Abstract:
This invention relates to a process for effectively and completely converting into a useful hydrocarbon oil comprising naphtha, kerosene and gas oil with high cracking rate, the tar-sand bitumen and the vacuum residues from various petroleum or origins which are difficult to treat in comparison with the ordinary crude oil and contain large amount of asphaltenes and resins according to the combined process of the thermal cracking and hydrocracking.The present invention is useful to manufacture the pollution-free product oil from the tar-sand bitumen and the vacuum residues from the various petroleum origins with high desulfurization percentage of more than 90%. The product oil can be used as the superior fuel oil having less sulfur and metal contents and also as the starting material suitable for the secondary processing.
Abstract:
Method of activating a catalyst composite comprising particles of a catalytic metals-free crystalline zeolitic molecular sieve dispersed in a gel matrix comprising silica-alumina, a Group VI hydrogenating component and a Group VIII hydrogenating component, which method comprises heating said catalyst composite in an oxygen-containing gas stream at 1200.degree. to 1600.degree. F. for 0.25 to 43 hours, and the catalyst composite so activated.
Abstract:
A PROCESS FOR HYDROCRACKING A HYDROCARBONACEOUS CHARGE STOCK WITH A CATALYTIC COMPOSITE OF AN ALUMINACONTAINING CARRIER MATERIAL, A NICKEL COMPONENT AND A GROUP V-B METALLIC COMPONENT. THE CATALYST IS PREPARED VIA COEXTRUSION WHICH INHIBITS THE FORMATION OF NIKEL ALUMINATE TO THE EXTENT THAT LESS THAN ABOUT 0.1% THEREOF APPEARS IN FINAL CATALYTIC COMPOSITE.
Abstract:
In a process for upgrading a topped-tar fraction of coal tar, topped-tar feedstock containing largely polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons is hydrocracked in a hydrogen atmosphere in a first reaction zone at a temperature and pressure sufficient to hydrocrack the large molecules to three- and two-ring aromaticnaphthenes. The hydrocracked feed which also contains olefins, is catalytically hydrotreated in a second reaction zone to saturate the olefins, and the feed is then catalytically treated in a third reaction zone at a temperature, pressure and hydrogen to hydrocarbon feed mol ratio sufficient to hydrocrack the threeand two-ring compounds to two- and one-ring aromatics, while, at the same time, naphthenes are dehydrogenated to aromatics, the alkyl aromatics are hydrodealkylated to nonsubstituted aromatic compounds, and substantially all oxygen, nitrogen and sulfur compounds unreacted in the first and second treatment zones are hydrorefined.
Abstract:
A catalytic slurry process for effecting the conversion of a hydrocarbonaceous charge stock containing asphaltenes and metallic contaminants. The slurry constitutes the charge stock, hydrogen, a portion of the previously produced product effluent and from about 1.0 to about 25.0 percent by weight of finely divided catalyst particles. Preferred catalysts are the unsupported sulfides of the metals from Groups V-B, VI-B and VIII. A series of product separation steps facilitates catalyst circulation, catalyst withdrawal, and recovery of a substantially catalyst-free product.
Abstract:
A catalytic slurry process for hydrorefining a hydrocarbonaceous charge stock containing hydrocarbon insoluble asphaltenes. The process is effected in slurry fashion with the charge stock being admixed with an aqueous solution of a double salt of the catalytically active metal sulfite and ammonium sulfite. The slurry is reacted at conditions including a temperature above about 225* C. and a pressure greater than about 500 p.s.i.g., and in the presence of hydrogen and hydrogen sulfide. The particularly preferred double salt is vanadyl sulfite-ammonium sulfite, and is employed in an amount of 1.0 percent to about 25.0 percent by weight, computed as elemental vanadium.
Abstract:
A countercurrent technique is disclosed for contacting liquid and gas reactants in a fixed porous catalyst bed. The reactants are maintained as a multiphase mixture in the catalyst bed. Upwardly flowing dispersed gas is disengaged from liquid feedstock above the catalyst bed, while controlling froth level.
Abstract:
A process for converting heavy hydrocarbons into light hydrocarbons which comprises contacting, in a reaction zone, a heavy hydrocarbon having an API gravity at 25.degree. C. of less than about 20, such as Boscan heavy crude oil or tar sand bitumen, with a liquid comprising water and with an effective amount of selected catalyst materials such as iron (II and/or III) oxides, sulfides or sulfates, in the absence of externally added hydrogen, at a temperature between greater than about 340.degree. and about 480.degree. C. and at a pressure between about 1350 kPa (about 196 psig, about 13.2 atm) and about 15,000 kPa (about 2175 psig, about 148 atm), for a time sufficient to produce a residue and a vapor phase comprising light hydrocarbons, gaseous product and water, withdrawing the residue and said phase from the second zone; and recovering a light hydrocarbon product having an API gravity at 25.degree. C. of greater than about 20 and substantially free of vanadium and nickel values, i.e., less than 50 ppm, preferably less than 30 ppm, a gaseous product, and a residue is disclosed.
Abstract:
A CHD reactor is modified to include a feed nozzle arrangement which hydrogen-saturates the charged liquid before distribution across the fixed catalyst bed by a pair of gas/liquid distributor trays. Product is recovered from the catalyst bed through an apparatus arrangement comprising Glitsch grid to maintain low pressure drop in the system.