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Table B.10.3 Utility Summary Table for Unit 1100

Utility hps cw rw cw lps cw lps cw

Equipment E-1101 E-1102 E-1103 E-1104 E-1105 E-1106 E-1107 E-1108
Flow 2.09 77.90 13.50 74.00 1.68 176.00 3.55 4.16
(tonne/h)

B.11.1 Process Description

Two liquid feed streams containing propylene and butene and a stream of catalyst slur-
ried with 1-hexene are mixed at a pressure of approximately 8 bar prior to being sent to
the reactor. The reactor consists of five essentially well-mixed sections, with similar con-
centrations in each section. Heat removal is achieved by using pump-arounds from each
stage through external heat exchangers. The reactor effluent is partially vaporized before
being fed to the first of three distillation columns. The first column (T-1201) removes the
unreacted C3 and C4 components, which are used subsequently as fuel (Stream 7) or sent
to LPG storage (Stream 6). The next column (T-1202) separates the 1-hexene product over-
head (Stream 10) and sends the bottoms stream to the final column (T-1203). In T-1203,
the main 1-heptene product (Stream 13) is taken overhead, and the C8 and heavier com-
pounds are taken as the bottoms product (Stream 14). The bottoms product is processed
off-site to remove the heavy material and to recover spent catalyst.

V-1201 P-1201A/B V-1202 R-1201 E-1201 A-E P-1202 A-G E-1202 T-1201 E-1203 E-1204 V-1203 P-1203 A/B
Propylene Butene Butene Heptene Reactor Reactor Reactor C3/C4 C3/C4 C3/C4 C3/C4 C3/C4
Feed Tank Feed Pumps Feed Tank Reactor Intercoolers Pumps Effluent Tower Reboiler Overhead Reflux Reflux
Heater Condensr Drum Pumps
3
R-1201
Catalyst Makeup FIC
7
45
5.50 cw
E-1204
PIC
TIC
C 3 Feed cw 6
T-1201
1 LIC
FIC V-1203
1 TIC
cw 103
5.80 5
V-1201 FIC
TIC 11
P-1203 A/B
cw

C 4 Feed E-1203 20
TIC
cw lps LIC

2
TIC

FIC
cw
V-1202 8
P-1202 A-G E-1201 A-E

P-1201 A/B lps

E-1202

Figure B.11.1 Unit 1200: Production of Heptenes from Propylene and Butenes PFD