Performance and Commercial Application of the Promoter LCC-A for Maximization of Propylene Yield

1 Introduction Propylene as an important feedstock for organic chemicals is mainly originated from steam cracking and catalytic cracking processes. During the FCC process the propylene content varies with the FCC catalyst and process technology adopted, resulting in significant difference in propylene concentration in the cracked product——LPG. The conventional FCC pro- cess generally gives a propylene yield of around 4%, while the FCC process with maximization of propylene yield can in…

Performance and Commercial Application of the Promoter LCC-A for Maximization of Propylene Yield

The evaluation testing of propylene promoter LCC-A was carried out in a bench scale fixed fluidized bed reactor and a pilot scale riser. The commercial application experiments on this promoter were conducted in the #3 RFCCU at Dalian Petrochemical Co. and #1 integrated refining unit at Shanghai Petrochemical Co. The test results have shown that after adding 5%-6% of the promoter LCC-A to the main FCC catalyst the propylene yield and selectivity were raised obviously. The octane rating of FCC gasoline was increased by more than one unit; which could alleviate the negative impact of octane number decline resulted from reduction of olefin content in FCC naphtha along with an increased propylene yield to meet the urgent market demand for propylene. The test results achieved at Shanghai Petrochemical Company have revealed that when the addition of the LCC-A promoter reached 5% of the catalyst inventory, its performance could be on a par with that of the overseas promoter OlefinsMax.