Process and Apparatus for Integrated Heavy Oil Upgrading

a technology of heavy oil and process equipment, applied in the field of crude oil process and equipment for treatment, can solve the problems of poor hydrocracking conversion, low reactivity, and high coking tendency, and achieve the effects of improving the performance of all three processes, minimizing coke production, and maximizing or optimizing gasoline yield
US20090127161A1Inactive Publication Date: 2009-05-21UOP LLC
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US · United States
Current Assignee / Owner
UOP LLC
Publication Date
2009-05-21
Estimated Expiration
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Abstract

A process and apparatus is disclosed for converting heavy hydrocarbon feed into lighter hydrocarbon products. The heavy hydrocarbon feed is slurried with a particulate solid material to form a heavy hydrocarbon slurry and hydrocracked to produce vacuum gas oil (VGO). A light portion of the VGO may be hydrotreated and subjected to fluid catalytic cracking to produce fuels such as gasoline. A heavy portion of the VGO may be recycled to the slurry hydrocracking reactor. FCC slurry oil may be recycled to the slurry for hydrocracking.
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BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

[0001] This invention relates to a process and apparatus for the treatment of crude oils and, more particularly, to the hydroconversion of heavy hydrocarbons in the presence of additives and catalysts to provide useable products and further prepare feedstock for refining in a fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) unit.

[0002] Hydroconversion processes for the conversion of heavy hydrocarbon oils to light and intermediate naphthas of good quality and for reforming feedstocks, fuel oil and gas oil are well known. These heavy hydrocarbon oils can be such materials as petroleum crude oil, atmospheric tower bottoms products, vacuum tower bottoms products, heavy cycle oils, shale oils, coal derived liquids, crude oil residuum, topped crude oils and the heavy bituminous oils extracted from oil sands. Of particular interest are the oils extracted from oil sands and which contain wide boiling range materials from naphthas through kerosene, gas oil, pitch, etc., and which con...

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