Method of converting feedstocks from renewable sources to good-quality diesel fuel bases using a zeolite catalyst without intermediate gas-liquid separation
AssigneeIfp Energies Nouvelles
InventorsChristophe Bouchy, Antoíne Daudin, Emmanuelle Guillon, Nathalie Dupassieux, Thierry Chapus
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Abstract
The invention relates to a method of treating feedstocks from renewable sources without intermediate gas-liquid separation in order to produce diesel fuel bases of excellent quality. The feedstocks used can be raw vegetable oils or such oils that have been previously subjected to a prerefining stage, animal fats, or mixtures of such feedstocks. The invention relates to a method allowing high diesel fuel base yields to be obtained from such feedstocks.
Claims10
A method of treating a feedstock from a renewable source, comprising the following stages:
- a) hydrotreatment of said feedstock from a renewable source in the presence of a fixed-bed catalyst, said catalyst comprising a hydro-dehydrogenizing function and an amorphous support, at a temperature ranging between 200° C. and 450° C., at a pressure ranging between 1 MPa and 10 MPa, at an hourly space velocity ranging between 0.1 h−1 and 10 h−1 and in the presence of a total amount of hydrogen mixed with the feedstock such that the hydrogen/feedstock ratio ranges between 150 and 750 Nm3 hydrogen/m3 feedstock,
- b) separation, from the effluent from stage a), of at least part of resultant water and at least one hydrocarbon-containing base,
- c) removal of the nitrogen compounds from said hydrocarbon-containing base from stage b),
- d) hydroisomerization of at least part of said hydrocarbon-containing base from stage c) in the presence of a fixed-bed hydroisomerization selective catalyst, said catalyst comprising at least one group VIII metal and/or at least one VIB group metal and a monodimensional 10 MR zeolite molecular sieve that is ZSM-48 or ZBM-30, alone or in admixture, said stage c) being carried out at a temperature ranging between 150° C. and 500° C., at a pressure ranging between 1 MPa and 10 MPa, at an hourly space velocity ranging between 0.1 h−1 and 10 h−1 and in the presence of a total amount of hydrogen mixed with the feedstock such that the hydrogen/feedstock ratio ranges between 70 and 1000 Nm3/m3 feedstock,
- e) separation, from the effluent from stage d), of the hydrogen, other gases and at least one diesel fuel base.
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