Petroleum Processing and Petrochemicals ›› 2012, Vol. 43 ›› Issue (8): 25-28.

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STUDY ON THE AROMATIZATION OF i-BUTANE

  

  • Received:2011-10-28 Revised:2012-03-22 Online:2012-08-12 Published:2012-07-30

Abstract: The aromatization of i-butane over light hydrocarbon aromatization catalyst was investigated using pure i-butane and LPG rich in i-butane from C4 aromatization unit as feed respectively. The effect of reaction temperature, reaction pressure and space velocity on the conversion of i-butane was studied. Results showed that with LPG rich in i-butane as feed, under the conditions of a WHSV of 0.5 h-1, a reaction temperature of 400℃and a reaction pressure of 1.0 MPa, the yield of propane, gasoline fraction and dry gas plus loss was 60.05%, 11.57% and less than 3%, respectively. The propane can be used as feed of ethylene cracking, and the produced gasoline fraction is a high octane gasoline blending component.