Resid hydrotreating with resins

• US 5,013,427 A
• Filed: 07/18/1989
• Issued: 05/07/1991
• Est. Priority Date: 07/18/1989
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Amoco Corporation (BP PLC)
• Original Assignee: Amoco Corporation (BP PLC)
• Inventors: Taylor, James L., Mosby, James F., Peck, Lawrence B., Beaton, William I.
• Primary Examiner(s): Myers, Helane E.
• Application Number:
  US07/381,372
• Time in Patent Office: 658 Days
• Field of Search: 208/39, 208/86, 208/87, 208/92, 208/96, 208/108, 208/212, 208/143, 208/208, 208/211, 208/251 H, 208/254 H, 208/61
• US Class Current: 208/211
• CPC Class Codes: B01J 19/00 Chemical, physical or physico-chemical processes in general; Their relevant apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: C10G 67/049 The hydrotreatment being a hydrocracking

Abstract

A hydrotreating process if provided in which resid and resins are hydrotreated with hydrogen-rich gases in the presence of a hydrotreating catalyst in an ebullated bed reactor.

Claims

1. A hydrotreating process, comprising the steps of:

feeding a first feed stream comprising resid to a combined feed line upstream of a reactor

feeding a separate second stream comprising recycled substantially deasphalted solvent-extracted resins to said combined feed line upstream of said reactor

mixing said first stream comprising said resid and said second stream comprising said recycled deasphalted solvent-extracted resins in said combined feed line;

feeding said mixed first stream comprising said resid and said second stream comprising said recycled deasphalted resin to said reactor;

feeding hydrotreating catalyst to said reactor;

injecting hydrogen-rich gases into said reactor; and

hydrotreating said mixed first stream comprising said resid and said second stream comprising said recycled deasphalted solvent-extracted resins in said reactor by contacting said mixed first stream comprising said resid and said second stream comprising said recycled deasphalted solvent-extracted resins with said hydrogen-rich gases in the presence of said hydrotreating catalyst under hydrotreating conditions to produce hydrotreated oil;

fractionating said hydrotreated oil in a fractionator to produce gas oil and resid bottoms;

substantially separating said resid bottoms by solvent extraction into one stream comprising asphaltenes and said second stream comprising said substantially deasphalted solvent-extracted resins; and

recycling said second stream comprising said recycled deasphalted solvent-extracted resins to said combined feed line upstream of said reactor.

2. A hydrotreating process in accordance with claim 1 wherein said fractionator is selected from the group consisting of an atmospheric tower and a vacuum tower.

3. A hydrotreating process in accordance with claim 1 wherein at least part of said separation takes place under supercritical conditions.

4. A hydrotreating process in accordance with claim 1 including recovering and recycling said solvent wherein said second stream comprises substantially deasphalted sovent-extracted oil.

5. A hydrotreating process in accordance with claim 1 wherein said asphaltenes are fed to a coker.

6. A hydrotreating process in accordance with claim 1 wherein said asphaltenes are transported for use as solid fuel.

7. A hydrotreating process in accordance with claim 1 wherein said resid bottoms are sequentially separated in at least two vessels and said separation includes recovering and recycling said solvent.

8. A hydrotreating process in accordance with claim 1 wherein said separation includes separating substantially deasphalted solvent-extracted oil from said resid bottoms and feeding said deasphalted solvent-extracted oil to a catalytic cracker.

9. A hydrotreating process, comprising the steps of:

substantially desalting crude oil;

heating said desalted crude oil in a pipestill furnace;

pumping said heated crude oil to a primary distillation tower;

separating said heated crude oil in said primary distillation tower into streams of naphtha, kerosene, primary gas oil, and primary reduced crude oil;

pumping said primary reduced crude oil to a pipestill vacuum tower;

separating said primary gas oil in said pipestill vacuum tower into streams of wet gas, heavy gas oil, and vacuum reduced crude oil providing resid oil;

feeding a resid oil feed comprising solvent-extracted resins and said resid oil from said pipestill vacuum tower to a resid hydrotreating unit comprising a series of three ebullated bed reactors;

injecting hydrogen-rich gases into said ebullated bed reactors;

conveying resid hydrotreating catalysts to said ebullated bed reactors;

ebullating said feed comprising said solvent-extracted resins and said resid oil with said hydrogen-rich gases in the presence of said resid hydrotreating catalyst in said ebullated bed reactors under hydrotreating conditions to produce upgraded hydrotreated resid oil;

separating at least a portion of said hydrotreated resid oil in an atmospheric tower into atmospheric streams of distillate, atmospheric gas oil, and atmospheric tower bottoms comprising atmospheric resid oil;

separating said atmospheric resid oil in a resid vacuum tower into vacuum streams of vacuum gas oil and vacuum tower bottoms comprising vacuum resid oil;

conveying and feeding a substantial portion of said vacuum tower bottoms from said resid vacuum tower to a multistage solvent extraction unit;

feeding a solvent to said multistage solvent extraction unit, said solvent comprising a member selected from the group consisting of butane and pentane;

substantially deasphalting and solvent-extracting said vacuum tower bottoms with said solvent in said multistage solvent extraction unit to substantially separate said vacuum tower bottoms into streams of substantially deasphalted solvent-extracted oil, substantially deasphalted solvent-extracted resins, and substantially deresined solvent-extracted asphaltenes;

recovering said solvent under supercritical conditions and recycling said solvent to said solvent extraction unit;

transporting at least some of said solvent-extracted asphaltenes for use as solid fuel; and

conveying said solvent-extracted resins from said solvent extraction unit to said resid hydrotreating unit as part of said resid oil feed.

10. A hydrotreating process in accordance with claim 9 including:

feeding said atmospheric gas oil from said atmospheric tower to a cracking reactor of a catalytic cracking unit, said cracking reactor comprising at least one reactor selected from the group consisting of a riser reactor and a catalytic cracker;

feeding primary gas oil from said primary tower to said cracking reactor;

feeding said solvent-extracted oil from said solvent extraction unit to said cracking reactor;

feeding fresh and regenerated cracking catalyst to said cracking reactor;

catalytically cracking said gas oil and said solvent-extracted oil in said cracking reactor in the presence of said cracking catalyst under catalytic cracking conditions to produce cracked oil leaving spent coked catalyst;

conveying said spent coked catalyst to a regenerator of said catalytic cracking unit;

injecting air into said regenerator;

regenerating said spent catalyst by substantially combusting coke on said spent catalyst in the presence of air in said regenerator;

recycling said regenerated catalyst to said cracking reactor; and

separating said cracked oil in a fractionator into streams of light hydrocarbon gases, catalytic naphtha, catalytic cycle oil, and decanted oil.

11. A hydrotreating process in accordance with claim 10 including:

conveying heavy gas oil from said pipestill vacuum tower into a catalytic feed hydrotreating unit;

conveying said vacuum gas oil from said resid vacuum tower to said catalytic feed hydrotreating unit;

feeding coker gas oil to said catalytic feed hydrotreating unit;

injecting hydrogen-rich gases into said catalytic feed hydrotreating unit;

conveying catalytic feed hydrotreating catalyst to said catalytic feed hydrotreating unit;

hydrotreating said heavy gas oil, vacuum gas oil, and said coker gas oil with said hydrogen-rich gases in the presence of said catalytic feed hydrotreating catalyst in said catalytic feed hydrotreating unit to produce hydrotreated oil;

passing said hydrotreated oil to said cracking reactor; and

catalytically cracking said hydrotreated oil in said cracking reactor in the presence of said cracking catalyst to produce cracked oil.

12. A hydrotreating process in accordance with claim 11 wherein said solvent-extracted oil is hydrotreated in said catalytic feed hydrotreater before being catalytically cracked in said cracking reactor.

13. A hydrotreating process in accordance with claim 10 including passing at least part of said decanted oil from said fractionator to said resid hydrotreating unit part of said feed.

14. A resid hydrotreating process in accordance with claim 10 including passing at least part of said decanted oil from said fractionator to at least one tower selected from the group consisting of said atmospheric tower and said resid vacuum tower, to help decrease the amount and size of asphaltenes in said tower bottoms.

15. A hydrotreating process in accordance with claim 9 wherein a substantial portion of said asphaltenes from said solvent extraction unit is conveyed to and coked in a coker.

16. A hydrotreating process in accordance with claim 9 including:

separating and flashing said hydrotreated resid oil in a flash drum into streams of vapors and gases, flash drum oil, and flashed hydrotreated resid oil before said hydrotreated oil is separated in said atmospheric tower; and

recycling at least part of said flash drum oil to said resid hydrotreating unit as part of said feed.

17. A hydrotreating process in accordance with claim 9 wherein the ratio of said solvent to said vacuum tower bottoms being fed into said multistage solvent extraction unit ranges from about 3:

1 to about 20;

1.

18. A hydrotreating process in accordance with claim 17 wherein said ratio ranges from about 8:

1 to about 12;

1 and said solvent extraction unit comprises a threestage solvent extraction unit.

19. A hydrotreating process comprising the steps of:

feeding a first stream comprising resid to a reactor;

feeding a second stream comprising recycled substantially deasphalted resins to said reactor;

feeding hydrotreating catalyst to said reactor;

injecting hydrogen-rich gases into said reactor;

hydrotreating said first stream comprising resid and said second stream comprising recycled resins with said hydrogen-rich gases in the presence of said hydrotreating catalyst under hydrotreating conditions to produce hydrotreated oil;

fractionating said hydrotreated oil in at least one fractionator selected from the group consisting of an atmospheric tower and a vacuum tower to produce gas oil and resid bottoms;

substantially separating said resid bottoms into one stream comprising asphaltenes and said second stream comprising said substantially deasphalted resins; and

recycling said second stream comprising said recycled deasphalted resins to said reactor.

20. A hydrotreating process in accordance with claim 19 wherein said separation includes separating substantially deasphalted oil from said resid bottoms, feeding said substantially deasphalted oil with said recycled substantially deasphalted solvent-extracted resins in said reactor.