441results about "Tar working-up by distillation" patented technology

A continuous process for fractioning, combination, and recombination of asphalt sources into asphalt components for pelletization of asphalt and asphalt-containing products such that the pellets formed are generally uniform in dimension, freely flowing, free from agglomeration, and the pelletized asphalt is packaged, and preferably compatibly packaged, for additional processing and applications.

The invention provides a green circular economy technology with coal coking as the main part. The technical scheme of the technology is as follows: a coal coking part, a coal tar processing part, a carbon black part and a part of combined power and thermoelectricity generation by coke oven gas are organically combined to form the relationship of industrial metabolism, symbiosis and coupling; suchmeasures as differentially utilizing tail gas of carbon black, recovering energy of coke drying quenching, reducing, recycling and changing the three wastes into resources, etc., enable resources to be saved, production cost to be reduced and pollution to be lessened; therefore, economic benefits of coal coking enterprises are maximized and the green circular economy technology is realized indeed. The invention also provides an apparatus for realizing the green circular economy technology with coal coking as the main part.

The invention belongs to the technical field of a preparation method of spinning raw materials of high-performance pitch-based carbon fibers, and particularly relates to a preparation method of soluble mesophase pitch, which mainly solves the problems of the existing mesophase pitch preparation method that the process is complicated, requirements on the equipment are high, the cost is high, the industrialization process is difficult and the like. The invention adopts the technical scheme that the preparation method of the soluble mesophase pitch comprises the following steps of (1) thermally treating raw material pitch or ethylene bottom oil with a low softening point in an inert atmosphere, then distilling the material in a short distance or flashing the material, removing light ends, and collecting heavy fraction, i.e. heavy end pitch; (2) preparing the heavy enbd pitch into mesophase pitch; and (3) cooling the mesophase pitch to 320DEG C to 400DEG C, removing internal light ends, and collecting the heavy fraction, i.e. the mesophase pitch. The preparation method has the advantages of simplicity in process, moderate in reaction condition, low equipment requirement, low cost and adaptability to industrialized production.

The present invention is directed to the upgrading of heavy hydrocarbon feedstock that utilizes a short residence pyrolytic reactor operating under conditions that cracks and chemically upgrades the feedstock. The method for upgrading a heavy hydrocarbon feedstock comprises introducing a particulate heat carrier into an upflow reactor, introducing the heavy hydrocarbon feedstock into the upflow reactor at a location above that of the particulate heat carrier so that a loading ratio of the particulate heat carrier to feedstock is from about 15:1 to about 200:1, allowing the heavy hydrocarbon feedstock to interact with the heat carrier with a residence time of less than about 1 second, to produce a product stream, separating the product stream from the particulate heat carrier, regenerating the particulate heat carrier, and collecting a gaseous and liquid product from the product stream.

The invention relates to a method for simultaneously producing liquid fuel and asphalt paving materials by coprocessing coal and heavy oil. The method comprises the following steps: mixing coal dust, catalyst and heavy oil to prepare pulp; preheating and entering a reactor to carry out reaction; separating reaction products to separate gaseous substance, light oil, water and heavy mixture; extracting hydrogen from the separated gaseous substance through pressure swing adsorption; returning the purified hydrogen to the reactor to be used circularly, and using the remaining gas as fuel after purification; carrying out oil-water separation on the separated light oil and water to obtain the light oil and the water; leading the heavy mixture into a distilling tower to obtain coarse oil and tower bottom product through distillation separation; mixing the coarse oil and the light oil to obtain liquid fuels of gasoline, kerosene, diesel fuel, fuel oil, and the like through upgrading process; and processing the tower bottom product to get the asphalt paving materials. The invention has the advantage that under the moderate process condition, the liquid fuel and asphalt paving materials canbe produced simultaneously.

The present invention provides a way to increase the softening point of heavier hydrocarbons in a relatively low cost and low pressure process using superheated steam to i) increase the carbon yield of the heavier hydrocarbons, while simultaneously ii) removing volatile components with a steam stripping process.

The invention relates to a two-tower type process for distilling vacuum tar and a device thereof. The process comprises the following steps: removing the moisture and light oil distillate of raw tar in a pre-dehydration tower and a dehydration tower at normal pressure; performing decompressing operations in a No.1 distillation tower to obtain carbolic oil, naphthalene oil and light washing oil distillate; and performing decompressing operations in a No.2 distillation tower to obtain heavy washing oil, first anthracene oil, second anthracene oil and mid-temperature pitch. The heat for the pre-dehydration tower and the dehydration tower is supplied by heat conducting oil; the heat for the No.1 distillation tower is supplied by heating the mixed oil on the bottom of the tower circularly in a No.1 tubular heating furnace; and the heat for the No.2 distillation tower is supplied by heating the mixed oil on the bottom of the No.1 distillation tower in a No.2 tubular heating furnace and then performing flash distillation on the mixed oil on the bottom of the No.2 tower. The main devices comprise the dehydration tower, the No.1 distillation tower, the No.2 distillation tower, a dehydration tower reboiler, the No.1 tubular heating furnace, the No.2 tubular heating furnace, a heat exchanger for each distillate, a cooler, a steam generator and the like. The process has the advantages of short technological flow, less device investment, and less energy consumption, thus the process is applicable to large scale coal tar processing engineering.

A process for producing mesophase pitch from high-temperature coal tar comprises: removing salts and quinoline insoluble fraction from a high-temperature coal tar to obtain a decant oil; using the decant oil as a hydrogenation feedstock, or pre-distilling the decant oil to obtain a residue with a boiling point higher than 230 and formulating the residue into a hydrogenation feedstock; catalytic hydrorefining the hydrogenation feedstock to obtain a hydrofined oil; distilling the hydrofined oil to obtain hydrogenated pitch; and subjecting the hydrogenated pitch to the thermal polymerization to obtain the mesophase pitch. The process has features such as an easily controllable degree of hydrogenation, complete removal of impurities, good raw material flowability, not tending to form the carbon deposition and the coking during the process, and not tending to jam the reactor. The product has a high content of mesophase pitch, a low softening point and a low impurity content.

A process for producing pipeline-ready or refinery-ready feedstock from heavy hydrocarbons using a high-performance solvent extraction process with high local solvent-to-process fluid ratios yet maintaining low overall solvent-to-process fluid ratios, by first performing mild thermal cracking on the heavy hydrocarbons and then separating asphaltene-rich fractions from a resulting thermally affected fluid so that the high solvent-to-oil ratio portion of the process acts only on those asphaltene-rich fractions, and producing a dry, solid asphaltene as an end-product.

A method of producing low CTE graphite electrodes from needle coke formed from a coal tar distillate material having a relatively high initial boiling point.

Systems and methods for processing one or more hydrocarbons are provided. A hydrocarbon can be selectively separated to provide one or more finished products and an asphaltenic hydrocarbon using a pretreatment process. The asphaltenic hydrocarbon can be selectively separated to provide a deasphalted oil and one or more asphaltenes. At least a portion of the deasphalted oil can be converted to one or more first products using a first post-treatment process. At least a portion of the one or more asphaltenes can be converted to one or more second products using a second post-treatment process.

A novel apparatus for producing sweet synthetic crude from a heavy hydrocarbon feed includes: an upgrader for receiving the heavy hydrocarbon feed and producing a distillate fraction including sour products, and high-carbon content by-products; a gasifier for receiving the high-carbon content by-products and producing synthetic fuel gas and sour by-products; a hydroprocessing unit for receiving the sour by-products and hydrogen gas, thereby producing gas and sweet crude; and a hydrogen recovery unit for receiving the synthetic fuel gas and producing further hydrogen gas and hydrogen-depleted synthetic fuel gas, the further hydrogen gas being supplied to the hydroprocessing unit.

A method of treating a hydrocarbon fluid that includes contacting the hydrocarbon fluid with an effective amount of ozone. A method for separating contaminants from a contaminated material includes supplying the contaminated material to a processing chamber, moving the contaminated material through the processing chamber, heating the contaminated material by externally heating the processing chamber so as to volatilize the contaminants in the contaminated material, removing vapor resulting from the heating, wherein the vapor comprises the volatilized contaminants, collecting, condensing, and recovering the volatilized contaminants, and contacting the volatilized contaminants with an effective amount of ozone.

The invention relates to a method for production of purified coal tar pitch from high temperature coal tar. The method includes: mixing the high temperature coal tar with a hydrogenation heavy solvent and deionized water, and then removing salt to obtain salt removed high temperature coal tar; mixing the salt removed high temperature coal tar with an aliphatic solvent, and then removing quinoline insolubles to obtain clarified oil; distilling the clarified oil to obtain the aliphatic solvent, phenol oil, naphthalene oil, purified coal tar pitch and mixed oil of light oil, washing oil, anthracene oil and the hydrogenation heavy solvent, and taking the mixed oil as catalytic hydrogenation feed oil; subjecting the catalytic hydrogenation feed oil to catalytic hydrofining to obtain hydrofined oil; distilling the hydrofined oil to obtain a naphtha component, a gasoline blending component, a diesel oil blending component and the hydrogenation heavy solvent. The method greatly enhances the added value of products processed from high temperature coal tar, and the purified asphalt has low content of quinoline insolubles and metals.

The invention discloses a method for preparing pitch used for producing coal-based needle coke. The method comprises the following steps that: coal tar and coal pitch are taken as raw materials; coal tar light compositions are taken as solvent; coal dust, metallurgical coke powder, or mixture of the metallurgical coke powder and diatomite, or mixture of the metallurgical coke powder and expanded perlite are taken as filter aid; uniform filter aid filter cakes are formed in a centrifuge by filter aid mixture at first, and then mixture of the coal pitch or the coal tar, wash oil and the filter aid is added into the centrifuge in which the uniform filter aid filter cakes are formed for centrifugal filtration; and obtained centrifugate is driven to pass through atmospheric distillation recovery solvent, so as toe obtain the refining pitch raw materials which are suitable for producing the coal-based needle coke. The yield of the pitch raw materials used for producing the coal-based needle coke prepared by the technology is improved by 10 to 15 percent compared with other methods; the manufacturing technique is simple and the preparation cost is low; and the mass production is easy to realize.

A method recovering heat and water from a warm slurry, such as warm tailings from a oil sands extraction mining operation, is provided. The method comprises providing the tailings to a vacuum vessel, removing, from the vacuum vessel, warm vapor derived from the tailings, condensing the warm vapor in a condenser to produce water, and recovering the water from the condenser. Cool river or pond water can be warmed with the heat from the vapor for additional uses in the mining operation. Essentially pure water can be obtained in the process. This can also be achieved using one or flash vessels in series to condense the vapor. Power can also be generated from the vapor using a turbine.