Oil feedstocks

This type of study, applied over all the cuts, enables the refinery flow scheme to be defined in order to satisfy a given set of market conditions starting from one or more crude oil feedstocks. 

Farbwerke Hoechst AG and Hbls AG have cooperated in the development of industrial-scale plasma units up to 10,000 kW (7). Yields of acetylene of 40—50 wt % with naphtha feedstock, and about 27 wt % with cmde oil feedstock, have been obtained. Acetylene concentration in the cracked gas is in the 10—15 vol % range. 

Asphalts are usually specified in several grades for the same industry, differing in hardness or viscosity (95). However, with the changing nature and composition of cmde oil feedstocks over the past two decades, performance and supply factors are also an important consideration (95). 

Deep C t lytic Crocking. This process is a variation of fluid catalytic cracking. It uses heavy petroleum fractions, such as heavy vacuum gas oil, to produce propylene- and butylene-rich gaseous products and an aromatic-rich Hquid product. The Hquid product contains predorninantiy ben2ene, toluene, and xylene (see BTX processing). This process is being developed by SINOPEC in China (42,73). SINOPEC is currentiy converting one of its fluid catalytic units into a demonstration unit with a capacity of 60,000 t/yr of vacuum gas oil feedstock. 

While several other processes have been developed to convert natural gas to liquid fuels (GTL), these technologies are generally uneconomical composed to using the crude oil feedstocks. About one-third of the energy in natural gas is lost in converting it into liquid fuels, so highly distressed gas prices or government subsidies are needed for GTL to be competitive. 

The first step in E-cat testing is to bum the carbon off the sample. The sample is then placed in a MAT unit (Figure 3-13), the heart of which is a fixed bed reactor. A certain amount of a standard gas oil feedstock is injected into the hot bed of catalyst. The activity i.s reported as the conversion to 430°F (221°C) material. The feedstock s quality, reactor temperature, catalyst-to-oil ratio, and space velocity are four variables affecting MAT results. Each catalyst vendor uses slightly different operating variables to conduct micro activity testing, as indicated in Table 3-2. 

The first engines invented by Rudolf Diesel ran on groundnut oil, but because of the advent of relatively cheap oil this type of biodiesel never became commercially viable. Since about 1930 the diesel engine has been refined and fine tuned to run on the diesel fraction of crude oil, which consists mainly of saturated hydrocarbons. For this reason the modem diesel engine cannot run satisfactorily on a pure vegetable oil feedstock because of problems of high viscosity, deposit formation in the injection system and poor cold-start properties. Today, however, environmental... 

Biodiesel is a fuel derived from renewable natural resources such as soybean and rapeseed and consists of alkyl esters derived from transesterification of triglycerides with methanol. In spite of all the advantages of biodiesel, such as low emissiotts, biodegradability, non-toxicity, and lubricity, the major hurdle in penetration of biodiesel is its high cost because of the expensive food grade refined vegetable oil feedstock. 

A plant is to be designed to produce 20 million standard cubic feet per day (0.555 x 106 standard m3/day) of hydrogen of at least 95 per cent purity. The process to be employed is the partial oxidation of oil feedstock.1-3... 

Heavy fuel oil feedstock of viscosity 900 seconds Redwood One (2.57 x 10-4 m2/s) at 100°F with the following analysis ... 

Heavy fuel oil feedstock is delivered into the suction of metering-type ram pumps which feed it via a steam preheater into the combustor of a refractory-lined flame reactor. The feedstock must be heated to 200°C in the preheater to ensure efficient atomisation in the combustor. A mixture of oxygen and steam is also fed to the combustor, the oxygen being preheated in a separate steam preheater to 210°C before being mixed with the reactant steam. 

The carbon produced in the flame reaction, and which is subsequently removed as carbon suspension in water, amounts to 1.5 per cent by weight of the fuel oil feedstock charge. Some H2S present in the crude gas is removed by contact with the quench water. 

The importance of heteroatom removal from crude oil feedstocks has therefore directed most of the R D investments toward the design of more efficient heterogeneous catalysts for the reactions in Equations (12), (13), (14), (15). A considerable contribution to a better understanding of the HDS and HDN mechanism has been provided by homogeneous studies involving soluble metal complexes.161,162... 

COIL [Concurrent oil] A process for concurrently hydrogenating coal and heavy oil feedstocks. Developed by Hydrocarbon Research. 

Dynacracking A petroleum cracking process which combines the best features of the "catalytic cracking and Thermal cracking processes. It converts heavy oil feedstocks to fuel gas, gasoline, and fuel oil. No catalyst is used. Developed in the 1950s by Hydrocarbon Research, but not commercialized. 

Fig. 19.3. Example of high-resolution experiments on complex mixtures, showing the multiple elemental compositions possible at a single nominal mass. Top panel four elemental compositions at m/z 225 in the positive ion electrospray mass spectrum of a diesel oil feedstock (from Wu et al. [17]). Bottom panel multiple compositions at m/z 455 in the negative ion electrospray spectrum of olive oil (from Marshall et al. [18]).

The results as shown in Figure 4.19 suggest that there is no source relationship between MW-2 and MW-4. The enrichment of heavy 13C carbon isotope in MW-4 may be attributed to the presence of heavy refined product, originating from an isotopically heavy rich (rich in 13C) crude oil feedstock mixture. 

The sulfur content varies from about 0.1 wt% to about 3 wt% for the more conventional crude oils to as much as 5 to 6% for heavy oil and bitumen. Depending on the sulfur content of the crude oil feedstock, residua, may be of the same order or even have a substantially higher sulfur content. 

The properties of the West Texas Gas Oil feedstock used are given in Table II. 

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