Treating method and equipment for coke-cooling wastewater

• US 7,419,608 B2
• Filed: 05/15/2007
• Issued: 09/02/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 11/15/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sinopec Zhenhai Refining and Chemical Co Ltd (China Petrochemical Corporation), East China University of Science & Technology, Sinopec Luoyang Petrochemical Engineering Corporation (Sinopec Engineering (Group) Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Sinopec Zhenhai Refining and Chemical Co Ltd (China Petrochemical Corporation), East China University of Science & Technology, Sinopec Luoyang Petrochemical Engineering Corporation (Sinopec Engineering (Group) Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Wang, Hualin, Qian, Zhuoqun, Zhang, Lixin, Li, Hejie, Xu, Chengyu, Wang, Jianwen, Hu, Jiangqing, Hou, Tianming, Dai, Baohua, Xu, Jianghua, Yu, Shuilong
• Primary Examiner(s): POPOVICS, ROBERT J
• Application Number:
  US11/748,829
• Publication Number:
  US 20070262032A1
• Time in Patent Office: 476 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 210/774
• CPC Class Codes: C02F 1/22 by freezing
• CPC Class Codes: C02F 1/40 Devices for separating or removing fatty or oily substances or similar floating material cleaning or keeping clear the surface of open water from oil or like materials E02B15/04; devices in sewers for separating liquid or solid substances from sewage E03F5/14, e.g. for use in drains leading to the sewer E03F5/16
• CPC Class Codes: C02F 2101/32 Hydrocarbons, e.g. oil
• CPC Class Codes: C02F 2301/066 Overpressure, high pressure
• CPC Class Codes: C10B 33/00 Discharging devices; Coke guides
• CPC Class Codes: C10B 39/06 in the oven

Abstract

The present invention falls within the field of purifying oil-laden wastewater, which provides a method for purifying coke-cooling wastewater in a delayed coking process in petroleum chemical field. The method comprises the following steps: (a) cooling the coke-cooling wastewater produced in a delayed coking process to 5-55° C. under 0.1-0.25 MPa absolute pressure, to obtain cooled coke-cooling wastewater; (b) subjecting the cooled coke-cooling wastewater to solid-liquid separation, to obtain a coke breeze phase and a liquid phase; (c) further separating the obtained liquid phase, to obtain an oil phase and a water phase; and (d) further discharging water from the obtained oil phase, to obtain the separated oil phase. The present invention also provides an equipment for carrying out the method. The method of the present invention has the following advantages: low cost for the equipment, good effect for treating coke-cooling wastewater, effectively preventing sulfur pollution and foul odor pollution, saving resources and improving the overall utility of the resources, and improving the cool coking efficiency.

Claims

1. A method for treating coke-cooling wastewater, comprising the following steps:

(a) cooling the coke-cooling wastewater produced in a delayed coking process to 5-55°

C. under 0.1-0.25 MPa absolute pressure, to obtain cooled coke-cooling wastewater;

(b) subjecting the cooled coke-cooling wastewater to solid-liquid separation, to obtain a coke breeze phase and a liquid phase;

(c) further separating the obtained liquid phase, to obtain an oil phase and a water phase; and

(d) further discharging water from the obtained oil phase, to obtain the separated oil phase.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the amount of the coke breeze in the coke-cooling wastewater is 0.01-2% by weight.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein after the water phase is cooled to 5-50°

C. through heat exchange, 60-90% of the water goes through water circulation cool coking process, while 10-40% of the water is mixed with the coke-cooling wastewater.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein in the step (d), the water is discharged from the obtained oil phase through gravity settling, and the discharged water is utilized by water circulation;

while the separated oil phase is reprocessed by oil circulation or used in oil refining by combining with raw heavy oil.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein when the cool coking process is ended, the coke-cooling wastewater treating process continues until the amount of the coke breeze in the coke-cooling wastewater is lowered to 0.01% by weight.

6. An equipment for the method of claim 1, comprising:

coke tower (1);

line blender (29) connected to the coke tower (1), which is used to cool the coke-cooling wastewater from the coke tower (1);

coke breeze separator (5) used to separate the coke-cooling wastewater blended in the line blender (29);

closed coke pool (2) connected to coke breeze phase outlet (18) of the coke breeze separator (5);

oil-water separator (6) connected to liquid phase outlet (19) of the coke breeze separator (5); and

oil tank (9) connected to oil phase outlet (22) of the oil-water separator (6), which is used to further separate the oil phase.

7. The equipment of claim 6, wherein the coke breeze separator (5) is also connected to coke-cooling hot wastewater tank (3) storing the coke-cooling wastewater via its coke breeze phase outlet (18).

8. The equipment of claim 7, wherein hot water pump (4) used to pump the coke-cooling wastewater is disposed between the coke-cooling hot wastewater tank (3) and the coke breeze separator (5), and the hot water pump (4) is preferably a delivery pump controlled by frequency control technique.

9. The equipment of claim 6, wherein the oil-water separator (6) is also connected to heat changer (7) via its water phase outlet (21), and cool coke water tank (8), which is connected to the heat changer (7) and stores the cool coke water cooled by heat exchange to lower than 50°

C., is connected to the coke tower (1) and the line blender (29), respectively.

10. The equipment of claim 9, wherein the heat changer (7) is selected from one or more of air cooling type heat changer, shell type heat changer, plate type heat changer, plate-fin type heat changer, and spiral laminal type heat changer, which are connected in parallel, or both in series and in parallel.

11. The equipment of claim 6, wherein the oil tank (9) is also connected to the coke breeze separator (5) which circularly utilizes the discharged water from the bottom of the oil tank (9), and the coke tower (1) which circularly utilizes the separated oil phase from the top of the oil tank (9), respectively.

12. The equipment of claim 6, wherein the line blender (29) is a venturi type blender or a jet pump.

13. The equipment of claim 6, wherein the coke breeze separator (5) is a hydrocyclone or a gravity separator.

14. The equipment of claim 6, wherein the oil-water separator (6) is selected from the group consisting of an improved cyclone oil-water separator, coarse granulation oil-water separator, and cyclone-jet flow-coarse granulation oil-water separator.