Title: Heavy oil project pushed at complex refinery
Abstract: A process description is given of a reduced crude conversion (RCC) refinery with a 40,000 b/d capacity. The process design basis is to process 40,000 b/d 650/sup +//sup 0/ F. untreated atmospheric reduced crude oil comparable to that from Arabian light crude oil. Specific feedstock qualities are: 18.6/sup 0/ APl, 2.7 wt% sulfur, 5.8 wt% Ramsbottom carbon, and 35 ppm nickel plus vanadium metals. Design conversion is 78%. Design RCC gasoline yield of 51% in addition to propylene and butylene yields of 21% as alkylation unit feedstock give a total gasoline potential of 69% of the feed to the RCC Unit after netting out additional isobutane feedstock for the alkylation process. This process will be applied to a wide range of crude oils, extending the flexibility of the refinery with regard to crude oil supply operations. The RCC technology has been demonstrated to be technically feasible for crude oils containing 70 ppm Ni +V and 5.8% Ramsbottom carbon in the atmospheric reduced crude oil. 8 refs.
Publication Year: 1982
Publication Date: 1982-03-22
Language: en
Type: article
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