SBIR Phase I: Effective Revamping of Idle MTBE Units

SBIR第一期：闲置MTBE装置的有效改造

• 批准号: 0610167
• 负责人: Mitrajit Mukherjee
• 金额: $ 10万
• 依托单位: Exelus, Inc.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-07-01 至 2006-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0610167&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; Effective; Revamping; Idle

This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project proposes a new process to revamp idled catalytic distillation-based MTBE plants to make alkylate (a clean, high-octane gasoline additive) from field butanes. Phase I of this SBIR project aims to demonstrate the feasibility of the new process chemistry in terms of the achievable reaction rates and catalyst stability in bench-scale reactors. The reduction in energy consumption will also be determined. Finally, a preliminary economic evaluation will be performed to determine if the proposed process can be implemented in a cost-effective way. Converting idled CD-MTBE plants to produce alkylate increases US domestic refining capacity at a minimal cost. The alkylate produced is clean and non-toxic, without the water contamination concerns of MTBE or other oxygenates. Alkylate can also help replace the octane lost by the removal of MTBE from the gasoline pool. The process should also yield significant energy savings compared to MTBE production.

这个小型企业创新研究第一阶段项目提出了一种新的工艺，以改造闲置的催化蒸馏MTBE工厂，从现场丁烷中生产烷基化物（一种清洁的高辛烷值汽油添加剂）。该SBIR项目的第一阶段旨在证明新工艺化学在实验室规模反应器中可实现的反应速率和催化剂稳定性方面的可行性。还将确定能源消耗的减少。最后，将进行初步的经济评估，以确定拟议的工艺是否可以以具有成本效益的方式实施。将闲置的CD-MTBE装置转化为烷基化产品，以最低的成本提高了美国国内的炼油能力。生产的烷基化物是清洁和无毒的，没有MTBE或其他含氧化合物的水污染问题。烷基化物还可以帮助取代从汽油池中除去MTBE而损失的辛烷值。与MTBE生产相比，该工艺还可以显著节省能源。