Shale oil with ICR

Figure 2. Hydrogen consumption vs. product nitrogen in the hydrotreat-ing of whole shale oil with ICR 106. Small pilot plant (O), about 1850 psia. Large pilot plant (U), about 1550 psia (A), approximately 1800 psia and (V), about 1650 psia.

Figure 3. Hydrotreating of shale oil with ICR 106 0.6 LHSV 8000 scf/bbl recycle gas rate.

This first run with ICR 106 catalyst was shut down at 2000 hr on stream when a plug consisting of iron and arsenic deposits from the shale oil developed in the preheat section of the reactor. (In this first test, a guard bed to remove these metals was not provided.) To prepare sufficient feedstock for downstream processing studies, a larger-scale, 3500-hr pilot plant run was made with 650 mL of ICR 106 catalyst-. 

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