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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 29, 2013
Filed:
Aug. 06, 2010
Zhichang Liu, Beijing, CN;
Chunming Xu, Beijing, CN;
Rui Zhang, Beijing, CN;
Xianghai Meng, Beijing, CN;
Ana Cecilia Patroni, Amsterdam, NL;
Peter Anton August Klusener, Amsterdam, NL;
Albertus Vincentius Petrus Van Den Bosch, Amsterdam, NL;
Zhichang Liu, Beijing, CN;
Chunming Xu, Beijing, CN;
Rui Zhang, Beijing, CN;
Xianghai Meng, Beijing, CN;
Ana Cecilia Patroni, Amsterdam, NL;
Peter Anton August Klusener, Amsterdam, NL;
Albertus Vincentius Petrus Van Den Bosch, Amsterdam, NL;
Shell Oil Company, Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
The present invention provides a method for revamping an HF or sulphuric acid alkylation unit to an ionic liquid alkylation unit, wherein the HF or sulphuric acid alkylation unit comprise at least: —a reactor unit for contacting catalyst and hydrocarbon reactants; —a separator unit for separating a reactor effluent into a catalyst phase and an alkylate-comprising hydrocarbon phase; —a fractionator unit for fractionating the alkylate-comprising hydrocarbon phase into at least one stream comprising alkylate; and which method includes: —providing one or more cyclone units downstream of the reactor unit to separate at least part of the reactor effluent in a catalyst phase and a alkylate-comprising hydrocarbon phase.