Process and plant for producing hydrocarbons

US8426665B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Lurgi GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Norbert Palauschek · Idstein, DE
• Peter Trabold · Darmstadt, DE
• Helmut Heurich · Bad Homburg vor der Höhe, DE
• Manfred Hoffmann · Würzburg, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 25, 2008
• Grant date: Apr 23, 2013
• Expiry date: Oct 14, 2029

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02P30/20
• WIPO field: Basic materials chemistry
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

When producing hydrocarbons from fatty acid esters contained in fats or fat oils, the fatty acid esters initially are split up by hydrolytic decomposition into a first stream containing crude alcohol and water and a second stream containing free fatty acids, and subsequently the free fatty acids of the second stream are hydrogenated with hydrogen to obtain saturated hydrocarbons.