111results about "Refining with two or more solvents" patented technology

A solvent deasphalting of crude oil or petroleum heavy fractions and residues is carried out in the presence of a solid adsorbent, such as clay, silica, alumina and activated carbon, which adsorbs the contaminants and permits the solvent and oil fraction to be removed as a separate stream from which the solvent is recovered for recycling; the adsorbent with contaminants and the asphalt bottoms is mixed with aromatic and/or polar solvents to desorb the contaminants and washed as necessary, e.g., with benzene, toluene, xylenes and tetrahydrofuran, to clean adsorbant which is recovered and recycled; the solvent-asphalt mixture is sent to a fractionator for recovery and recycling of the aromatic or polar solvent. The bottoms from the fractionator include the concentrated PNA and contaminants and are further processes as appropriate.

A process for upgrading hydrocarbonaceous oil containing heteroatom-containing compounds where the hydrocarbonaceous oil is contacted with a solvent system that is a mixture of a major portion of a polar solvent having a dipole moment greater than about 1 debye and a minor portion of water to selectively separate the constituents of the carbonaceous oil into a heteroatom-depleted raffinate fraction and heteroatom-enriched extract fraction. The polar solvent and the water-in-solvent system are formulated at a ratio where the water is an antisolvent in an amount to inhibit solubility of heteroatom-containing compounds and the polar solvent in the raffinate, and to inhibit solubility of non-heteroatom-containing compounds in the extract. The ratio of the hydrocarbonaceous oil to the solvent system is such that a coefficient of separation is at least 50%. The coefficient of separation is the mole percent of heteroatom-containing compounds from the carbonaceous oil that are recovered in the extract fraction minus the mole percent of non-heteroatom-containing compounds from the carbonaceous oil that are recovered in the extract fraction. The solvent-free extract and the raffinate concentrates may be used directly or processed to make valuable petroleum, chemical or industrial products.

The invention discloses a medium and low temperature coal tar deep processing method. Medium and low temperature coke material is pretreated and fractionated to obtain light fraction, carbolic oil and heavy fraction, dephenolization treatment is carried out on the carbolic oil to obtain phenols product and dephenolized oil, the dephenolized oil and the above heavy fraction carry out pyrogenetic reaction jointly to obtain various carbonized products, wherein carbonized naphtha, at least one of carbonized diesel oil and carbonized wax oil is mixed with the light fraction obtained by material fractionation to carry out hydrofining and hydrocracking reaction, hydrogenated naphtha obtained by hydrocracking carries out catalytic reforming-aromatics extraction to obtain benzene, toluol, xylene, solvent oil and other products. Compared with the prior art, gasoline fraction and diesel oil fraction obtained by the inventive method are clean and stable in properties. In addition, the invention can produce a plurality of chemical products with high added value, truly realizes the effective utilization of medium and low temperature coal tar, and greatly improves the service life of devices.

A process for upgrading an oil stream by mixing the oil stream with a water stream and subjecting it to conditions that are at or above the supercritical temperature and pressure of water. The process further includes cooling and a subsequent alkaline extraction step. The resulting thiols and hydrogen sulfide gas can be isolated from the product stream, resulting in an upgraded oil stream that is a higher value oil having low sulfur, low nitrogen, and low metallic impurities as compared to the oil stream.

This application relates to a composite solvent for separating aromatics by extractive distillation, comprising a main solvent, a solutizer and a modifier. Said solutizer is selected from any one or mixtures of any two of C₈–C₁₁ aromatics having different number of carbon atoms, the content of which is 3–39 wt %, and the number of carbon atoms of the lowest aromatic in the solutizer should be greater than that of the highest aromatic in the aromatics to be separated. When the solutizer is selected from any one of C₈–C₁₁ aromatics, the composite solvent contains 0.01–10.0 wt % of the modifier; when the solutizer is selected from mixtures of any two of C₈–C₁₁ aromatics having different number of carbon atoms, the composite solvent contains 0–10.0 wt % of the modifier. Said main solvent and modifier are independently selected from sulfolane derivatives, N-formyl morpholine, and N-methyl pyrrolidone, provided that the acidity and basicity of the modifier are opposite to those of the main solvent. When the composite solvent is used to recover aromatics by extractive distillation, it is possible to moderate the operation conditions of solvent recovery, increase the yield of aromatics, and make the separated aromatics to be neutral.

A process to substantially reduce the sulfur content of a liquid hydrocarbon stream by contacting the hydrocarbon stream with an aqueous stream containing a mixture of one or more extraction agents selected from hypochlorites, cyanurates and alkali metal and alkaline earth metal hydroxides, optionally in the presence of a catalyst, to remove sulfur compounds.

Method and apparatus for contacting two liquid phases for liquid-liquid extraction in a vertical extraction vessel. A relatively heavier liquid phase, descending the extraction vessel at a relatively low volumetric flow rate, is dispersed into a continuous phase comprising a relatively lighter liquid rising through the extraction vessel at a relatively high flow rate. Sieve trays are provided with adjustable active areas and overlapping manways for personnel access.

The invention discloses a demetallization method for oil products. The method comprises the following steps: 1) the weighed oil products are pre-heated up to the temperature of between 50 and 70 DEG C so as to ensure that the oil products are in flowing state; 2) a demetallization agent and water are added in the oil products, completely mixed and subjected to ultrasonic wave action for 10 to 18 minutes; and 3) the mixed liquid after the ultrasonic treatment is kept stand at a temperature of between 60 and 90 DEG C for one hour, and is subjected to oil-water separation. In the method, the demetallization agent is added in the oil products for the demetallization reaction, and the ultrasonic wave action is used to strengthen the demetallization reaction, the metalloporphyrin and the non-porphyrin oil soluble compositions in the oil products are converted into hydrophilic compositions which are subjected to the oil-water separation, so that metal in the oil products is removed. The method can effectively remove the metal in the oil products without rigorous reaction conditions such as high temperature, high pressure and the like, so that the method has the advantages of mild operating condition, low investment and operational cost, low energy consumption, no pollutant emission, simple process, easy operation, high metal removing ratio and obvious metal removing effect.

The invention discloses an incoherence or weak caking coal deep processing method. Firstly, coking coal is fed into a carbonization reactor to carry out carbonization reaction, thus generating coal gas, carbocoal and coal tar; hydrogen in the coal gas is extracted out by pressure swing absorption; the carbocoal is fed into a coal gas generator and reacts with oxygen and water vapour to generate synthesis gas and coal ash; or the carbocoal is fed into a circulating fluid bed boiler to carry out generating; the coal tar enters a normal pressure fractionating tower to obtain creosoted oil, oil at the top of the tower and heavy oil at the bottom of the tower; wherein the creosoted oil is extracted to obtain crude phenol product and dephenolized oil, the dephenolized oil and heavy oil at the bottom of the tower enter a delayed coking device to carry out thermal cracking reaction. Through the optimization design of the flow, the invention realizes the deep processing of incoherence or weak caking coal such as ignite, long flame coal, gas coal and the like, and effectively improves the utilization factor of the materials.

A process for removing at least one contaminant from coal tar is described. The process involves extraction with an extraction agent or adsorption with an adsorbent. The extraction agent includes at least one of amphiphilic block copolymers, inclusion complexes of poly(methyl methacrylate) and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, cyclodextrins, functionalized cyclodextrins, and cyclodextrin-functionalized polymers, and the adsorbent includes exfoliated graphite oxide, thermally exfoliated graphite oxide or intercalated graphite compounds.

The invention relates to a method for preparing a raw material for asphalt resin by using kerosene co-liquefaction product heavy oil. The method comprises the steps of firstly separating a polar component in a the heavy oil with a first extracting agent to obtain a poor polarity component oil; separating a non-aromatic component in the poor polarity component oil with a second extracting agent toobtain an aromatic-rich mixture, and recycling the second extracting agent in the obtained mixture to obtain a remaining material aromatic-rich component oil, namely, the raw material for preparing the asphalt resin. According to the method provided by the invention, the aromatic component with higher purity is obtained by removing the polar component and chain hydrocarbon component in the kerosene co-liquefaction product oil. The separation method provided by the invention is simple to operate and high in separation efficiency; furthermore, the needed extracting agents are wide in source, better in heat stability and low in price and toxicity, so that the method is suitable for large-scale application.

The invention relates to a pre-treatment process method of high acid crude oil. The method comprises the following steps that high acid crude oil is treated by coupling deacidification and electro-desalting processes by combining chemical extraction and electro-desalting; a first level tank is taken as a deacidification and electro-desalting tank; a demulsifier and an extractant are injected before a crude oil electro-desalting static mixer; after being fully mixing with crude oil, the mixture enters into the first level desalting tank; generated naphthenate and salt-containing sewage in the crude oil are dissolved in the extractant; treated deacidified oil enters into second and third level desalting tanks after being mixed with the demulsifier and water through the static mixer for desalination and dehydration; treated crude oil enters into a subsequent heat exchange unit; after a period time of operation of an electro-desalting system, impurities such as mud in raw material oil are flushed by a non-stop back purge device to discharge mud-containing sewage out of the tank; an extract phase is acidified to separate out naphthenic acid which is further extracted and purified by light dydrocarbon, and the extractant is purified and recovered and recycled.

This invention relates to a commercially viable process for extracting oxygenates from a hydrocarbon stream, typically a fraction of the condensation product of a Fischer-Tropsch reaction, while preserving the olefin content of the condensation product. The oxygenate extraction process is a liquid-liquid extraction process that takes place in an extraction column using a polar organic solvent, such as methanol, and water as the solvent, wherein the polar organic solvent and water are added separately to the extraction column.

A method for recovering base oil from waste lubricating oil by separating base oil range constituents from a waste lubricating oil mixture, thereafter separating higher quality base oil constituents and lower quality base oil constituents from the base oil recovered from the waste lubricating oil mixture and thereafter treating the lower quality base oil constituents to produce marketable base oil. The total base oil produced from a waste lubricating oil mixture by this process is greater than the quantity producible by previous processes using only base oil separation from the waste lubricating oil mixture or processes which use only treatment of the base oil recovered from the waste lubricating oil mixture to produce the product base oil.

A method for separating hydrocarbons from Slurry Oil Cat' Fine Bottoms (SOCFBs) comprising the steps of removing SOCFBs from a slurry oil storage tank and combining the SOCFBs with diluent and water in a Feed Preparation Vessel (FPV) and transferring the SOCFB and water emulsion to a Feed Processing Unit (FPU) in which the SCDM settles into a hydrocarbon layer, an emulsion layer and a water layer containing catalyst particles.

A process for the conversion of hydrocarbons that are solid or have a high boiling temperature and may be laden with metals, sulfur or sediments, into liquids (gasolines, gas oil, fuels) with the help of a jet of gas pity superheated between 600 and 800° C. The process comprises preheating a feed 5 in a heater 8 to a temperature below the selected temperature of a reactor 10. This feed is injected by injectors 4 into the empty reactor 10 (i.e., without catalyst.) The feed is treated with a jet of gas or superheated stem from superheater 2 to activate the feed. The activated products in the feed are allowed to stabilize at the selected temperature and at a selected pressure in the reactor and are then run through a series of extractors 13 to separate heavy and light hydrocarbons and to demetallize the feed. Useful products appearing in the form of water/hydrocarbon emulsions are generally demulsified in emulsion breaker 16 to form water laden with different impurities. The light phase containing the final hydrocarbons is heated in heater 98 and is separated into cuts of conventional products, according to the demand for refining by an extractor 18 similar to 13.