Systems, methods, and catalysts for producing a crude product
AssigneeShell Oil Company
InventorsOpinder Kishan Bhan, Scott Lee Wellington
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Abstract
Contact of a crude feed that has a viscosity of at least 10 cSt at 37.8° C. (100° F.) and an API gravity of at least 10 with one or more catalysts produces a total product that includes a crude product. The crude product is a liquid mixture at 25° C. and 0.101 MPa. The crude product has a viscosity of at most 90% of the viscosity of the crude feed and an API gravity of about 70% to about 130% of the API gravity of the crude feed. In some instances, 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.
Claims21
A method of producing a crude product, comprising:
- contacting a crude feed with a catalyst 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 viscosity of at least 10 cSt at 37.8° C. (100° F.), the crude feed has an API gravity of at least 10, and the catalyst comprises one or more metals from Column 6 of the Periodic Table and/or one or more compounds thereof and a support selected from the group consisting of alumina, silica-alumina, silica, titanium oxide, zirconium oxide, magnesium oxide, and mixtures thereof;
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- controlling contacting conditions such that the crude product has a viscosity at 37.8° C. of at most 70% of the viscosity of the crude feed at 37.8° C., and the crude product having an API gravity of about 90% to about 110% of the API gravity of the crude feed, wherein API gravity is as determined by ASTM Method D6822, and viscosity is as determined by ASTM Method D445.
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