(143g) Direct Conversion of TBA to Isooctene
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
2010
2010 Spring Meeting & 6th Global Congress on Process Safety
Process Development Division
Process Intensification II
Wednesday, March 24, 2010 - 4:05pm to 4:30pm
Isooctene production, from TBA using catalytic distillation (CD), offers a significantly compressed flowsheet verses fixed bed process alternatives. For CD, TBA feed can be directly converted into Isooctene and water, which exits as bottoms co-products and is easily phase separated for fuels production. It is of particular importance, for this coupled process system, to address the system control methodology as the system thermodynamics lend themselves towards two ?real? steady state operations. This is the first CD system, which is arguably known, to have such true 2 steady-state system behavior.