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US 8,075,763 B2Granted
Process for treating aged crude oil residue
AssigneeInnospec Limited
InventorsAndrea Sneddon, Jenny-Ann Ostlund
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Abstract
The present invention provides a process for the treatment of crude oil or aged crude oil residue comprising the steps of (a) contacting the oil or residue with a phenol resin and with a diluent, to provide a diluted phenol resin treated oil or residue; and (b) optionally removing solid material from the diluted phenol resin treated oil or residue.
Claims28
A process for the treatment of aged crude oil residue from crude oil refining, which has been aged by subsequent storage in the presence of air and which is unusable as a fuel oil or fuel oil component, the process comprising the steps of:
- (a) contacting the residue with a phenol resin and with a diluent, to provide a diluted phenol resin treated residue,
- wherein the diluent is a crude oil distillation product selected from the group consisting of:
- kerosene, cracked gas oil, vacuum gas oil, long residue, short residue, heavy naphtha, light gas oil, medium gas oil, heavy gas oil, cycle oil, gasoline, diesel and mixtures thereof.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.