Total Research & Technology Feluy

Total Petrochemicals Research Feluy

Fina Research, S.a.

Totalenergies Onetech

Ifp Energies Nouvelles

Totalenergies Onetech Belgium

Total Raffinage Marketing

Centre National De La Recherche Scientifique

Sabic Global Technologies B.v.

Borealis Ag

Fina Technology, Inc.

Basell Polyolefine Gmbh

Atofina Research S.a.

Basf Antwerpen N.v.

Walter Vermeiren

Nikolai Nesterenko

Jean-Pierre Dath

Sander Van Donk

Delphine Minoux

Cindy Adam

Wolfgang Garcia

Giacomo Grasso

Luc F Delorme

Xavier Vanhaeren

Vincent Coupard

Gleb Veryasov

Philip De Smedt

Stephanie Fleurier

Natacha Touchais

Jacques-François Grootjans

Thomas Plennevaux

Jacques-Fran&ccedil;ois Grootjans

Sylvie Maury

Catherine Boutrot

Nicolas Aribert

Manuela Arratia

Helena Gonzalez Penas

Sébastien Leplat

Valérie Buono

Koen Herrebout

Emilie Kobel

Francois Fajula

Bert Sels

Pierre Jacobs

Francesco S Di Renzo

Joseph Stewart

Valérie Vanrysselberghe

Nicolas Van Gyseghem

Emmanuel Van Loock

Christophe Breton

Francois Bouvart

Nicolas Dubut

François Bouvart

Jacques Grootjans

Alain Chepda

Ana Obradovic

Christophe Thille

Jose C Gonzalez

Jacques-Francedillaois Grootjans

José Castor Gonzalez

Geoffrey De Weeze

Nikolaos Vavizos

Marc Jozef Maria Jordens

Martin Leinz

Paulus Maria Brandts

Eric Simon Petrus Appelman

Michael Pohl

Christian Barreau

Nikolaï Nesterenko

Carolina Petitto

Jens Becker

Hendrik De Winne

Stéphanie Fleurier

Nicolai Nesterenko

Philippe De Smedt

Catherine Olivier

A process for the purification of a hydrocarbon stream including: (a) Providing a hydrocarbon stream having a diene value of at least 1.0 and a bromine number of at least 5 gBr2/100and containing pyrolysis plastic oil; (b) Optionally contact the hydrocarbon stream obtained in step (a) with a silica gel, clays, alkaline or alkaline earth metal oxide, iron oxide, ion exchange resins, active carbon, active aluminum oxide, molecular sieves, alkaline oxide and/or porous supports and silica gel, or any mixture thereof, (c) Heating the stream obtained in step a) or b) followed by a mixing of the heated stream with a second diluent heated at a temperature of at least 300° C. preferably at least 330° C.; (d) performing an hydroprocessing step at a temperature of at least 250° C. in the presence of H2; and (e) recovering a purified hydrocarbon stream.

Purification of waste plastic based oil with a high temperature hydroprocessing

The disclosure concerns a process to perform a catalytic dehydration of alcohols having at least two carbon atoms into olefins, said process comprising the steps of a) providing one fluidized bed reactor and a bed comprising particles; b) putting the particles in a fluidized state to obtain a fluidized bed; c) heating the fluidized bed to a temperature ranging from 200° C. to 500° C.; remarkable in that the particles of the bed comprise electrically conductive particles and particles of one or more solid acid catalysts, wherein at least 10 wt. % of the particles based on the total weight of the particles of the bed are electrically conductive particles and have a resistivity ranging from 0.001 Ohm·cm to 500 Ohm·cm at 400° C.; and in that the step c) of heating the fluidized bed is performed by passing an electric current through the fluidized bed.

Electrified process to conduct transformation of alcohols into corresponding olefins in a fluidized bed reactor

A process to produce olefins and aromatics via a purification of a hydrocarbon stream including: a) Providing a hydrocarbon stream having a starting boiling point of at least 15° C., a diene value of at least 1.0 preferably at least 1.5 g I2/100 g and a bromine number of at least 5 g Br2/100 g and containing at least 10 wt % of pyrolysis plastic oil where preferably at least 10 wt. % of said hydrocarbon stream has a boiling point of at least 150° C. based on the total weight of said hydrocarbon stream; c) Performing a first hydrotreating step; e) performing a second hydrotreating step; and f) recovering a purified hydrocarbon stream wherein at least a part of this purified hydrocarbon stream is sent to a steam cracker to produce olefins, such as ethylene and propylene, and aromatics.

Purification of waste plastic based oil via a two steps hydrotreatment

The present application relates to a process for cracking a hydrocarbon feedstock, using to the largest extent electrically powered equipment where the power is obtained from renewable sources or low-carbon sources. In particular, it relates to a furnace for steam cracking a hydrocarbon feedstock, wherein the furnace comprises one or more tubes for transporting the hydrocarbon feedstock and dilution steam; and an electrically heated infrared emitter for transferring heat to the tubes. It also relates to a process for steam cracking a hydrocarbon feedstock using infrared radiation.

Method for steam cracking

The disclosure concerns a process to perform a reaction of alkane transformation into olefins, said process comprising the steps of (a) providing a stream of light alkane-comprising feedstock with one or more alkanes and one or more oxidants selected from COand/or COS; and providing at least one fluidized bed reactor comprising at least two electrodes and a bed comprising particles; (b) putting the particles of the bed in a fluidized state to obtain a fluidized bed; and (c) heating the fluidized bed to a temperature ranging from 600° C. to 1500° C. to conduct the reaction; the process is remarkable in that the step c) is performed by passing an electric current through the fluidized bed; the particles of the bed comprise electrically conductive particles, and in that, at least 10 wt. % of the particles are electrically conductive particles and have a resistivity ranging from 0.001 to 500 Ohm·cm at 800° C.

Process to conduct an alkane transformation into olefins in an electrified fluidized bed reactor

A process to produce olefins including: (a) Providing a hydrocarbon stream containing at least 10 wt % of pyrolysis plastic oil; (b) Optionally contacting the effluent obtained in step a) with silica gel, clays, alkaline or alkaline earth metal oxide, iron oxide, ion exchange resins, active carbon, active aluminium oxide, molecular sieves, alkaline oxide and/or porous supports containing lamellar double hydroxide modified or not and silica gel, or any mixture thereof; (c) performing a selective hydrogenation step; (d) contacting the stream obtained in step c) with a cracking catalyst to crack the olefins and/or paraffins into olefins having 2 to 4 carbon atoms (e) separating from the effluents obtained at the step d) a first stream containing olefins and saturated hydrocarbons having at most 3 carbon atoms, and a second stream containing hydrocarbons having 4 or more carbon atoms and (f) recovering from said first stream the ethylene and propylene.

Waste plastic based oil upgrading into high value chemicals via direct catalytic cracking

The disclosure relates to a process to perform an endothermic methane pyrolysis reaction, said process comprising the steps of providing at least one fluidized bed reactor comprising at least two electrodes; and a bed comprising particles, wherein the particles are put in a fluidized state by passing upwardly through the said bed a fluid stream, to obtain a fluidized bed; heating the fluidized bed to a temperature ranging from 500° C. to 1200° C. to conduct the endothermic methane pyrolysis reaction; wherein the particles of the bed comprise electrically conductive particles and particles of a catalytic composition; wherein at least 10 wt. % of the particles are electrically conductive particles and have a resistivity ranging from 0.001 Ohm·cm to 500 Ohm·cm at 800° C. and wherein the step of heating the fluidized bed is performed by passing an electric current through the fluidized bed.

Process to conduct endothermic direct pyrolysis of methane in a fluidized bed reactor

The disclosure relates to a process to perform a catalytic cracking reaction of hydrocarbons having at least four carbons, said process comprising the steps of providing a fluidized bed reactor comprising at least two electrodes and a bed comprising particles, wherein the particles are put in a fluidized state to obtain a fluidized bed; heating said bed to a temperature between 500° C. and 850° C. by passing an electric current through the fluidized bed to conduct the reaction. The process is remarkable in that the particles of the bed comprise electrically conductive particles and particles of a catalytic composition, wherein at least 10 wt. % of the particles are electrically conductive particles and have a resistivity from 0.001 to 500 Ohm.cm at 500° C. and in that the step of heating the fluidized bed is performed by passing an electric current through the fluidized bed.

Process to conduct an endothermic catalytic cracking reaction in a fluidized bed reactor

The disclosure relates to a process to perform an endothermic steam reforming of hydrocarbons, said process comprising the steps of providing a fluidized bed reactor comprising at least two electrodes and a bed comprising particles, wherein the particles are put in a fluidized state to obtain a fluidized bed; heating the fluidized bed to a temperature ranging from 500° C. to 1200° C. by passing an electric current through the fluidized bed to conduct the endothermic reaction. The process is remarkable in that the particles of the bed comprise electrically conductive particles and particles of a catalytic composition, wherein at least 10 wt. % of the particles are electrically conductive particles and have a resistivity ranging from 0.001 to 500 Ohm·cm at 800° C. and in that the step of heating the fluidized bed is performed by passing an electric current through the fluidized bed.

Process to conduct an endothermic steam reforming reaction in a fluidized bed reactor

Process to conduct a steam cracking reaction in a fluidized bed reactor The disclosure relates to a process to perform a steam cracking reaction, said process comprising the steps of providing a fluidized bed reactor comprising at least two electrodes; and a bed comprising particles, wherein the particles are put in a fluidized state by passing upwardly through the said bed a fluid stream, to obtain a fluidized bed; heating the fluidized bed to a temperature ranging from 500° C. to 1200° C. to conduct the endothermic chemical reaction; wherein at least 10 wt. % of the particles based on the total weight of the particles of the bed are electrically conductive particles and have a resistivity ranging from 0.001 Ohm·cm to 500 Ohm·cm at 800° C. and in that the step of heating the fluidized bed is performed by passing an electric current through the fluidized bed.

Process to conduct a steam cracking reaction in a fluidized bed reactor

The disclosure relates to a process to perform an endothermic dehydrogenation and/or aromatization reaction of hydrocarbons, said process comprising the steps of providing at least one fluidized bed reactor comprising at least two electrodes and a bed comprising particles; putting the particles in a fluidized state to obtain a fluidized bed; heating the fluidized bed to a temperature ranging from 480&#xb0; C. to 700&#xb0; C. to conduct the reaction; and obtaining a reactor effluent containing hydrogen, unconverted hydrocarbons, and olefins and/or aromatics; wherein the particles of the bed comprise electrically conductive particles and particles of a catalytic composition, wherein at least 10 wt. % of the particles are electrically conductive particles and have a resistivity ranging from 0.001 Ohm&#xb7;cm to 500 Ohm&#xb7;cm at 500&#xb0; C. and wherein the step of heating the fluidized bed is performed by passing an electric current of through the fluidized bed.

Process to conduct an endothermic dehydrogenation and/or aromatisation reaction in a fluidized bed reactor

The present invention relates to a process for the conversion of a feedstock comprising at least 50 wt % related to the total weight of the feedstock of triglycerides, fatty acid esters and/or fatty acids having at least 10 carbon atoms into hydrogen, olefins, dienes, aromatics, gasoline, diesel fuel, jet fuel, naphtha and liquefied petroleum gas comprising:

Renewable diesel fuel production in retrofitted fossil petroleum refinery to produce biofuel and bio-feedstock for steam crackers

The disclosure provides for a process for a non-catalytic oxidative coupling of methane reaction remarkable in that the process comprises a step of providing a counter-current shell-tube reactor comprising at least two tubes defining a tubular part and a shell part surrounding the tubular part and at least one inlet to feed a gaseous feed stream and at least one outlet to discharge a product stream; a step of providing a gaseous feed stream comprising a gas mixture of methane and oxygen in a defined molar ratio and preheated to a defined operating inlet temperature; a step of feeding the gaseous feed stream at least in the tubular part of the counter-current shell-tube reactor and a step of recovering a product stream.

Non-catalytic oxidative coupling of methane

A process for removing light components from an ethylene stream may include providing a dried ethylene stream containing ethylene, ethane, CO, CO, H, CH, and Chydrocarbons. The process may include sending the dried ethylene stream to a stripper to produce an overhead stream containing ethylene, CO, Hand CH, and a bottom stream containing ethylene, ethane, CO, and Chydrocarbons. The gaseous phase on top of the stripper may be condensed in a heat exchanger cooled by a refrigerant stream to get a first gaseous phase and a first liquid phase. The first gaseous phase may be condensed in a heat exchanger cooled by liquid ethane or liquid ethylene to get a second gaseous phase containing ethylene CO, Hand CHand a second liquid phase. The first and second liquid phases may be the reflux of the stripper.

Process for removing light components from an ethylene stream

The present invention relates to a process for the production of high value chemicals, preferably including at least ethylene and propylene, by steam cracking a mixture of non-cyclic paraffin stream (A) comprising at least 90% of components having at least 12 carbon atoms, with either a mixture of hydrocarbons having from 3 to 4 carbon atoms or a mixture of hydrocarbons comprising at least 90% of components having a boiling point ranging from 15&#xb0; C. to 200&#xb0; C.

Process for the production of high value chemicals from biologically produced materials

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Houthalen, Belgium

Walter Vermeiren