Process for the separation of saturated hydrocarbons from a hydrocarbon charge containing them
AssigneeCompagnie Francaise de Raffinage
InventorAndre Cadet
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Abstract
The invention relates to a process for the separation of a hydrocarbon charge into a fraction which precipitates at the operating temperature and a fraction which remains liquid at that temperature. This process is of the incremental-dilution type and entails the use of a solvent whose composition changes at least once in the course of the various dilutions and of an antisolvent whose proportion in the solvent diminishes from at least one of the dilutions to the next dilution. Application: Dewaxing of oils.
Claims10
A process for the separation of a hydrocarbon charge into two fractions, namely, a waxy hydrocarbon fraction essentially composed of saturated hydrocarbons, said fraction precipitating at a temperature equal to or higher than a given temperature in a given environment, and an oily hydrocarbon fraction which remains liquid at said given temperature, said process comprising adding a solvent system to the hydrocarbon charge in at least two diluting steps, following each diluting step by a chilling step which is separate from the preceding diluting step, said solvent system at all times being composed at least in part of an antisolvent for said waxy fraction, said solvent system during at least one of the dilution steps also being composed of a solvent component adapted to dissolve the oily hydrocarbon fraction, changing the composition of the solvent system at least once in the course of the various dilutions, any change in the composition of the solvent system being so as to diminish the proportion of antisolvent in the changed solvent system with respect to the composition of the solvent system in any of the preceding dilutions, and then after the last chilling step separating the precipitated waxy fraction from said oily fraction.
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