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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 06, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 09, 2015
Exxonmobil Chemical Patents Inc., Baytown, TX (US);
John Di-Yi Ou, Houston, TX (US);
Glenn A. Heeter, The Woodlands, TX (US);
Shifang L. Luo, Annandale, NJ (US);
Indulis J. Eilands, League City, TX (US);
Jeevan S. Abichandani, Houston, TX (US);
Allen S. Gawlik, Houston, TX (US);
Mark W. Nash, Baytown, TX (US);
Terrance C. Osby, Manvel, TX (US);
Robert G. Tinger, Friendswood, TX (US);
ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc., Baytown, TX (US);
Abstract
The invention is directed to purification of an aromatic hydrocarbon stream including selective removal of phenol from a process stream comprising aromatic hydrocarbon mixtures, especially aromatic hydrocarbon mixtures that contain higher-than-equilibrium paraxylene, by contact with suitable adsorbents, to provide a product stream having lower concentration of phenol than said process stream.