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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 18, 2014
Filed:
Aug. 06, 2010
Zhichang Liu, Changping Beijing, CN;
Chunming Xu, Changping Beijing, CN;
Rui Zhang, Changping Beijing, CN;
Xianghai Meng, Changping Beijing, CN;
Ana Cecilia Patroni, Amsterdam, NL;
Peter Anton August Klusener, Amsterdam, NL;
Albertus Vincentius Petrus Van Den Bosch, Amsterdam, NL;
Zhichang Liu, Changping Beijing, CN;
Chunming Xu, Changping Beijing, CN;
Rui Zhang, Changping Beijing, CN;
Xianghai Meng, Changping 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 process for preparing an alkylate comprising contacting in a reactor a hydrocarbon mixture comprising at least an isoparaffin and an olefin with an acidic ionic liquid catalyst under alkylation conditions to obtain an alkylate, which process further comprises: —withdrawing an alkylate-comprising reactor effluent from the reactor, wherein the reactor effluent comprises an ionic liquid phase and a hydrocarbon phase; —separating at least part the reactor effluent into a hydrocarbon phase effluent and a multiple-phase effluent in a centrifugal separation unit; —fractionating at least part of said hydrocarbon phase effluent into at least a stream comprising alkylate and a stream comprising isoparaffin.