Environment-friendly marine fuel
AssigneeMawetal LLC
InventorsMohammed Wohaibi, Tom F. Pruitt
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AssigneeMawetal LLC
InventorsMohammed Wohaibi, Tom F. Pruitt
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For the shipping industry, these fuels provide solutions to long outstanding technical problems that heretofore hindered supply of low sulfur marine fuels in quantities needed to meet worldwide sulfur reduction goals. Marine shipping use of high sulfur bunker oils is reported as largest source of worldwide transportation SOx emissions. When ships on the open seas burn cheap low grade heavy bunker oils high in sulfur, nitrogen and metals, the SOx, NOx, and metal oxides go to the environment. This invention converts essentially all of each barrel of crude feed to a single ultraclean fuel versus conventional refining where crude feed is cut into many pieces, and each piece is sent down a separate market path meeting various different product specifications. When in port, ships can use these fuels to generate and sell electricity to land based electrical grids to offset fuel cost in an environment-friendly manner.
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A fuel characterized in that said fuel meets or exceeds all ISO RMA 10 (ISO 8217-10 of 2016) specifications except flashpoint, said fuel having
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A fuel meeting or exceeding all ISO RMA 10 (ISO 8217-10 of 2016) specifications except, said fuel having:
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A liquid fuel comprising
A fuel comprising all hydrocarbons from hydrocarbonaceous feed from which said fuel was formed within range (a) having an initial boiling point in the range about 35° C. to about 315° C. (b) up to a maximum boiling point of the end of deasphalted oil within said fuel and start of insoluble residue of said feed which is not soluble in solvent selected for solvent separation excluded from said fuel and said fuel has flashpoint less than 60° C.
A fuel comprising a combination of hydrocarbons of feed forming said fuel ranging from the lowest boiling portion of an untreated liquid fraction of said feed from atmospheric distillation at or below sulfur breakpoint combined in said fuel to highest boiling portion of hydrotreated solubles from solvent separation of liquid fractions of said feed of over sulfur breakpoint combined in said fuel, wherein said fuel has flashpoint less than 60° C.
A fuel in accordance with claim 5 further characterized by comprising
A fuel wherein sulfur content of each untreated component of the fuel has actual sulfur below or at the breakpoint and each other component is a treated component, and fuel does not exceed a sulfur target sulfur content of sulfur (1) at 0.50% m/m (wt. %) or below at sea and (2) at 0.1 m/m (wt. %) or less in emission control area or in port,
A fuel characterized in that said fuel has an actual sulfur content of 0.50% m/m (wt. %) or less at sea and (2) at 0.1 m/m (wt. %) or less in emission control area or in port, and comprises a range of crude oil derived hydrocarbons from C3 or C5 to greater than C20, said hydrocarbons having an initial boiling point being the lowest boiling point of any fraction within untreated streams combined in said fuel and highest boiling point being the highest boiling point of a hydrotreated stream combined in said fuel.
A fuel characterized in that the highest boiling point of said fuel is the highest boiling portion of effluent from solvent separation which is subsequently treated and forms a portion of said fuel, wherein said fuel has an actual sulfur content of 0.50% m/m (wt. %) or less at sea and (2) at 0.1 m/m (wt. %) or less in emission control area or in port.
A fuel characterized in that the highest boiling point of said fuel is the highest boiling portion of effluent from solvent separation which is subsequently treated by hydrogen and forms a portion of said fuel, wherein said fuel further comprises components of a blend of light tight oil with hydroprocessed high sulfur fuel oil or other heavy residual, which is blend adjusted either on-shore or onboard to have actual sulfur content of (1) 0.50% m/m (wt. %) or less at sea and (2) at 0.1 m/m (wt. %) or less in emission control area or in port.
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