Feedstock effects

J. Scherzer and d.P. McArthur "Catalytic Cracking of High Nitrogen Petroleum Feedstocks Effect of Catalyst Composition and Properties", Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 1988, 27, p 1571-1576. 

A significant effort in conqparing feedstock effects on product oil composition was reported by Russell et al. (9). Unfortunately,... 

Fadhlullah, M., Widiyanto, N.B., et al., 2015. The potential of nyamplung Calophyllum ino-phyllum L.) seed oil as biodiesel feedstock effect of seed moisture content and particle size on oil yield. In Bakar, R.B.A., Froome, C. (Eds.), 2nd International Conference on Sustainable Energy Engineering and Application, 68. Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, pp. 177-185. 

Ho (2003) applied partial least squares method on a multivariate nXp matrix denoted by X = where n = 13 was the number of feedstocks and p = 24 was the number of descriptors, that is, physical and chemical properties such as sulfur content, nitrogen content, aromatics content, API gravity, and dibenzothiophenes content. He arrived at an overall property-reactivity correlation, which allowed gaining quantitative understanding of feedstock effects on HDS of middle distillates. 

Coal is expected to be the best domestic feedstock alternative to natural gas. Although coal-based ammonia plants have been built elsewhere, there is no such plant in the United States. Pilot-scale projects have demonstrated effective ammonia-from-coal technology (102). The cost of ammonia production can be anticipated to increase, lea ding to increases in the cost of producing nitrogen fertilizers. 

The main difference between gas works and coke oven practice is that, in a gas works, maximum gas yield is a primary consideration whereas in the coke works the quality of the coke is the first consideration. These effects are obtained by choice of a coal feedstock that is suitable to the task. For example, use of lower volatile coals in coke ovens, compared to coals used in gas works, produces lower yields of gas when operating at the same temperatures. In addition, the choice of heating (carbonizing) conditions and the type of retort also play a principal role (10,35). 

Process Pa.ra.meters, The most notable effects ia gasifiers are those of pressure (Fig. 1) and coal character. Some initial processiag of the coal feedstock maybe requited. The type and degree of pretreatment is a function of the process and/or the type of coal (see Coal conversion processes, CLEANING AND DESULFURIZATION). 

Friedel-Crafts (Lewis) acids have been shown to be much more effective in the initiation of cationic polymerization when in the presence of a cocatalyst such as water, alkyl haUdes, and protic acids. Virtually all feedstocks used in the synthesis of hydrocarbon resins contain at least traces of water, which serves as a cocatalyst. The accepted mechanism for the activation of boron trifluoride in the presence of water is shown in equation 1 (10). Other Lewis acids are activated by similar mechanisms. In a more general sense, water may be replaced by any appropriate electron-donating species (eg, ether, alcohol, alkyl haUde) to generate a cationic intermediate and a Lewis acid complex counterion. 

Synthesis ofp-Ethyltoluene. j )i7n7-Ethyltoluene, the feedstock for j )-methylstyrene, is difficult to separate from the products of toluene alkylation with ethane using conventional acidic catalysts. The unique configurational diffusion effect of ZSM-5 permits -dialkylbenzenes to be produced in one step. In the alkylation of toluene with ethene over a chemically modified ZSM-5, -ethyltoluene is obtained at 97% purity (58). 

In addition to these principal commercial uses of molybdenum catalysts, there is great research interest in molybdenum oxides, often supported on siHca, ie, MoO —Si02, as partial oxidation catalysts for such processes as methane-to-methanol or methane-to-formaldehyde (80). Both O2 and N2O have been used as oxidants, and photochemical activation of the MoO catalyst has been reported (81). The research is driven by the increased use of natural gas as a feedstock for Hquid fuels and chemicals (82). Various heteropolymolybdates (83), MoO.-containing ultrastable Y-zeoHtes (84), and certain mixed metal molybdates, eg, MnMoO Ee2(MoO)2, photoactivated CuMoO, and ZnMoO, have also been studied as partial oxidation catalysts for methane conversion to methanol or formaldehyde (80) and for the oxidation of C-4-hydrocarbons to maleic anhydride (85). Heteropolymolybdates have also been shown to effect ethylene (qv) conversion to acetaldehyde (qv) in a possible replacement for the Wacker process. 

Acid mixtures containing nitric acid and a strong acid, eg, sulfuric acid, perchloric acid, selenic acid, hydrofluoric acid, boron trifluoride, or an ion-exchange resin containing sulfonic acid groups, can be used as the nitrating feedstock for ionic nitrations. These strong acids are catalysts that result in the formation of nitronium ions, NO" 2- Sulfuric acid is almost always used industrially since it is both effective and relatively inexpensive. 

Utilisa tion of shale oil products for petrochemical production has been studied (47—51). The effects of prerefining on product yields for steam pyrolysis of shale oil feed and the suitabiUty of Green River shale oil as a petrochemical feedstock were investigated. Pyrolysis was carried out on the whole oil, vacuum distillate, and mildly, moderately, and severely hydrogenated vacuum distillates. 

Petroleum refining, also called petroleum processing, is the recovery and/or generation of usable or salable fractions and products from cmde oil, either by distillation or by chemical reaction of the cmde oil constituents under the effects of heat and pressure. Synthetic cmde oil, produced from tar sand (oil sand) bitumen, and heavier oils are also used as feedstocks in some refineries. Heavy oil conversion (1), as practiced in many refineries, does not fall into the category of synthetic fuels (syncmde) production. In terms of Hquid fuels from coal and other carbonaceous feedstocks, such as oil shale (qv), the concept of a synthetic fuels industry has diminished over the past several years as being uneconomical in light of current petroleum prices. 

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