两化融合对炼油化工企业生产运营模式的影响

阐述了炼油化工企业两化融合的现状,分析了炼油化工企业生产运营模式中存在的不足,提出炼油化工企业在两化融合背景下的生产运营新模式,对炼油化工企业两化融合的发展有一定的参考价值。

化工业污水处理中生化法的应用

炼油化工业在生产中排放的工业污水中通常含有大量的污染物质和有害成分,如果未采取适当的措施对其进行处理直接排放到自然环 境中会对生态环境造成危害,因此,炼油化工业污水处理与水资源和生态环境保护密切相关。当前在炼油化工业中运用的污水处理技术较为 多样,通过长期的炼油化工业污水处理实践工作证实,生化法在炼油化工业污水处理中具有高效、稳定和低成本等优势,正因如此生化法在 炼油化工业污水处理中得到了十分普遍的应用。基于此,本文对生化法在炼油化工业污水处理中的应用进行了详细介绍,以期提高炼油化工 业对生化法的认识程度。

Commercial Application of the ICR Series Lube Isodewaxing Catalysts

This article illustrates the application of the ICR series lube oil isodewaxing catalysts in commercial scale and proposes the strategy on long cycle operation and optimization of catalysts. The results of commercial application of the catalyst have revealed that the catalyst after pretreatment including drying, sulfidation and reduction can process VGO into base oils meeting the HVI II and HVI II+ standards, and can manufacture base oils meeting the HVI III standard after incorporating the filtrate oil or gatch from acetone-benzene solvent dewaxing unit. The nitrogen content of the feed oil to the IDW reactor should be controlled at 1.0—1.5 ppm, while the CO and CO2 contents in fresh hydrogen is strictly controlled to avoid poisoning of the IDW-HDF catalysts.

Advances in DCC Process and Catalyst for Propylene Production from Heavy Oils

Deep Catalytic Cracking （DCC） developed by RIPP （Research Institute of Petroleum Processing）, SINOPEC is a catalytic conversion process derived from the FCC process using heavy feedstocks for producing raw materials used in the petrochemical industry, such as ethylene and propylene. It was firstly demonstrated in 1990 and has been commercialized since 1994. Up to now, seven units have been put into production inside and outside China, and many other DCC units are under construction and in the phase of design now. Products ofpropylene and ethylene from DCCU have been used as feedstock for manufacturing high quality polypropylene, polyethylene and acrylonitrile. Many innovations on technological process, and preparation of catalytic materials used in the DCC process will be presented in this paper.

Dynamic Modeling and Simulation of a Commercial Naphtha Catalytic Reforming Process

A first principles-based dynamic model for a continuous catalyst regeneration (CCR) platforming process, the UOP commercial naphtha catalytic reforming process, is developed in this paper. The lumping details of the naphtha feed and reaction scheme of the reaction model are given. The process model is composed of the reforming reaction model with catalyst deactivation, the furnace model and the separator model, which is capable of capturing the major dynamics that occurs in this process system. Dynamic simulations are performed based on Gear numerical algorithm and method of lines (MOL), a numerical technique dealing with partial differential equations (PDEs). The results of simulation are also presented. Dynamic responses caused by disturbances in the process system can be correctly predicted through simulations.

Analysis of Current Status of Steam Cracking Feed Production and Measures for Maximization of Steam Cracking Feed

In recent years China has seen speedy development of its ethylene industry. Compared to other advanced countries the per capita ethylene consumption in China is still low. With successive startup of grassroots ethylene projects in China after 2006 and debottlenecking and expansion of existing ethylene units China will be confronted with the major issues related with increase of feedstocks for steam cracking. Naphtha is the main feedstock for producing ethylene, and the hydrocracked tail oil is increasing its share in the steam cracker feedstock pool over recent years. This article has analyzed the possibility for maximization of steam cracking feedstock and estimated steam cracker feedstock output based on processing 5 Mt/a of different crudes including the mixed crude transferred through Lu-Ning pipeline and Arabian light crude using corresponding process technologies at the refinery.

SSHT Process -a Low Cost Solution for Low Sulfur and Low Aromatics Diesel

The need for cleaner fuels has resulted in a continuing worldwide trend to reduce diesel sulfur and aromatics. There are many approaches to reducing sulfur and aromatics in diesel. Most of them have a common drawback of high cost because of adopting two stages of hydrotreating and using noble-metal catalyst, especially for reducing aromatics. The attempt to resolve this issue has led to the recent development of the Single Stage Hydrotreating (SSHT) process by Research Institute of Petroleum Processing (RIPP), SINOPEC.The SSHT process is a single-stage hydrotreating technology for producing low sulfur and low aromatics diesel. The process uses one or two non-noble-metal catalysts system and operates at moderate pressure. When revamping an existing unit to meet low aromatics diesel specification, the only thing to do is to add a reactor or replace the existing reactor, In pilot plant tests, the SSHT technology has successfully treated SRGO (Straight Run Gas Oil), LCO (Light Cycle Oil) or the blend of them. It is shown that by using the SSHT process diesel with sulfur of 30 ppm and aromatics of 15 m% can be produced from Middle-East SRGO and diesel with aromatics content of 25 m% can be produced from cracked feed, such as FCC-LCO. High diesel yield and cetane number gain (from cracked feed stocks) give the SSHT technology a performance advantage compared to conventional hydrocracking and hydrotreating processes.The lower investment and operating cost is another advantage. The first commercial application of the SSHT technology has been in operation since September 2001.

Study on Application of Bi-directional Combination Technology Integrating Residue Hydrotreating with Catalytic Cracking RICP

After analysing the disadvantages of the traditional residue hydrotreating-catalytic cracking combination process, RIPP has proposed a bi-directional combination technology integrating residue hydrotreating with catalytic cracking called RICP which does not further recycles the FCC heavy cycle oil (HCO) inside the FCC unit and delivers HCO to the residue hydrotreating unit as a diluting oil for the residue that is concurrently subjected to hydrotreating prior to being used as the FCC feed oil. The RICP technology can stimulate residue hydrotreating reactions through utilization of HCO along with an in- creased yield of FCC light distillate, resulting in enhanced petroleum utilization and economic benefits of the refinery.

A Hybrid Programming Model for Optimal Production Planning under Demand Uncertainty in Refinery

Abstract Production planning under uncertainty is considered as one of the most important problems in plant-wide optimization. In this article, first, a stochastic programming model with uniform distribution assumption is developed for refinery production planning under demand uncertainty, and then a hybrid programming model incorporating the linear programming model with the stochastic programming one by a weight factor is proposed. Subsequently, piecewise linear approximation functions are derived and applied to solve the hybrid programming model-under uniform distribution assumption. Case studies show that the linear approximation algorithm is effective to solve.the hybrid programming model, along with an error≤0.5% when the deviatiorgmean≤20%. The simulation results indicate that the hybrid programming model with an appropriate weight factor （0.1-0.2） can effectively improve the optimal operational strategies under demand uncertainty, achieving higher profit than the linear programming model and the stochastic programming one with about 1.3% and 0.4% enhancement, respectavely.

Increasing Liquid Yield and Diesel Fraction in Delayed Coking Process: Mechanism of Liquid Formation

The thermal upgrading of two residual oils tory-scale continuous delayed coking unit. The goal with different characteristics was studied in a labora- was to investigate the influence of the process vari- ables such as temperature, reaction time and additive on liquid yield and products distribution. A maximum liquid yield of 73% was achieved compared to 69% with the commercial unit. This yield was even increased to 75% under the effect of an additive. The fractionation of liquid oil by simulated vacuum distillation showed a high yield of diesel （46.9%）, compared to 28% for the commercial unit.

Improving Refinery Profits via Fine Management of Hydrogen Networks

Hydrogen network management is important to refineries. Various systematic management techniques have been developed to improve the efficiency of refinery hydrogen networks. However, existing methods all treat the hydrogen network separately. The tradeoff between hydrogen network cost and oil processing network benefit has not been explored in the hydrogen network management yet. A novel sensitivity analysis scheme is presented to take oil processing network into consideration. Oil processing unit which is sensitive to both oil processing networks and hydrogen networks is identified first. Then, sensitivity analysis of the unit around the operating point of oil processing networks and hydrogen networks is carried out. Finally, the overall optimal operating condition is obtained. An example of a real Chinese refinery demonstrates the effectiveness of the proposed analysis method.

Optimized Technology for Residuum Processing in the ARGG Unit

The influence of feedstock property on operation in the FCC unit was studied to identify the cause leading to deteriorated products distribution related with increasingly heavier feedstock for the ARGG unit. In order to maximize the economic benefits of the ARGG unit a string of measures, including the modification of catalyst formulation, retention of high catalyst activity, application of mixed termina-tion agents to control the reaction temperature and once-through operation, and optimization of catalyst regeneration technique, were adopted to adapt the ARGG unit to processing of the heavy feedstock with its carbon residue equating to 7 % on an average. The heavy oil processing technology has brought about apparent economic benefits.

Value Source of Integrated Refining/Chemical Plant

Based on an integrated refining/chemical plant processing 15 Mt/a of crude and manufacturing 1.0 Mt/a of ethylene under the guideline of＂engaging in refining, olefins and aromatics by whatever appropriate means＂ to maximize the overall value of the integrated refining/chemical plant, it is necessary to concentrate on working on the flow diagram and the solution for mutual supply of materials between the refinery and ethylene plant. After analyzing the feedstock slate, the composition and properties of products, it is proposed to optimize the integrated refming/chemical plant in order to reduce investment and operating cost to realize maximization of the value of the integrated plant.

Parallel hydrodynamic finite element model with an N-Best refining partition scheme

We enhance a robust parallel finite element model for coasts and estuaries cases with the use of N-Best refinement algorithms,in multilevel partitioning scheme.Graph partitioning is an important step to construct the parallel model,in which computation speed is a big concern.The partitioning strategy includes the division of the research domain into several semi-equal-sized sub-domains,minimizing the sum weight of edges between different sub-domains.Multilevel schemes for graph partitioning are divided into three phases:coarsening,partitioning,and uncoarsening.In the uncoarsening phase,many refinement algorithms have been proposed previously,such as KL,Greedy,and Boundary refinements.In this study,we propose an N-Best refinement algorithm and show its advantages in our case study of Xiamen Bay.Compared with original partitioning algorithm in previous models,the N-Best algorithm can speed up the computation by 1.9 times,and the simulation results are in a good match with the in-situ data.

Study on Removing Trace Olefins in Aromatic Hydrocarbons with HPMo-loaded Y Zeolites

HPMo-loaded Y-zeolites were prepared for the removal of trace olefins from aromatic hydrocarbons. The temperature of calcination and the proportion of phospho-molybdic acid in the catalyst were studied. The catalytic activity for olefins removal and the service life of the catalyst were tested in a fixed bed microreactor. The results showed that the catalyst containing 3% phospho-molybdic acid, which was calcined at 550℃, demonstrated the best activity for olefins removal. The catalyst could be regenerated and could perform still very well. Catalyst characterization was performed by XRD and measured by pyridine-FTIR spectrometry. The test results indicated that the activity of the catalyst was related with the effect of acid concentration and acid strength. Besides, the deactivation of the catalyst was associated with the formation of coke deposits and the deactivated catalyst could recover its activity by oxidation with air under a proper temperature.

Carbon Nano-tube Supported Cu-based Catalyst for Methanol Synthesis Developed by Xiamen University

The Chemistry and Chemical Engineering School of Xiamen University has successfully developed the multi-walled nanotube catalyst with small and uniform diameter and has mastered the corresponding technology for manufacture of carbon nanotube. It is learned that this technology has been for the first time developed inside ;and has reached the internationally advanced level with some indicators commanding a globally leading position.

FCC Catalysts to Meet Demand of New Era

The CGP series FCC catalysts for manufacture of clean gasoline and propylene and the catalyst RSC-2006 for processing inferior residuum with high yield of light distillates are novel catalysts jointly developed by Qilu Catalyst Branch Company of SINOPEC Corp. and the Research Institute of Petroleum Processing (RIPP). The results of commercial application of these catalysts have revealed that they can satisfactorily meet the requirements for environmental protection, good economic benefits and capability for processing inferior FCC feed under new circumstances.

Experimental study of refining solanesol from crude solanesol by saponification

The saponification （30%） were studied in this work conditions of crude solanesol The results showed the content of solanesol arrived to 41.9%; the optimal conditions of solanesol saponification were the saponification time of 3 hours, the saponification temperature about 45℃, amount of 2.5g NaOH and amount of 30mL C2H5OH. NEWTON-LAPUSON method was applied to iterate. The correlative equations provide an effective basis for further research of refining solanesol.

A decision tree based decomposition method for oil refinery scheduling

Refinery scheduling attracts increasing concerns in both academic and industrial communities in recent years.However, due to the complexity of refinery processes, little has been reported for success use in real world refineries. In academic studies, refinery scheduling is usually treated as an integrated, large-scale optimization problem,though such complex optimization problems are extremely difficult to solve. In this paper, we proposed a way to exploit the prior knowledge existing in refineries, and developed a decision making system to guide the scheduling process. For a real world fuel oil oriented refinery, ten adjusting process scales are predetermined. A C4.5 decision tree works based on the finished oil demand plan to classify the corresponding category(i.e. adjusting scale). Then,a specific sub-scheduling problem with respect to the determined adjusting scale is solved. The proposed strategy is demonstrated with a scheduling case originated from a real world refinery.