Disclosed is a device for the production of alkylate(s) by sulfuric acid
alkylation of at least one isoparaffin such as isobutane with at least
one olefin, such as butylenes. The device includes a mixing chamber for
preparing a mixture of the isoparaffin with recycled reaction products.
It also includes an emulsion chamber for preparing a first
hydrocarbons-in-sulfuric acid emulsion, where the mixture prepared in the
mixing chamber is injected in multiple parallel jets into a sulfuric acid
composition. The device further includes a pre-reaction chamber for
preparing a second emulsion, where a given portion of the olefin is
injected in jet streams into the first hydrocarbons-in-sulfuric acid
emulsion coming from the emulsion chamber. Last of all, the device
includes a reaction chamber of given height and cross-section where the
second emulsion coming from the pre-reaction chamber is injected through
nozzles and another portion of olefin is injected in jet streams all over
the cross-section and height of the reaction chamber. The reaction
chamber is devised so that the second emulsion is circulated in a closed
circuit and it has an outlet through which a balanced amount of reaction
mixture is continuously discharged. All of said mixing chamber, emulsion
chamber, pre-reaction chamber and reaction chamber are coaxially arranged
one above the other in vertical position and altogether form a reactor
with the prechamber being located at the bottom of the reactor and the
reaction chamber on top thereof. A method for the production of alkylates
by means of the above device is also disclosed.