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Butylenes and Butadiene Production

UOP butylene and butadiene process technologies can enable you to obtain high value from crude C4 streams. Butadiene constitutes 40-50% of the C4 cut of a steam cracker and it can either be recovered via extraction or be converted to mono-olefins (butene-1 and butene-2).

The KLP process selectively hydrogenates acetylenes in crude C4 streams from steam crackers. The KLP process is integrated with one-stage extraction to provide the most cost-effective and reliable means for recovering high purity butadiene.

If you have no need to extract butadiene (BD), UOP also licenses the Huels SHP-CB process, which is used to selectively hydrogenate the BD in the C4 cut to produce butene-1 and butene-2.

The separation of the different C4 components is fairly difficult, which is why UOP also offers the Huels Butene-1 Separation process, which uses a two-column approach to cost-effectively produce high-purity butene-1 from raffinate-2 streams.

To find out more about these UOP technologies click on the links below.
Huels SHP-CB Process
KLP Process
Huels Butene-1 Separation Process
Heat & Mass Transfer Equipment

To find complementary products and services, click on the following links:
Olefins Value Chain
UOP Olefins & Equipment History
Ethylene Production
Propylene Production
Butylenes & Butadiene Production
Equipment for Light Olefins Production
Adsorbents for Butanes and Butylenes