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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 31, 2019
Filed:
Mar. 22, 2018
Applicant:
Exxonmobil Research and Engineering Company, Annandale, NJ (US);
Inventors:
Mitch L. Hindman, Spring, TX (US);
Mohsen N. Harandi, New Hope, PA (US);
Suriyanarayanan Rajagopalan, Spring, TX (US);
Assignee:
EXXONMOBIL RESEARCH AND ENGNEERING COMPANY, Annandale, NJ (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C10G 3/00 (2006.01); C07C 41/09 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C10G 3/42 (2013.01); C07C 41/09 (2013.01); C10G 2300/202 (2013.01); C10G 2400/02 (2013.01); C10G 2400/20 (2013.01); C10G 2400/22 (2013.01); C10G 2400/30 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method for converting methanol to gasoline boiling range hydrocarbons is disclosed. In an aspect the method includes feeding crude methanol from a methanol synthesis reactor to a methanol separation vessel to recover a methanol stream in a vapor phase; and without condensing the methanol stream, feeding the methanol stream in the vapor phase to a reactor containing a conversion catalyst for converting methanol to at least one of dimethyl ether or gasoline boiling range hydrocarbons.