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US 9,920,263 B2Granted
Systems and methods for refining corrosive crudes
AssigneeBechtel Hydrocarbon Technology Solutions, Inc.
InventorsBenjamin Klein, Odette Eng
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Abstract
Systems and methods for refining conventional crude and heavy, corrosive, contaminant-laden carbonaceous crude (Opportunity Crude) in partially or totally separated streams or trains.
Claims16
A method for processing an opportunity crude, comprising:
- separating the opportunity crude into a light material and a heavy material;
- processing the heavy material using a delayed coker;
- and
- processing only the light material and a reduced crude using a vacuum distillation process to recover a vacuum gas oil from the reduced crude and to produce a vacuum resid for the delayed coker.
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A method for processing an opportunity crude, comprising:
- separating the opportunity crude into a light material and a heavy material;
- and
- processing only the light material and a conventional crude using an atmospheric crude distillation process.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.