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US 11,078,156 B2Granted
Ammoxidation reactor control
AssigneeIneos Europe AG
InventorsManoj Shrikant Shouche, Timothy Robert McDonel, Jay Robert Couch
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Abstract
A process is provided for control of an ammoxidation reactor. More specifically, the process includes controlling an amount of oxygen added to the reactor, steam temperature and linear velocity to minimize reactor temperature deviations.
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An ammoxidation process comprising:
- introducing a flow of reactant stream into an ammoxidation reactor, wherein the reactant stream includes ammonia, an oxygen containing gas, a hydrocarbon selected from the group consisting of propane, propylene, isobutene, and isobutylene, or mixtures thereof;
- providing superheated steam to superheat coils disposed in the ammoxidation reactor to provide a reactor operating temperature of about 350° C. to about 480° C., wherein reactor temperature deviations are maintained at about 10° C. or less during changes in a heat transfer area of the superheat coils;
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- conveying a reactor effluent to an absorber, wherein the absorber has a pressure of about 35 psig to about 40 psig,
- wherein an amount of the oxygen added to the reactor and the steam temperature are controlled to maintain a superficial reactor linear velocity between about 0.5 m/s to 1.5 m/s,
- wherein a total available superheat coil area per reactor cross sectional area (ft2/ft2) is about 1 to about 7.
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An ammoxidation process comprising:
- introducing a flow of reactant stream into an ammoxidation reactor, wherein the reactant stream includes ammonia, an oxygen containing gas, a hydrocarbon selected from the group consisting of propane, propylene, isobutene, and isobutylene, or mixtures thereof;
- and
- providing steam to coils disposed in the ammoxidation reactor to provide a reactor operating temperature of about 350° C. to about 480° C., wherein reactor temperature deviations are maintained within about 98% of the reactor temperature during changes in a heat transfer area of the coils;
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- conveying a reactor effluent to an absorber, wherein the absorber has a pressure of about 35 psig to about 40 psig,
- wherein an amount of the oxygen added to the reactor and the steam temperature are controlled and a superficial reactor linear velocity is maintained within about 95% of a target superficial reactor linear velocity of between about 0.5 m/s to about 1.5 m/s and within about 95% of a target reactor temperature,
- wherein a total available superheat coil area per reactor cross sectional area (ft2/ft2) is about 1 to about 7.
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An ammoxidation process comprising:
- introducing a flow of reactant stream into an ammoxidation reactor, wherein the reactant stream includes ammonia, a hydrocarbon selected from the group consisting of propane, propylene, isobutene, and isobutylene, or mixtures thereof, and an oxygen containing gas;
- providing superheated steam to superheat coils disposed in the ammoxidation reactor, wherein reactor temperature deviations are maintained at about 10° C. or less during changes in a heat transfer area of the superheat coils;
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- conveying a reactor effluent to an absorber, wherein the absorber has a pressure of about 35 psig to about 40 psig,
- wherein the process includes controlling superficial reactor linear velocity and reactor operating temperature based on model predictive control to determine simultaneous control actions for manipulated variables in order to optimize at least one set of parameters while controlling at least one set of controlled variables,
- wherein the set of manipulated variables includes superheated steam temperature, absorber pressure and amount of lean water to an absorber and the set of controlled variable includes a reactor linear velocity and a reactor temperature,
- wherein the process provides a superficial reactor linear velocity of about 0.5 m/s to about 1.5 m/s.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.