# US 11,028,330 B2 · Hydrotreatment or hydroconversion process with a stripper and a low pressure separator drum in the fractionation section

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- Number: US 11,028,330 B2
- Document ID: US11028330B2
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B2
- Application number: 15/388,880
- Filed: 2016-12-22
- Published: 2017-06-29
- Granted: 2021-06-08
- Earliest claimed: 2015-12-23
- Assignees: Axens
- Applicants: Axens
- Inventors: Lajeunesse Odile; Pierre-Yves Alspektor; Paris Packeu; Nicolas Pupat
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US11028330B2

## CPC

- C10G 67/02: plural serial stages only
- C10G 45/00: Refining of hydrocarbon oils using hydrogen or hydrogen-generating compounds
- C10G 47/00: Cracking of hydrocarbon oils, in the presence of hydrogen or hydrogen- generating compounds, to obtain lower boiling fractions (C10G15/00 takes precedence; destructive hydrogenation of non-melting solid carbonaceous or similar materials C10G1/06)
- C10G 49/22: Separation of effluents
- C10G 2300/1022: Fischer-Tropsch products
- C10G 2300/1048: Middle distillates
- C10G 2300/107: Atmospheric residues having a boiling point of at least about 538 °C
- C10G 2300/1074: Vacuum distillates
- C10G 2300/1077: Vacuum residues
- C10G 2300/207: Acid gases, e.g. H2S, COS, SO2, HCN
- C10G: CRACKING HYDROCARBON OILS; PRODUCTION OF LIQUID HYDROCARBON MIXTURES, e.g. BY DESTRUCTIVE HYDROGENATION, OLIGOMERISATION, POLYMERISATION (cracking to hydrogen or synthesis gas C01B; cracking or pyrolysis of hydrocarbon gases to individual hydrocarbons or mixtures thereof of definite or specified constitution C07C; cracking to cokes C10B); RECOVERY OF HYDROCARBON OILS FROM OIL-SHALE, OIL-SAND, OR GASES; REFINING MIXTURES MAINLY CONSISTING OF HYDROCARBONS; REFORMING OF NAPHTHA; MINERAL WAXES

## Abstract

A facility and a process for hydrotreatment or hydroconversion, in which a fractionation section comprises a stripper which operates on the overhead fraction obtained from a low pressure separator drum.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A facility capable of hydrotreatment or hydroconversion of gas oils, vacuum distillates, atmospheric or vacuum residues or of an effluent from a Fischer-Tropsch unit, comprising at least:
a reaction section R-1,
a high pressure hot separator drum B-1, supplied with effluent obtained from the reaction section R-1 and from which a bottom stream is supplied to separator drum B-5,
a high pressure cold separator drum B-2, supplied with an overhead stream leaving the high pressure hot separator drum B-1 and from which a liquid bottom stream is supplied to stripper C-1,
a compression zone K supplied with gaseous effluent obtained from B-2, termed recycled hydrogen,
a low pressure hot separator drum B-5, supplied with a liquid stream obtained from B-1, operating at a pressure of 0.3 to 2.0 MPa, and from which an overhead gaseous effluent constitutes a portion of the feed for the stripper C-1, and from which a liquid effluent constitutes a first portion of feed for fractionation column C-2 without separation of acid gases,
a separation column C-1 also termed a stripper supplied with a liquid stream obtained from B-2, and a gaseous stream obtained from B-5, producing an acid gaseous fraction and a bottom product stripped of gases that constitutes an other portion of the feed for the fractionation column C-2,
a principal fractionation column C-2, supplied with the bottom stream from the stripper C-1 and with the liquid bottom stream obtained from B-5 directly without separation of acid gases, and which separates the following cuts: naphtha, diesel, kerosene and residue,
a furnace F-1 heating feed to the reaction section R-1 and/or a portion of hydrogen necessary for said reaction section R-1.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The facility as claimed in claim 1, further comprising:
a medium pressure hot separator drum B-3, supplied with a liquid stream obtained from B-1, and from which liquid effluent is supplied to the drum B-5,
a medium pressure cold separator drum B-4, supplied with a liquid stream obtained from B-2 and a gaseous stream obtained from B-3, and from which liquid effluent constitutes a portion of the feed for the stripper C-1.

### Claim 3

A process for the hydrotreatment or hydroconversion of gas oils, vacuum distillates, atmospheric or vacuum residues or effluent from a Fischer-Tropsch unit, comprising, in a facility capable of hydrotreatment or hydroconversion thereof:
reacting said gas oils, vacuum distillates, atmospheric or vacuum residues or effluent from a Fischer-Tropsch in a reaction section R-1,
separating effluent from reaction section R-1 in a high pressure hot separator drum B-1, supplying a bottom stream to separator drum B-5,
separating an overhead stream from high pressure hot separator drum B-1 in a high pressure cold separator drum B-2, supplying a liquid bottom stream to stripper C-1,
compressing in a compression zone K gaseous effluent obtained from B-2, termed recycled hydrogen,
separating a liquid stream obtained from B-1 in a low pressure hot separator drum B-5, operating at a pressure of 0.3 to 2.0 MPa, and sending an overhead gaseous effluent as a portion of feed to the stripper C-1, and sending a liquid effluent as a first portion of feed for fractionation column C-2 without separating acid gases,
supplying to a separation column C-1 (also termed a stripper) a liquid stream obtained from B-2, and a gaseous stream obtained from B-5, producing an acid gaseous fraction and a bottom product stripped of gases that constitutes an other portion of the feed for the fractionation column C-2,
supplying to a principal fractionation column C-2 the bottom stream from the stripper C-1 and the liquid bottom stream obtained from B-5 directly without separation of acid gases, and separating the following cuts: naphtha, diesel, kerosene and residue,
heating feed to the reaction section R-1 and/or a portion of hydrogen necessary for said reaction section R-1 in a furnace F-1,
in which the separation column C-1 is operated under the following conditions: total pressure in the range 0.6 to 2.0 MPa.

### Claim 4 (depends on 3)

The process for the hydrotreatment or hydroconversion of gas oils, vacuum distillates, atmospheric or vacuum residues using the facility as claimed in claim 3, in which the fractionation column C-2 is operated under the following pressure conditions: total pressure in the range 0.1 MPa to 0.4 MPa.

### Claim 5 (depends on 3)

The process for the hydrotreatment or hydroconversion of gas oils, vacuum distillates, atmospheric or vacuum residues as claimed in claim 3, in which at least a portion of an overhead fraction obtained from the fractionation column C-2 containing residual acid gases is sent to a scrubbing column C-5, in order to eliminate at least a portion of the H2S, said portion of the overhead fraction then being used by way of a makeup as a fuel in the furnace F-1 for the reaction section.

### Claim 6 (depends on 3)

The process for the hydrotreatment or hydroconversion of gas oils, vacuum distillates, atmospheric or vacuum residues as claimed in claim 3, in which at least a portion of an overhead fraction obtained from the fractionation column C-2 containing residual acid gases is sent to acid gas compressors of a fluid catalytic cracking unit (FCC).

### Claim 7 (depends on 3)

The process for the hydrotreatment or hydroconversion of gas oils, vacuum distillates, atmospheric or vacuum residues as claimed in claim 3, in which the high pressure hot separator drum B-1 has a temperature selected in a manner such that a furnace is not required for the feed for the principal fractionation C-2.

### Claim 8 (depends on 3)

A process for the hydrotreatment or hydroconversion of gas oils, vacuum distillates, atmospheric or vacuum residues using the facility as claimed in claim 3, in which the separation column C-1 is operated under the following conditions: total pressure in the range 0.7 to 1.8 MPa.

### Claim 9 (depends on 3)

A process for the hydrotreatment or hydroconversion of gas oils, vacuum distillates, atmospheric or vacuum residues using the facility as claimed in claim 3, in which the separation column C-2 is operated under the following conditions: total pressure in the range 0.1 to 0.3 MPa.

### Claim 10 (depends on 3)

The process for hydrotreatment or hydroconversion according to claim 3, wherein stripper C-1 produces a stripped bottom product after elimination of gases obtained from cracking
and an acid gaseous fraction, and
fractionation column C-2 produces an overhead fraction that contains residual acid gas.

### Claim 11 (depends on 3)

The process for hydrotreatment or hydroconversion according to claim 3, wherein the effluent of separation column C-1 is sent directly to the principal fractionation column C-2.