PROCESS FOR THE RECOVERY OF AN ETHYLENE AND PROPYLENE CONTAINING STREAM FROM A CRACKED GAS RESULTING FROM HYDROCARBON CRACKING

• Main Authors: GOTTSCHALK, AXEL, SBECKER, GERHARD, HUBBERS, THEODORUS, PETRUS, EVERARDUS, HINDERINK, ANTONIE, PIETER, LEUNK, HENDREK, DERK
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 13.04.2005
• Edition: 7
• Subjects: ACYCLIC OR CARBOCYCLIC COMPOUNDS; CHEMISTRY; CRACKING HYDROCARBON OILS; FUELS; LUBRICANTS; METALLURGY; MINERAL WAXES; ORGANIC CHEMISTRY; PEAT; PETROLEUM, GAS OR COKE INDUSTRIES; PRODUCTION OF LIQUID HYDROCARBON MIXTURES, e.g. BY DESTRUCTIVEHYDROGENATION, OLIGOMERISATION, POLYMERISATION; RECOVERY OF HYDROCARBON OILS FROM OIL-SHALE, OIL-SAND, ORGASES; REFINING MIXTURES MAINLY CONSISTING OF HYDROCARBONS; REFORMING OF NAPHTHA; TECHNICAL GASES CONTAINING CARBON MONOXIDE

Process for the recovery of an ethylene and propylene containing stream from a cracked gas resulting from cracking a hydrocarbon stream, wherein the cracked gas is treated in an absorptive demethanizer with a C4/C5 solvent at a temperature between -10 and - 40 DEG C to free the cracked gas from methane and hydrogen gas, whereafter the remaining stream is treated by distillation in a distillation unit to obtain a C4/C5 containing stream and the ethylene and propylene containing stream; whereafter the C4/C5 stream is treated with a hydrogen containing stream in a hydrogenation unit, whereafter a part of the hydrogenated C4/C5 stream is cooled to a temperature between -10 and -40 DEG C and recycled to the absorptive demethanizer and a part of the hydrogenated C4/C5 stream is separated.