Method for improving liquid yield during thermal cracking of hydrocarbons
CA 2559151 C · Owner: Baker Hughes Incorporated · Inventors: Falkler, Thomas; Stark, Joseph
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Metal additives to hydrocarbon feed streams give improved hydrocarbon liquid yield during thermal cracking thereof. Suitable additives include metal overbases and metal dispersions and the metals suitable include but are not , necessarily limited to, magnesium calcium, aluminum, zinc, silicon, barium cerium, and strontium overbases and dispersions. Coker feedstocks are a particular hydrocarbon feed stream to which the method can be advantageously applied, but the technique may be used on any hydrocarbon feed that is thermally cracked.
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- Filed March 7, 2005 and granted December 18, 2012. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended March 7, 2025.
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