Heating plates riser reactor
AssigneeSabic Global Technologies B.V.
InventorTalal Khaled Al-Shammari
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Abstract
A system and a method for catalytically cracking hydrocarbons. The system includes a fluidized bed riser reactor, and a separation zone configured to separate the effluent from the riser reactor to produce a product stream and a spent catalyst. A stripping zone is fluidly coupled to the outlet of the separation zone such that the spent catalyst is stripped to remove the hydrocarbons adsorbed thereon. The stripping zone encompasses at least a portion of the riser reactor such that stripping internals in the stripping zone are used to provide reaction heat to the riser reactor.
Claims19
A fluidized catalytic cracking apparatus comprising:
- a reaction riser configured to receive a mixture comprising a hydrocarbon feed and a cracking catalyst and crack the hydrocarbons to produce cracked hydrocarbons comprising light olefins and a spent catalyst comprising residual hydrocarbons adsorbed thereto;
- a stripping zone fluidly coupled to the reaction riser and encompassing at least a portion of the reaction riser, wherein the stripping zone comprises:
- a stripping medium inlet configured to receive a stripping medium;
- a plurality of internals configured to (a) strip the residual hydrocarbons from the spent catalyst via the stripping medium and/or (b) provide heat to the reaction riser;
- an outlet fluidly coupled to the stripping zone, configured to release stripped spent catalyst from the stripping zone;
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- a catalyst regenerator fluidly coupled to the outlet, wherein the catalyst regenerator is configured to regenerate the spent catalyst to produce flue gas and a regenerated catalyst;
- wherein the internals comprises heating plates coupled to 1) an internal wall of the stripping zone and/or 2) heating plates submerged in the stripping zone;
- wherein the stripping medium comprises steam, air, dry gas, or combinations thereof;
- wherein the stripping internals is configured to provide heat to the reaction riser by heating a heating medium in contact with the reaction riser;
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- wherein the heating medium is selected from a hot oil, the stripping medium, the flue gas produced by the catalyst regenerator, a gas turbine, a molten salt, or combinations thereof.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.