US 12,403,440 B2
Apparatus for distributing feed with a cluster of orifices on a side of the distributor
Lev Davydov, Northbrook, IL (US); Zhihao Fei, Naperville, IL (US); Robert Mehlberg, Wheaton, IL (US); Mohammad-Reza Mostofi-Ashtiani, Naperville, IL (US); Sathit Kulprathipanja, Schaumburg, IL (US); and Michael S. Sandacz, Glen Ellyn, IL (US)
Assigned to UOP LLC, Rosemont, IL (US)
Filed by UOP LLC, Des Plaines, IL (US)
Filed on Apr. 28, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/732,171.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/190,062, filed on May 18, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0370975 A1, Nov. 24, 2022
Int. Cl. B01J 8/18 (2006.01); B01J 8/26 (2006.01); C10G 11/18 (2006.01)
CPC B01J 8/1827 (2013.01) [B01J 8/26 (2013.01); C10G 11/18 (2013.01); B01J 2208/00902 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system comprising: a reactor and an apparatus for distributing a hydrocarbon feed to a stream of catalyst in the reactor comprising, wherein, the apparatus comprises:
a feed distributor comprising a barrel;
a first cluster of orifices at a first position on said feed distributor;
a second cluster of orifices at a second position spaced apart from the first position on said feed distributor; and
a first conduit extending from an internal oil pipe, said first conduit having a tip providing said first cluster of orifices and a second conduit extending from said internal oil pipe, said second conduit have a tip providing said second cluster of orifices,
wherein said reactor comprises a riser having a wall and said feed distributor protrudes through said wall of said riser.