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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 15, 2017
Filed:
Dec. 16, 2014
Phillips 66 Company, Houston, TX (US);
Jianhua Yao, Bartlesville, OK (US);
Dhananjay Ghonasgi, Bartlesville, OK (US);
Tushar Choudhary, Bartlesville, OK (US);
Warren Ewert, Bartlesville, OK (US);
PHILLIPS 66 COMPANY, Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
Converting ethane may include directing a gaseous stream from a gas well into a fractionator for fractionating and producing a post-fractionator ethane stream, which is directed into a thermal activation unit for heating and raising the temperature of the post-fractionator ethane stream thereby creating an activated ethane stream, which is directed into a quench tower thereby creating a quenched stream, which may be converted in a catalytic conversion unit to a mixed product stream containing hydrogen and C-Chydrocarbons; directing the mixed product stream into a first separation unit forming a stream of C+ hydrocarbon product and a stream of C-Chydrocarbons; directing the stream of C-Chydrocarbons into a catalytic hydrogenation reactor thereby imparting hydrogen into a post-hydrogenation reactor stream, which is directed directly into a second separation unit thereby creating a light hydrocarbons recycle stream, which may be recycled into the thermal activation unit, and a hydrogen and methane stream.