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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 23, 2014
Filed:
Dec. 12, 2012
Uop Llc, Des Plaines, IL (US);
Geoffrey William Fichtl, Chicago, IL (US);
Daniel Ellig, Arlington Heights, IL (US);
Stanley Joseph Frey, Palatine, IL (US);
Michael J. McCall, Geneva, IL (US);
Andrea G. Bozzano, Northbrook, IL (US);
UOP LLC, Des Plaines, IL (US);
Abstract
Methods and apparatuses for preparing normal paraffins and hydrocarbon product streams are provided herein. A method of preparing normal paraffins includes providing an unsaturated feed that includes an unsaturated compound that has at least one alkenyl group. The unsaturated feed is epoxidized to convert the at least one alkenyl group in the unsaturated compound to an epoxide functional group, thereby converting the unsaturated compound to an epoxide compound that has at least one epoxide functional group. The at least one epoxide functional group in the epoxide compound is converted to at least one secondary hydroxyl functional group, thereby converting the epoxide compound to a hydroxyl-functional compound that has at least one hydroxyl functional group. The hydroxyl-functional compound is deoxygenated to form normal paraffins.