Chevron Richmond Plant

Wax Cracking. One or more wax-cracked a-olefin plants were operated from 1962 to 1985 Chevron had two such plants at Richmond, California, and Shell had three in Europe. The wax-cracked olefins were of limited commercial value because they contained internal olefins, branched olefins, diolefins, aromatics, and paraffins. These were satisfactory for feed to alkyl benzene plants and for certain markets, but unsatisfactory for polyethylene comonomers and several other markets. Typical distributions were C 33% C q, 7% 25% and 35%. Since both odd and... 

Figure 20 EBMUD North Richmond Reclamation Plant process flow schematic. The tertiary treated wastewater is reused in the Richmond Chevron refinery as cooling tower makeup. (From Ref. 75.)...

Chevron s 1978 decision to build a lube hydrocracking plant at their Richmond, California, refinery was based on the same or similar factors that led others to this... 

FIGURE 7.12 Plant schematic for Chevron s Richmond, California, lube plant when started. Source T. R. Farrell and J. A. Zakarian, Lube Facility Makes High-Quality Lube Oil from Low-Quality Feed, Oil and Gas Journal May 19 47-51 (1986). With permission. 

Properties of Alaskan North Slope Feeds to Chevron s Richmond, California, Lube Plant... 

In 1983, Chevron s Richmond Lube Oil Project (RLOP), just outside San Francisco, came online producing 9000 bpd light, medium, and heavy lubes via an all-hydroprocessing route.24-25 The plant schematic is shown in Figure 10.12 and is described in more detail in Chapter 7. 

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