319results about "Vacuum distillation" patented technology

This invention relates to a crude oil desulfurization process which comprises hydrodesulfurizing a crude oil feed in a crude desulfurization unit. The desulfurized crude oil is then separated into a light gas oil fraction, a vacuum gas oil fraction and a vacuum residuum fraction. The vacuum gas oil is hydrocracked to form at least one low sulfur fuel product. The light gas oil fraction is hydrotreated. The vacuum gas oil may be hydrocracked in one or more stages. Hydrocracking in the second stage, if present, will convert of at least 20% of the first zone effluent, to create a low sulfur light gas oil fraction. The light gas oil fraction may then be hydrotreated.

Methods of separating components of a mixture, such as crude oil, are disclosed which increase the yield of individual components while decreasing the yield of residue. In one method, a heated mixture is fed to a column, a vapor stream is withdrawn from the column and separated, and a portion of the vapor stream is recycled back to the column. In another method, a mixture is separated into streams composed substantially of components having light, intermediate or heavy molecular weight and/or low, intermediate or high boiling point, respectively, and the streams are fed into the column at different positions. In both methods, individual light, intermediate and/or heavy molecular weight and/or low, intermediate and/or high boiling point component streams are then selectively withdrawn from the column.

Feed oil is subject to atmospheric distillation, to thereby be separated into light oil or light distillate and atmospheric residue oil. The light distillate is catalytically contacted with pressurized hydrogen in the presence of a catalyst, resulting in a first hydrotreating step being executed. In this instance, various fractions of the light distillate produced in the atmospheric distillation are subject to hydrotreating in a lump. The atmospheric residue oil is then separated into a light matter and a heavy matter. The light matter is subject to second hydrotreating in the presence of a catalyst to produce refined oil (light matter), which is mixed with refined oil produced in the first hydrotreating to prepare a mixture. The mixture is used as gas turbine fuel oil.

A process for the solvent separation of hydrocarbons from tar sand or contaminated soils comprises extracting the hydrocarbons from the sand or soil in a solvent extraction means to form a hydrocarbon rich solvent solution. The rich solvent is separated from the hydrocarbon in a process that utilizes flashing of the solvent in a heated flashing column at ambient pressure. The hydrocarbon is withdrawn from the bottom of the column and the flashed solvent vapors are strategicly withdrawn and passed into a condensation column from which the condensed solvent may be recycled. The flashing column is divided by a series of horizontal, vertically aligned apertured trays. The solution is introduced into the top of the column and the flashing operation is facilitated by the increase in the surface area of the solution as it flows by gravity from tray to tray. The column is maintained at a temperature, preferably above the boiling temperature of the solvent. The process is particularly adapted to the use of chlorinated hydrocarbon solvents and most particularly to the use of methylene chloride.

Process for reclaiming useful products from a waste oil, comprising a thermal separation step performed in a vessel at conditions, of temperature and pressure, allowing to substantially avoid cracking of the waste oil and to assure the separation of said heated waste oil into a first heavy oil fraction and into a second light oil fraction having, in comparison with the waste oil, a low content in solids and/or in other contaminants that are different from water and from inert gas. The process is further characterized in that while, during the thermal separation treatment, the waste oil is heated to a temperature about the boiling temperature of the heavy oil fraction, and below the cracking temperature of the waste oil, and at a pressure that is preferably below the atmospheric pressure, the heavy oil fraction of the vapours existing the vessel, in contact with a cooler surface, condenses and falls back into the vessel, while the second fraction, in a gaseous state, is eventually submitted to at least one further separation treatment. When water is present in the waste oil, said water is used to improve the amount of recovered light oils; and/or when no water is present in the waste oil, water or at least one inert gas or at least one component that may become an inert gas by heating may be added to the waste oil or to the thermal separation unit. Uses of the process for environmental applications and for treating used oils and to prepare oil products. Systems for reclaiming useful products from waste oils comprising at least one rotating kiln and at least one self-refluxing condenser and/or at least one dephlegmator.

An integrated process comprising to convert crude oil, comprising: converting crude oil (10) in a feed preparation facility (800) by separating the crude oil to a gas fraction (101), liquid fraction (102), and first residuum fraction in an atmospheric distillation unit (100); separating the 1^st residuum to a vacuum gas oil fraction (202) and a second residuum (201) in a vacuum distillation unit (200); converting the vacuum gas oil fraction to a CU gas fraction (301,401), a CU liquid fraction (302), and an CU higher boiling fraction (303,402) in a cracking unit (300,400); and processing the second residuum fraction to DCU gas oil/lighter fraction (501) in a coking unit (500); and steam cracking at least one of the gas fraction (101), liquid fraction (102), CU gas fraction (301,401), and DCU gas oil/lighter fraction (501) to the hydrocarbon products (920).

To provide a process of hydrocracking heavy oil capable of obtaining cracked light oil with higher yields and/or milder reaction conditions than the conventionally proposed hydrocracking process in a suspended bed method using an iron-based catalyst when hydrocracking heavy oil containing heavy metal components produced in a refining process of crude oil into lighter oil.

There are provided (1) a process of hydrocracking heavy oil containing heavy metal components produced in a refining process of crude oil, comprising a vacuum distillation step to obtain the heavy oil as distillation residue by vacuum distillation; and a reaction step to hydrocrack the heavy oil in the presence of an iron-based catalyst in a suspended bed reactor, wherein the distillation is conducted at 350° C. or less in the vacuum distillation step, (2) in the preceding process, reaction conditions in the reaction step are a reaction pressure of 60-160 kg/cm²; a reaction temperature of 430-455° C.; and a reaction time of 30-180 minutes.

The invention discloses a visbreaking method, comprising the steps of: under the condition of reduced pressure distillation, distilling the visbreaking raw materials under the reduced pressure to acquire a reduced distillate oil and vacuum residue having cutting temperature not less than 540 DEG C; subjecting visbreaking the reduced distillate oil under the condition of the visbreaking, mixing the product of the reduced distillate oil experiencing the visbreaking with the vacuum residue to acquire a mixed oil; visbreaking the mixed oil at the bottom of a visbreaking fractionating tower and acquiring gas, naphtha and visbreaking residue by means of fractionation; and causing the temperature of the reduced distillate oil for the visbreaking to be higher than that of the mixed oil for the visbreaking. By applying the visbreaking method provided by the invention, visbreaking conversion rate can be enhanced; meanwhile the visbreaking residue can be reduced in viscosity and is excellent in stability.

The invention concerns a process for the treatment of a hydrocarbon feed in order to obtain a heavy hydrocarbon fraction with a low sulphur content, said process comprising the following steps: a) an optional step for hydrodemetallization carried out in permutable reactors, b) a step for fixed bed hydrotreatment of the effluent obtained from step a), c) a step for hydrocracking of the effluent obtained in step b) in by-passable reactors, d) a step for separation of the effluent obtained from step c).

A process to re-refine used petroleum oils by extraction with aliphatic solvents, wherein after eliminating the extract solvent, the process consists of the following treatments, (a) flash, continuous vaporization, at atmospheric pressure or near atmospheric pressure, to separate the light fractions, in the presence of small amounts of a basic compound or a reducing agent or a combination of both and (b) continuous distillation, in a fractionating column, of the bottom liquid obtained in stage (a), under vacuum and moderate temperatures, in the presence of a basic compound or a reducing compound or a combination of both, with recirculation from the bottom of the column to its feed; separating, as lateral extractions, the vacuum gas-oil or spindle oil and the lubricant bases and, as bottom product, a fuel-oil or asphaltic component.

A method for refining used motor oil using two or more hydrotreating reactors arranged in series. The used motor oil may be vacuum distilled to produce an unrefined gasoil. The unrefined gasoil may then be hydrotreated in a first hydrotreating reactor with hydrogen operated at a temperature ranging from approximately 245° C. to approximately 260° C. to produce a hydrotreated gasoil. The hydrogen may comprise a mixture of fresh hydrogen and recycled hydrogen recovered from the last of the two or more hydrotreating reactors. The hydrotreated gasoil may then be hydrotreated in one or more additional hydrotreating reactors operated at temperatures ranging from approximately 260° C. to approximately 330° C. to produce a refined gasoil. The first hydrotreating reactor may remove a substantial portion of metallic impurities from the unrefined impurities, while the one or more additional hydrotreating reactors remove a substantial portion of heteroatom impurities from the unrefined gasoil.

Methods for processing pyrolysis oil employs two or more of the following steps: A first separation creates (a) a lighter fraction and heavier fraction, (b) subjecting the lighter fraction to distillation and (c) subjecting the heavy fraction to removal of at least one of sulfur and nitrogen.

The invention discloses a catalytic conversion method for converting low-quality heavy oil into light clean fuel oil, which comprises: (1), introducing low-quality raw material oil into a catalytic cracking reactor having two reaction areas for performing a cracking reaction, wherein the reaction conditions in the catalytic cracking reactor ensure the catalytic wax oil obtained by the reaction is12 to 60 weight percent based on the weight of the low-quality raw material oil; (2) introducing the catalytic wax oil carrying catalyst particles into a reduced-pressure distillation tower, and separating a catalytic wax oil light fraction from the top of the tower; (3) hydrogenating the catalytic wax oil light fraction to obtain hydrogenated catalytic wax oil; and (4) circulating the hydrogenated catalytic wax oil to a catalytic conversion device for further reaction to obtain a light fuel oil target product. The method provided by the invention has the advantages that: due to the catalyticcracking of the low-quality heavy oil raw material, the catalytic wax oil yield is high, and the dry gas yield and cock yield are low; after solid particle removal and hydrogenation, the obtained catalytic wax oil can be introduced back to the catalytic cracking device for recycling, so the light oil yield of the whole process is increased by 5 to 15 percent and oil slurry yield is reduced; and thus, the high-efficiency use of oil resources is realized.

A method and apparatus is provided for distilling and processing chemicals. The apparatus is particularly suited for processing and distilling difficult to distill compounds, and is capable of producing diesel fuel and other products from used oil at a quality level similar to that of products produced from virgin crude oil.

The invention discloses a delayed coking and reduced pressure distillation combined processing method. The method comprises the following steps that: high-temperature gases produced by the delayed coking device are delivered into a coking fractional distillation column for distillation and a dry point of the wax oil is controlled to ensure the quality of the wax oil; and coking tail oil and normal-pressure residual oil are delivered into a reduced pressure distillation device together to further and deep extract residual coking wax, the residual coking wax and straight run wax oil are discharged out from the device at the same time, and reduced pressure residual oil containing a small amount of coke powder is used as delayed coking feed. The method improves the yield of coking wax oil and ensures the quality of the coking wax oil. With the increase of the extraction amount of the coking waxy oil, the amount of coking circulation oil is greatly reduced and the processing capacity of the coking device is improved, so the economic benefits are increased.

The present disclosure relates to marine fuel compositions having low sulfur content and processes for making such compositions.

Methods and systems for the devolatilization of thermally produced liquids to raise the flash point are disclosed. Various methods and apparatus can be used to effectively reduce the volatile components, such as wiped film evaporator, falling film evaporator, flash column, packed column, devolatilization vessel or tank.

The invention discloses a method for realizing selective reprocessing of catalytic cracking reprocessed oil slurry. The method comprises the steps of conveying reprocessed oil slurry produced by a catalytic cracking device into a reduced-pressure rectification column for rectification under reduced pressure, separating out low-carbon-residue fractions of which the boiling point is lower than 500 to 550 DEG C and sending the low-carbon-residue fractions to a reprocessing device. The method first performs reduced-pressure rectification on the reprocessed oil slurry produced by the catalytic cracking device through the reduced-pressure rectification column, then separates the low-carbon-residue fractions out from the reprocessed oil slurry, and sends the low-carbon-residue fractions to the reprocessing device. Because high-carbon-residue fractions do not enter the reprocessing device, the occurrence of coke generation of the reprocessing device is fundamentally avoided; the processing capacity of the device is improved; the energy consumption and maintenance cost of the device are reduced; and the energy consumption of the device can be reduced by more than 10 percent. In addition, the method also greatly reduces processing loss and increases the yield of lightweight oil by about 1 to 3 percent, thereby having significant economic benefit.

The invention discloses a reduced pressure distillation method and a reduced pressure distillation device. A flash tower is arranged between a reduced pressure furnace and a reduced pressure distillation tower, an oil transfer line is canceled, a reduced pressure distillation raw material is heated in the reduced pressure furnace and then directly enters the flash tower, and gas-liquid separation is performed in the flash tower; the liquid phase, namely flash bottom oil, discharged from the bottom of the flash tower is introduced into the reduced pressure distillation tower; and the gas phase, namely flash top gas, discharged from the top of the flash tower is condensed into liquid phase, and the liquid phase is led out of the device. According to the reduced pressure distillation method and the reduced pressure distillation device using the flash tower in back of the reduced pressure furnace, on the one hand, the yield of reduced pressure distillate is improved; and on the other hand, the conventional reduced pressure oil transfer line is canceled, the operation load of the reduced pressure tower is reduced, and the diameter of the reduced pressure tower can be properly reduced so that the equipment investment is saved and the operation cost is lowered.

A process is described for producing deasphalted steam cracker tar comprising feeding steam cracker tar to a vacuum pipestill (VPS) including a flash zone separated from a zone comprising trays by at least one annular entrainment ring and obtaining as an overheads a deasphalted tar product and as a bottoms an asphaltenic heavy tar product. Also according to the invention, there is a system for the upgrading of tar comprising said VPS with at least one annular entrainment ring.