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Cumene production (benzene alkylation)

AlkylationReactorCumene
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Benzene and propylene alkylate over a fixed-conversion reactor to cumene (isopropylbenzene, the feedstock for phenol/acetone via the Hock process); a downstream column recovers unreacted benzene overhead for recycle-quality purity while cumene leaves the bottoms. Luyben, Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 2010, 49, 719.

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Benzene
Propylene
MIX
RXN
feed
dist
btms
COL
Benzene Recycle
Cumene Product

The stream table

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

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