Method of fuel oil hydrocracking

Abstract

An invention relates to fuel oil hydrocracking in the presence of methane and is designed to produce distillate products with a density of 835-850 kg/m3. The technical result is to simplify the process of fuel oil hydrocracking by performing it at reduced temperature and pressure, as well as to increase the yield of distillate products. A method of fuel oil hydrocracking is proposed, wherein fuel oil is heated to 90-110° C. and mixed with methane fed at a pressure of 0.8-1.2 MPa, resulting mixture of fuel oil with methane is heated to 280-380° C. and fed to the hydrocracking reactor for hydrocracking in the presence of promoted catalyst, and the resulting vapors are transferred to a rectification unit with subsequent cooling of the separated streams to get fuel oil distillates with a density of 805-850 kg/m3. The optimal mass ratio in the fuel oil and methane mixture is 80:20, and the catalyst is a mixture of oxides of elements of the scandium and titanium subgroups of the periodic table belonging to different and any even period of the periodic table, taken in equal molar fractions and applied to aluminum oxide. In this case, the catalyst can be promoted with a composite material consisting of fifth-period metals and periodic table elements with atomic numbers 75 to 83.

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