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William D Schlueter

Paul Alvin Sechrist

Ralph D Gillespie

Lynn H Rice

Hosheng Tu

Gregory F Maher

Douglas A Nafis

Delmar W Robinson

Michelle J Cohn

William Yanez

Leon Yuan

Jeffrey R Grott

Pelin Cox

Steven M Poklop

Brian D Nabozny

Gail L Grady

Julian A Vickers

Kate Tuson

A process is disclosed for an improved catalyst stripping process. The stripping vessel is divided into two zones. The first zone is a stripping zone where a substantial portion of the volatile hydrocarbons is removed at higher severity conditions. After the catalyst is stripped, the stripped catalyst moves to the lower cooling zone to be cooled at lower severity conditions. The flow rates, temperatures, pressures and the stripping and cooling zones are designed to ensure there is minimal volatile hydrocarbons on the catalyst by the time it leaves the stripping vessel. This design enables efficient stripping of volatile hydrocarbons at high severity conditions and eliminates these components from being stripped off elsewhere in the unit causing process and equipment issues.

Methods for catalyst stripping

Systems and processes for regenerating catalyst are provided herein that include a catalyst regeneration tower having a cooling zone that receives a catalyst cooling stream generated by a cooling gas loop. The systems and processes include a first thermocompressor that utilizes a first motive vapor and a second thermocompressor that utilizes a second motive vapor in order to provide the catalyst cooling stream to the regeneration tower. The second thermocompressor operates in parallel with the first thermocompressor. The first thermocompressor can utilize combustion air as the motive vapor. The second thermocompressor can utilize nitrogen as the motive vapor.

Turndown thermocompressor design for continuous catalyst recovery

One exemplary embodiment is a refinery or a petrochemical production facility. The refinery or petrochemical production facility can include:

Process and facility for removing one or more compounds

A method and apparatus for removing peroxides from an exposed naphtha stream is shown and described. The process includes the catalytic reactive oxygen stripping of peroxides thereby generating hydrocarbons and oxygen. Numerous conventional catalysts may be employed. The catalytic stripping reaction can be carried out at substantially lower temperatures than conventional reboiled oxygen strippers thereby resulting in substantial energy savings. Further, the disclosed reactor vessels are substantially smaller and less expensive to build than conventional oxygen stripper columns The disclosed energy efficient reactive oxygen stripping process and equipment is intended to be utilized upstream of a naphtha hydrotreating unit.

Removal of peroxide impurities from naphtha stream

A reforming and isomerization process has been developed. A reforming feedstream is charged to a reforming zone containing a reforming catalyst and operating at reforming conditions to generate a reforming zone effluent. Hydrogen and an isomerization feedstream is charged into an isomerization zone to contact an isomerization catalyst at isomerization conditions to increase the branching of the hydrocarbons. The isomerization catalyst is a solid acid catalyst comprising a support comprising a sulfated oxide or hydroxide of at least an element of Group IVB, a first component being at least one lanthanide series element, mixtures thereof, or yttrium, and a second component being a platinum group metal or mixtures thereof. The reforming zone effluent and the isomerization zone effluent are each separated to form a light ends stream and a product stream. The light ends streams are combined for processing in a net gas re-contacting zone.

Combination reforming and isomerization process

A method and apparatus are disclosed for removing water from a recycle gas stream in a catalyst regeneration process. A recycle gas stream contacts catalyst and the catalyst sorbs water from the recycle gas. Some of the now-dried recycle gas recirculates to the regeneration process, thereby decreasing the water content in the regeneration process. The catalyst containing sorbed water passes to a desorption zone, where water is desorbed from the catalyst and the desorbed water is rejected from the process. This method and apparatus are useful for extending the life of catalyst in catalytic hydrocarbon processes that employ continuous or semi-continuos catalyst regeneration zones.

Apparatus for controlling moisture in a catalyst regeneration process

Method for controlling moisture in a catalyst regeneration process

This invention comprises a process for cracking a hydrocarbon charge stock using a used FCC catalytic composite comprising a zeolitic crystalline aluminosilicate dispersed in a porous inorganic matrix. Particles of zeolitic crystalline aluminosilicate having diameters less than the diameters of the pores of the composite are impregnated into the composite preferably by contacting the composite with an aqueous slurry of the particles and the evaporating off the water of the slurry.

FCC Process using catalyst produced from used FCC catalyst

A method of increasing the activity and selectivity of a regenerated used FCC catalytic composite comprising a zeolitic crystalline aluminosilicate dispersed in a porous inorganic oxide matrix, the resultant composite and a cracking process utilizing the resultant composite. Particles of zeolitic crystalline aluminosilicate having diameters less than the diameters of the pores of the composite are impregnated into the composite, preferably by contacting the composite with an aqueous slurry of the particles and then evaporating off the water of the slurry.

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William D Schlueter