Hydrocarbon Bond Lab Report

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Hydrocarbon Bonding

Hydrocarbons are organic compounds that have components of hydrogen and carbon. Most the hydrocarbons in the world are in crude oil compounds. Hydrocarbons have the same molecular formula but different structural formula which is known as structural isomers. There are several types of hydrocarbons;
• Saturated hydrocarbons: The simplest of all types. It has only single bonds which are occupied by hydrogen.
• Unsaturated hydrocarbons: This type has double or triple bonds between carbons.
• Cycloalkanes: It is hydrocarbon bonds that contain carbon rings and the rest is hydrogen.
• Aromatic Cycloalkanes: hydrocarbons with at least 1 aromatic ring.

Hydrocarbons can be in liquid solid or gas form. In solid form hydrocarbon …show more content…

Raw gas compression, the process gas is further cooled. When the compressed gas is sent to the CO2 separator this is used in order to recover CO2. In the cold box section the operating temperature is low. The last step is the fractionation, in which it separates the product from the unreacted propane which is recycled.
CATOFIN …show more content…

It has fixed bed reactors. Also the conversion rate is 48-53% .This process is reliable and has been proven. The PDF of CATOFIN process
Multiple reactors go through a controlled sequence of reaction and reheated. Recycled propane stream and fresh feed propane are vaporized and raised to the reaction temperature. The reactor operates at high pressure. At the compressor the discharge is cooled, dried and sent to the low temperature recovery section. Thereafter it is sent to a pressure swing adsorption unit to purify the hydrogen stream. Liquids from the low temperature recovery section and the flash drum are to a distillation or MTBE synthesis unit for product recovery.
Oleflex Process
Propane is recovered from propane-rich liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) streams from natural gas processing plants. Propane may also be obtained in smaller amounts as a by-product of petroleum refinery operations, such as hydrocracking and fluidized catalytic cracking (FCC). Propane (as well as ethane) prices are decreasing, as natural gas offerings in the USA are significantly increasing due to the rising exploitation of shale

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