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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 28, 1988
Filed:
Nov. 28, 1986
Applicant:
Inventors:
Harry E O'Connell, Houston, TX (US);
Harmon L Kirkpatrick, Houston, TX (US);
Kenneth O Crawford, La Porte, TX (US);
Assignee:
Enterprise Products Company, Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F25J / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
62 28 ; 62 32 ;
Abstract
A propane-propylene splitter is operated by compressing the propylene overhead to increase its condensing temperature, using the compressed overhead to heat bottoms in a reboiler, which is operated to condense the overhead and remove a maximum amount of heat from the condensed overhead, additionally cooling the condensed overhead to a temperature no lower than the temperature on the top tray of the splitter and no higher than 15.degree. F. above the temperature on the top tray, whereby the throughput of the splitter is increased by 10 to 20%.