Systems and methods for renewable fuel
AssigneeEnsyn Renewables, Inc.
InventorsBarry A. Freel, Robert G. Graham
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Abstract
The present application generally relates to the introduction of a renewable fuel oil as a feedstock into refinery systems or field upgrading equipment. For example, the present application is directed to methods of introducing a liquid thermally produced from biomass into a petroleum conversion unit; for example, a refinery fluid catalytic cracker (FCC), a coker, a field upgrader system, a hydrocracker, and/or hydrotreating unit; for co-processing with petroleum fractions, petroleum fraction reactants, and/or petroleum fraction feedstocks and the products, e.g., fuels, and uses and value of the products resulting therefrom.
Claims20
A fuel, comprising:
- a product of a fluidized catalytic cracker having a feedstock comprising:
- i) 93-99.95 wt. % of a petroleum fraction;
- and
- ii) 0.05-7 wt. % of an unenriched renewable fuel oil,
- wherein the unenriched renewable fuel oil comprises:
- the product of a mechanical and thermal conversion of a cellulosic biomass comprising grinding and non-catalytic rapid thermal processing to convert at least 60 wt. % of the cellulosic biomass to the unenriched renewable fuel oil;
- and
- a carbon content of at least 40 wt. % on a dry basis or moisture-free basis, an oxygen content in the range of between 20-50 wt. % on a dry basis or moisture-free basis, and a water content in the range of between 10-40 wt. %.
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