Ifp Energies Nouvelles

Institut Francais Du Pe'trole

Axens

Commissariat &#xc0; L'&#xc9;nergie Atomique Et Aux &#xc9;nergies Alternatives

Thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions Ag

Total Raffinage Chimie

Avril

Bionext

Merck Patent Gmbh

Totalenergies Onetech

Thyssenkrupp Uhde Gmbh

Sofiproteol

Laurent Bournay

Vincent Coupard

Thierry Chapus

Arnaud Baudot

Norbert Ullrich

Abdelhakim Koudil

Alain Forestiere

Emmanuelle Guillon

Antoine Daudin

Nicolas Cadran

Natacha Touchais

Jean-Alain Chodorge

Eszter Toth

Thomas Plennevaux

Romain Rousset

Pierre-Yves Martin

Jeremy Gazarian

Helene Olivier-Bourbigou

Wilfried Weiss

Sylvie Maury

Lionel Magna

Gerard Hillion

Pierre Boucot

Paul Broutin

Karin Barthelet

Elsa Jolimaitre

Jerome Pigourier

Nathalie Dupassieux

Priscilla Avenier

Dominique Casanave

David Chiche

Charles Bronner

Jean-Philippe Heraud

Aurelie Dandeu

Stéphane Fedou

Jean-François Joly

Yann Lepine

Jérôme Pigourier

Michael Hecquet

Anne Claire Lucquin

Jean-Christophe Viguie

Yves Scharff

Guillaume Boissonnet

Daniel-Jean Vinel

Frederic Favre

Julien Rousseau

David Laban

Frank Eschenroder

Detlef Abe

Franck Gaviot-Blanc

Raphael Lemaire

Charlotte Rouquette

Hartmut Schutter

Rouquette Charlotte

Aurélie Dandieu

Elsa Jolimaître

Hartmut Schuetter

Frank Eschenroeder

The present invention concerns a process for the treatment of a feed comprising biomass, said process comprising at least the following steps:

Method for processing biomass by co-grinding with a second biomass feedstock

Process for the treatment of a feedstock containing biomass, the process including

Method for processing biomass by co-grinding with a fossil-based feedstock

The invention describes a process for the production of middle distillate hydrocarbon bases from an ethanol feedstock that is produced from a renewable source that is obtained from biomass, whereby said process comprises a stage for purification of said feedstock, a stage for transformation of said purified feedstock into a light olefinic effluent that comprises at least 30% by weight of olefins that have between four to six carbon atoms relative to the total mass of the formed hydrocarbon compounds, whereby said stage works in the presence of a catalyst that comprises at least one zeolite that is selected from among the zeolites that have a structural type that appears in the following list: CHA, ERI, MTF, AEI, AEL, FER, EUO, MEL, MFS, TON, MTT and the zeolites ZBM-30, ZSM-48, IM-5 and IZM-2, taken by themselves or in a mixture, a stage for separation of the olefinic effluent that is obtained from stage b) in such a way as to eliminate at least a portion of the water that is formed during stage b) to produce at least one hydrocarbon gaseous effluent that for the most part has three or fewer carbon atoms and at least one olefinic hydrocarbon liquid effluent that for the most part has more than four carbon atoms, and a stage for oligomerization of at least a portion of the hydrocarbon effluents that are obtained from stage c) in the presence of an amorphous or zeolitic catalyst that has at least pore openings that contain 10 or 12 oxygen atoms, producing middle distillate hydrocarbon bases.

Flexible process for transformation of ethanol into middle distillates

The present invention concerns an integrated process for the production of liquid hydrocarbons starting from a feed containing at least one fraction of biomass and optionally at least one fraction of another feed, said process comprising at least one pre-treatment step, a gasification step, a step for conditioning synthesis gas, a water scrubbing step, a step for eliminating acid gases, a final purification step, and a catalytic Fischer-Tropsch synthesis reaction step.

Process for the conversion of a feed containing biomass for the production of hydrocarbons, by Fischer-Tropsch synthesis

The invention describes a process for the production of middle distillate hydrocarbon bases from an ethanol feedstock that is produced from a renewable source that is obtained from biomass, comprising a stage for purification of said feedstock, a stage for dehydration of said purified feedstock into an effluent that is for the most part ethylene and comprises water, at least one stage for separating water, a first stage for oligomerization of the effluent that is for the most part ethylene into at least one olefinic effluent that comprises at least 80% by weight of olefins that have four or more carbon atoms, in the presence of a homogeneous catalyst that comprises at least one bivalent nickel compound, whereby a second oligomerization stage produces middle distillate hydrocarbon bases in the presence of an amorphous or zeolitic catalyst that has at least pore openings that contain 10 or 12 oxygen atoms, producing middle distillate hydrocarbon bases, and a fractionation stage.

Flexible process for transformation of ethanol into middle distillates implementing a homogeneous catalytic system and a heterogeneous catalytic system

The invention relates to a continuous process for pretreatment of an oil feedstock comprising at most 20% by weight of free fatty acids by esterification of free fatty acids in which a vertical liquid/liquid contactor containing an esterification catalyst in solid form is supplied in counter-current by an alcohol feedstock comprising at least 20% by weight of an alcohol and said oil feedstock, with said contactor being operated at a temperature of between 25 and 120&#xb0; C., with said contactor performing the contact in liquid-liquid counter-current between a heavy phase and a light phase, with said heavy phase being able to be either an oil-rich phase or an alcohol-rich phase.

Process for pretreatment of vegetable oils by heterogeneous catalysis of the esterification of fatty acids

The invention describes a method of treating feeds from renewable sources comprising:

Method of hydrotreating feeds from renewable sources with indirect heating

A process for recovering 1-hexene comprising: a) separating the mixture obtained from the ethylene trimerization reaction into a top fraction comprising ethylene and a bottom fraction, b) separating a portion of the bottom fraction obtained from step a) into a top fraction comprising 1-hexene and 1-butene and a bottom fraction, c) separating a portion of the fraction comprising 1-hexene and 1-butene obtained from step b) into a top fraction principally comprising 1-butene and into a bottom fraction principally comprising 1-hexene, and in said process: a portion of the bottom fraction obtained from step b) is returned to the reaction section and another portion of said bottom fraction obtained from step b) is used in a recirculation loop connecting the reaction section and the column of said step b), said recirculation loop being used to cool the reaction section and to reboil said column of step b).

Process for separating 1-hexene from a mixture of products obtained from an ethylene trimerization zone

The present invention describes a process for the production of alkyl esters of fatty acids and glycerine employing, in a reaction section, at least one transesterification reaction between an animal or vegetable oil and an aliphatic mono-alcohol, and using a heterogeneous solid catalyst, in which the energy balance is improved by thermal integration of the energy released during the mono-alcohol condensation step.

Process for the production of alkyl esters from animal or vegetable oil and an aliphatic mono-alcohol with thermal integration

The present invention relates to a method of producing alkyl esters and glycerin from a crude or semi-refined vegetable oil and an aliphatic monoalcohol, comprising a deep pretreatment purification stage to eliminate the species based on phosphorus, calcium, magnesium, zinc or iron, insoluble under the temperature conditions of the heterogeneous catalytic reactor.

Method of producing alkyl esters from vegetable or animal oil and an aliphatic monoalcohol with fixed-bed hot purification

A process for hydrodeoxygenation of feeds derived from renewable sources with conversion by decarboxylation/decarbonylation limited to at most 10%, using a bulk or supported catalyst comprising an active phase constituted by at least one element from group VIB and at least one element from group VIII, said elements being in the sulphide form, and the atomic ratio of the metal (or metals) from group VIII to the metal (or metals) from group VIB being strictly more than 0 and less than 0.095, said process being carried out at a temperature in the range 120&#xb0; C. to 450&#xb0; C., at a pressure in the range 1 MPa to 10 MPa, at an hourly space velocity in the range 0.1 hto 10 h, and in the presence of a total quantity of hydrogen mixed with the feed such that the hydrogen/feed ratio is in the range 50 to 3000 Nmof hydrogen/mof feed.

Process for hydrodeoxygenation of feeds derived from renewable sources with limited decarboxylation conversion using a catalyst based on nickel and molybdenum

The invention is concerned with a supported or unsupported catalyst comprising an active phase constituted by a sulfur-containing group VIB element, the group VIB element being molybdenum, and a hydrodeoxygenation process with a yield of hydrodeoxygenation product which is greater than or equal to 90% of charges from renewable sources using a catalyst according to the invention.

Method of converting effluents of renewable origin into fuel of excellent quality by using a molybdenum-based catalyst

A method of monitoring breakthrough of an adsorbent bed consisting for example of ion-exchange resins, used during a stage of purification of an ester stream containing glycerin, obtained for example in a vegetable or animal oil and aliphatic monoalcohol transesterification process, permits the instantaneous detection of the presence of glycerol (glycerin) in the ester stream by arranging a turbidimeter at the adsorbent bed outlet.

Method of monitoring adsorbent bed breakthrough in a process for producing alkyl esters from vegetable or animal oil and from an aliphatic monoalcohol

The present invention describes a method of producing fatty acid alkyl esters and glycerin implementing, in a reaction section, a set of transesterification reactions between a vegetable or animal oil and an aliphatic monoalcohol, and using a heterogeneous solid catalyst, comprising: The supernatant ester phase obtained after decantation is then optionally sent to a coalescer, also allowing separation of the glycerin, then to a purification stage by adsorption on solids. This improved method prevents microemulsion formation.

Separation improvement in a method of producing alkyl esters from vegetable or animal oil and an aliphatic monoalcohol

The present invention describes a method of producing fatty acid alkyl esters and glycerin implementing a set of transesterification reactions between a vegetable or animal oil and an aliphatic monoalcohol in the presence of a heterogeneous solid catalyst so as to obtain an effluent comprising at least alkyl esters, free glycerol, bonded glycerol and alcohol, wherein at least one stage of separation of at least a portion of the effluent is carried out in order to separate the ester produced and the bonded glycerol, said separation occurring through a membrane.

Method of producing alkyl esters from vegetable or animal oil and an aliphatic monoalcohol using membrane separation

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