494results about "Working-up pitch/asphalt/bitumen by selective extraction" patented technology

Processes and apparatus for the treatment of product streams from mineral processing operations, including the treatment of tailings which result from oil sand processing operations. The processes and apparatus relate to the recovery of a diluent solvent from bitumen froth tailings and to the thickening of tailings from a bitumen froth stream and a middlings stream resulting from an oil sand extraction process. In one aspect the processes and apparatus relate particularly to the recycling of product streams to maximize process efficiencies. In a second aspect the processes and apparatus relate particularly to the thickening of tailings to produce an underflow component, a clarified overflow component and an unclarified overflow component.

Disclosed is a process for the upgrading and demetallizing of heavy oils and bitumens. A crude heavy oil and/or bitumen feed is supplied to a solvent extraction process 104 wherein DAO and asphaltenes are separated. The DAO is supplied to an FCC unit 106 having a low conversion activity catalyst for the removal of metals contained therein. The demetallized distillate fraction is supplied to a hydrotreater 110 for upgrading and collected as a synthetic crude product stream. The asphaltene fraction can be supplied to a gasifier 108 for the recovery of power, steam and hydrogen, which can be supplied to the hydrotreater 110 or otherwise within the process or exported. An optional coker 234 can be used to convert excess asphaltenes and/or decant oil to naphtha, distillate and gas oil, which can be supplied to the hydrotreater 220.

Systems and methods for processing hydrocarbons are provided. A hydrocarbon can be distilled to provide a distillate, a gas oil, and a residue. The residue can include, but is not limited to asphaltenes and non-asphaltenes. The residue can be mixed with a solvent to provide a mixture. The asphaltenes can be selectively separated from the mixture to provide a deasphalted oil. At least a portion of the deasphalted oil and at least a portion of the gas oil can be hydroprocessed to provide a hydroprocessed hydrocarbon. At least a portion of the distillate and at least a portion of the hydroprocessed hydrocarbon can be cracked in a first reaction zone to provide a first cracked product comprising C2 hydrocarbons, C3 hydrocarbons, C4 hydrocarbons, and naphtha.

The invention provides a method for extracting heavy liquefaction oil and an intermediate-phase bitumen matter from coal liquefaction residuals and application thereof. The method comprises the following steps of: adding coal liquefaction residual powder and an extraction solvent to a stirring kettle together for extraction to obtain extraction liquid and extraction residues; carrying out solid-liquid separation on the obtained extraction liquid and extraction residues; carrying out steam stripping on the obtained extraction residues, and recovering an organic phase after oil-water separation; mixing the extraction liquid with the organic phase, and then delivering into a solvent recovery unit; recovering the extraction solvent for recycling use or being returned to a liquefaction productprocessing unit by using a distillation method and/or an evaporation method, wherein residuals obtained after the extraction solvent is recovered are liquefaction residual extractives; delivering theobtained liquefaction residual extractives into a heat treatment unit, and separating the heavy liquefaction oil from the intermediate-phase bitumen matter by using a heating dry distillation method;and adding the obtained heavy liquefaction oil and other recycling solvents in a direct liquefaction process to a coal liquefaction solvent hydrogenation unit together.

This invention relates to a dearomatized asphalt. More particularly, an asphalt is extracted with a aromatic extraction solvent to produce an asphalt-rich phase and a solvent rich phase. The asphalt rich phase is stripped of solvent to produce dearomatized asphalt that has superior properties for paving and roofing applications.

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.

The invention discloses a preparation method of mesophase carbon microspheres from coal liquefaction residues serving as raw materials, which comprises the following steps of: firstly carrying out solvent extraction on the coal liquefaction residues, then carrying out a series of processing to obtain refined asphalt with different contents of quinoline insoluble substances, and carrying out thermal polycondensation reaction on the refined asphalt in the presence of a chemical auxiliary agent and a nucleating accelerator at the temperature of 380-450 DEG C, the pressure of 0-5 MPa and the stirring rotation speed of 40-500 r/min for 1-20 hours to obtain the mesophase microspheres. According to the invention, the chemical auxiliary agent and the nucleating accelerator can be added during theheat treatment process to improve the yield and narrow the particle size distribution of the mesophase carbon microbeads, and the mesophase carbon microspheres are prepared from the coal liquefactionresidues serving as the raw materials and have the advantages of low cost, simple preparation process, high yield (up to 35%), narrow particle size distribution, good sphericity, etc.

A fuel is produced from bitumen by precipitating a substantial portion of asphaltenes from bitumen by contacting the bitumen with a lower alkane solvent. Suitable burners include a fluidized bed boiler, a circulating fluidized bed boiler and a pitch boiler which utilize either pre-combustion sulfur sorbents or post-combustion flue gas desulfurization. The sulfur in emissions can be used to produce sulfuric acid. The process uses a low cost fuel, generates steam, power and sulfuric acid and meets all emission requirements for SO_2, NO_x and PM.

The process of the present invention is directed to the desulfurization of a sulfur-containing hydrocarbon stream with a membrane contactor, where sulfur compounds are concentrated in a sulfur-rich stream on a permeate side of the membrane using an extractive liquid, and a sulfur-lean stream is recovered as a retentate. The sulfur-rich stream, which has a small volume relative to the original hydrocarbon stream, is conveyed to a recovery zone to recover extractive liquid, and the remaining hydrocarbon stream having an increased concentration of sulfur compounds is passed to a downstream desulfurization apparatus or system, such as a hydrotreating system, to recover the hydrocarbons associated with the organosulfur compounds.

A process and apparatus to extract and recover heavy metals and sulfur from crude oil or petroleum fuel products including the steps of emulsifying the crude oil with an emulsifying agent, adding a leach solution to the emulsified crude oil and leaching the emulsified crude oil at elevated temperature and pressure to give a leached emulsified crude oil. The leach solution may be acid or alkali. A proportion of the leach solution is extracted for recovering heavy metals. There can also be a microwave hydro-treating step using hydrogen gas at a temperature below 220° C. to ensure there is no quality degradation in the crude feed to produce a desulfurized crude oil and a hydrogen sulphide by-product and recovering sulfur from the hydrogen sulphide by-product.

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 relates to an extraction method of direct coal liquefaction residues and application of extracts. The extraction method comprises the following steps: a) adding coal liquefaction residue powder and a first extraction solvent to a stirred tank to undergo primary extraction; b) carrying out solid-liquid separation on the extracted mixture obtained in the step a) and recovering the first extraction solvent from the obtained liquid in a solvent recovery unit and recycling the first extraction solvent; c) obtaining extracts after recovering the first solvent and mixing the extracts with a second extraction solvent to undergo secondary extraction; d) carrying out solid-liquid separation on the extracted mixture obtained in the step c), obtaining heavy liquefied oil after recovering the second extraction solvent from the obtained liquid in the solvent recovery unit and then carrying out moderate hydrogenation on the heavy liquefied oil and other recycled solvents in a coal liquefaction solvent hydrogenation unit and using the product as the recycled solvent in the coal liquefaction process; and e) carrying out heat treatment on the asphaltic substances obtained in the step d) by heating and carbonizing to obtain mesophase asphalt and oils.

The present invention is a system and method for steam production for oil production. The method includes generating steam, mixing the steam with water containing solids and organics, separating solids, and injecting the steam through an injection well or using it above ground for oil recovery, such as for generating hot process water. The system includes a steam drive direct contact steam generator. The water feed of the present invention can be hot produced water separated from a produced oil emulsion and/or low quality water salvaged from industrial plants, such as refineries and tailings from an oilsands mine.

A method of recovering hydrocarbons from hydrocarbonaceous materials can include forming a constructed permeability control infrastructure. This constructed infrastructure defines a substantially encapsulated volume having substantially permeable side walls and a substantially impermeable cap. A comminuted hydrocarbonaceous material can be introduced into the control infrastructure to form a permeable body of hydrocarbonaceous material. The permeable body can be heated sufficient to remove hydrocarbons therefrom without contamination or substantial leaching of materials outside of the impoundment. During heating the hydrocarbonaceous material is substantially stationary as the constructed infrastructure is a fixed structure. Removed hydrocarbons can be collected for further processing, use in the process, and/or use as recovered.

The invention provides a technology for preparing a needle coke raw material from coal-tar pitch. The technology comprises the following steps of 1, fully mixing asphalt and a solvent, and removing insoluble substances in the mixture by a physical separation method, wherein the solvent is a mixture of coal light oil and coal aromatic oil or is a mixture of BTX and coal aromatic oil; a mass ratio of the coal light oil or the BTX to the coal aromatic oil is in a range of (20: 80) to (95: 5); and a mass ratio of the solvent to the asphalt is in a range of 0.5 to 10, 2, feeding a clear liquor without the insoluble substances into a separator, and separating the light solvent from the clear liquor to obtain a heavy fraction having low QI, and 3, carrying out hydrotreatment on the heavy fraction in the presence of a hydrogenation catalyst at a temperature of 300 to 450 DEG C under the pressure of 5 to 20MPa. The needle coke raw material obtained by the technology has low sulfur content and a small expansion coefficient.

The invention discloses a novel process for eliminating quinoline insoluble substances in a coal tar medium temperature pitch. The invention comprises the following steps: using the coal tar pitch as raw material, mixing with a solvent according to a certain proportion, and continuous extracting and settling separation for the settling separation of the quinoline insoluble substances in the pitch to obtain a clarified liquid and sediments. The invention is characterized in that the coal tar pitch material uses the coal tar medium temperature pitch; the coal tar medium temperature pitch and a mixed solvent of an aromatic hydrocarbon solvent and an aliphatic hydrocarbon solvent according to a certain proportion are preheated and respectively sent to a multi-level static mixer for even mix according to a proportion of 1:0.8-1.2 by weight to produce a mixing oil; and the continuous extracting and settling separation is carried out for eliminating the quinoline insoluble substances in the coal tar medium temperature pitch. Since the technical proposal is used, the invention has low cost and high separation efficiency, and the refine pitch after clarifying fully satisfies the requirement of producing needle coke or as an impregnant pitch.

The invention relates to an improved bitumen recovery process. The process includes adding water to a bitumen-froth/solvent system containing asphaltenes and mineral solids. The addition of water in droplets increases the settling rate of asphaltenes and mineral solids to more effectively treat the bitumen for pipeline transport, further enhancement, refining, or any other application of reduced-solids bitumen.

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.

A process for stabilization of heavy hydrocarbons to reduce sludge formation in storage tanks and/or transportation lines and to enhance the hydrocarbon yield includes mixing a paraffinic or heavy naphtha solvent having carbon numbers in the range 10 to 20 with the feedstock to solvent-flocculate a relatively small, predetermined portion of asphaltenes present in the feedstock, separating and flashing the sediment to recover a light hydrocarbon fraction, flashing the heavy hydrocarbon/solvent phase and recycling the solvent to stabilize the heavy hydrocarbons without significantly affecting the yield of valuable products.

A method and apparatus for upgrading a hydrocarbon feedstock is provided. The method includes the steps of (a) supplying a hydrocarbon feedstock to an oxidation reactor, wherein the hydrocarbon feedstock is oxidized in the presence of a catalyst under conditions sufficient to selectively oxidize sulfur compounds present in the hydrocarbon feedstock; (c) separating the hydrocarbons and the oxidized sulfur compounds by solvent extraction; (d) collecting a residue stream that includes the oxidized sulfur compounds; and (e) supplying the residue stream to a deasphalting unit.

The invention relates to a continuous sedimentation process for production of needle coke. Under the continuous condition of in-out materials, the process carries out settling separation on an insoluble substance of quinoline to obtain a qualified light phase of the insoluble substance of the quinoline. The mixed ratio of an aliphatic solvent to an aromatic solvent is (0.6-1.2) to 1; the mixed ratio of a mixed solvent to soft coal-tar asphalt is (0.6-1.2) to 1; the mixed oil is pumped into settling separation equipment by a pump for the settling separation; light liquid slowly rises; and after the insoluble substance of the quinoline reaches the requirement, the light liquid is continuously discharged from the upper part and distilled to obtain refined asphalt. The continuous sedimentation process has the advantages that the prior intermittent sedimentation process is improved into the continuous sedimentation process, namely the in-out materials are processed under the continuous operating condition. The continuous operation can simplify operation, reduce equipment, the floor space and the blocking of the equipment, and is favorable for long-period operation of the process.

Disclosed is an apparatus for extracting sulfur compounds from a hydrocarbon stream. A prewash section for converting hydrogen sulfide to sodium sulfide by reaction with an alkali such as caustic prepares the hydrocarbon stream for extraction. Spent alkali is continuously withdrawn and regenerated alkali is continuously added to the prewash section.

Systems and methods are provided for low emission (in-situ) heavy oil production, using a compound heat medium, comprising products of combustion of a fuel mixture with an oxidant and a moderator, mixed with steam generated from direct contact of hot combustion products with water, under pressure. The compound heat medium, comprising mainly CO² and steam, is injected at pressure into a hydrocarbon reservoir, where steam condenses out of the compound heat medium releasing heat to the reservoir. The condensate is produced with the hydrocarbon as a hydrocarbon/water mixture or emulsion. Non-condensable gases, primarily CO², from the compound heat medium may remains in the reservoir through void replacement, leakage to adjacent geological strata. Beneficially, any CO² produced is recovered at pressure, for use in other processes, or for disposal by sequestration. Produced water is recovered and recycled as a moderator and steam generating medium.