Process Economics Program Report 29F
Published: Aug-98
This report will review recent technical developments
of nonconventional ethylene processes and present the economics of those with
possible commercial potential. Processes that may be evaluated include: thermal
cracking using adiabatic and fluidized-bed cracking reactors, catalytic pyrolysis,
and ethane dehydrogenation. Ethane chlorination/dehydrochlorination can coproduce
ethylene with vinyl chloride. Ethane oxydehydrogenation removes the equilibrium
limitation in ethylene production by ethane dehydrogenation. In the presence
of a catalyst, methanol can be converted to dimethy ether, which is then decomposed
to ethylene and water.
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