Miasser Al-ghamdi

Ravichander Narayanaswamy

Sivadinarayana Chinta

Atul Pant

A process for producing syngas and olefins includes the steps of feeding a catalytic partial oxidation (CPO) reactant mixture having oxygen, first hydrocarbons, and optionally steam to a CPO reaction zone having a CPO catalyst such that at least a portion of the CPO reactant mixture reacts, via an exothermic CPO reaction, to produce syngas having hydrogen (H), carbon monoxide (CO), carbon dioxide (CO), water, and unreacted first hydrocarbons. The syngas is characterized by a molar ratio M defined as (H−CO)/(CO+CO). The method further includes feeding a cracking zone feed having second hydrocarbons to a cracking zone such that at least a portion of the second hydrocarbons undergoes an endothermic cracking reaction to produce a cracking zone product stream having olefins, hydrogen, and unreacted second hydrocarbons; and cooling the CPO reaction zone by heating the cracking zone while cooling the CPO reaction zone via heat transfer between the CPO reaction zone and the cracking zone.

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Miasser Al-ghamdi