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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 09, 2020
Filed:
Nov. 28, 2017
Applicant:
Uop Llc, Des Plaines, IL (US);
Inventor:
Ping Sun, Riverside, IL (US);
Assignee:
UOP LLC, Des Plaines, IL (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B01D 3/06 (2006.01); C10G 70/04 (2006.01); C10G 7/06 (2006.01); C10G 47/26 (2006.01); B01D 3/10 (2006.01); B01D 3/14 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C10G 70/041 (2013.01); B01D 3/06 (2013.01); B01D 3/106 (2013.01); B01D 3/143 (2013.01); C10G 7/06 (2013.01); C10G 47/26 (2013.01); C10G 2400/04 (2013.01); C10G 2400/06 (2013.01);
Abstract
A vacuum separator is used to separate a pitch stream from a slurry hydrocracking reactor upstream of the product fractionation column. The process and apparatus removes pitch from the product streams to enable easier separation of light VGO from heavy VGO in a fractionation column.