Methanol can be converted to olefins like ethylene and propylene through steam cracking in a pyrolysis process. The process involves heating a methanol-steam mixture in tubes inside a furnace between 800-850°C under pressures of 2-3 bar for less than one second. Short residence times and lower pressures favor primary reactions forming olefins, while longer residence times and higher pressures promote secondary reactions that destroy olefins. Careful control of temperature, pressure, residence time and steam dilution is required to maximize olefin selectivity and yield from 70-85%.
An Undesirable Effect During Thermal Cracking Is Coke Deposition On The Walls of The Tubular Reactor. Coke Deposits Build With Reactor Operation Time and Increase Up To A Point in Which
Methanol can be converted to olefins like ethylene and propylene through steam cracking in a pyrolysis process. The process involves heating a methanol-steam mixture in tubes inside a furnace between 800-850°C under pressures of 2-3 bar for less than one second. Short residence times and lower pressures favor primary reactions forming olefins, while longer residence times and higher pressures promote secondary reactions that destroy olefins. Careful control of temperature, pressure, residence time and steam dilution is required to maximize olefin selectivity and yield from 70-85%.
Methanol can be converted to olefins like ethylene and propylene through steam cracking in a pyrolysis process. The process involves heating a methanol-steam mixture in tubes inside a furnace between 800-850°C under pressures of 2-3 bar for less than one second. Short residence times and lower pressures favor primary reactions forming olefins, while longer residence times and higher pressures promote secondary reactions that destroy olefins. Careful control of temperature, pressure, residence time and steam dilution is required to maximize olefin selectivity and yield from 70-85%.
Methanol can be converted to olefins like ethylene and propylene through steam cracking in a pyrolysis process. The process involves heating a methanol-steam mixture in tubes inside a furnace between 800-850°C under pressures of 2-3 bar for less than one second. Short residence times and lower pressures favor primary reactions forming olefins, while longer residence times and higher pressures promote secondary reactions that destroy olefins. Careful control of temperature, pressure, residence time and steam dilution is required to maximize olefin selectivity and yield from 70-85%.
METHANOL TO OLEFIN PRODUCTION VIA STEAM CRACKING PROCESS
Residence time (0.1 0.5 sec )
Steam G Short residence time favours TAGES N cracking is a pyrolysis process I N TIOwhereby a hydrocarbon mixture is heated CK Nprimary S VAN CR IP A CR ITIO reactions where olefins AD AND AGES DES in metal tubes inside a furnace in the CO N D are formed VAN T AD presence of steam to a temperature at Long residence time favours DIS which the hydrocarbon molecules secondary reactions where thermally decomposes olefins are destroyed Advantages These reactions require a residence time Pressure (2 3 bar) High energy efficiency and minimum of less than one second and are High pressure favours secondary environmental emissions endothermic reactions High plant reliability Methanol can be produced both Low pressure favours primary Simple operation from biomass and from fossil reactions Good maintainability feedstocks and most of the Dilution steam (0.3 0.8 Minimum losses methanol currently available on kg/kg) the world market today is Reduces partial pressure of HC produced from coal or natural Suppresses secondary reactions Disadvantages gas Prevents excessive coke High cost of operation due to higher The heat from methanol formation amount of energy (800 850 C ) synthesis can be used to convert Heavier feedstock needs more used part of methanol into DME steam heat exchangers are prone to (dimethyl-ether CH3OCH3) and Temperature 800 850 C fouling and therefore need both water. High temperature promotes the scheduled and unscheduled Then, DME is converted into formation of lower olefins, low shutdowns olefins through olefin synthesis temperatures favour An additional issue is coking. reactions. A fluidized or fixed oligomerization Regular decoking is required in bed reactor is used. Fast temperature rise favours various parts of the pyrolysis Temperature is controlled ethylene and propylene section. between 800 t0 850 degree The heavier the feed the lower Before decoking, the furnace has celcius in steam cracking.The the temperature to be shut down pressure maintained between 2 Selectivety to 3 bar 70% to 85% towards ethylene and propylene Yield BLOCK FLOW DIAGRAM OF METHANOL TO OLEFIN PRODUCTION VIA STEAM CRACKING METHOD
An Undesirable Effect During Thermal Cracking Is Coke Deposition On The Walls of The Tubular Reactor. Coke Deposits Build With Reactor Operation Time and Increase Up To A Point in Which