Purdue Research Foundation

Eastman-kodak Company

Jeffrey J Siirola

Rakesh Agrawal

Jeffrey T Miller

Yiru Li

Taufik Ridha

Steven Leroy Cook

Gordon C Newland

Dale E Van Sickle

Fabio Henrique Ribeiro

Fabio H Ribeiro

A process to catalytically transform natural gas liquid (NGL) into higher molecular weight hydrocarbons includes providing an NGL stream, catalytically dehydrogenating at least a portion of the NGL stream components to their corresponding alkene derivatives, catalytically oligomerizing at least a portion of the alkenes to higher molecular weight hydrocarbons and recovering the higher molecular weight hydrocarbons. The NGL stream can be extracted from a gas stream such as a gas stream coming from shale formations. The higher molecular weight hydrocarbons can be hydrocarbons that are liquid at ambient temperature and ambient pressure.

Natural gas liquids upgrading process: two-step catalytic process for alkane dehydrogenation and oligomerization

Disclosed is a process and apparatus for the chlorination of diketene, by contacting the diketene in nebulized form with chlorine gas, which contacting can be in the absence of a solvent or diluent, in an essentially uncooled reaction zone of short residence time followed by a cooling zone wherein at least a portion of the heat of reaction is removed from the product without the need for refrigeration.

Diketene chlorination method

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Kingsport, TN, United States of America

Jeffrey J Siirola