Process for thermal, and optionally catalytic, upgrading and hydrogenation of hydrocarbons
AssigneeEllycrack AS
InventorOlav Ellingsen
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Abstract
A process for thermal and, optionally, catalytic upgrading and hydrogenation of hydrocarbons is described, wherein the hydrocarbons (oil) with a lower API grade is passed through one or more reactors connected in parallell or in series, preferably in series, in liquid state where it under pressure and intense agitation at a given temperature is thermally upgraded by increasing API, and that the product is discharged in liquid state, and whereby the agitation is effected by whipping elements, optionally made of a catalytic material acting as a catalyst in upgrading the oil in the reactor.
Claims5
A process for thermally upgrading and hydrogenating hydrocarbons, the process comprising steps of:
- passing hydrocarbons having a lower API grade through one or more reactors that are connected either in parallel or in series;
- pressuring the hydrocarbons;
- agitating the hydrocarbons within the one or more reactors via whipping elements comprising a catalytic material, thereby forming a product having an increased API grade;
- and
- discharging the product having an increased API grade in at least a partially liquid state.
A process for thermally upgrading and hydrogenating hydrocarbons, the process comprising steps of:
- passing hydrocarbons having a lower API grade through one or more reactors that are connected either in parallel or in series, wherein the one or more reactors operate at a different temperature and pressure;
- pressuring the hydrocarbons;
- agitating the hydrocarbons within the one or more reactors via whipping elements, thereby forming a product having an increased API grade;
- and
- discharging the product having an increased API grade in at least a partially liquid state.
A process for thermally upgrading and hydrogenating hydrocarbons, the process comprising steps of:
- passing hydrocarbons having a lower API grade through one or more reactors that are connected either in parallel or in series, wherein at least one of the one or more reactors comprise a reactor having a stepwise increasing diameter, resulting in a velocity at each diameter that is different than a velocity at a preceding diameter;
- pressuring the hydrocarbons;
- agitating the hydrocarbons within the one or more reactors via whipping elements, thereby forming a product having an increased API grade;
- and
- discharging the product having an increased API grade in at least a partially liquid state.
A process for thermally upgrading and hydrogenating hydrocarbons, the process comprising steps of:
- passing hydrocarbons having a lower API grade through one or more reactors that are connected either in parallel or in series, wherein at least one of the one or more reactors comprises a soaking and flash vessel for product from a previous reactor, the soaking and flash vessel has either the same pressure and temperature or the same temperature and lower pressure as the previous reactor;
- pressuring the hydrocarbons;
- agitating the hydrocarbons within the one or more reactors via whipping elements, thereby forming a product having an increased API grade;
- and
- discharging the product having an increased API grade in at least a partially liquid state.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.