Modeling and analysis of the Lurgi-type methanol to propylene process: Optimization of olefin recycle

详细信息    查看全文

• 作者：Xun Huang ; Hu Li ; Hui Li and Wen-De Xiao
• 刊名：AIChE Journal
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：January 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：63
• 期：1
• 页码：306-313
• 全文大小：434K
• ISSN：1547-5905

文摘

This work proposed a strategy to improve the yield of light olefins of industrial methanol to propylene process by reducing the olefins recycled back into the main reactor and appending an olefin cracking reactor. The heterogeneous fixed-bed model was employed to simulate the reactors with a robust mathematical procedure developed to determine the reactor configuration and the recycle flow rates of the olefins. Two methods were proposed for the modulation: the recycle ratio and species of the olefins, respectively. Results show that the yield of C₂–C₃ olefins can be improved up to 70% from the basement of about 60% when the ratio is reduced from 100% to less than 23% or when only butene apart from pentene and hexene is recycled back into the main reactor, and the latter method is more effective as its catalyst requirement is seven times less than the former's in the appended cracking reactor.