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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 25, 1981
Filed:
Dec. 07, 1979
Gregory J Thompson, Waukegan, IL (US);
Anthony G Vickers, Arlington Heights, IL (US);
UOP Inc., Des Plaines, IL (US);
Abstract
A catalyst regeneration apparatus for the oxidation of coke from a spent catalyst, said coke being converted to CO, and for the conversion of the CO to CO.sub.2. Hot regenerated catalyst is recycled from a dense bed in the regeneration zone to mix with incoming spent catalyst in a mixer zone. The mixer zone operates in dense phase and is supplied with a relatively small amount of a fluidizing medium, preferably air. After the mixing of spent and fresh catalyst is substantially completed, a relatively large amount of a regenerating gas, preferably air, is admixed with the catalyst mixture, and some coke oxidation occurs. The balance of coke oxidation takes place in a downstream-situated regeneration zone of substantially conventional design. There is a transfer section connecting the mixer zone to the regeneration zone through which the relatively large amount of the regenerating gas is admitted. The transfer section is preferably a frustoconical surface, the horizontal cross section of smallest perimeter of which adjoins the outlet of said mixer zone, and regenerating gas addition is made at the base of the transfer section in order to provide a venturi effect which ensures good air-catalyst mixing.