Exxonmobil Chemical Patents Inc.

Linde Aktiengesellschaft

Josef Kunkel

Helmut Fritz

Wilfried Borgmann

Gerhard Lauermann

Klaus Muller

Roland Walzl

Michael Peter Nicoletti

John Richard Shutt

David Ritchie Lumgair

Jeffrey Alan Kabin

David R Lumgair, Jr

Minquan Cheng

Martin Kamann

Jeffrey J Phillips

Gunther Kracker-Semler

Sean McCracken

Roland Walzi

Michael Scholch

Sean Mccracken

Torben HÖFEL

Michael SCHÖLCH

Wilried Borgmann

A method for obtaining an ethylene product in a supercritical state is proposed, in which method a gas mixture containing predominantly or exclusively ethylene and ethane is separated in a distillation column (), which is operated at a distillation pressure level of from 5 to 15 bar, into an overhead product containing predominantly or exclusively ethylene and a bottom product containing predominantly or exclusively ethane, the overhead product being withdrawn in the gaseous state from the head of the distillation column () and a first portion thereof being liquefied and returned as reflux to the distillation column () and a second portion thereof being converted into a supercritical state and being used as the ethylene product. Provision is made that, for converting the second portion into the supercritical state, multi-stage compression from the distillation pressure level via a plurality of intermediate pressure levels to a supercritical pressure level is carried out, the second portion in the multi-stage compression being converted predominantly or exclusively from the gaseous into the supercritical state. A corresponding installation is likewise a subject of the invention.

Process and plant for obtaining an ethylene product in a supercritical state

A method is described for processing an olefin-containing product stream () that contains, besides ethylene and propylene, longer-chain olefins and compounds of hydrocarbons with oxygen (oxygenates). Such a product stream (I) can occur in particular in olefin synthesis from methanol. The product stream is dewatered in successive process steps, optionally compressed in several steps and dried. Then it is subjected to fractionation. For removal of the undesired oxygenates it is proposed that the oxygenates be washed out of the gaseous product stream after the compression steps and before the drying step in a column () with methanol.

Method for processing an olefin-containing product stream

This invention is directed to a method of removing dimethyl ether from an olefin stream. The method includes distilling the olefin stream so that the dimethyl ether is separated out of the olefin stream with propane. The olefin stream can then be further distilled to provide a polymer grade ethylene stream and a polymer grade propylene stream, with each stream containing not greater than about 10 wppm dimethyl ether.

Method of removing dimethyl ether from an olefin stream

A method for processing an olefin-containing product stream that contains dimethyl ether as a by-product is described. Such a product stream arises, for example, in the synthesis of olefin from methanol. For separation of the dimethyl ether from the product stream, it is proposed that at least a partial stream chiefly containing Chydrocarbons is separated from the product stream by fractionation, and is sent to a rectification column (Csplitter) () for separation of propylene and propane. The dimethyl ether goes together with the propane into the bottom of the rectification column in the rectification process and can be withdrawn (). A substantially pure propylene product (), which contains at most only traces of dimethyl ether, can be removed from the top of the rectification column.

Method for separating dimethyl ether from an olefin-containing product stream

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Gauting, Germany

Josef Kunkel