WO2008143744A2 - Hydrocarbon thermal cracking using atmospheric residuum - Google Patents
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- C10—PETROLEUM, GAS OR COKE INDUSTRIES; TECHNICAL GASES CONTAINING CARBON MONOXIDE; FUELS; LUBRICANTS; PEAT
- C10G—CRACKING HYDROCARBON OILS; PRODUCTION OF LIQUID HYDROCARBON MIXTURES, e.g. BY DESTRUCTIVE HYDROGENATION, OLIGOMERISATION, POLYMERISATION; RECOVERY OF HYDROCARBON OILS FROM OIL-SHALE, OIL-SAND, OR GASES; REFINING MIXTURES MAINLY CONSISTING OF HYDROCARBONS; REFORMING OF NAPHTHA; MINERAL WAXES
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- C10—PETROLEUM, GAS OR COKE INDUSTRIES; TECHNICAL GASES CONTAINING CARBON MONOXIDE; FUELS; LUBRICANTS; PEAT
- C10G—CRACKING HYDROCARBON OILS; PRODUCTION OF LIQUID HYDROCARBON MIXTURES, e.g. BY DESTRUCTIVE HYDROGENATION, OLIGOMERISATION, POLYMERISATION; RECOVERY OF HYDROCARBON OILS FROM OIL-SHALE, OIL-SAND, OR GASES; REFINING MIXTURES MAINLY CONSISTING OF HYDROCARBONS; REFORMING OF NAPHTHA; MINERAL WAXES
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- C10—PETROLEUM, GAS OR COKE INDUSTRIES; TECHNICAL GASES CONTAINING CARBON MONOXIDE; FUELS; LUBRICANTS; PEAT
- C10G—CRACKING HYDROCARBON OILS; PRODUCTION OF LIQUID HYDROCARBON MIXTURES, e.g. BY DESTRUCTIVE HYDROGENATION, OLIGOMERISATION, POLYMERISATION; RECOVERY OF HYDROCARBON OILS FROM OIL-SHALE, OIL-SAND, OR GASES; REFINING MIXTURES MAINLY CONSISTING OF HYDROCARBONS; REFORMING OF NAPHTHA; MINERAL WAXES
- C10G55/00—Treatment of hydrocarbon oils, in the absence of hydrogen, by at least one refining process and at least one cracking process
- C10G55/02—Treatment of hydrocarbon oils, in the absence of hydrogen, by at least one refining process and at least one cracking process plural serial stages only
- C10G55/04—Treatment of hydrocarbon oils, in the absence of hydrogen, by at least one refining process and at least one cracking process plural serial stages only including at least one thermal cracking step
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- This invention relates to the thermal cracking of hydrocarbons using a vaporization unit in combination with a pyrolysis furnace wherein at least a preponderance of the liquid hydrocarbonaceous feed to be cracked in the furnace is first vaporized in the vaporization unit. More particularly, this invention relates to the use of atmospheric residuum as a significant liquid hydrocarbonaceous feed component for the vaporization unit and furnace.
- Thermal (pyrolysis) cracking of hydrocarbons is a non-catalytic petrochemical process that is widely used to produce olefins such as ethylene, propylene, butenes, butadiene, and aromatics such as benzene, toluene, and xylenes.
- a hydrocarbon containing feedstock is mixed with steam which serves as a diluent to keep the hydrocarbon molecules separated.
- the steam/hydrocarbon mixture is preheated in the convection zone of the furnace to from about 900 to about 1 ,000 degrees Fahrenheit ( 0 F or F), and then enters the reaction (radiant) zone where it is very quickly heated to a severe hydrocarbon thermal cracking temperature in the range of from about 1 ,400 to about 1 ,55OF. Thermal cracking is accomplished without the aid of any catalyst.
- This process is carried out in a pyrolysis furnace (steam cracker) at pressures in the reaction zone ranging from about 10 to about 30 psig.
- Pyrolysis furnaces have internally thereof a convection section (zone) and a separate radiant section (zone). Preheating functions are primarily accomplished in the convection section, while severe cracking mostly occurs in the radiant section.
- the effluent from that furnace can contain gaseous hydrocarbons of great variety, e.g., from one to thirty-five carbon atoms per molecule.
- gaseous hydrocarbons can be saturated, monounsaturated, and polyunsaturated, and can be aliphatic, alicyclics, and/or aromatic.
- the cracked gas can also contain significant amounts of molecular hydrogen (hydrogen).
- the cracked product is then further processed in the olefin production plant to produce, as products of the plant, various separate individual streams of high purity such as hydrogen, ethylene, propylene, mixed hydrocarbons having four carbon atoms per molecule, fuel oil, and pyrolysis gasoline.
- Each separate individual stream aforesaid is a valuable commercial product in its own right.
- an olefin production plant currently takes a part (fraction) of a whole crude stream or condensate, and generates therefrom a plurality of separate, valuable products.
- Thermal cracking first came into use in 1913 and was first applied to gaseous ethane as the primary feed to the cracking furnace for the purpose of making ethylene.
- the cracked product can contain, for example, about 1 weight percent (wt.%) hydrogen, about 10 wt.% methane, about 25 wt.% ethylene, and about 17 wt.% propylene, all wt.% being based on the total weight of that product, with the remainder consisting mostly of other hydrocarbon molecules having from 4 to 35 carbon atoms per molecule.
- Natural gas and whole crude oil(s) were formed naturally in a number of subterranean geologic formations (formations) of widely varying porosities. Many of these formations were capped by impervious layers of rock. Natural gas and whole crude oil (crude oil) also accumulated in various stratigraphic traps below the earth's surface. Vast amounts of both natural gas and/or crude oil were thus collected to form hydrocarbon bearing formations at varying depths ⁇ below the earth's surface. Much of this natural gas was in close physical contact with crude oil, and, therefore, absorbed a number of lighter molecules from the crude oil.
- whole crude oil and "crude oil” as used herein means liquid (at normally prevailing conditions of temperature and pressure at the earth's surface) crude oil as it issues from a wellhead separate from any natural gas that may be present, and excepting any treatment such crude oil may receive to render it acceptable for transport to a crude oil refinery and/or conventional distillation in such a refinery. This treatment would include such steps as desalting.
- it is crude oil that is suitable for distillation or other fractionation in a refinery, but which has not undergone any such distillation or fractionation. It could include, but does not necessarily always include, non-boiling entities such as asphaltenes or tar. As such, it is difficult if not impossible to provide a boiling range for whole crude oil. Accordingly, whole crude oil could be one or more crude oils straight from an oil field pipeline and/or conventional crude oil storage facility, as availability dictates, without any prior fractionation thereof.
- Natural gas like crude oil, can vary widely in its composition as produced to the earth's surface, but generally contains a significant amount, most often a major amount, i.e., greater than about 50 weight percent (wt. %), methane. Natural gas often also carries minor amounts (less than about 50 wt. %), often less than about 20 wt. %, of one or more of ethane, propane, butane, nitrogen, carbon dioxide, hydrogen sulfide, and the like. Many, but not all, natural gas streams as produced from the earth can contain minor amounts (less than about 50 wt. %), often less than about 20 wt.
- hydrocarbons having from 5 to 12, inclusive, carbon atoms per molecule (C5 to C12) that are not normally gaseous at generally prevailing ambient atmospheric conditions of temperature and pressure at the earth's surface, and that can condense out of the natural gas once it is produced to the earth's surface. All wt.% are based on the total weight of the natural gas stream in question.
- a hydrocarbon composition often naturally condenses out of the thus produced natural gas stream under the then prevailing conditions of temperature and pressure at the earth's surface where that stream is collected. There is thus produced a normally liquid hydrocarbonaceous condensate separate from the normally gaseous natural gas under the same prevailing conditions.
- the normally gaseous natural gas can contain methane, ethane, propane, and butane.
- the normally liquid hydrocarbon fraction that condenses from the produced natural gas stream is generally referred to as "condensate,” and generally contains molecules heavier than butane (C5 to about C20 or slightly higher).
- this liquid condensate fraction is processed separately from the remaining gaseous fraction that is normally referred to as natural gas.
- condensate recovered from a natural gas stream as first produced to the earth's surface is not the exact same material, composition wise, as natural gas (primarily methane). Neither is it the same material, composition wise, as crude oil.
- Condensate occupies a niche between normally gaseous natural gas and normally liquid whole crude oil. Condensate contains hydrocarbons heavier than normally gaseous natural gas, and a range of hydrocarbons that are at the lightest end of whole crude oil.
- Condensate unlike crude oil, can be characterized by way of its boiling point range. Condensates normally boil in the range of from about 100 to about 650F. With this boiling range, condensates contain a wide variety of hydrocarbonaceous materials. These materials can include compounds that make up fractions that are commonly referred to as naphtha, kerosene, diesel fuel(s), and gas oil (fuel oil, furnace oil, heating oil, and the like).
- Naphtha and associated lighter boiling materials are in the C5 to C10, inclusive, range, and are the lightest boiling range fractions in condensate, boiling in the range of from about 100 to about 400F.
- Petroleum middle distillates are generally in the C10 to about C20 or slightly higher range, and generally boil, in their majority, in the range of from about 350 to about 650F. They are, individually and collectively, referred to herein as “distillate,” “distillates,” or “middle distillates.” Distillate compositions can have a boiling point lower than 350F and/or higher than 650F, and such distillates are included in the 350-650F range aforesaid, and in this invention.
- Atmospheric residuum typically boils at a temperature of from about 650F up to its end boiling point where only non-boiling entities such as asphaltenes and tar are left.
- Atmospheric resid is formed by processing crude oil/condensate in an atmospheric thermal distillation tower.
- Atmospheric resid is not the same as vacuum residuum which is formed in a vacuum assisted thermal distillation tower, and has a boiling range of from about 1 ,00OF up to its end boiling point where only non-boiling entities remain.
- the olefin production industry is now progressing beyond the use of fractions of crude oil or condensate (gaseous and/or liquid) as the primary feed for a cracking furnace to the use of whole crude oil and/or condensate itself.
- U.S. Patent Number 6,979,757 to Donald H. Powers is directed to the process disclosed in USP '961 , but that invention removes at least part of the liquid hydrocarbons remaining in the vaporization/mild cracking unit that are not yet vaporized or mildly cracked. These liquid hydrocarbon components of the crude oil feed are drawn from near the bottom of that unit and passed to a separate controlled cavitation device to provide additional cracking energy for those tenacious hydrocarbon components that have previously resisted vaporization and mild cracking. Thus, that invention also seeks to drive the overall process in the vaporization/mild cracking unit more toward the mild cracking end of the vaporization-mild cracking spectrum aforesaid.
- U.S. Patent Application Serial Number 11/219,166, filed September 2, 2005, having common inventorship and assignee with USP '961 is directed to the process of using whole crude oil as the feedstock for an olefin plant to produce a mixture of hydrocarbon vapor and liquid. The vaporous hydrocarbon is separated from the remaining liquid and the vapor passed to a severe cracking operation. The remaining liquid is vaporized using a quench oil to minimize coke forming reactions.
- U.S. Patent Application Serial Number 11/365,212, filed March 1 , 2006, having common inventorship and assignee with USP '961 is directed to the use of condensate as the dominant liquid hydrocarbonaceous feed for the vaporization unit and furnace.
- U.S. Patent Application Serial Number 11/584,722, filed October 20, 2006, having common inventorship and assignee with USP '961 is directed to the integration of the vaporization unit/furnace combination with a crude oil refinery.
- gasoline supply can be increased by subjecting various crude oil fractions, including distillates, to various refinery catalytic cracking processes such as fluid catalytic cracking.
- the quantity of gasoline/naptha produced from a barrel of crude oil can be increased if desired. This is not so with distillates as defined above.
- the amount of distillate recovered from a barrel of crude oil is fixed and cannot be increased as it can with gasoline.
- the only way to increase distillate production to increase the distillate supply for the distillate pool is by refining additional barrels of crude oil.
- the aforesaid combination of a vaporization , unit/cracking furnace is operated with its feed containing a significant amount of residuum from at least one atmospheric thermal distillation column, i.e., atmospheric resid.
- Figure 1 shows a simplified flow sheet for the whole crude oil/condensate cracking process described hereinabove.
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- hydrocarbonaceous hydrocarbonaceous as used herein do not mean materials strictly or only containing hydrogen atoms and carbon atoms. Such terms include materials that are hydrocarbonaceous in nature in that they primarily or essentially are composed of hydrogen and carbon atoms, but can contain other elements such as oxygen, sulfur, nitrogen, metals, inorganic salts, and the like, even in significant amounts.
- gaseous means one or more gases in an essentially vaporous state, for example, steam alone, a mixture of steam and hydrocarbon vapor, and the like.
- Coke as used herein, means a high molecular weight carbonaceous solid, and includes compounds formed from the condensation of polynuclear aromatics.
- An olefin producing plant useful with this invention would include a pyrolysis (thermal cracking) furnace for initially receiving and thermally cracking the feed.
- Pyrolysis furnaces for steam cracking of hydrocarbons heat by means of convection and radiation, and comprise a series of preheating, circulation, and cracking tubes, usually bundles of such tubes, for preheating, transporting, and cracking the hydrocarbon feed.
- the high cracking heat is supplied by burners disposed in the radiant section (sometimes called "radiation section") of the furnace. The waste gas from these burners is circulated through the convection section of the furnace to provide the heat necessary for preheating the incoming hydrocarbon feed.
- the convection and radiant sections of the furnace are joined at the "cross-over," and the tubes referred to hereinabove carry the hydrocarbon feed from the interior of one section to the interior of the next.
- the convection section can contain multiple sub-zones.
- the feed can be initially preheated in a first upper sub-zone, boiler feed water heated in a second sub-zone, mixed feed and steam heated in a third sub- zone, steam superheated in a fourth sub-zone, and the final feed/steam mixture split into multiple sub-streams and preheated in a lower (bottom) or fifth sub-zone.
- the number of sub-zones and their functions can vary considerably.
- Each sub-zone can carry a plurality of conduits carrying furnace feed there through, many of which are sinusoidal in configuration.
- the convection section operates at much less severe operating conditions than the radiant section.
- Cracking furnaces are designed for rapid heating in the radiant section starting at the radiant tube (coil) inlet where reaction velocity constants are low because of low temperature. Most of the heat transferred simply raises the hydrocarbons from the inlet temperature to the reaction temperature. In the middle of the coil, the rate of temperature rise is lower but the cracking rates are appreciable. At the coil outlet, the rate of temperature rise increases somewhat but not as rapidly as at the inlet. The rate of disappearance of the reactant is the product of its reaction velocity constant times its localized concentration. At the end of the coil, reactant concentration is low and additional cracking can be obtained by increasing the process gas temperature. Steam dilution of the feed hydrocarbon lowers the hydrocarbon partial pressure, enhances olefin formation, and reduces any tendency toward coke formation in the radiant tubes.
- Cracking furnaces typically have rectangular fireboxes with upright tubes centrally located between radiant refractory walls. The tubes are supported from their top.
- Firing of the radiant section is accomplished with wall or floor mounted burners or a combination of both using gaseous or combined gaseous/liquid fuels. Fireboxes are typically under slight negative pressure, most often with upward flow of flue gas. Flue gas flow into the convection section is established by at least one of natural draft or induced draft fans.
- Radiant coils are usually hung in a single plane down the center of the fire box. They can be nested in a single plane or placed parallel in a staggered, double-row tube arrangement. Heat transfer from the burners to the radiant tubes occurs largely by radiation, hence the thermo "radiant section,” where the hydrocarbons are heated to from about 1 ,400 0 F to about 1 ,550 0 F and thereby subjected to severe cracking, and coke formation.
- the initially empty radiant coil is, therefore, a fired tubular chemical reactor.
- Hydrocarbon feed to the furnace is preheated to from about 900 0 F to about 1 ,000°F in the convection section by convectional heating from the flue gas from the radiant section, steam dilution of the feed in the convection section, or the like. After preheating, in a conventional commercial furnace, the feed is ready for entry into the radiant section.
- the cracked gaseous hydrocarbons leaving the radiant section are rapidly reduced in temperature to prevent destruction of the cracking pattern. Cooling of the cracked gases before further processing of same downstream in the olefin production plant recovers a large amount of energy as high pressure steam for reuse in the furnace and/or olefin plant. This is often accomplished with the use of transfer-line exchangers that are well known in the art. With a liquid hydrocarbon feedstock downstream processing, although it can vary from plant to plant, typically employs an oil quench of the furnace effluent after heat exchange of same in, for example, the transfer-line exchanger aforesaid.
- Figure 1 shows one embodiment of a cracking process that uses whole crude oil and/or condensate as the dominant (primary) furnace feed.
- Figure 1 is very diagrammatic for sake of simplicity and brevity since, as discussed above, actual furnaces are complex structures.
- Figure 1 shows a liquid cracking furnace 1 wherein a crude oil/condensate primary feed 2 is passed in to an upper feed preheat sub-zone 3 in the upper, cooler reaches of the convection section of furnace 1. Steam 6 is also superheated in an upper level of the convection section of the furnace.
- the pre-heated cracking feed stream is then passed by way of pipe (line) 10 to a vaporization unit 11 (see USP '961 ), which unit is separated into an upper vaporization zone 12 and a lower vaporization zone 13.
- This unit 11 achieves primarily (predominately) vaporization of at least a significant portion of the naphtha and gasoline boiling range and lighter materials that remain in the liquid state after the pre-heating step.
- Gaseous materials that are associated with the preheated feed as received by unit 1 1 , and additional gaseous materials formed in zone 12 are removed from zone 12 by way of line 14.
- line 14 carries away essentially all the lighter hydrocarbon vapors, e.g., naphtha and gasoline boiling range and lighter, that are present in zone 12.
- Zones 12 and 13 are separated from fluid communication with one another by an impermeable wall 16, which can be a solid tray.
- Line 15 represents external fluid down flow communication between zones 12 and 13.
- zones 12 and 13 can have internal fluid communication there between by modifying wall 16 to be at least in part liquid permeable by use of one or more trays designed to allow liquid to pass down into the interior of zone 13 and vapor up into the interior of zone 12.
- a chimney tray could be used in which case liquid within unit 11 would flow internally down into section 13 instead of externally of unit 11 via line 15.
- distributor 18 becomes optional.
- Device 18 evenly distributes liquid across the transverse cross section of unit 11 so that the liquid will flow uniformly across the width of the tower into contact with packing 19.
- Dilution steam 6 passes through superheat zone sub-20, and then, via line 21 in to a lower portion 22 of zone 13 below packing 19.
- packing 19 liquid and steam from line 21 intimately mix with one another thus vaporizing some of liquid 15.
- Stream 25 can contain essentially hydrocarbon vapor from feed 2, e.g., gasoline and naphtha, and steam.
- Stream 17 thus represents a part of feed stream 2 plus dilution steam 21 less liquid distillate(s) and heavier from feed 2 that are present in bottoms stream 26.
- Stream 25 is passed through a header (not shown) whereby stream 25 is split into multiple sub-streams and passed through multiple conduits (not shown) into convection section pre-heat sub-zone 27 of furnace 1.
- Section 27 is in a lower, and therefore hotter, section of furnace 1.
- Section 27 is used for preheating stream 25 to a temperature, aforesaid, suitable for cracking in radiant zone 29.
- stream 25 passes by way of line 28 into radiant section 29.
- stream 25 passes by way of line 28 into radiant section 29.
- the multiple, individual streams that normally pass from sub-zone 27 to and through zone 29 are represented as a single flow stream 28 for sake of brevity.
- feed from line 28, which contains numerous varying hydrocarbon components, is subjected to severe thermal cracking conditions as aforesaid.
- the cracked product leaves radiant firebox 29 by way of line 30 for further processing in the remainder of the olefin plant downstream of furnace 1 as described hereinabove and shown in USP '961.
- crude oil and/or condensate as the significant component(s) of feed 2
- substantial amounts of distillates are ultimately passed into furnace 1 and cracked thereby converting such distillates into lighter components. Accordingly, these distillates are lost as a source of distillate supply for jet fuel, diesel fuels and home heating oils.
- feed 2 contains, as a significant component thereof, residuum obtained from the atmospheric thermal distillation of at least one crude oil and not the crude oil/condensate feed of the prior art.
- one or more atmospheric residua can be essentially the sole component of feed material 2, this invention is not so limited so long as atmospheric residuum is a significant constituent in feed 2 and line 10.
- feed 2 can enter furnace 1 at a temperature of from about ambient up to about 300F at a pressure from slightly above atmospheric up to about 100 psig (hereafter "atmospheric to 100 psig").
- Feed 2 can enter zone 12 via line 10 at a temperature of from about ambient to about 700F at a pressure of from atmospheric to 100 psig.
- Stream 14 can be essentially all hydrocarbon vapor formed from feed 2 and is at a temperature of from about ambient to about 700F at a pressure of from atmospheric to 100 psig.
- Stream 15 can be essentially all the remaining liquid from feed 2 less that which was vaporized in pre-heater 3 and is at a temperature of from about ambient to about 700F at a pressure of from slightly above atmospheric up to about 100 psig (hereafter "atmospheric to 100 psig").
- the combination of streams 14 and 17, as represented by stream 25, can be at a temperature of from about 600 to about 800 F at a pressure of from atmospheric to 100 psig, and contain, for example, an overall steam/hydrocarbon ratio of from about 0.1 to about 2, preferably from about 0.1 to about 1 , pounds of steam per pound of hydrocarbon.
- dilution ratios will vary widely because the compositions of atmospheric resid and condensate vary widely.
- the hot gas e.g., steam and hydrocarbon at the top of zone 13 can be present in a ratio of steam to hydrocarbon of from about 0.1/1 to about 5/1.
- Steam is an example of a suitable hot gas introduced by way of line 21.
- Other materials can be present in the steam employed.
- Stream 6 can be that type of steam normally used in a conventional cracking plant. Such gases are preferably at a temperature sufficient to volatilize a substantial fraction of the liquid hydrocarbon 15 that enters zone 13.
- the gas entering zone 13 from conduit 21 will be at least about 650F, preferably from about 900 to about 1 ,20OF at from atmospheric to 100 psig.
- gases will, for sake of simplicity, hereafter be referred to in terms of steam alone.
- Stream 17 can be a mixture of steam and hydrocarbon vapor that has a boiling point lower than about 1 ,20OF.
- Stream 17 can be at a temperature of from about 600 to about 800F at a pressure of from atmospheric to 100 psig.
- Steam from line 21 does not serve just as a diluent for partial pressure purposes as is the normal case in a cracking operation. Rather, steam from line 21 provides not only a diluting function, but also additional vaporizing and mild cracking energy for the hydrocarbons that remain in the liquid state. This is accomplished with just sufficient energy to achieve vaporization and/or mild cracking of heavier hydrocarbon components in the atmospheric resid and by controlling the energy input. For example, by using steam in line 21 , substantial vaporization/mild cracking of feed 2 liquid is achieved. The very high steam dilution ratio and the highest temperature steam are thereby provided where they are needed most as liquid hydrocarbon droplets move progressively lower in zone 13.
- the atmospheric resid feed employed in this invention can be from a single or multiple sources, and, therefore, can be a single resid or a mixture of two or more residua.
- Atmospheric resid useful in this invention can have a wide boiling range, particularly when mixtures of residua are employed, but will generally be in a boiling range of from about 600F to the boiling end point where only non-boiling entities remain.
- light materials such as light gasoline, naphtha, and gas oils boiling lighter (lower) than about 1 ,00OF, all as defined hereinabove, remaining in the atmospheric residuum feed will be vaporized in unit 11 and removed by way of either line 14 or 17 or both and fed to furnace 1 as described hereinabove.
- hydrocarbonaceous entities heavier than the lighter entities mentioned above in this paragraph can, at least in part, be mildly cracked or otherwise broken down in unit 11 to lighter hydrocarbonaceous entities such as those mentioned above, and those just formed lighter entities removed by way of line 17 as feed for furnace 1.
- the remainder of the residuum feed, if any, is removed by way of line 26 for disposition elsewhere.
- Atmospheric resid bottoms from an atmospheric thermal distillation tower are primarily composed of a gas oil component boiling in the range of from about 600 to about 1 ,00OF and a heavier fraction boiling in a temperature range of from about 1 ,00OF up to its end boiling point where only non- boiling entities remain.
- a vacuum assisted thermal distillation tower typically separates this gas oil component from its associated heavier fraction aforesaid, thus freeing the gas oil fraction for separate recovery and beneficial use elsewhere.
- this invention utilizes for breaking down atmospheric resid, energy in stripper 11 that is normally utilized in the operation of furnace 1 , while eliminating the energy cost of operating a separate vacuum tower. Similarly the capital and other costs for a vacuum tower are eliminated without loss of the function of that vacuum tower in breaking down atmospheric resid and separating the useful gas oil component thereof.
- the amount of atmospheric resid employed in feed 10 pursuant to this invention can be a significant component of the overall feed 2.
- the atmospheric resid component can be at least about 20 wt.% of the total weight of the feed, but it is not necessarily strictly within this range.
- additional materials can include light gasoline, naphtha, natural gasoline, and/or condensate.
- Naphtha can be employed in the form of full range naphtha, light naphtha, medium naphtha, heavy naphtha, or mixtures of two or more thereof.
- the light gasoline can have a boiling range of from that of pentane (C5) to about 158F.
- Full range naphtha which includes light, medium, and heavy naphtha fractions, can have a boiling range of from about 158 to about 350F.
- the boiling ranges for the light, medium, and heavy naphtha fractions can be, respectively, from about 158 to about 212F, from about 212 to about 302F, and from about 302 to about 350F.
- lighter fractions such as light gasoline and light naphtha be added to that resid feed, thereby leaving medium and/or heavy naphtha fractions for addition to the gasoline pool.
- the amount of light material(s) thus deliberately added to the atmospheric resid in feed 2 can vary widely depending on the desires of the operator, but the resid in feed 2 will remain a significant component of the feed in line 10 to vaporization unit 11.
- the amount of residua added to line 2, and present in line 10, after addition of one or more light materials thereto as aforesaid, can be less than 20 wt. % and still be within the spirit of this invention.
- distillates that are removed by the atmospheric tower are preserved for separate use such as for diesel fuel and kerosene, and a novel combination of atmospheric resid and lighter material in stripper 11 is used to form additional cracking feedstock from atmospheric resid that would otherwise be lost for this purpose.
- An atmospheric residuum characterized as Skikda atmospheric resid from France is mixed in equal parts by weight with natural gasoline, and fed directly into the preheat section 3 of the convection section of pyrolysis furnace 1. This feed is at 260F and 80 psig. In this convection section this residuum feed is preheated to about 690F at about 60 psig, and then passed into vaporization unit 1 1 wherein a mixture of gasoline, naphtha and gas oil gases at about 690F and 60 psig are separated in zone 12 of that unit.
- the separated gases are removed from zone 12 for transfer to the convection preheat sub-zone 27 of the same furnace.
- the preheated stream is then passed to radiant section 29.
- Preheated steam 21 at about 1 ,05OF is introduced near the bottom of zone 13 to give a steam to hydrocarbon ratio in section 13 of about 1.
- the falling liquid droplets are in counter current flow with the steam that is rising from the bottom of zone 13 toward the top thereof. With respect to the liquid falling downwardly in zone 13, the steam to liquid hydrocarbon ratio increases from the top to bottom of section 19.
- a mixture of steam and vapor 17 which contains the gas oil fraction at about 760F is withdrawn from near the top of zone 13 and mixed with the gases earlier removed from zone 12 via line 14 to form a composite steam/hydrocarbon vapor stream 25 containing about 0.4 pounds of steam per pound of hydrocarbon present.
- This composite stream is preheated in sub-zone 27 to about 1.000F at less than about 50 psig, and then passed into radiant firebox 29 for cracking at a temperature in the range of 1 ,400 0 F to 1 ,550 0 F.
- Bottoms product 26 of unit 11 is removed at a temperature of about 900 F, and pressure of about 60 psig, and passed to the downstream processing equipment to produce fuel oil therefrom.
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