Hydrocarbon separation process

• Main Authors: MAAS; RUDOLF J, WIELDRAAIJER; WIM, VAN GRINSVEN; PETRUS F. A
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 18.02.1975
• Subjects: ACYCLIC OR CARBOCYCLIC COMPOUNDS; CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROCESSES, e.g. CATALYSIS OR COLLOIDCHEMISTRY; CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY; ORGANIC CHEMISTRY; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL; SEPARATION; THEIR RELEVANT APPARATUS; TRANSPORTING

Ethylbenzene is separated from a mixture of C8-aromatics through preferential adsorption of ethylbenzene by contacting the mixture with a faujasite having from 64 to 96 aluminum atoms per unit cell, A, and containing a fraction of cesium cation equivalents over total cation equivalents present in th...