Safer and more efficient alkylation process now at commercial scale
Article by Amanda Doyle Honeywell OUP Chevron’s Salt Lake City refinery is world’s first commercial-scale process unit using ISOALKY technology to produce ionic liquid-based alkylate for higher octane motor fuels CHEVRON and Honeywell have started commercial operation of a new alkylation process using an ionic liquid catalyst that is safer and more efficient than traditional methods. Alkylation combines light olefins such as butylene with isobutane to create a high-octane blending component that can be used to produce high-octane gasoline. The new alkylation process was developed by Chevr...
Source: thechemicalengineer.com