Commercial Application of the Second Generation RHT Catalysts for Hydroprocessing the Residue with Low Sulfur and High Nitrogen Contents

The RHT technology and the second generation RHT catalysts were applied in design of an 1.7Mt/a VRDS unit at the SINOPEC Changling Branch Co. The commercial application result demonstrated that the RHT catalysts showed good activity and stability in processing low-sulfur and high-nitrogen residue. The first long period run of unit for processing high Fe and high Ca content residue was achieved. The reasons for excessive pressure drop of R-101 were ascribed to Fe and Ca deposition as well as coke formation.

A New Kinetic Model for Residue Hydrotreating Based on Chemical Reaction Sections

New definition of virtual molecular-group components about CH and CH2 is proposed in the paper.The new reaction,hydrogenation of CH to CH2(HDCH),can be used to represent the change of C and H in RHT.By using the lumping approach,the kinetic models about HDCH,HDS,HDN,HDCCR,HDM,HDNi and HDV reactions were established.They are key components of the new kinetic model for RHT based on reaction sections.During the construction of kinetic model,goodness-to-fit(R^2)between test data and model data was set as the target value,and the model parameters were calculated accurately.In verification test,the predicted content of H,S,N,CCR,M,Ni and V can match well with the test data.

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.

Operation and Optimization of Residue Hydrotreating Unit Using New Catalyst System

This article has summarized the optimized measures relating to the loading of catalyst,and the sixth operating cycle of the residue hydrotreating unit at SINOPEC's Maoming Branch Company,and made a detailed comparison on the impurities removal rate,hydrogen consumption and energy consumption of the sixth operating cycle with those achieved by the previous five cycles.Test results have revealed that the second-generation RHT series novel residue hydrotreating catalysts featured high activity,good stability,and long operating cycle and could remarkably reduce the hydrogen consumption and energy consumption of process unit.The hydrotreated AR product,having low Conradson carbon residue,low sulfur content,low metal content,high content of saturated hydrocarbons,and low content of asphaltenes and resins,is an excellent FCC feed.Judging from their overall property the second-generation RHT series of residue hydrotreating catalysts used in the sixth operating cycle have commanded a leading position among other catalysts used in previous operating cycles.

Study and Commercial Application of Graded Optimization of Catalysts for Fixed Bed Residue Upgrading Unit

The SHIFT-G technology of inverse catalyst loading is used to optimize the catalyst grading in the residue hydrotreating unit. The results, taken from pilot tests and commercial units, have showed that the optimized catalyst grading system can reasonably distribute the reaction load, effectively improve the prop- erties of hydrotreated products, prolong the operating cycle and promote economic benefits.

Effects of Hydrotreating Severity on Hydrocarbon Compositions and Deep Catalytic Cracking Product Yields

Residue deep hydrotreating(RDHT)process was developed by the Research Institute of Petroleum Processing(RIPP)to provide high quality feedstock for deep catalytic cracking(DCC)process.In this research work,the effects of RDHT process and reaction severity on heteroatom removal,hydrogen content increase,hydrocarbon composition improvement,and DCC product yields were studied.It was showed that the RDHT process can effectively reduce heteroatoms,increase hydrogen content and improve the hydrocarbon compositions,which can contribute to an increase of light olefins yield in DCC unit.

The Application of RUF Series Catalysts and Its Grading Optimization Technology

Qilu Petrochemical Company in order to synchronize the replacement of catalysts in the upflow reactor (UFR) and fixed-bed reactors and achieve the 1.5-year operating cycle of the residue hydrotreating unit has revamped the UFR and optimized catalysts grading. Commercial operation results have revealed that the series of catalysts for residue hydrotreating after optimized grading achieved an operating cycle of 1.5 years with the quality of hydrotreated oil products meeting the requirements for FCC feedstock.