to convert methane to ethylene, followed by conversion of ethylene to selectable higher hydrocarbon products. Integrated systems and processes are provided that process methane through to these higher hydrocarbon products.

Ethylene-to-liquids systems and methods

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Humera A Rafique