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US 11,906,505 B2Granted
Method of determining renewable carbon content while producing and blending biogenic-based fuels or blendstocks with fossil fuel in a refining or blending facility
AssigneeChevron U.S.A. Inc.
InventorsMeir R. Hasbani, Michelle K. Young
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Abstract
A method of monitoring renewable carbon in fuel streams in a refinery or blend facility while co-processing a bio-feedstock with a fossil feedstock or blending a renewable product with a fossil product wherein the method provides for quantification of renewable C14 carbon content to adjust the total renewable content to a targeted renewable content in situ while lowering the limit of detection.
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A method of monitoring renewable carbon in fuel streams in a refinery, while co-processing a bio-feedstock with a fossil feedstock comprising:
- a. Blending bio-feedstocks comprising pyrolysis oil from pyrolysis and triglycerides and primary bio-feedstocks;
- b. Refining the blended bio-feedstocks using processes comprising (1) thermal cracking such as visbreaking and coking, (2) catalytic cracking, (3) hydrotreating, and (4) hydrocracking;
- c. Measuring renewable carbon content in the refinery streams and products selected from the group consisting of the following streams:
- Fluid Catalytic Cracking to fuel gas and Fluid Catalytic Cracking to gasoline;
- Fluid Catalytic Cracking to light bottom gasoline;
- LCO upgrading unit to fuel gas, diesel, Jet and gasoline;
- jet hydrotreater to fuel gas and jet;
- alky unit to gasoline;
- bio feedstock introduction to petroleum feedstock input to diesel hydrotreater;
- diesel hydrotreater output to off gas, naphtha and diesel blender;
- diesel blender to finished diesel;
- cetane improver stream to diesel blender;
- renewable diesel 99 to diesel blender;
- d. Determining the total renewable fuels produced,
- e. In situ adjustment of the renewable fuels produced in step d with renewable content to attain a desired percentage of total renewable content.
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