Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Separation of ethylene from refinery dry gas via forming hydrate in w/o dispersion system

Separation and Purification Technology, Volume 116, 15 September 2013, Pages 342–350
Separation of ethylene from refinery dry gas via forming hydrate in w/o dispersion system
Huang Liu, Liang Mu, Bo Wang, Bei Liu, Jin Wang, Xiaoxin Zhang, Changyu Sun, Jun Chen, Menglei Jia, Guangjin Chen
State Key Laboratory of Heavy Oil Processing, China University of Petroleum, Beijing 102249, PR China
Abstract
Reports on an absorptionhydration hybrid method used to recover ethylene from refinery dry gas using water in diesel emulsion under hydrate formation conditions. Researchers employed Span 20 to disperse water or hydrate in diesel.
They synthesized two (CH4 + C2H4 + N2 + H2) quaternary feed gas mixtures to simulate a two-stage separation of refinery dry gases. They studied the influence of temperature, pressure, feed gas composition, initial gasliquid volume ratio, and initial water cut in liquid on the separation efficiency. They defined a pseudo separation factor (S) examine the separation selectivity of ethylene over other components. Results reveal that ethylene can be enriched in hydrate slurry phase with high selectivity and high recovery ratio.
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