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ABSTRACT
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the internal gas ?ow by one position, except for the most
upstream bed which is elfectively moved to the most down
stream position.
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propylene recovery.
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or the time period over which the adsorption step takes place
is approximately equal to the vent step time, or the time over
which the vent step takes place. FIG. 1 presents a summary
of the simulation results for using the cycle of the present
invention to process a feed comprising 70 mol-% propylene
in a mixture thereof with propane for producing a high purity
TABLE I
PROPYLENE VSA CYCLE
l
2
ADS
BO REP
COP
VNT
ADS
COP
EV
EQ RP
4
5
6
BO
VNT
COP
VP
ID
EV
PP
EQ
VNT
VP
ID
PP
PP
EQ
VNT
ADS
EQ
EV
BO
RP
VP
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COP
ID
PP
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EQ
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EXAMPLES
Example 1
The propylene adsorption screening tests were conducted
TABLE 2
Adsomtion TempgratureI C.
AlPO-l4
Zeolite 4A (Prior Art]
25
70
120
0.15
nil
0.4
nil
0.38
0.35
Example III
between about 0.3 bar and about 2.0 bar. These results
TABLE 3
AlPO~l4 Adsorbent Loading Capacim mmol/g
Adsorption Pressure Range
Adsorption TemErature. C.
AlPO-l4
25
70
120
0.45
0.70
0.70
Example IV
became more linear in character as the temperature 55 pressure swing and vacuum adsorption processes to return
the adsorbent to essentially full adsorption capacity between
approached 120 C. Surprisingly, propane was found to be
TABLE 4
Example 11
Table 2 presents a comparison of adsorbent loading
capacity for pure propylene over a range of adsorption
pressures between about 0.5 bar and 1 bar at adsorption
temperatures between about 25 C. and about 120 C. for the
AlPO- l4 adsorbent of the present invention and zeolite 4A,
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DesoLmon 'l'emmraturez C.
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25
70
120
0.2
0.8
0.4
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Example V
propylene;
product;
k) recycling at least a portion of the high purity propylene
product to provide the recycle stream; and
l) repeating steps (a) to (k) for each of the adsorption beds
about 4 bar.
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process comprising:
a) passing the feedstream at effective adsorption condi
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adsorption beds.