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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 14, 2023
Filed:
Sep. 06, 2018
Purdue Research Foundation, West Lafayette, IN (US);
Rakesh Agrawal, West Lafayette, IN (US);
Jeffrey J. Siirola, Kingsport, TN (US);
Taufik Ridha, West Lafayette, IN (US);
Yiru Li, West Lafayette, IN (US);
Fabio H. Ribeiro, West Lafayette, IN (US);
Jeffrey T. Miller, West Lafayette, IN (US);
PURDUE RESEARCH FOUNDATION, West Lafayette, IN (US);
Abstract
A process to catalytically transform natural gas liquid (NGL) into higher molecular weight hydrocarbons includes providing an NGL stream, catalytically dehydrogenating at least a portion of the NGL stream components to their corresponding alkene derivatives, catalytically oligomerizing at least a portion of the alkenes to higher molecular weight hydrocarbons and recovering the higher molecular weight hydrocarbons. The NGL stream can be extracted from a gas stream such as a gas stream coming from shale formations. The higher molecular weight hydrocarbons can be hydrocarbons that are liquid at ambient temperature and ambient pressure.