Conversion of whole crude to value added petrochemicals in an integrated reactor process

An integrated process for conversion of crude oil to value added petrochemicals, the process comprising:

• (i) providing a hydrocarbon stream comprising the crude oil to a feed separator to separate the hydrocarbon stream into a light crude fraction boiling at a first temperature and a heavy crude fraction boiling at greater than the first temperature, wherein the first temperature is between 190 and 210° C.;
• (ii) providing the heavy crude fraction to a solvent deasphalting unit to generate a pitch product comprising asphaltenes and residue heavy components having boiling points above 300° C. and a deasphalted oil product;
• (iii) providing the pitch product to a delayed coker unit, wherein the pitch product undergoes a thermal cracking reaction to obtain a solid petroleum coke stream and a delayed coker product stream comprising C1-C4 light gases, coker naphtha, and coker gas oil;
• (iv) providing the light crude fraction, the deasphalted oil product, and the delayed coker product stream to a hydrotreater to remove heteroatoms and saturate carbon-carbon bonds to generate a hydrotreater product stream;
• (v) providing the hydrotreater product stream to a first separator, wherein the hydrotreater product stream is separated into a C1 fraction, a C2 fraction, a C3-C4 fraction, a hydrotreated light fraction comprising C5 hydrocarbons to hydrocarbons boiling at a second temperature, and a hydrotreated heavy fraction comprising hydrocarbons boiling at or greater than the second temperature, wherein the second temperature is between 200 and 215° C.;
• (vi) providing the C1 fraction to a methane cracker, wherein the C1 fraction is converted to a hydrogen stream and a fixed carbon stream;
• (vii) providing the C2 fraction to an ethane steam cracker, wherein the C2 fraction is cracked to generate an ethane steam cracker product stream comprising light olefins and aromatics;
• (viii) providing the C3-C4 fraction to a dehydrogenation reactor, wherein the C3-C4 fraction is dehydrogenated to generate a dehydrogenated product stream comprising propylene and butenes generated from propane and butanes in the C3-C4 fraction;
• (ix) providing the hydrotreated light fraction to an aromatization unit, wherein the aromatization unit converts aliphatic hydrocarbons in the hydrotreated light fraction to aromatics to generate an aromatization product stream;
• (x) providing the hydrotreated heavy fraction to a steam enhanced catalytic cracking unit (SECC), wherein the hydrotreated heavy fraction is cracked to generate a SECC product stream comprising light olefins;
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• (xi) providing the ethane steam cracker product stream, the dehydrogenated product stream, the aromatization product stream, and the SECC product stream to a second separator to obtain a hydrogen fraction, a C1 stream, a C2 stream, a C3-C4 alkane stream, a light olefin stream, a BTX stream comprising benzene, toluene, and xylene, and a residual stream comprising cracked naphtha, light cycle oil and heavy cycle oil.