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20150089949 | CLOSED LOOP SUPERCRITICAL CARBON DIOXIDE POWER CYCLE - One embodiment of a closed loop supercritical carbon dioxide power generation process is provided. This process includes Indirectly exchanging heat between a hot gas stream and a warm supercritical carbon dioxide stream, expanding the heated supercritical carbon dioxide stream in a turbine, indirectly exchanging heat from the expanded supercritical carbon dioxide stream in a high temperature recuperator, thereby a cooled, expanded supercritical carbon dioxide steam, splitting the cooled, expanded supercritical carbon dioxide stream into a first stream and a second stream, compressing the first stream in a main compressor, and introducing the compressed first stream into the low temperature recuperator, and compressing the second stream in a recompressor, combining the compressed second stream with the heated first stream, and introducing the combined stream into the high temperature recuperator, wherein it indirectly exchanges heat with expanded supercritical carbon dioxide stream, thereby producing the warm supercritical carbon dioxide stream. | 04-02-2015 |
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20090112030 | METHOD FOR OLEFIN PRODUCTION FROM BUTANES - Systems and processes for producing one or more olefins are provided. In one or more embodiments, a C | 04-30-2009 |
20090112031 | METHOD FOR OLEFIN PRODUCTION FROM BUTANES USING A CATALYST - Systems and processes for producing one or more olefins are provided. In one or more embodiments, a feed stream containing butane can be dehydrogenated to provide a first product containing butene. At least a portion of the first product can bypass an existing etherification reactor used for converting isobutylene to MTBE. At least a portion of the first product can be cracked using a catalytic cracker at conditions favoring the conversion of the first product to propylene to provide a second product containing propylene, ethylene, and butane. In one or more embodiments, a catalyst consisting of essentially a zeolite favoring the production of propylene can be used in the catalytic cracker. | 04-30-2009 |
20090112032 | METHOD FOR OLEFIN PRODUCTION FROM BUTANES AND CRACKING REFINERY HYDROCARBONS - Systems and processes for producing one or more olefins are provided. A feed comprising butane can be dehydrogenated to provide a first product comprising butene. The first product can bypass an etherification reactor for converting isobutylene to methyl tert-butyl, and at least a portion of the first product can be cracked in a first cracking zone and fractionated to provide an olefinic mixture comprising propylene, ethylene, and butane. A refinery hydrocarbon comprising gas oil, full range gas oil, resid, or a combination thereof can be cracked in a second cracking zone and quenched to provide a quenched hydrocarbon. The olefinic mixture and the quenched hydrocarbon can be combined and selectively separated to provide a propylene product and a butane recycle. | 04-30-2009 |
20090112038 | METHOD FOR OLEFIN PRODUCTION FROM BUTANES USING ONE OR MORE RISERS - Systems and processes for producing one or more olefins are provided. A feed containing butane can be dehydrogenated to provide a first product containing butene. A refinery hydrocarbon can be cracked in a first riser of a fluidized catalytic cracker to provide a first effluent comprising ethylene, propylene, or a combination thereof. The first product can bypass an etherification reactor for converting isobutylene to methyl tert-butyl ether, and can be cracked in a second riser of the fluidized catalytic cracker to provide a second effluent comprising propylene, ethylene, and butane. The first and second effluents can be combined to provide a second product comprising ethylene, propylene, or a combination thereof, wherein the conditions in the first and second riser are independently selected to favor production of ethylene, propylene, or any combination thereof. | 04-30-2009 |
20090112039 | METHOD FOR OLEFIN PRODUCTION FROM BUTANES AND CRACKING REFINERY HYDROCARBONS AND ALKANES - Systems and processes for producing one or more olefins are provided. A feed containing C | 04-30-2009 |
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20090166253 | PROCESS FOR UPGRADING ATMOSPHERIC RESIDUES - Systems and methods for processing one or more hydrocarbons are provided. One or more hydrocarbon feedstocks can be selectively separated to provide one or more light deasphalted oils. At least a portion of the light deasphalted oil can be hydrocracked to provide one or more hydrocarbon products. | 07-02-2009 |
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