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Acetylene recovery from cracked gas (selective solvent absorption)

AcetyleneSolvent absorptionCracked gasPetrochemicals
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The other real use of cracked-gas acetylene: instead of being hydrogenated away as a trace impurity (see naphtha-steam-cracker's ACETYLENE_HYDRO step and patent-c3-selective-hydrogenation), acetylene is deliberately RECOVERED as product when present at high enough concentration -- industrially via selective solvent absorption (DMF or NMP preferentially dissolve acetylene over the other light hydrocarbons), then stripped back out to release a pure acetylene stream. Honesty note: no cited DMF/NMP-hydrocarbon binary VLE data exists in this codebase to build a rigorous absorber/stripper, so this uses the same fixed-recovery separator shortcut this codebase's existing amine/CO2-capture examples already use for exactly this situation (e.g. blue-hydrogen-smr-ccs's CO2 capture step) -- a disclosed simplification of a real physical separation, not a claim of rigorous solvent thermodynamics.

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The solved topology — every unit op's real duty, conversion, or split, read straight off a genuine converged solve.

Cracked GAS FEED
Solvent Absorber
LEAN Cracked GAS
RICH Solvent Stripper
PURE Acetylene
Stripper Offgas

The stream table

Every stream's flow, temperature, pressure, and composition — real converged numbers, not placeholders.

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