Process and installation including solvent deasphalting and ebullated-bed processing
CA 2516562 C · Owner: Ifp · Inventors: Colyar, James J.
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This invention relates to a novel method for economically processing vacuum residue from heavy crude oils by selectively processing the difficult and easy components in reactors whose design and operating conditions are optimized for the specific feed. The process utilizes an integrated solvent deasphalting (SDA)/ebullated-bed design wherein the heavy vacuum residue feedstock is initially sent to an SDA unit operated with C4/C5 solvent to achieve a high deasphalted oil (DAO) yield. The resulting SDA products namely asphaltenes , and DAO are separately treated in ebullated-bed reactor(s) systems whose design and operating conditions are optimized for a particular feedstock. The …
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- Filed February 20, 2004 and granted May 8, 2012. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended February 20, 2024.
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