US 12,404,459 B2
Process for the recycling and cracking waste plastics based oil
Benjamin Biber, Exton, PA (US); Christine Richardson, Paris la Défense (FR); Delphine Minoux, Seneffe (BE); Keith Nelson, Aurora, CO (US); and Cindy Adam, Seneffe (BE)
Assigned to TOTALENERGIES ONETECH, Courbevoie (FR)
Appl. No. 18/992,282
Filed by TOTALENERGIES ONETECH, Courbevoie (FR)
PCT Filed Jul. 13, 2023, PCT No. PCT/EP2023/069555
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jan. 8, 2025,
PCT Pub. No. WO2024/013337, PCT Pub. Date Jan. 18, 2024.
Claims priority of application No. 22315146 (EP), filed on Jul. 14, 2022; application No. 22315147 (EP), filed on Jul. 14, 2022; application No. 22315148 (EP), filed on Jul. 14, 2022; application No. 22315149 (EP), filed on Jul. 14, 2022; application No. 22315150 (EP), filed on Jul. 14, 2022; application No. 22315151 (EP), filed on Jul. 14, 2022; application No. 22315152 (EP), filed on Jul. 14, 2022; and application No. 22315153 (EP), filed on Jul. 14, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2025/0171696 A1, May 29, 2025
Int. Cl. C10G 63/04 (2006.01); C10G 63/02 (2006.01)
CPC C10G 63/04 (2013.01) [C10G 2300/1003 (2013.01); C10G 2400/20 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. Process for a purification of liquified waste polymer comprising the following steps:
a) providing a feedstream (1) containing liquified waste polymer, wherein said feedstream (1) contains at least 0.1 wt. % to at most 80 wt. % of dienes based on the total weight of said feedstream (1);
c) performing a polymerization reaction on said feedstream (1) under polymerization conditions to obtain a first product stream (3) comprising an oligomeric product (33) wherein the cationic polymerization is performed in the presence of an acidic catalyst;
d) optionally, performing a neutralization reaction by contacting said first product stream (3) with a basic compound (25) to obtain a neutralized product stream (4) and removing said basic compound from neutralized product stream (4) to obtain a second product stream (5);
g) performing a separation to separate the oligomeric product (33) from the purified liquified waste polymer (34); and
k) performing a cracking reaction wherein said purified liquified waste polymer (34) is cracked on a catalyst being a 10 MR or 12 MR molecular sieve at a temperature ranging from 450° C. to 650° C., a total pressure ranging from 0.5 to 10 barg and/or with an hydrogen partial pressure ranging from 0 to 7.5 barg to crack the olefins and/or paraffins of said purified liquified waste polymer into olefins having 2 to 4 carbon atoms.