公开(公告)号：EP2804930A4

公开(公告)日：2015-10-14

申请号：EP12866398

申请日：2012-01-17

申请人： MEG ENERGY CORP

发明人： CORSCADDEN TOM ,  KEARNS JIM ,  DIDUCH GREG ,  HOCKING DAMIEN ,  REMESAT DARIUS

IPC分类号： C10G55/04 ,  C10G1/00 ,  C10G21/00

CPC分类号： C10G55/04 ,  C10G1/002 ,  C10G21/003

公开(公告)号：EP2760974A4

公开(公告)日：2015-06-24

申请号：EP11873058

申请日：2011-09-30

申请人： MEG ENERGY CORP

发明人： CORSCADDEN TOM ,  DIDUCH GREG ,  HOCKING DAMIEN ,  REMESAT DARIUS ,  KEARNS JIM

IPC分类号： C10G1/04 ,  C10G9/00 ,  C10G21/00 ,  C10G55/04

CPC分类号： C10G21/003 ,  C10G9/00 ,  C10G55/04 ,  C10G2300/206 ,  C10G2300/308

摘要： The present invention relates to a method of improving a heavy hydrocarbon, such as bitumen, to a lighter more fluid product and, more specifically, to a final hydrocarbon product that is refinery-ready and meets pipeline transport criteria without the addition of diluent. A solid asphaltene by-product is created for easy handling and further processing. The invention is targeted to enhance Canadian bitumen, but has general application in improving any heavy hydrocarbon. The process comprises: (a) pre-heating a process fluid in a heater to a designed temperature; (b) moving the pre-heated process fluid to a reactor, and optimally converting asphaltenes in the process fluid within the reactor to produce a stream of thermally affected asphaltene-nch fraction( s), and a stream of non-condensible vapour and lighter liquid hydrocarbon(s); (c) deasphalting the thermally affected asphaltene-nch stream with a solvent extraction process into a stream of heavy deasphalted oil (DAO) and a second stream containing concentrated asphaltene; (d) separating dry thermally affected asphaltene solids from the second stream in a separation unit, recovering the process solvent; (e) a produced refinery feedstock comprising at least one of the produced streams.

公开(公告)号：EP2768927A4

公开(公告)日：2015-07-22

申请号：EP12841977

申请日：2012-08-03

申请人： MEG ENERGY CORP

发明人： CORSCADDEN TOM ,  KEARNS JIM ,  DIDUCH GREG ,  HOCKING DAMIEN ,  REMESAT DARIUS

IPC分类号： C10G1/00 ,  B01F7/00 ,  C10G9/00 ,  C10G21/00 ,  C10G55/04

CPC分类号： C10G21/003 ,  C10G9/00 ,  C10G55/04 ,  C10G2300/206 ,  C10G2300/4056 ,  C10G2300/44

公开(公告)号：EP2958975A4

公开(公告)日：2016-11-16

申请号：EP14753636

申请日：2014-02-24

申请人： MEG ENERGY CORP

发明人： CORSCADDEN TOM ,  KEARNS JIM ,  DIDUCH GREG ,  HOCKING DAMIEN ,  REMESAT DARIUS

IPC分类号： B01D11/00 ,  C10C3/08 ,  C10G21/00 ,  C10G21/28 ,  C10G21/30

CPC分类号： C10G21/28 ,  B01D11/0446 ,  B01D11/0473 ,  B01D11/0484 ,  B01D11/0488 ,  C10G21/003 ,  C10G21/30

摘要： An apparatus and process is provided for improved asphaltene separation from heavy hydrocarbon or bitumen with low process complexity through mass transfer using solvent and counter-current flows, with three sections: an upper DAO/solid-asphaltene separation zone, a middle solvent mixing and segregation zone, and a bottom clarification zone. Solvent mixed with heavy hydrocarbon forms a process feed introduced to the process vessel's upper zone and exposed to counter-current solvent removing DAO from solid asphaltene particles in the feed, the particles fall through the middle zone and are mixed with introduced solvent, which introduced solvent segregates DAO-rich solution in the upper zone (for extraction from that zone) from solvent-rich mixtures in the middle mixing and lower clarification zones. Solvent flows and precipitate movement are controlled to optimize mass transfer in process, resulting in high DAO recovery and dry, solid asphaltene product.