Production of Benzene, Toluene, and the Xylenes from Natural Gas via Methanol

被引:5
作者
Niziolek, Alexander M. [1 ,2 ,3 ]
Onel, Onur [1 ,2 ,3 ]
Floudas, Christodoulos A. [1 ,2 ]
机构
[1] Texas A&M Univ, Artie McFerrin Dept Chem Engn, College Stn, TX 77843 USA
[2] 3372 Texas A&M Univ, Texas A&M Energy Inst, College Stn, TX 77843 USA
[3] Princeton Univ, Dept Chem & Biol Engn, Princeton, NJ 08544 USA
来源
26TH EUROPEAN SYMPOSIUM ON COMPUTER AIDED PROCESS ENGINEERING (ESCAPE), PT B | 2016年 / 38B卷
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
关键词
Aromatics; methanol-to-aromatics; toluene alkylation with methanol; global optimization; natural gas; AROMATICS; BIOMASS;
D O I
10.1016/B978-0-444-63428-3.50396-9
中图分类号
TQ [化学工业];
学科分类号
0817 ;
摘要
Recently discovered sources of shale gas, coupled with the technological improvements within the shale gas industry, have increased the supply of natural gas in the United States. However, several challenges have emerged due to these developments, a critical one being the proper utilization of this resource into more valuable products via processes that are both economical and profitable. A subset of these valuable products are aromatics, which represent about one-third of the market for commodity petrochemicals. In this work, we introduce the first systematic global optimization based process synthesis framework to determine the most profitable processes to produce aromatics from natural gas. Several novel, commercial, and/or competing technologies are included within the process superstructure, which is modelled as a mixed-integer, nonlinear, nonconvex optimization model. The results presented illustrate promising alternatives for the production of aromatics from natural gas via methanol.
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页码:2349 / 2354
页数:6
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