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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 30, 2019
Filed:
Jun. 03, 2016
Lyondell Chemical Technology, L.p., Houston, TX (US);
Michael G. Axelrod, Newtown Square, PA (US);
Steven T. Coleman, Houston, TX (US);
Lyondell Chemical Technology, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A process for manufacturing methyl t-butyl ether (MTBE) including (A) an optional first step including cracking raw material made from or containing ethane and/or propane, to form ethylene and recovering the residual uncracked raw material, (B) a second step including dimerizing ethylene to form n-butylene, (C) a third step including isomerizing the n-butylene to form isobutylene, (D) an optional fourth step including oxidizing methane to form methanol, (E) a fifth step including etherifying the isobutylene with methanol to form methyl t-butyl ether, and (F) a sixth step including collecting the methyl t-butyl ether is provided. The process can also be used to prepare gasoline alkylate, a higher molecular weight ethylene oligomer, a higher-molecular-weight-ethylene-oligomer-based methyl ether, an isomerized higher molecular weight ethylene oligomer, or an isomerized-higher-molecular-weight-ethylene-oligomer-based methyl ether.