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US 12,590,253 B2Granted
Low carbon footprint integrated process for recycle content olefin producers
AssigneeExxonMobil Product Solutions Company
InventorsAvery L. Anderson, Daryl Bitting, Michael Gary Polasek, David Eugene Slivensky, Xianchun Wu
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Abstract
Integrated processes and facilities for providing recycled content hydrocarbon products (r-products) from mixed waste plastic are provided. Carbon dioxide capture and energy recovery from one or more process streams described herein increase energy efficiency and help reduce overall environmental impact while producing valuable final products from chemically recycled waste plastic.
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A process for making a recycled content hydrocarbon product (r-product), the process comprising:
- (a) liquefying a plastic in a liquification zone to provide a liquified waste plastic;
- (b) pyrolyzing at least a portion of the liquified waste plastic in a pyrolysis furnace of a pyrolysis facility to produce a recycled content pyrolysis vapor (r-pyrolysis vapor);
- (c) introducing at least a portion of the r-pyrolysis vapor into a separation zone downstream of a cracker furnace in a cracking facility;
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- (d) separating at least a portion of the r-pyrolysis vapor in the separation zone to provide the recycled content hydrocarbon product,
- wherein at least one of following steps (i) through (iii) is also performed—
- (i) passing at least a portion of a flue gas from the pyrolysis furnace and/or the cracker furnace through a carbon dioxide removal zone to recover at least a portion of the carbon dioxide;
- (ii) recovering thermal energy from a flue gas from the pyrolysis furnace and/or the cracker furnace and transferring at least a portion of said thermal energy to said liquification zone;
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- (iii) recovering an off-gas stream from the separation zone in the cracking facility and combusting at least a portion of the off-gas stream as fuel in the pyrolysis and/or cracker furnace.
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