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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 09, 1978
Filed:
Dec. 20, 1976
Stephen F Perry, Westfield, NJ (US);
Ralph R Hall, Morristown, NJ (US);
Exxon Research & Engineering Co., Linden, NJ (US);
Abstract
Ketone dewaxing solvent is separated and recovered from dewaxed oil and a wax slurry through the use of flash vaporization or distillation followed by steam stripping. Water is removed from the recovered solvent through the use of a combination of a decanting drum to form a solvent phase and a water phase, a deketonizer tower which strips solvent from the water phase, and a simple distillation tower which functions as a solvent dehydrator. It has been found that feeding a portion of the overhead vapors from the flash vaporization step directly to the bottom of the dehydrator provides enough heat to eliminate the need for a reboiler on the dehydrator tower.