| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 208067000 | First stage is thermal or catalytic cracking | 63 |
| 20090159496 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF HEATING A FLUID CATALYTIC CRACKING UNIT FOR OVERALL CO2 REDUCTION - In at least one embodiment of the present invention, a method of heating a FCC unit having a regenerator and a reactor for over CO | 06-25-2009 |
| 20090159497 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PRODUCING HEAT IN A FLUID CATALYTIC CRACKING UNIT - Systems and methods of reducing refinery carbon dioxide emissions by increasing synthesis gas production in a fluid catalytic cracking unit having a reactor and a regenerator are disclosed. In one example, a method comprises separating spent catalyst from a hydrocarbon product in the reactor, the spent catalyst having trapped hydrocarbon thereon. The method further comprises reacting an additional feed with the spent catalyst in the reactor to deposit additional coke on the spent catalyst, defining a gas product. The method further separating the gas product and the trapped hydrocarbon from the spent catalyst with a stripping gas. The method further comprises removing coke from the spent catalyst in the regenerator, thereby increasing the amount of synthesis gas production. | 06-25-2009 |
| 20090166253 | PROCESS FOR UPGRADING ATMOSPHERIC RESIDUES - Systems and methods for processing one or more hydrocarbons are provided. One or more hydrocarbon feedstocks can be selectively separated to provide one or more light deasphalted oils. At least a portion of the light deasphalted oil can be hydrocracked to provide one or more hydrocarbon products. | 07-02-2009 |
| 20090166254 | HEAVY OIL UPGRADER - Systems and methods for processing one or more hydrocarbons are provided. One or more hydrocarbons can be selectively separated to provide one or more heavy deasphalted oils. At least a portion of the heavy deasphalted oil can be thermally cracked to provide one or more lighter hydrocarbon products. | 07-02-2009 |
| 20090166255 | Olefin production utilizing whole crude oil/condensate feedstock with a partitioned vaporization unit - A method for thermally cracking a feed composed of whole crude oil and/or natural gas condensate using a partitioned vaporizer to gasify the feed before cracking same. | 07-02-2009 |
| 20090218255 | RECYCLE OF OLEFINIC NAPHTHAS BY REMOVING AROMATICS - Systems and processes for producing one or more olefins. A feed containing 90% by weight or more C | 09-03-2009 |
| 20090255852 | Process and Apparatus for Upgrading Steam Cracked Tar Using Steam - A process and apparatus are provided for upgrading steam cracked tars. The invention also relates to a steam cracking process and apparatus for reducing the yields of tars produced from steam cracking while increasing yields of higher value products, heating, in the presence of steam, cooled steam cracker tar containing asphaltenes, to a temperature, e.g., above about 300° C., which is sufficient to convert at least a portion of the steam cracked tar to lower boiling molecules. The resulting heat and steam-treated tar can be separated into gas oil, fuel oil and tar streams. | 10-15-2009 |
| 20090294328 | INTEGRATED SOLVEN DEASPHALTING AND GASIFICATION - Systems and methods for processing hydrocarbons are provided. A hydrocarbon containing one or more asphaltenes and one or more non-asphaltenes can be mixed with a solvent. The ratio of the solvent to the hydrocarbon can be about 2:1 to about 10:1. The asphaltenes can be selectively separated from the non-asphaltenes. A portion of the asphaltenes can be vaporized in the presence of gasified hydrocarbons and combustion gas. A portion of the asphaltenes can be cracked at a temperature sufficient to provide a cracked gas. Liquid asphaltenes, solid asphaltenes, or both can be deposited onto one or more solids to provide one or more hydrocarbon containing solids. The cracked gas can be selectively separated from the hydrocarbon containing solids. A portion of the hydrocarbon containing solids can be combusted to provide the combustion gas. The hydrocarbon containing solids can be gasified to provide the gasified hydrocarbons and to regenerate the solids. | 12-03-2009 |
| 20100147744 | UNIT, SYSTEM AND PROCESS FOR CATALYTIC CRACKING - One exemplary embodiment can be a fluid catalytic cracking unit. The fluid catalytic cracking unit can include a first riser, a second riser, and a disengagement zone. The first riser can be adapted to receive a first feed terminating at a first reaction vessel having a first volume. The second riser may be adapted to receive a second feed terminating at a second reaction vessel having a second volume. Generally, the first volume is greater than the second volume. What is more, the disengagement zone can be for receiving a first mixture including at least one catalyst and one or more products from the first reaction vessel, and a second mixture including at least one catalyst and one or more products from the second reaction vessel. Typically, the first mixture is isolated from the second mixture. | 06-17-2010 |
| 20110155634 | PROCESS FOR UPGRADING FCC PRODUCT WITH ADDITIONAL REACTOR WITH CATALYST RECYCLE - A process is disclosed for contacting feed with mixed catalyst in a secondary reactor that is incorporated into an FCC reactor. The mixed catalyst used in the secondary reactor is regenerated catalyst from a regenerator that regenerates spent catalyst from an FCC reactor that is mixed with spent catalyst from either the FCC reactor or the secondary reactor. The mixing of spent and regenerated catalyst reduces the catalyst temperature and tempers catalyst activity to inhibit both thermal and catalytic cracking reactions. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110284425 | Hydrocarbonaceous Material Upgrading Method - A hydrocarbonaceous material upgrading method may involve a novel combination of heating, vaporizing and chemically reacting hydrocarbonaceous feedstock that is substantially unpumpable at pipeline conditions, and condensation of vapors yielded thereby, in order to upgrade that feedstock to a hydrocarbonaceous material condensate that meets crude oil pipeline specification. | 11-24-2011 |
| 20120067775 | Two-stage, close-coupled, dual-catalytic heavy oil hydroconversion process - A process for the production of high yields of high quality products from heavy hydrocarbonaceous feedstock is provided comprising a two-stage, close-coupled process, wherein the first stage comprises a thermal-catalytic zone into which is introduced a mixture comprising the feedstock, coal, dispersed catalyst, and hydrogen; and the second, close-coupled stage comprises a catalytic-hydrotreating zone into which substantially all the effluent from the first stage is directly passed and processed under hydrotreating conditions. | 03-22-2012 |
| 20160017241 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR OBTAINING LONG CHAIN CARBONS FROM PETROLEUM BASED OIL - Methods and system for obtaining long chain carbons that generally include forming a conversion mixture of an alcohol and a base, adding the conversion mixture to oil (such as petroleum based oil, crude oil, used oil, used motor oil, and new motor oil) to form a reaction mixture, adding a high nitrate compound the reaction mixture, and separating out the long chain carbons for use as an input by other processing such as pharmaceutical and/or additional petro-chemical processing. Additional cooling and/or filtering processes may be utilized to complete and/or optimize oil conversion. | 01-21-2016 |
| 208068000 | With subsequent hydrocracking | 13 |
| 20090050523 | Olefin production utilizing whole crude oil/condensate feedstock and selective hydrocracking - A method for thermally cracking a feed composed of whole crude oil and/or natural gas condensate using a vaporizer to vaporize the feed before cracking same, recovering pyrolysis gas oil from the cracked feed, subjecting the recovered pyrolysis gas oil to hydrocracking to form a paraffinic hydrocracked product, and passing at least part of the hydrocracked product to the vaporizer as additional thermal cracking feed. | 02-26-2009 |
| 20090288987 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND CATALYSTS FOR PRODUCING A CRUDE PRODUCT - Contact of a crude feed with one or more catalysts comprising one or more metals from Column 6 of the Periodic Table produces a total product that includes a crude product. The crude feed contains oxygen and sulfur. The crude product is a liquid mixture at 25° C. and 0.101 MPa and contains at most 90% of the oxygen content of the crude feed and from 70% to 130% of the sulfur content of the crude feed. | 11-26-2009 |
| 20100155295 | Process for Improving Flow Properties of Crude Petroleum - A process and apparatus for improving flow properties of crude may include processing a first crude stream, which may in turn include cracking the first crude stream with catalyst to form a cracked stream and spent catalyst, hydrotreating a portion of the cracked stream and then mixing the hydrotreated stream with an unprocessed second crude stream. | 06-24-2010 |
| 20110073523 | CATALYTIC CONVERSION PROCESS FOR PRODUCING MORE DIESEL AND PROPYLENE - The present invention relates to a catalytic conversion process for producing more diesel and propylene, comprising contacting the feedstock oil with a catalyst having a relatively homogeneous activity in a reactor, wherein the reaction temperature, weight hourly space velocity and weight ratio of the catalyst/feedstock oil are sufficient to obtain a reaction product containing from 12 to 60% by weight of a fluid catalytic cracking gas oil relative to the weight of the feedstock oil; the fluid catalytic cracking gas oil is fed into the fluid catalytic cracking gas oil treatment device for further processing. Catalytic cracking, hydrogenation, solvent extraction, hydrocracking and process for producing more diesel are organically combined together, and hydrocarbons such as alkanes, alkyl side chains in the feedstocks for catalysis are selectively cracked and isomerized. Meanwhile, aromatics in the feedstocks, which enter into the diesel fraction, are minimized, and the retention of other components in the diesel fraction by the production of aromatics via the reaction such as aromatization and the like is avoided. While the feedstocks are converted into high cetane number diesel and propylene, the yields of dry gas and coke are significantly reduced, and the breaking tendency and consumption of the catalyst are decreased. | 03-31-2011 |
| 20110174682 | Compression Reactor And Process For Hydroprocessing - The present invention is directed to a process for hydroprocessing of a liquid hydrocarbon feedstock, comprising: (a) mixing liquid, partially vaporized and/or vaporized hydrocarbon feedstock with molecular hydrogen; (b) feeding said mixture into a compression reactor; (c) compressing said mixture to a pressure, a temperature and for a residence time sufficient to: i) thermally crack at least a portion of hydrocarbon molecules in said hydrocarbon feedstock, and ii) react hydrogen in the presence of a hydrogenation catalyst with unstable portions of the cracked molecules, forming a hydroprocessed product; and (d) expanding said mixture to reduce the pressure and temperature thereby reducing subsequent undesirable reactions. | 07-21-2011 |
| 20130001129 | CATALYTIC CONVERSION METHOD FOR INCREASING CETANE NUMBER BARREL OF DIESEL - A catalytic conversion process for increasing the cetane number barrel of diesel, in which contacting the feedstock oil with a catalytic cracking catalyst having a relatively homogeneous activity containing mainly the large pore zeolites in a catalytic conversion reactor, wherein the reaction temperature, residence time of oil vapors and weight ratio of the catalyst/feedstock oil are sufficient to obtain a reaction product containing from about 12 to about 60% by weight of a fluid catalytic cracking gas oil relative to the weight of the feedstock oil and containing a diesel; the reaction temperature ranges from about 420° C. to about 550° C.; the residence time of oil vapors ranges from about 0.1 to about 5 seconds; the weight ratio of the catalytic cracking catalyst/feedstock oil is about 1-about 10. The fluid catalytic cracking gas oil is fed into other unit for further treatment or is fed back to the initial catalytic conversion reactor. The process allows the maximum production of high cetane number diesel, the cracking catalyst having a coarse particle size distribution can further improve the selectivity of dry gas and coke, and can reduce the breaking tendency of the catalyst and the consumption of the catalyst. | 01-03-2013 |
| 20130087483 | INTEGRATED CATALYTIC CRACKING AND REFORMING PROCESSES TO IMPROVE P-XYLENE PRODUCTION - A process for maximizing p-xylene production includes producing a naphtha fraction and a light cycle oil fraction from a fluid catalytic cracking zone. These fractions are combined and hydrotreated. Fractionation of the hydrotreated product makes a hydrocracker feed that is sent to a hydrocracking zone to make a naphtha cut and a hydrocracker product. The hydrocracker product is recycled back to the fractionation zone, and the naphtha cut is dehydrogenated in a dehydrogenation zone to make aromatics. Reforming catalyst from a catalyst regenerator moves downward through the dehydrogenation zone. Straight run naphtha and raffinate from the aromatics unit are introduced to an additional series of reforming zones. The reforming catalyst moves in parallel through the first reforming zone and the dehydrogenation zones, then is combined for entry to the second and subsequent reforming zones prior to regeneration. | 04-11-2013 |
| 20130292298 | Catalytic Cracking Method and Apparatus - Disclosed are a catalytic cracking method and an apparatus for implementing the method. The catalytic cracking is carried out in a primary reactor and a secondary light material reactor, wherein in a first reaction region of the primary reactor, a regenerated catalyst contacts and reacts with a raw oil, the reaction mixture flows upward, and the catalyst is separated out by a separator; the separated catalyst flows to a stripping section, and the reacted oil gas flows upward along a delivery pipe and enters a second reaction region of the primary reactor; the catalyst to be regenerated from the secondary light material reactor enters the second reaction region of the primary reactor, and is mixed with the reacted oil gas from the first reaction region for further reaction; after the completion of the reaction, the oil gas is separated from the catalyst, and fed to a subsequent fractionation system, and the catalyst flows to the stripping section, is stripped together with the catalyst separated by the separator in the first reaction region, and enters a regenerator for regeneration. By using the apparatus and method disclosed herein, the production distribution and production quality are improved, the project investment is reduced, the energy consumption is lowered, and the implementation of the project is convenient. | 11-07-2013 |
| 20150291894 | PROCESS AND APPARATUS FOR FLUID CATALYTIC CRACKING AND HYDROCRACKING HYDROCARBONS - A process and apparatus for recovering cycle oil from FCC CSO is described. By feeding the additional cycle oil to a hydrocracking unit additional diesel, naphtha and petrochemical feedstock may be obtained. The additional cycle oil is obtained by vacuum separation of the CSO. The described process and apparatus can provide additional recovery for a refiner. | 10-15-2015 |
| 20150291895 | PROCESS AND APPARATUS FOR FLUID CATALYTIC CRACKING AND HYDROCRACKING HYDROCARBONS - A process and apparatus for recovering cycle oil from FCC CSO is described. By feeding the additional cycle oil to a hydrocracking unit additional diesel, naphtha and petrochemical feedstock may be obtained. The additional cycle oil is obtained by vacuum separation of the CSO. The described process and apparatus can provide additional recovery for a refiner. | 10-15-2015 |
| 20150368570 | Pyrolysis Tar Upgrading Using Recycled Product - The invention relates to a process for upgrading pyrolysis tar in the presence of a utility fluid. The utility fluid contains 1-ring and/or 2-ring aromatics and has a final boiling point ≦430° C. The invention also relates to the upgraded pyrolysis tar, and to the use of the upgraded pyrolysis tar, e.g., for fuel oil blending. | 12-24-2015 |
| 20150376515 | INTEGRATED PROCESS FOR CONVERSION OF VACUUM GAS OIL AND HEAVY OIL - An integrated process and apparatus for conversion of gas oil and heavy oil is described. The process includes passing a gas oil feed to a fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) zone to obtain a FCC effluent; separating the FCC effluent in a separation zone into at least two fractions comprising a clarified slurry oil fraction and an overhead fraction; passing the clarified slurry oil fraction to a slurry hydrocracking zone forming at least a naphtha stream; and recycling at least a portion of the slurry hydrocracking naphtha stream to the FCC zone. | 12-31-2015 |
| 20160115404 | PROCESS FOR CONVERTING A VACUUM TOWER BOTTOMS STREAM - A process for improving a recovery from a bottoms stream from a vacuum tower. The bottom stream is passed to a first cracking zone and unconverted material from the first cracking zone is passed to a second cracking zone. The first cracking zone may include a visbreaking reactor. The second cracking zone may include a slurry hydrocracking reactor. | 04-28-2016 |
| 208069000 | With subsequent reforming | 14 |
| 20100213102 | CATALYTIC CONVERSION PROCESS - A catalytic conversion process which comprises catalytic cracking reaction of a hydrocarbon feedstock contacting with a medium pore size zeolite enriched catalyst in a reactor, characterized in that reaction temperature, weight hourly space velocity and catalyst/feedstock ratio by weight are sufficient to achieve a yield of fluid catalytic cracking gas oil between 12% and 60% by weight of said feedstock, wherein said weight hourly space velocity is between 25 h | 08-26-2010 |
| 20130087484 | INTEGRATED CATALYTIC CRACKING GASOLINE AND LIGHT CYCLE OIL HYDROPROCESSING TO MAXIMIZE P-XYLENE PRODUCTION - A process for maximizing p-xylene production begins by producing a naphtha fraction and a light cycle oil fraction from a fluid catalytic cracking zone. The gasoline and light cycle oil fractions are combined and hydrotreated to produce a hydrotreated product. Fractionation of the hydrotreated product in a fractionation zone makes a light ends cut, a naphtha cut, a hydrocracker feed and an unconverted oil fraction. The hydrocracker feed is sent to a hydrocracking zone to make a hydrocracker product, which is then recycled back to the fractionation zone, feeding the hydrocracker product above an outlet for the hydrocracker feed, but below an outlet for the naphtha cut. The naphtha cut goes to a dehydrogenation zone where hydrogen is removed to make aromatics from naphthenes to make a dehydrogenated naphtha. The dehydrogenated naphtha is fed to an aromatics recovery unit to recover p-xylene and other aromatics. | 04-11-2013 |
| 20150060333 | Treatment of Heavy Oils to Reduce Olefin Content - A process for treating heavy oil to provide a treated heavy oil having a reduced density and viscosity, as well as an olefin content that does not exceed 1.0 wt. %. The process comprises separating the initial heavy oil into a first fraction, which in general contains lower-boiling components, and a second fraction. The second fraction comprises a heavy oil having a p-value of at least 5% greater than the p-value of the initial heavy oil prior to separating the initial heavy oil into the first fraction and the second fraction, and the second fraction has an aromaticity that is no more than 5% less than the aromaticity of the initial heavy oil prior to separating the initial heavy oil into the first fraction and the second fraction. The second fraction then is upgraded to reduce the density and viscosity of the heavy oil. After the second fraction is upgraded, it is recombined with at least a portion of the first fraction to provide a treated heavy oil having an olefin content that does not exceed 1.0 wt. %. The separation of the initial heavy oil into first and second fractions enables one to achieve improved reduction of the density and viscosity of the treated heavy oil while maintaining the olefin content at an acceptable level. | 03-05-2015 |
| 208070000 | Catalytic reforming | 11 |
| 20090294329 | PROCESS FOR CATALYTIC CONVERSION OF FISCHER-TROPSCH DERIVED OLEFINS TO DISTILLATES - The invention provides a low aromatic producing process for catalytical conversion of Fisher-Tropsch derived olefins to distillates (COD), which process includes the step of contacting Fisher-Tropsch derived olefins with a zeolyte type catalyst at pressures of more than 50 barg. | 12-03-2009 |
| 20100206771 | PROCESS AND PLANT FOR PRODUCING HYDROCARBONS - For the production of hydrocarbons, in particular C | 08-19-2010 |
| 20110000818 | PROCESS FOR CONVERTING INFERIOR FEEDSTOCK TO HIGH QUALITY FUEL OIL - A catalytic conversion process can convert inferior feedstock to high quality fuel oil and propylene. A inferior feedstock is introduced into first and second reactor zone, wherein the feedstock carry out first step and second step reactions by contacting with catalytic conversion catalyst. Product vapors separate from spent catalyst by gas-solid separation. The spent catalyst is stripped, regenerated by burning off coke and then returns to reactor. The product vapors are introduced into separation system to obtain propylene, gasoline, diesel, fluid catalytic cracking gas oil (FGO) and other products. The FGO is introduced into hydrotreating unit and/or extraction unit to obtain hydrotreated FGO and/or extracted FGO. Said hyrotreated FGO and/or extracted FGO return to the first reactor zone and/or another catalytic cracking unit to obtain propylene and gasoline. The extracted oil of said FGO is rich in double ring aromatics which are good chemical materials. The raffinate of said FGO is rich in chain alkane and cycloalkane which are suitable for catalytic cracking. More particularly, the invention relates to a process to utilize petroleum oil resources efficiently for decreasing the yield of dry gas and coke significantly. | 01-06-2011 |
| 20110056870 | INTEGRATED FLUID CATALYTIC CRACKING PROCESS FOR OBTAINING HYDROCARBON BLENDS HAVING A HIGH QUALITY AS FUEL - The present invention relates to an integrated fluid catalytic cracking process (FCC) which allows hydrocarbon blends to be obtained having a high quality as fuel. In particular, it relates to an integrated process comprising a fluid catalytic cracking step wherein hydrocarbon cuts of an oil origin are converted into blends with a high content of light cycle oil (LCO) having a high quality in terms of density and nature of the aromatic products contained, which, after a separation and a hydrotreating step, is subjected to upgrading by treatment with hydrogen and a catalyst comprising one or more metals selected from Pt, Pd, Ir, Ru, Rh and Re and a silicoaluminate of an acidic nature. | 03-10-2011 |
| 20110083998 | Petrochemical Processes - Petrochemical processes, including reforming processes are described herein. The reforming processes generally include introducing an input stream to a reforming unit having a reforming catalyst disposed therein, wherein the input stream includes a naphtha having an N+2A value of from about 65 to about 85 and contacting the input stream with the reforming catalyst and hydrogen to form an output stream. | 04-14-2011 |
| 20110108457 | PROCESS FOR RECOVERING FCC PRODUCT - A process is disclosed for recovering product from catalytically converted product streams. Gaseous unstabilized naphtha from an overhead receiver from a main fractionation column is compressed in a compressor. Liquid unstabilized naphtha from the overhead receiver and liquid naphtha fraction from the compressor are sent to a naphtha splitter column upstream of a primary absorber. Consequently, less naphtha is circulated in the gas recovery system. | 05-12-2011 |
| 20110240519 | PROCESS AND APPARATUS FOR ALKYLATING AND HYDROGENATING A LIGHT CYCLE OIL - One exemplary embodiment can be a process for alkylating and hydrogenating a light cycle oil. The process can include passing the light cycle oil, one or more C2-C6 alkenes, and hydrogen through a reaction vessel containing an alkylation zone and a hydrogenation zone. Generally, the hydrogen is at least partially comprised from a hydrocarbon product stream from a fluid catalytic cracking zone. | 10-06-2011 |
| 20130048537 | METHOD OF SIMULTANEOUSLY MANUFACTURING HIGH QUALITY NAPHTHENIC BASE OIL AND HEAVY BASE OIL - Disclosed is a method of simultaneously manufacturing high quality naphthenic base oil and heavy base oil using a single catalyst system, by subjecting an oil fraction (slurry oil or light cycle oil) produced by fluid catalytic cracking and an oil fraction (deasphalted oil) produced by solvent deasphalting to hydrotreating, catalytic dewaxing and hydrofinishing of the single catalyst system, thereby obtaining not only products having low viscosity but also heavy base oil products (150BS) having high viscosity which was impossible to obtain using a conventional catalytic reaction process, and also thereby producing base oil products having different properties using the single catalyst system, thus generating economic benefits and exhibiting superior efficiency. | 02-28-2013 |
| 20140262943 | Heavy Oil Hydrocracking Process - A process for the production of high yields of high quality products from heavy hydrocarbonaceous feedstock comprising a two-stage, close-coupled process. The first stage comprises a thermo-catalytic zone into which is introduced a mixture comprising the feedstock, coal, a liquid catalyst precursor, and hydrogen. The second, close-coupled stage comprises a catalytic-hydrotreating zone into which substantially all the effluent from the first stage is directly passed and processed under hydrotreating conditions. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20160122667 | Upgrading Hydrocarbon Pyrolysis Products - The invention relates to a process for upgrading pyrolysis tar, such as steam cracker tar, in the presence of a utility fluid. The utility fluid contains 2-ring and/or 3-ring aromatics and has solubility blending number (S | 05-05-2016 |
| 20160376511 | Steam Cracker Product Fractionation - The invention generally relates to processes for separating steam cracker products by fractional distillation, and to systems and apparatus useful in such processes. More specifically, the invention relates to decreasing the amount of fractionator fouling that can result from increasing the amount of hydrocarbon molecules in the steam cracker feed having four or fewer carbon atoms. | 12-29-2016 |
| 208072000 | Cracking in all stages | 23 |
| 20110132805 | HEAVY OIL CRACKING METHOD - A method for cracking heavy oil is disclosed. The method uses a first heating stage, a second heating stage, a first cracking stage and a second cracking stage to produce cracked distillates from the residual heavy oil. | 06-09-2011 |
| 208073000 | Catalyst in at least one stage | 19 |
| 20080245703 | Mercaptan Removal Method - The method allows to remove mercaptans contained in a gaseous feed comprising hydrocarbons by carrying out the following stages:
| 10-09-2008 |
| 20130020234 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CATALYTIC CRACKING - An apparatus for catalytic cracking of feedstock includes a first channel in which a feedstock is treated with an adsorbent to obtain a treated intermediate. The apparatus further comprises a separator-reactor vessel. The separator-reactor vessel includes an adsorbent separating region to remove the adsorbent from the treated intermediate. The separator-reactor vessel further includes a second channel connected to the adsorbent separating region. The treated intermediate is contacted with a catalyst in the second channel to produce a cracking yield. The second channel terminates in a catalyst separating region of the separator-reactor vessel. The catalyst is removed from the cracking yield in the catalyst separating region. The separator-reactor vessel further includes a physical partition disposed between the adsorbent separating region and the catalyst separating region to separate the two regions. | 01-24-2013 |
| 20130168289 | MULTI RISER RESID CATALYTIC CRACKING PROCESS AND APPARATUS - This invention provides a fluidized catalytic cracking apparatus and process for converting a hydrocarbon feedstock containing higher concentrations of Conradson Carbon Residue (CCR), metal impurities, etc into lighter products by employing two riser reactors in which the feed impurities are removed using an adsorbent in a first riser reactor and cracking a portion of first riser reactor liquid product in a second riser reactor to lighter products using the active catalyst thus eliminating the catalyst deactivation due to metal, impurities and FCC catalyst activity dilution effect to achieve a better conversion and higher catalyst longevity. | 07-04-2013 |
| 20130248419 | INTEGRATED HYDROPROCESSING, STEAM PYROLYSIS AND CATALYTIC CRACKING PROCESS TO PRODUCE PETROCHEMICALS FROM CRUDE OIL - An integrated hydrotreating, steam pyrolysis and catalytic cracking process for the production of olefins and aromatic petrochemicals from a crude oil feedstock is provided. Crude oil and hydrogen are charged to a hydroprocessing zone under conditions effective to produce a hydroprocessed effluent, which is thermally cracked in the presence of steam in a steam pyrolysis zone to produce a mixed product stream. Heavy components are catalytically cracked, which are derived from one or more of the hydroprocessed effluent, a heated stream within the steam pyrolysis zone, or the mixed product stream catalytically cracking. Catalytically cracked products are produced, which are combined with the mixed product stream and the combined stream is separated, and olefins and aromatics are recovered as product streams. | 09-26-2013 |
| 20140034550 | METHODS AND FUEL PROCESSING APPARATUSES FOR UPGRADING A PYROLYSIS OIL STREAM AND A HYDROCARBON STREAM - Methods and apparatuses for upgrading a pyrolysis oil stream and a hydrocarbon stream are provided herein. In an embodiment, a method for upgrading a pyrolysis oil stream and a hydrocarbon stream includes separately introducing the pyrolysis oil stream and the hydrocarbon stream into a reaction zone to form a mixture of the pyrolysis oil stream and the hydrocarbon stream in the reaction zone. The mixture of the pyrolysis oil stream and the hydrocarbon stream is catalytically cracked in the presence of a particulate cracking catalyst in the reaction zone. The pyrolysis oil stream is maintained at a temperature of less than or equal to about 100° C. substantially up to introduction into the reaction zone. | 02-06-2014 |
| 20140061095 | Preheating Feeds to Hydrocarbon Pyrolysis Products Hydroprocessing - The invention relates to upgraded pyrolysis products, hydroconversion processes for upgrading products obtained from hydrocarbon pyrolysis, equipment useful for such processes. In particular the invention provides methods for reducing coke fouling in such equipment. | 03-06-2014 |
| 20140061096 | Upgrading Hydrocarbon Pyrolysis Products by Hydroprocessing - The invention relates to processes for upgrading products obtained from hydrocarbon pyrolysis, equipment useful for such processes, and the use of upgraded pyrolysis products. | 03-06-2014 |
| 208074000 | Catalyst in multiple stages | 12 |
| 20090000984 | Catalytic Cracking Process For High Diesel Yield With Low Aromatic Content And/Or High Propylene Yield - Processes for maximizing low aromatics LCO yield and/or propylene yield in fluid catalytic cracking are disclosed. The processes employ catalytic compositions that comprise a predominantly basic material and little to no large pore zeolite. | 01-01-2009 |
| 20090107881 | METHODS FOR INCREASING CATALYST CONCENTRATION IN HEAVY OIL AND/OR COAL RESID HYDROCRACKER - Methods and systems for hydrocracking a heavy oil feedstock using, a colloidally or molecularly dispersed catalyst (e.g., molybdenum sulfide) which provide for concentration of the colloidally dispersed catalyst within the lower quality materials requiring additional hydrocracking. In addition to increased catalyst concentration, the inventive systems and methods provide increased reactor throughput, increased reaction rate, and of course higher conversion of asphaltenes and lower quality materials. Increased conversion levels of asphaltenes and lower quality materials also reduces equipment fouling, enables the reactor to process a wider range of lower quality feedstocks, and can lead to more efficient use of a supported catalyst if used in combination with the colloidal or molecular catalyst. | 04-30-2009 |
| 20100163455 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MAKING A MIDDLE DISTILLATE PRODUCT AND LOWER OLEFINS FROM A HYDROCARBON FEEDSTOCK - A system comprising a riser reactor comprising a gas oil feedstock and a first catalyst under catalytic cracking conditions to yield a riser reactor product comprising a cracked gas oil product and a first used catalyst; a intermediate reactor comprising at least a portion of the cracked gas oil product and a second catalyst under high severity conditions to yield a cracked intermediate reactor product and a second used catalyst; wherein the intermediate reactor feedstock comprises at least one of a fatty acid and a fatty acid ester. | 07-01-2010 |
| 20100236980 | MAINTAINING CATALYST ACTIVITY FOR CONVERTING A HYDROCARBON FEED - One exemplary embodiment can be a process for fluid catalytic cracking. The process can include withdrawing a catalyst from a reaction vessel to replace a catalyst inventory over a period of about 10- about 35 days for maximizing propylene yield. | 09-23-2010 |
| 20110108458 | PROCESS FOR RECOVERING PRODUCTS FROM TWO REACTORS - A process is disclosed for catalytically converting two feed streams. The feed to a first catalytic reactor may be contacted with product from a second catalytic reactor to effect heat exchange between the two streams and to transfer catalyst from the product stream to the feed stream. The feed to the second catalytic reactor may be a portion of the product from the first catalytic reactor. | 05-12-2011 |
| 20130056393 | PROCESS FOR SIMULTANEOUS CRACKING OF LIGHTER AND HEAVIER HYDROCARBON FEED AND SYSTEM FOR THE SAME - The invention provides for a process and apparatus for simultaneous conversion of lighter and heavier hydrocarbon feedstocks into improved yields of light olefins in the range of C2 to C4, liquid aromatics in the range C6 to C8 mainly benzene, toluene, xylene and ethyl benzene and other useful products employing at least two different reactors operated in series with respect to catalyst flow and parallel with respect to feed flow under different regimes and process conditions with same catalyst system. | 03-07-2013 |
| 20130248420 | PROCESS AND APPARATUS FOR FLUID CATALYTIC CRACKING - One exemplary embodiment can be a process for fluid catalytic cracking. The process can include sending a first catalyst from a first riser reactor and a second catalyst from a second riser reactor to a regeneration vessel having a first stage and a second stage. The first catalyst may be sent to the first stage and the second catalyst may be sent to the second stage of the regeneration vessel. Generally, the first stage is positioned above the second stage. | 09-26-2013 |
| 20140034551 | FCC PROCESS FOR MAXIMIZING DIESEL - A process is described for maximizing the FCC middle distillates comprising the use of two different converters, operating in a coordinated manner that seeks to maximize the production of LCO for diesel, generating a specified gasoline and reducing fuel oil production. Converter “A” operates with a low contact time in the riser, of 0.2 to 1.5 sec. (preferably from 0.5 to 1.0 sec.) making a higher reaction temperature possible even at low severity, from 510° C. to 560° C. (preferably from 530° C. to 550° C.) and with a catalyst suitable to the maximization of LCO. Converter “B” possesses a high activity catalytic system, suited to cracking naphtha and DO generated in the first converter. Preferably, converter “B” has two separate risers, allowing the reaction temperatures of each to be adjusted independently according to the range most recommended for maximizing the cracking of each of the streams: 530° C. to 560° C. for the DO riser and 540° C. to 600° C. for the naphtha riser. The high-quality LCO stream generated by cracking at low severity in converter “A” is not contaminated by the poorer quality LCO generated by re-cracking the DO in converter “B,” since each converter has its own fractionating tower. The use of low contact time as a route for reducing severity in converter “A” geared towards the production of better quality LCO allows it to operate with a higher reaction temperature for the same LCO conversion and quality level, entailing greater operating reliability for the unit, and providing benefits for the heat balance of the converter. In existing units, the improvement in the heat balance provides leeway to the air blower via increased batch temperature, and makes room for processing more residual batches. | 02-06-2014 |
| 20150136647 | REACTOR AND MAIN FRACTIONATOR CONFIGURATION FOR PRODUCING DIESEL - Methods and systems. For producing diesel arc provided. The method for producing diesel can include cracking a first hydrocarbon feed in a first riser under first cracking conditions to provide a first effluent containing a first light cycle oil, a heavy cycle oil, and a first bottoms and Fractionating at least a portion of the first effluent to separate the first bottoms and the heavy cycle oil from the first light cycle oil. The method can include cracking the separated first bottoms in a second riser under second cracking conditions to produce a second effluent containing a second light cycle oil and a second bottoms. The method can also include cracking the separated heavy cycle oil in the first riser under third cracking conditions to provide a third effluent and mixing the third effluent with the first hydrocarbon feed to provide the first cracking conditions. | 05-21-2015 |
| 20150322354 | VAPOR PRESSURE ENHANCER - The present invention relates to a device that installs in-line in the fuel supply line of fuel usage equipment such as a HVAC system or a large commercial natural gas or diesel generator. The device is suitable for use with liquid or gas hydrocarbon fuels such as gasoline, diesel, propane, or natural gas. The device consists of a hollow cylinder with male ends and that contains a tightly packed copper wire core. The copper wire serves as a catalyst to crack the fuel's carbon chain molecules as the fuel flows through the device. The resulting fuel contains more and shorter fuel molecules, has a higher vapor pressure and burns more efficiently in the vehicle's engine. The copper wire is held in place by perforated copper keepers and the keepers are secured within the cylinder by snap rings that engage circumferential grooves provided internally at the ends of the cylinder. | 11-12-2015 |
| 20160083659 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR INCREASING PRODUCTION OF MIDDLE DISTILLATE HYDROCARBONS FROM HEAVY HYDROCARBON FEED DURING FLUID CATALYTIC CRACKING - A method is provided for increasing production of middle distillate hydrocarbons from conversion of a heavy hydrocarbon feed in a fluid catalytic cracking system having a primary riser and a secondary riser, wherein the method comprises providing regenerated catalyst to the primary riser and operating the primary riser under severe conditions and providing spent catalyst to the secondary riser and operating the secondary riser under moderate conditions. | 03-24-2016 |
| 20160160134 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR CATALYTIC CRACKING - The present disclosure provides methods and apparatus for catalytic cracking of hydrocarbon feed. The apparatus includes a plurality of stages, wherein hydrocarbon feed is introduced into a bottom stage reactor and flows in an overall upward direction. A reaction catalyst stream is introduced into a top stage reactor and flows in an overall downward direction. In each of the stages, the hydrocarbon feed is allowed to come in contact with the reaction catalyst stream received at the particular stage for cracking of the hydrocarbon feed. The final cracked product stream is obtained at an outlet of the top stage reactor and a final spent catalyst stream is obtained at an outlet of the bottom stage reactor. | 06-09-2016 |
| 208076000 | With cracking of the first stage bottoms | 3 |
| 20120125815 | RAPID THERMAL PROCESSING OF HEAVY HYDROCARBON FEEDSTOCKS - The present invention is directed to the upgrading of heavy hydrocarbon feedstock that utilizes a short residence pyrolytic reactor operating under conditions that cracks and chemically upgrades the feedstock. The method for upgrading a heavy hydrocarbon feedstock comprises introducing a particulate heat carrier into an upflow reactor, introducing the heavy hydrocarbon feedstock into the upflow reactor at a location above that of the particulate heat carrier so that a loading ratio of the particulate heat carrier to feedstock is from about 15:1 to about 200:1, allowing the heavy hydrocarbon feedstock to interact with the heat carrier with a residence time of less than about 1 second, to produce a product stream, separating the product stream from the particulate heat carrier, regenerating the particulate heat carrier, and collecting a gaseous and liquid product from the product stream. | 05-24-2012 |
| 20130299387 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR UPGRADING HYDROCARBON - Methods and systems for upgrading hydrocarbon material, including bituminous material such as tar sands. A hydrocarbon material and a cracking material can be injected into separate injection ports of a nozzle reactor to produce a hydrocarbon product. The hydrocarbon product can be injected directly into a coker so that heavy hydrocarbon compounds can be upgraded into lighter hydrocarbon compounds, or the hydrocarbon product can first be injected into a separation vessel to separate hydrocarbons having higher boiling point temperature from hydrocarbons having lower boiling point temperature. The hydrocarbons having higher boiling point temperature can then be injected into a coker. | 11-14-2013 |
| 20140027345 | VACUUM GAS OIL CONVERSION PROCESS - An integrated thermal and catalytic process for improving the yield of middle distillate from heavy petroleum oil feeds comprises cracking the heavy portion (345° C.+) of the feed in a thermal conversion zone, followed by hydrotreating the thermally cracked product and the lighter portion of the feed and then separating the hydrotreated product into a bottoms fraction which is passed to a catalytic cracking step. | 01-30-2014 |
