Systems, methods, and catalysts for producing a crude product
AssigneeShell Oil Company
InventorOpinder Bhan
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Abstract
Methods and systems for contacting of a crude feed with one or more catalysts to produce a total product that includes a crude product are described. The crude product is a liquid mixture at 25° C. and 0.101 MPa. The crude product has an MCR content of at most 90% of the MCR content of the crude feed. One or more other properties of the crude product may be changed by at least 10% relative to the respective properties of the crude feed.
Claims24
A method of producing a crude product, comprising:
- contacting a crude feed with one or more catalysts to produce a total product that includes the crude product, wherein the crude product is a liquid mixture at 25° C. and 0.101 MPa;
- the crude feed has a micro-carbon residue (MCR) content of at least 0.0001 grams per gram of crude feed;
- and at least one of the catalysts is a Column 6 metal catalyst that comprises:
- one or more metals from Column 6 of the Periodic Table and/or one or more compounds of one or more metals from Column 6 of the Periodic Table;
- a pore size distribution with a median pore diameter of greater than 110 Å;
- and a pore volume in which pores having a pore diameter of at least 350 Å provide at most 10% of the pore volume, wherein pore volume and pore diameter are as determined by ASTM Method D4282;
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- controlling contacting condition temperature, pressure, hydrogen source flow, crude feed flow or combinations thereof such that the crude product has a MCR content of at most 90% of the MCR content of the crude feed, wherein MCR content is as determined by ASTM Method D4530.
A catalyst, comprising:
- a support;
- and
- one or more metals from Column 6 of the Periodic Table and/or one or more compounds of one or more metals from Column 6 of the Periodic Table;
- wherein the catalyst has a pore size distribution with a median pore diameter greater than 110 Å and a pore volume in which pores having a pore diameter of at least 350 Å provide at most 10% of the pore volume, wherein pore diameter and pore volume are as determined by ASTM Method D4282.
A method of making a catalyst comprising, combining a support with a metal solution comprising one or more metals from Column 6 of the Periodic Table and/or one or more compounds of one or more metals from Column 6 of the Periodic Table, wherein the support has an average pore diameter of at least 90 Å and a pore volume in which pores having a pore diameter of at least 350 Å provide at most 15% of the pore volume of the support, wherein pore diameter and pore volume are as determined by ASTM Method D4282.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.