Crude Oil Quality and Bottom-of-the Barrel Upgrading. Ways to Efficiency - Better Product Yield per Barrel.
Given the imbalance between the growing supply of heavy crude oils and the increasing demand for light crude oils and transportation fuels, conversion upgrading technology is the main approach available. Around the world, oil producers and refiners have invested billions of dollars to add cokers and low severity hydrotreating complexes to oil producing facilities and refineries to convert the heavy crudes or feedstocks to lighter products or lighter feedstocks, at high temperatures and pressures. However, through coking both the amounts (yields) and the properties of these coker products have been relatively poor, and further treatment of these products has been needed. To upgrade heavy crude oils or heavy refinery products, Genoil Inc. developed the Hydroconversion Upgrader (GHU~(TM)) technology, a hydrogen addition upgrading process that can upgrade heavy crude oils to pipeline quality, and can be used either for stand-alone units in the field, or in oil refineries for upgrading heavy products. An important additional benefit is that it reduces drastically the levels of contaminants in the heavy oil products, especially the sulfur, nitrogen and metal levels. Genoil has improved a standard refining process, hydroconversion, by optimizing the mixing of hydrogen with the hydrocarbon feedstock, and by utilizing various mixing devices at critical locations through the plant. Capital and operating costs with a GHU~ (TM) unit will be lower by up to 25％ than a traditional hydroconversion unit due to the less severe operating conditions for the same product targets. The IRR will be also superior to a coker or an ebullated-bed unit due to a substantially higher yield of high quality liquid products.
J. F. RUNYAN
Genoil Inc., Canada
国际会议
首届世界重油大会(The Technical Sessions of the First World Heavy Oil Conference)
北京
英文
1015-1025
2006-11-12（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）