Process for the production of normally gaseous olefins
AssigneeShell Oil Company
InventorsHomi D. Soonawala, Steven E. DEN Broeder
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Abstract
The invention relates to an integrated process for the production of normally gaseous olefins, starting from a petroleum residue.
Claims11
A process for the production of normally gaseous olefins from a petroleum residue, which comprises subjecting the petroleum residue to a thermal cracking treatment, recovering a gas oil fraction by distillation from the product of the thermal cracking treatment, catalytically hydrotreating at least a substantial part of the gas oil fraction, steam-cracking at least a substantial part of the hydrotreated product and recovering normally gaseous olefins from the effluent thus obtained.
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