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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 16, 2011
Filed:
Sep. 04, 2008
John D. Hottovy, Kingwood, TX (US);
John H. Tait, Stafford, TX (US);
David H. Burns, Houston, TX (US);
Donald W. Verser, Houston, TX (US);
James E. Hein, Houston, TX (US);
John D. Hottovy, Kingwood, TX (US);
John H. Tait, Stafford, TX (US);
David H. Burns, Houston, TX (US);
Donald W. Verser, Houston, TX (US);
James E. Hein, Houston, TX (US);
Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LP, The Woodlands, TX (US);
Abstract
A flash chamber sized to receive the effluent discharged from a polyolefin reactor during normal operation of the reactor and during a reactor dump, advantageously eliminating a reactor dump tank or alternate flash tank from the equipment outlay of a polyolefin manufacturing process. The flash chamber is sized to hold at least the polyolefin solids discharged from the reactor. A condenser fluidically coupled to an overhead portion of the flash chamber is sized to condense the flow rate of vaporized hydrocarbon (e.g., diluent, monomer, etc.) discharged overhead from the flash chamber during normal operation and during the reactor dump.